Dan Migala is a founding partner of Property Consuling Group, a sports marketing firm.
Not bad for a sports marketing initiative from a conservative Midwest baseball team, heh?
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For Emirates, the deal is part of the airline's latest step in sports marketing world-wide.
Sports marketing experts call the Marlins' Dolphin Stadium and the Rays' Tropicana Field "major impediments" to success.
But will all this be enough for him to succeed in the wild world of sports marketing?
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We also believe Brazil represents a huge market opportunity for a sports marketing company such as 9ine.
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The economic imbalance has led some, like sports marketing expert Mario Oliveto to consider La Liga an unsustainable product.
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"His Asian heritage is a plus, " says sports marketing expert Bob Dorfman of Baker Street Partners on Kim's global potential.
Those not-huge margins may be why IMG, whose primary areas are sports marketing, fashion and representation, elected to unload it.
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Mr Courmouzis, who works in sports marketing and lives in Greece, flew to London to give evidence in his sister's defence.
Then attention turned to Mr. Siegel, a board member who previously worked in sports marketing related to Nascar, among other roles.
"It's always better to underpromise and overdeliver than the other way around, " says Ann Wool, director of Ketchum Sports Marketing in Chicago.
With the economic slump of recent years has come pressure on business executives to justify spending on sponsorships and other sports marketing.
"These companies are becoming technology hubs, competing with Best Buy and Circuit City, " says industry consultant Shawn McBride of Ketchum Sports Marketing.
The reasons for this are two-fold: One, there are only a few agencies that have been able to create profitable sports marketing practices.
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"He's polarizing, a lot of people don't care for him, " says Bob Dorfman, a sports marketing consultant at Baker Street Advertising in San Francisco.
"Owners may not be able to shop their franchises around as much for awhile, " says Shawn McBride, a vice president with Ketchum Sports Marketing.
Now the showrunners have made the bold choice to threaten a perfect marriage, with Jim in Philadelphia, pursuing his dream job at a sports marketing company.
Brandon Steiner, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Steiner Sports Marketing, has been on the forefront of the sports memorabilia industry for the past quarter century.
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Nigel Currie, director of sports marketing and sponsorship at the agency Brand Rapport, said sports sponsorship by drinks companies was "invaluable" in the current economic climate.
Leading the way of corporate ownership and operation of bowl games is ESPN Regional Television, a sports marketing, syndication and production company subsidiary of ESPN.
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While playoff beards may seem a bit frivolous, the sports marketing agency CENERGY launched Beard-a-thon which encourages fans to grow their own playoff beard for charity.
"It's the heritage to their entire marketing strategy over three decades, " said Paul Swangard, the director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon.
Forbes.com spoke to a panel of sports marketing experts looking for the best under-the-radar athletes who represent a great deal as pitchmen for someone--if they ever get noticed.
Sports marketing experts don't particularly expect Patrick to succeed in wooing too many traditional male racing fans, who tend to only grudgingly accept a woman on the circuit.
"The timing coincides well with the rise of the Mets, which has become a premier MLB franchise, " says Dean Bonham, president of Bonham Group, a Denver sports marketing firm.
"It won't break until the consumer breaks with lack of interest and ratings fall, " says Tony Ponturo, a sports marketing consultant and former media and sports marketing czar for Anheuser-Busch.
Mr Rosell has been doing business with Mr Teixeira for years: he moved to Brazil as Nike's director of sports marketing in 1999 to manage the company's relationship with the CBF.
Kevin Donovan, a vice president at Helios Partners, sports marketing company based in Atlanta , Georgia, said they have talked about working with companies other than those known as green businesses.
Larry Mann, a partner with Chicago-based sports marketing firm rEvolution, points out that pulling the likes of LeBron and Kobe from the national team would lower sponsorship revenue for USA Basketball.
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