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MLB ticket sales staffs show gains in survey05 / 14 / 12The season-ticket sales staff at nearly every MLB club improved its performance from last year in the second annual mystery shopper survey conducted exclusively for SportsBusiness Journal by research firm IntelliShop. The San Diego Padres staff maintained its No. 1 ranking, although big jumps by ... Tags: Research and Ratings |
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Fan polls show unusual trend
Turmoil. With two labor actions, college realignment and school scandals, continuing economic hardship, and the explosion of technological innovation, one might think American sports are in a state of turmoil. But for as much as things are changing ...
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Spring training: On deck
CACTUS LEAGUE Milwaukee Brewers (lease expires 2012) The team has played in Phoenix since 1982 and at its current home, Maryvale Baseball Park, since 1998. The Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority has allocated $6.7 million for renovation of the venue, but the Brewers must agree to a lon ...
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NFL social media leaders
The Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots are the NFL’s most popular teams online and in the social media space, according to an examination of teams’ website traffic and the number of Facebook likes and Twitter followers gained from August throu ...
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Business of Spring Training
Baltimore Orioles radio announcer Joe Angel has been known to tease fans listening to the club’s spring training broadcasts, letting them know that the game-time temperature at the O’s Florida ballpark is comfortably in the 80s while the current temperature in Baltimore is, well, not. Co ...
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Avid fans know their NFL sponsors
Editor's note: This story is revised from the print edition. NFL partners saw a bump this year in the number of fans who were able to correctly identify their status as official sponsors with the league — some of them at record levels — according to the results of the sixth annual ...
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Home team Dates (2010-11) Total Avg. % cap. Previous Change Dates Max. Min. 98%+ 75%- ...
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NBA clubs get high marks overall on sales calls
More than half the potential buyers in a recent mystery shopper survey conducted for SportsBusiness Journal by research firm IntelliShop characterized their attempts to purchase NBA season tickets from a team sales agent as being an above-average telephone sales experience, if not one of the best su ...
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New data: Executives bullish on growth
The market is up, Europe’s financial woes seem in check — at least for the moment — and retail spending continues to be a strong mark in the U.S. economy. Such economic indicators aren’t lost on the sports industry, as new data released by Turnkey Sports & Entertainment f ...
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