Authoritative and accessible textbook on how to successfully plan and execute live sports events, with helpful learning aids included throughout This Third Edition of The Sports Event Management and Marketing Playbook is a timely and practical guide on how to successfully plan and deliver live sports events, combining time-proven processes and techniques with the many best practices, tools, and trends that have emerged in every facet of this expanding, highly visible, and ever-innovating industry since the Second Edition was published in 2014. The book is structured as a step-by-step guide on how to begin the development, creation, and planning for a sports event, and continues through management, marketing, production, and ultimately the post-event evaluation processes. Real-life illustrative case studies (called "Sideline Stories") to elucidate key concepts are included throughout the text. Each chapter concludes with a convenient summary (called "Post-play Analysis") to aid in information retention, along with relevant, skill-building questions/exercises (called "Coach's Clipboard") instructors can use as student assignments. Written by two respected and experienced industry practitioners in the sports event business, The Sports Event Management and Marketing Playbook includes information on: Revenue streams, ranging from ticket sales, sponsorship, advertising, and merchandise to participation fees, grants, and donations The event-sponsor relationship, covering what event organizers really want from sponsors—and vice versa Guest management, from selling tickets to hotel management, and what to do if tickets are not selling Unexpected events, including safety and security concerns, and how to react to emergencies and crises efficiently and effectively Media partnerships, covering how to campaign for attention and talk to the media With accessible and comprehensive coverage of the subject, The Sports Event Management and Marketing Playbook serves as an excellent learning aid for students in advanced undergraduate and Masters courses in Sports Event Management, Sports Marketing, Hospitality Management, and Sports Industry Management. Part of The Wiley Event Management Series

As a sporting event planner, how do you keep up with the trends of the ticket buying public, sponsorship and merchandising while at the same time attending to the hundreds of management and operational details required to execute the event? A successful sports event requires a planner that can read signals from their market and plan strategically to maintain sponsors and a fill an arena.

Are you interested in learning how event marketing can drastically improve your business and profits? Are you tired of getting nowhere fast? The event marketing playbook is a strategic guide that explains how to setup, promote and profit from events. Whether you are planning events for a nightclub, conference, trade show, executive retreat, golf outing, corporate or customer appreciation events, company dinner, holiday party, fundraising gala, team building events or even product launch events, this book will teach you how to create events that attract new customers, referrals and a consistent flow of sales that you can rely on. This book will teach you the importance of event marketing, reveal 26 ideas on how to get paid more money, and best practice examples and templates for the event planning process. If you want to learn everything you’ll ever need to know about event marketing, this is the book for you! What is inside of this book? >> Event Marketing Basics Benefits of Event Marketing 26 Ideas for Getting Paid More Event Marketing Goal Guide Examples of the Event Planning Process Sample Event Action Plan >> 3 Month Event Marketing Timeline Top 10 Ways to Generate Sales at the Event 5 Social Media Strategies for Event Promotion Top 3 Event Management & Ticketing Systems 10 Questions You Need to Ask Venues 21 Types of Venues Who Will Accommodate >>How to Attract Corporate Sponsors 15 Types of Staff You Need to Hire 11 Reasons Sponsors Will Give You Money 8 Strategies to Generate Massive Exposure Where to Hire Temporary Event Staff >> Top Revenue Generation Strategies 10 Ways to Increase Revenue on Event Day Over 15 Event Marketing Resources with Links FAQ's on Events and Getting Started

The hosting of sports events – whether large international events, or smaller niche events – can have a significant and long-lasting impact on the local environment, economy and society. Strategic Sports Event Management provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to school sports. Combining a unique conceptual framework with a practical, step-by-step guide to planning, organising, managing and evaluating events, the book explains the importance of adopting a strategic approach, showing how to implement strategies that lead to successful outcomes over the short and long-term. This fully revised and updated third edition uses international case studies in every chapter, from the NBA and NFL to Formula One and the English Premier League, offering real-world insight into both larger and smaller events. In addition, woven throughout the book are a series of in-depth studies of the London Olympic Games, the ultimate sporting event and an important point of reference for all practising and aspiring event managers. The book covers every key aspect of the sports event management process, including sports organizations, such as the IOC, FIFA and IAAF, and their interactions with event partners, the media and promoters short-term and long-term benefits of the planning process event impact and legacy operational functions including finance, ticketing, transport, venues, IT, human resources, and security marketing and communications, including social networking and new media the bidding process research and evaluation. Strategic Sports Event Management is the leading sports event management textbook and is now accompanied by a companion website containing a range of additional teaching and learning features. The book is important reading for all students of sport management or event management, and all practising event managers looking to develop their professional skills..

Whether you are breaking into the field of sport event management and marketing or you're an established professional on your way up, this book is the most comprehensive guide to the hundreds of issues, activities, and responsibilities connected with making any sport event a success.