In his December Media Post item, SLRG President Jon Last speaks to the marketing lessons that can be learned with the recent elimination of the football program at University of Alabama at Birmingham. I’m too young to remember the movie “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” but there was always something poetic about a title that conjures […]
Read More » In his November, 2014 Media Post column, SLRG’s Jon Last speaks to how an uncomfortable moment during a sponsorship activation, may have actually created marketing gold for Chevrolet. Quick quiz, sports marketers … in the two weeks that have now elapsed since World Series game seven, do you remember Rikk Wilde, aka “Chevy Guy?” For […]
Read More » In his October, 2014 Media Post column, SLRG President Jon Last speaks to some cross generational similarities between baby boomers and millenials and the implications for sports marketers. Last month in this space, I spoke to a need for sports marketers to think about multi-generational approaches in their brand development and communications strategies. Noting that […]
Read More » In his September 2014 Media Post: Marketing Sports column, SLRG President Jon Last speaks of the opportunities that multi-generational marketing present for sports properties. From a purely observational context, it strikes me that we’re at an interesting cross-roads in generational marketing. So much of what our sports fan and participant research focused on during the […]
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SLRG President Jon Last’s keynote remarks at the Summer Financial Communications Society breakfast are highlighted in a look at the financial services community’s involvement in a proliferation of sports venue naming rights deals. By Steve Vuiker Sports sponsorship was the theme at a summer panel sponsored by the Financial Communications Society in New York. Jon […]
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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