In the February Marketing: Sports, Jon Last pays homage to the power of team mascots in building brand equity and fan engagement. The Olympics aside, this post Super Bowl lull marks the 3Q of the lengthy NBA and NHL seasons and rides on the cusp of Spring training and March Madness. So, in seeking to […]
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Terry Mc Andrew’s Golf Daily Pulse for February 14, 2018 reflects on some of the key findings from SLRG’s recent Golf Market trends presentation at the PGA Merchandise Show. Click below, to read it.
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Download SLRG’s annual consumer outlook for the golf market reveals trends in golfer attitudes about the state of the game, the future of golf, as well as the outlook for participation and the equipment market in 2018. Results were drawn from surveys with over 1,000 active golfers. More in depth results are also available on a custom basis.
Is available for download here and contains the perspectives of over 1,300 avid sports fans on a wide variety of topics, including:
SLRG President Jon Last addressed members and guests of the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) at their annual Partner Breakfast during the recent Golf Industry Show on Wednesday, February 7th in San Antonio, TX. Last provided highlights and implications of SLRG’s recently completed benchmark study with golf course architects, superintendents and facility operators. The research explored issues impacting golf course facility design, re-design and renovation. Highlights of key findings were distributed to assembled guests and media and are available for download, below.
Multiple SLRG studies on the consumer purchase journey across our verticals of concentration, have revealed that the adoption of social and digital marketing platforms are in many ways additive, rather than disruptive of traditional media. One implication for sports and leisure marketers is that this messaging fragmentation calls for broader and more targeted communications and […]
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Compass Point’s Casey Alexander highlights SLRG findings in this comprehensive outlook for the year ahead in the golf equipment business.
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Golf industry analyst JJ Keegan provides detailed observations from the 2018 PGA Merchandise Show, citing SLRG’s “New Paradigms for Golf Marketing” presentation as #1 on the list of top ten positive take-aways from the show. Download the report, here.
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