There are countless platforms that allow football clubs to entertain their followers and interact with them. Nevertheless, a social media manager needs to take on the challenging task of assessing, implementing, and […]
7 ways to use Periscope for a football club: The SporTV typology applied to videos for social media
#NotSportingLisbon: How the STAMP model can help keep control over the misuse of the Sporting Clube de Portugal brand name
Last week, Sporting Clube de Portugal launched their #NotSportingLisbon campaign in reference to a common problem: The club is often mistakenly referred to as Sporting Lisbon instead of Sporting Clube de Portugal, […]
Communicating the launch of a new mascot: A fictitious example of Germain, the Paris Saint-Germain lynx
A member of the Linkedin group “Sports Business Institute Barcelona – Marketing & Management Professionals in Football” posted an interesting question, which he was asked to answer as part of an interview […]
Football Brands and the 3 Ms of Content Marketing: Make, Manage, and Market
According to Marketing-guru Seth Godin, content marketing is the only marketing that’s left (Pulizzi 2008). Especially these days, where social media makes it easier than ever before to share digital content from […]
The experiential marketing system: A FC Red Bull Salzburg example
Marketing managers in football have been talking and trying to focus their efforts on creating an all-around experience for their fans on and off the pitch for many years. Since smartphones gave […]
The Everton F.C. brand value and the Young & Rubicam model of brand dynamics
Brand value has become a buzzword in recent times and many managers, consultancies, and companies have started to pay closer attention to it. The fact that Madden, Fehle, and Fournier (2006) mention […]
The DRIP Model applied to Juventus FC: An alternative to the established AIDA Model
Juventus FC just claimed their 4th consecutive Italian Serie A title this past weekend, and the 33rd in their history. The club is also still competing for the UEFA Champions League title […]
Customer Equity: Why BSC Young Boys fans might have one of the highest customer values in Swiss football
There is an obvious relationship between the investment a company makes in a customer relationship and the return that investment generates (Grant, 2008:324). Kotler (2003:76) claims that the aim of customer relationship […]
Paris Saint-Germain vs. FC Barcelona: The Social Media Comparison
Two greats of European football, Paris Saint-Germain and FC Barcelona, will meet in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2015 after having met in this season’s group phase, where both clubs won their respective home fixtures and […]
The anatomy of a valuable Celtic FC Facebook post: The case of «Ronny’s Roaring 100»
Since the dawn of Facebook marketing, marketers have been searching for the anatomy of the prefect Facebook post – what it should include and what it should look like. I have been involved in […]
Manchester City FC as a «Question Mark» in the Boston Consulting Group’s Growth-Share Matrix
Today’s post will analyze how the brand of Manchester City FC (MCFC) performs in regard to the top 10 clubs of the Deloitte Football Money League. We will use the Boston Consulting […]
Borussia Dortmund and Michael E. Porter’s «Drivers of Uniqueness» – Part 2/2
In a blog post I published two weeks ago – see here –, we started discussing how Robert M. Grant (2007:249) looked at differentiation and the provision of uniqueness, and at how a firm’s opportunities […]
Juventus FC vs. Borussia Dortmund: The Social Media Comparison
Tomorrow we will see Serie A table-toppers Juventus FC welcome German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund (BVB) at Juventus Stadium for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16. As we have […]
Michael E. Porter’s «Drivers of Uniqueness» applied to Borussia Dortmund – Part 1/2
Robert M. Grant (2007:249) explains that differentiation is concerned with the provision of uniqueness, and that a firm’s opportunities for creating uniqueness in its offerings to customers are not located within a […]
Li & Bernoff’s «POST method» applied to the Juventus FC campaign «Things Tevez Could Dribble»
It is safe to assume that football business managers will consider having an online marketing or communication strategy in place for their club’s brand, an athlete, or an individual campaign. However, not […]
E-Commerce and football clubs: The Hierarchy of Optimization applied to the AS Roma Store and FC Red Bull Salzburg fan shop
Millions of euros worth of merchandise is sold every year on online shops of football clubs. The top 10 clubs alone sell an accumulated 9 million jerseys per year (dailymail.co.uk, 2014). One […]