This article is a guest submission from Carl Manteau, Director of Group Sales for the Milwaukee Bucks, you can follow him on Twitter @wisCarlsin The first year as a sales rep in sports should be fun and rewarding, but it can also be the very challenging and stressful. As a result, the majority of new […]
A Sports Sales Director’s Advice on Surviving Your First Year As An Inside Sales Rep
53% of Jobs in the Sports Industry Require This Skill
As I begin composing this article there are 5,939 sports jobs currently listed on our job board. Guess how many have the word “sales” in them? (more on that in a minute) Say the word “sales” and the first thing that comes to mind for many is being aggressively approached by someone in an ill-fitting […]
Getting Help With Your Sports Sales Career
Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing former NBA executive and current Founding Director of the Sports and Entertainment Management MBA program at the University of South Florida, Dr. Bill Sutton. We don’t have enough space on this blog to highlight all of Dr. Sutton’s career accomplishments but one that stands out is his […]
An Unofficial Masters Course for Working in Sports
Sports equal temptation. Watching the games we love makes the world seem simple; men and women compete, we watch and enjoy, they make money. It’s only logical that ‘We, The People’ would want in on the financial benefits of sports. Many are lured in to a pursuit of a sports career with a false preconception of […]