In his September 2015 column, SLRG President Jon Last reflects on the importance of event enthusiasts and how successful sports marketers have cracked the code on this segment by elevating their marquee events into social happenings. Early in my career, my group was tasked with the development and implementation of a plan to increase ticket […]
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In the September 2015 issue of HotLinks, SLRG helps uncover 5 myths about Women Golfers, helping to convey the notion that women golfers are just as serious about the game as men are.
Read More »There’s been an ongoing popular debate among insights professionals regarding the utilization of behavioral data (BIG DATA) as a surrogate for or even a disruptor of traditional market research. The disruption argument gets the headlines, but it strikes me that the more thoughtful discussion should be about how the two complement each other. Behavioral data […]
Read More » In his August 2015 column, SLRG President Jon Last offers guidance and surfaces the potential dangers that sports marketers can encounter if they fail to properly frame the respondent sample for research. It wasn’t that long ago that marketing research and consumer insights were largely afterthoughts in the world of sports marketing. Who needed research? […]
Read More » In his July 2015, Marketing: Sports column, SLRG President Jon Last looks at baseball’s all-star season as an opportunity to reflect on the sports marketing lessons that coaching youth sports has reinforced. It’s totally presumptuous for me to compare myself to Derek Jeter. I’ve been fortunate enough to meet him and his family and to […]
Read More »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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