This has certainly been a busy Thursday. It began with my hour-long conference call to discuss the main project. This includes the video promo I did plus a brochure, which I sent over to the group afterward. I also got an e-mail with a list of to-dos which should keep me quite busy for some time. One item involves reaching out to former students in the Tiffin University Sports Management program who are now out working in the field. They are all with some pretty high-profile organizations and I can tell you a little more about them once I have contacted them and completed interviews for a promotional tool.
The other side project is an extension of an assignment from the most recent course I had, Communication and Fundraising in Sport. The class was broken out into groups to present a marketing plan for the TU Sport Management program. The plan was to target a specific audience. My group was assigned to those working in baseball and we had to create a list of e-mails for contacts at each team. Ironically, one of the collaborators in that effort is with the Cincinnati Reds and on my list of people to contact for promotional interviews. Anyway, I have now been tasked with going back through the lists submitted by all the groups–not just baseball, but hockey, basketball, football, and soccer–and filling in missing content. Data compilation and verification can be rather fun and I am looking forward to seeing who the key staff is at sports organizations across the country. Much more on that later.