• Sports Marketing Services

    Sports Image® is:

    An all-inclusive sports marketing and event management firm helping schools and grassroots organizations nationwide. Through sponsorship activation, we strive to help organizations get free equipment and funding for their programs. We help to "take the PAY out of PLAY."

  • Sports Marketing Services

    Sports Image® does:

    Equipment/Revenue Projects

    From scoreboards to cash, Sports Image® can help your organization to get materials and equipment that it desperately needs. From analyzing your needs to executing the plan to enjoying the results – we'll be with you every step of the way.

  • Sports Marketing Services

    Sports Image® does:

    Event Management

    Sports Image® promotes, manages and markets events and camps throughout the country. Our top ranked basketball invitational, Premier Health Flyin’ to the Hoop, is second in the nation and a prime example of our successful event management model.

  • Community Outreach Program

    Sports Image® does:

    Community Outreach

    Instant revenue for your school and organization. It's that simple.

  • Sports Marketing Services

    Sports Image® does:

    Regional/National Sponsorships

    From the Corporate Office to our locations nationwide, Sports Image® continues to build a Rolodex of sponsors from a local, regional and national base to help your organization.

  • Sports Marketing Services

    Sports Image® does:

    Consultation

    A leader in grassroots sports marketing nationwide, Sports Image® can research, analyze and conduct feasibility studies to help maximize your revenue potential... And then we can implement those findings into a turn-key process to make that potential reality!

Sports Image Client Appreciation Night Is A Success

Bill Wood, Sports Image® franchise owner in  Palm Bay, Fl, had a smashing success with his latest client appreciation event!  Bill hosted a dinner for his clients at LongHorn’s Steakhouse last Thursday evening.  The turnout was great, which goes to show that Sports Image® builds lasting relationships with its business partners.

During the evening, clients were able to hear firsthand about upcoming business endeavours and even had a chance to win fabulous door prizes.  Another of our franchisees from the Florida area, MJ Wardle, was also on hand to make sure the clients were enjoying the evening.  The dinner was geared at celebrating the wondeful sponsors who have helped local schools receive the revenue and equipment they needed.  Bill hopes to have many more events like this in the future and couldn’t be happier with last Thursday’s function.  He recapped the evening below:

“Our Inaugural client Appreciation event at Longhorn Steakhouse was a smashing success.   We had a great turn out from a wide variety of partners including Sponsors, Athletic Directors, a Brevard County School Board Member, Vendors (OES & Nevco) and many other business associates, friends and family.   Longhorn did a fantastic job hosting and providing delicious food and drinks for our guests and thanks to our sponsors the night was filled with many, many valuable door prize giveaways ranging from a $300 Gift Card to Ideal Image to a brand new Tommy Armour Golf Bag, Candy Basket, Wine Basket, Restaurant gift cards……etc. Everyone had a great time and we’re looking forward to the next one and hope to continually make it bigger and better as a way to show our appreciation to our business partners.”

Bill Wood Alongside Jim Bird, Athletic Director at Osceola High School

 

Guest Jenna Weston Wins Sports Authority Golf Bag

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fabulous Door Prizes

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/

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

Q and A with Bill W. Wood

Spacecoast Business Magazine recently hosted a Q & A session with Bill Wood, owner of a Sports Image® franchise in Palm Bay Florida.  The article can be viewed below.

http://www.spacecoastbusiness.com/q-and-a-with-bill-w-wood/

Merritt Island Christian School Partners with Sports Image for Free Football Scoreboard

Palm Bay, FL – Merritt Island Christian School has partnered with Sports Image to leverage their school’s popular location and fantastic church and school demographic to obtain a FREE scoreboard for their Football field.  Panels will be added to the new scoreboard to sell sponsorship ads which will cover the cost of the equipment and provide recurring revenue for the school in years to come.   The scoreboard  and resulting revenue will go to the school absolutely FREE without any work or financial obligation on behalf of the school. 

The scoreboard project started as an agreement between the  school Athletic Director, David Nevad and Sports Image®. Sports Image® is responsible for securing the advertising for the scoreboards, handling the graphic artwork and managing contracts to ensure that the school has a continuous stream of income from these ads .  

“This is truly a win-win situation for both the school and the sponsor,” said Bill Wood, President of Sports Image®. “The school is going to get a much needed scoreboard for their football field whereas the sponsors will receive great exposure at the sporting events and the knowledge that they helped their local school/church.  This is a well established school and church with great demographics to offer advertisers so we expect the available space to sell out quickly.  We’ve already secured our first sponsor and have not even officially started the project yet so I’m very confident the project will be a huge success.”

Sports Image Awards Another Franchise to Closeout Kentucky

Dayton, OH  (PRBuzz) November 9, 2010 — Sports Image® has just awarded Mr. Greg Keightley of Bowling Green, KY the 10th Sports Marketing Franchise nationwide in its first 18 months of franchising.  In doing so, Sports Image®, a leader in the high school sports marketing industry, has now awarded all available territories in the state of Kentucky.  In addition to Kentucky, Sports Image® now has a franchise presence in Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Indiana, Florida and Georgia.

http://www.prbuzz.com/business-entrepreneur/48866-sports-image-awards.html

Pickleball: The fastest growing sport you’ve never heard o

Image: Young Man and Woman Playing Pickleball in Court

Because most pickleball games are played on retrofitted tennis courts, it’s quick and easy for a parks and recreation department to get the game up and running. YinYang / Getty Images.

Playing sports feels good, win, or lose. A game is a good challenge and gives the body a good workout. Sports are fun, exciting, and rewarding on a physical level. Then, learning a sport introduces and develops new skills, both mental and physical. That means, Sports are good for the mind and body.

One of the fastest growing sports in America involves a court and a net. And, no, it’s not tennis or badminton, it’s pickleball. Yes, that pickleball, the one your grandma plays, and the one you may consider beneath your athletic pay grade. Time to rethink that. If you want to keep up to date with what sport is on TV this week, then view PDC World Championships.

Sports Image Increases Presence in Florida

Dayton, OH – Sports Image®, a leader in the high school sports and grassroots marketing industry, announced that it has awarded its recent franchise to Mary Jane (MJ) Wardle of The Villages, FL with many more potential inquires from around the United States.  Ms. Wardle joins 10 other existing franchises awarded by Sports Image® in just its eighteenth month of franchising.  Ms. Wardle is also the first military veteran to join the Sports Image® team as a franchisee.

“We’re excited to have MJ join our team,” said Eric Horstman, President of Sports Image®. “She has a proven history of running a past business and a true passion for sports as an administrator and an athlete.  Her past work with the American Cancer Society as a Communications and Marketing Director also fits nicely into our model. She used to sell Home Care Assistance in the cancer society. She will make a fine addition to our franchise network.”

Since 2002, Sports Image® has been helping high schools and other grassroots organizations to obtain state-of-the-art equipment and much needed revenue for their athletic programs as budgets are drying up nationwide. Through its’ unique sports marketing concepts and existing relationships, Sports Image® has given over $600,000 in cash and over $7,500,000 in equipment to schools and organizations in the United States and in Canada.

“Integrating my passion for sports and grassroots organizations with business ownership is a dream-come-true for me.  I can’t wait to “team up” these organizations with businesses in a win-win scenario.  My education and experiences in sports, non-profit and military organizations both in the United States and overseas, will be beneficial to everyone,” stated Ms. Wardle.

Ms. Wardle joins fellow Sports Image® franchisee, Bill Wood of Palm Bay, FL.  Now with two Sports Image franchises in Florida, statewide schools have the ability to tap into the Sports Image® programs quickly and professionally.

“I am very excited to welcome MJ to the Sports Image® franchises and I look forward to partnering with MJ to help schools and grassroots organizations across the entire state of Florida,” exclaimed Mr. Bill Wood.

“We’ve been in business for 9 years helping schools and organizations but just recently turned our model into a registered franchise opportunity in the summer of 2009.” said Horstman.  “We are on pace to have 15 franchises operating across the country by the end of 2010.”

MJ Wardle can be contacted by phone at (352)350-4486 or by e-mail at mj@sportsimageinc.com.   Bill Wood can be reached by phone at (321)329-5709 or by e-mail at BillW@sportsimageinc.com.

Sports Image® (www.sportsimageinc.com) was founded in 2002 in Franklin, OH with the purpose of helping high schools and other grassroots organizations to obtain state-of-the-art equipment and much needed revenue for their athletic programs.  In addition, Sports Image® also founded and manages Flyin’ to the Hoop (www.flyintothehoop.com), a Top-Ranked National High School Basketball Event that pumps over $1.4M into the local Dayton, OH community annually. For more information, contact us at 937-704-9670 / eric@sportsimageinc.com or follow us on Face book, Linked-In and Twitter.