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Sports Image Client Appreciation Night Is A Success

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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

Bexley High School To Receive Revenue Check From Sports Image®

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Bexley High School, OH will be the proud recipient of a revenue sharing check on behalf of Sports Image® in the amount of $2,276.00.  This is only one of the payments on its way to the school as a result of their partnership with our company.  Congratulations Bexley High School!

Sports Image® Awards 15th Franchise in Virginia

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Dayton, OH – October 2011 – Sports Image®, a leader in the high school and youth sports marketing industry,  has just awarded their 15th Sports Marketing Franchise to Mr. Tom Carmichael of Midlothian, VA.  This is the second franchise awarded in the state of Virginia.  Mr. Carmichael joins fourteen other existing franchises in ten different states awarded by Sports Image® in just its first two years of franchising.

Since 2002, Sports Image® has helped schools and organizations obtain state-of-the-art equipment and much needed revenue for their athletic programs as budgets continue to dry up nationwide. The program has zero cost to the schools and organizations. Through its’ unique, grassroots sports marketing approach and by leveraging existing relationships, Sports Image® has given over $800,000 in cash and over $10,000,000 in equipment to schools and organizations throughout the United States and in Canada.

When asked about his purchase, Tom quickly states: “I had enough of Corporate America. I wanted a business opportunity for myself. Sports Image® gave me that chance two years ago as a project manager. Over those two years I was able to help many schools in my backyard to get equipment and revenue for their athletic programs. I was hooked – making money and doing ‘good’ for school sports programs was just what I was looking for. I then purchased my own Sports Image® franchise as part of that ‘American Dream.’ With Sports Image’s® winning game plan, I can now have a positive impact on sports in my community as my own business owner helping to ‘take the pay out of play.’”

“Tom is going to be a great addition to our growing Sports Image® franchise network,” said Mr. Eric Horstman, President of Sports Image®. “He is unique in the fact that Tom has actually been a sales rep with us for the past 2 years. He believes in our mission enough that he wanted to own his own territory and become a franchisee to get the best of both worlds – business owner and helping his local communities.”

“Sports Image® is the first national franchise to market through youth sports. We’ve been helping schools, clubs, community Parks and Recs, churches, and other youth organizations offset Pay-to-Play for over 10 years. In July 2009 we franchised our organization to put vested business owners on the groundfloor in local markets across the country,” said Mr. Horstman.  “We are on pace to have over 20+ franchises operating across the country by spring of 2012.”

Sports Image Welcomes Its 15th Franchise

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Sports Image® is thrilled to announce that it has just awarded its 15th territory!  We proudly welcome Thomas Carmichael as the newest franchise owner.  Prior to becoming a franchisee, Tom was originally a project manager with Sports Image®.  His dedication and belief in our business sparked his interest in running a franchise for himself!  Tom will be heading up a territory in eastern Virginia and looks forward to helping schools and organizations strengthen their athletic programs.  Congratulations Tom and welcome to the franchise team!

Revenue Check For Gleason High School

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Sports Image® has just sent Gleason High School, TN a revenue sharing check for $800.  The school also received a scoring table thanks to local sponsors who worked with Sports Image® to support Gleason High School’s athletic department.  Thanks to all who were involved in helping the school.

September 11, 2001

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Sports Image® would like to take some time to remember 9/11 as the 10th anniversary of the event vastly approaches.  We thank all the courageous heroes who risked their lives to save the victims of the attacks and want all who were affected to know that they are not forgotten.  We hope you have a peaceful weekend and day of remembrance.

Thomas Dale High School Receiving $1,500

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Staying true to its revenue sharing program, Sports Image® will be awarding Thomas Dale High School (VA) a check for $1,500 to be used toward their athletic department.  We wish Thomas Dale the best and thank the sponsors for working with us to reduce the costs of participating in athletics.

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

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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

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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

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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