The dramatic growth of sponsorship, well evidenced in the academic and professional literature (e.g. Cornwell et al., 2001; IEG, 2002), suggests that its use has become not only more widespread among firms, but also more intense within each sponsoring organisation. Indeed, so substantial have some sponsorship contracts become, that businesses have been forced to consider such decisions as more than just communication-related, instead associating themselves with key image-building events or sports seen as complementary to their own positioning. In such cases, sponsorship has moved from an ancillary role to become the keystone of the whole marketing strategy (Meenaghan, 1998), in what is termed “sponsorship-linked marketing” (Cornwell, 1995).
The experience and seniority of the sponsorship manager is important as it will determine the internal perceptions of sponsorship and the ease with which co-operation will be achieved between the staff required to implement the range of tasks associated with sponsorship activation.
Conclusion
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In this scenario, the marketing activities of Prince Sports, Inc. will be examined. Prince Sports manufactures a large line of tennis, racquetball, squash, badminton and table tennis products. The company also manufactures clothing, bags and other accessories that would be useful to individuals in those particular sports. The company makes use of multiple different marketing strategies based on the type of equipment, level of expertise of the player and the type of media outlets that are available.
The notion that WUSA executives had was that their franchise would automatically attract fans and consumers because of the United States Women’s National Soccer Team’s success in the previous 1999 Women’s World Cup where they defeated China on home soil. This World Cup victory created a solid fan base that reached not only the youth or next generation of female soccer participants, but mainstream America as well. The research performed illustrated the multiple errors executed by the organization that eventually led to its downfall. Lasting only three seasons and lacking the coverage necessary to continue the team’s noble status, WUSA’s failure to pull corporate sponsors led to the organization’s decreasing revenues and increasing expenses (Southall, Nagel & LeGrande, 2005). Leading up to the ’99 Women’s World Cup, Nike released a commercial featuring Mia Hamm of the Women’s National team competing against NBA sensation, Michael Jordan. The ‘Anything you can do, I can do better’ theme played into the minds and heart of the nation which proves how effective and essential major sponsorships can be. Thus, the lack of corporate sponsors was the ultimate check that WUSA could not cash. Although the ’99 match was considered a “once in a lifetime event,” the methods
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A decade worth of athletes has had the chance to eclipse Michael Jordan in the minds of the consumer. Yet even out of the spotlight Jordan remains the sports personality with the greatest endorsement chops in the U.S.”( Badenhausen).
In the world of sports, everything from the cups the athletes drink from to the
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The source was appropriate based on the primary and secondary characteristics since both the hockey team sponsored and the sponsoring company benefited. The team received adequate support and the MacDonald’s benefited by spreading its product awareness, made more sales and opened new consumer market (Mackenzie, 2013). The audience found MacDonald’s products credible because of its brand presence, spread, and quality. Audience credibility is more assured through the channel MacDonald’s used to get to them, flying their crew makes it more credible and likable in this sponsorship
of a firm to attain new forms of competitive advantage (Müller, 2011). It is due to these
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Sports are one of the most profitable industries in the world. Everyone wants to get their hands on a piece of the action. Those individuals and industries that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on these sports teams are hoping to make a profit, but it may be an indirect profit. It could be a profit for the sports club, or it could be a promotion for another organization (i.e. Rupert Murdoch, FOX). The economics involved with sports have drastically changed over the last ten years.
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The commercialization of sports is illustrated by the amount of money that is involved in sport. Stakeholders in the sector are using lots of money to improve their performances with an objective of making profit. Sport has changed its form and dimension and longer only a source of entertainment, but a...