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    The ‘Passion Premium’ in Sports Marketing

    POSTED: June 20, 2019

    In his June Media Post item, SLRG’s Jon Last speaks to those unique elements of sports marketing that are a starting point from which practitioners can break through the marketing clutter.

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    DAZN’s ‘ChangeUp’: Case Study For MLB’s Pursuit Of Younger Fans

    POSTED: May 14, 2019

    In the lead item on Media Post’s Marketing Insider, SLRG’s Jon Last sees DAZN’s new studio show as a great litmus test for both MLB’s uber focus on youth and the ways in which sports content will be consumed beyond the in-person experience.  Recent research may foreshadow the impact. 

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    Time to Reassess Customer Satisfaction Tracking

    POSTED: May 13, 2019

    In his latest blog for Marketing Research Institute International (MRII), SLRG President and MRII immediate past board president Jon Last suggests that it is time to reassess some disturbing trends in customer satisfaction assessment. Quick and simple “research” can often equal misinformation. We’ve likely all been there.  Whether it’s after a customer service phone call, […]

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    For a Pastime that’s Supposed to be Dying, Golf has More Lives than a Cat – Travel Weekly

    POSTED: May 7, 2019

    The April 29, 2019 issue of Travel Weekly speaks to how resorts have evolved their golf offerings to appeal to a broader audience, with SLRG’s Jon Last offering contextual perspective. by Christina Jelski While countless media reports over the past decade have proclaimed golf a dying sport, golf resorts that have put a more creative […]

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    Renovations on the Rise – Golf Range Magazine April 2019

    POSTED: April 17, 2019

    The cover story in April 2019’s Golf Range Magazine features key findings and implications of the current trend towards a focus on practice range renovations, uncovered in SLRG’s latest Market TrendWatch study conducted with the ASGCA. Read it here.  

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With over 25 years of management experience, Jon Last is founder and President of Sports and Leisure Research Group, a White Plains, NY based full service marketing research consultancy that supports leading brands in sports marketing, travel, media and leisure categories as well as a host of golf, travel and consumer product company clients. Jon’s […]

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