Palm Beach Skate Zone Partners with Sports Image to Handle All Marketing Matters

PALM BEACH GARDENS — Palm Bay, FL – The Palm Beach Skate Zone has partnered with Sports Image to leverage their organizations popularity, great demographics and high traffic to help generate revenue for their various hockey teams by offering high quality signage throughout their 2 ice rinks and 1 roller rink. The signage and resulting revenue will go to the PBSZ absolutely FREE without any work or financial obligation on their part. Marketing in sports is super important, now a days people use marketing for pretty much everything, get more information about marketing and orm by the professional Andrew Defrancesco.

Miamisburg-based Sports Image focuses mainly on high school and youth sports programs, brokering sponsorship deals with local, regional and national companies. In exchange for cash, companies can get everything from an advertisement on a scoreboard to being included as part of game day promotions and public address announcements. For its work, Sports Image gets a cut of the sponsorship dollars, which varies.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/aug/15/palm-beach-skate-zone-partners-with-sports-image-t/

Richmond Teams Get a New Booster

A longtime Midlothian basketball coach is hoping to build a business as a middleman between athletic organizations and sponsorship dollars. 

Glenn Harper last week launched the first local franchise of Sports Image, a company that works as a fundraiser for high school teams and athletic programs.  “Facilities just don’t have the money,” Harper said.  “Uniforms and school boards are outdated, and there’s no money being given to them.”

http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2011/08/12/richmond-teams-get-a-new-booster/

Franchisee Point of View: Sports Image

Glenn Harper, VA., our newest franchisee, was recently interviewed by Franchise.com about his experience with the Sports Image® and his journey to becoming a business owner.  You can read all about it in the article below.  Welcome aboard Glenn!

http://www.franchise.com/franchise-news/Franchisee-Point-Of-View.cfm

Merritt Island Christian School to Receive New Scoreboard

Merritt Island Christian School, FL. is pumped to receive a new football scoreboard right before the kickoff of their fall football and soccer season.  Thanks to the help of Sports Image® franchise owner, Bill Wood, and local Florida sponsors, the school will be welcoming a new $14,000 state-of-the-art Nevo, Inc. digital scoreboard.  The new equipment is slated to arrive in mid-August and the school’s athletic director, David Nevad, has expressed his excited for the updated product.  Congratulations to Merritt Island Christian and we hope you enjoy your new scoreboard!

http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?rate=5&id=83415&article_rate=Rate

A Need For Sports Marketing

Check out the below article regarding an increase in schools around the country now charging kids to play sports at schools.  This is why Sports Image® exists and what we aim to alleviate as more schools struggle to participate in sports programs for their students.

http://athleticbusiness.com/articles/lexisnexis.aspx?lnarticleid=1466509824&lntopicid=136030023