Harness the Power of LinkedIn to Break into Sports

As I mentioned in an earlier post about using social media to land a sports job, LinkedIn is one of the three websites I utilize to promote my blog. The number of professionals joining LinkedIn continues to grow every day, especially with the company’s recent successful initial public offering (IPO). With sites like this one, [...]

4 Ways to Gain Sports Industry Experience in College

As you have seen time and time again in my sports industry expert interviews, participation in one or more sports related internships is a pre-requisite for landing a job in sports. That being said, the time to get involved with sports opportunities is now, during your college years. Employers want to see that you already [...]

7 Sports Career Lessons Learned from Rachel Mech

I had a great time conducting Expert Interview with Rachel Mech: Taking Chances with No Regrets. Telling Rachel’s story to you was a great way for me to show you what kind of people are out there who want to help. As her mentee, it means even more to me to share her insights about [...]

Expert Interview with Rachel Mech: Taking Chances with No Regrets

                                         There is no better way to follow up my latest sports industry Expert Interview with Harrie Bakst: Overcoming the Odds through Hard work and Sincerity than with the person responsible for introducing me to Harrie. [...]

You Are What You Read

In Ask the Right Questions when Researching Sports Jobs, my tenth question was about whether any sports business professionals had published books on an aspect of the industry you want to learn more about. Besides talking to someone who works in a particular part of the sports business that you are interested in, the next [...]

Leverage Social Media to Break into Sports

These days, social media is becoming quite the phenomenon in sports. With the advent of websites like Facebook and Twitter, professional teams and other sports businesses must embrace this revolution that is taking the world by storm. Failure to do so will leave them behind the competition. For the most part, everyone in sports is [...]

7 Sports Career Lessons Learned from Harrie Bakst

Conducting Expert Interview with Harrie Bakst: Overcoming the Odds through Hard Work and Sincerity in-person was a unique experience. As you know, my first three interviews were done over the phone. While I certainly could detect the authenticity of my interviewees’ answers by listening to their voices, there was nothing like seeing Harrie’s facial expressions as [...]

Expert Interview with Harrie Bakst: Overcoming the Odds through Hard Work and Sincerity

After a glimpse of the legal and international side of sports with last week’s Expert Interview with David Francis: Be Flexible in Your Approach, I turned back to the sports marketing aspect of the business. I reached out to Harrie Bakst of Carnegie Sports & Entertainment, a boutique agency whose focus is cause marketing and corporate [...]