Category: S3

Help us help you: How to utilize your marketing team to grow sales

by Alexis Sidney – October 2015 Successful sales teams build strong relationships. Client relationships are important. Building strong relationships within the company and specifically with the marketing department is also important. Marketers support revenue generating goals by crafting a strong and memorable message, building an effective and integrated promotional plan, and reaching beyond the typical…Continue Reading Help us help you: How to utilize your marketing team to grow sales

8 Tips to Getting Promoted in the Sports Industry

by Rocky Harris – October 2015 Managing expectations I get asked all the time what it takes to get promoted in the sports industry. Over the last 15 years the industry has encountered rapid growth, which has provided more professional opportunities and raised expectations for getting promoted faster. When I got my first full-time job…Continue Reading 8 Tips to Getting Promoted in the Sports Industry

2015 Baylor S3 Board Meeting in Pictures

by Kirk Wakefield – October 2015 The 2015 Sports Sponsorship & Sales (S3) Board Meeting was held October 20-21 along the banks of the Brazos in beautiful Waco, Texas. With over 80 executives and managers attending and over 40 managers interviewing S3 juniors and seniors for internships and positions, it marked the 12th year of…Continue Reading 2015 Baylor S3 Board Meeting in Pictures

Who went where: S3 Graduate & Internship Placement 2015

by Kirk Wakefield – June 2015 Careers in Sports The Baylor Sports Sponsorship & Sales (S3) program graduated 30 students in the 2015 class. Two, Erin O’Neill and Travis Roeder, opted to pursue law degrees at Tulane and Alabama, respectively. We congratulate them and the others in the 2015 class with this slide show highlighting their…Continue Reading Who went where: S3 Graduate & Internship Placement 2015

The 2014 S3 Board Meeting in Pictures

by Kirk Wakefield – December 2014 The meeting for the Sports Sponsorship & Sales (S3) Board was held November 11th & 12th in Waco at the new McLane Stadium on the campus of Baylor University. The only of its kind focused on selling sports, the S3 major is a selective program in the Hankamer School…Continue Reading The 2014 S3 Board Meeting in Pictures

The surprisingly simple little secret to landing a leadership position

by Kirk Madsen – October 2014 What is leadership? For everything written about leadership and management (an Amazon.com search yields over 1 million books on the topic!), we sure seem to have a lot of questions about what it is and how to do it. One of the questions people in leadership positions get asked…Continue Reading The surprisingly simple little secret to landing a leadership position

How to successfully transition from sales to management

by Andre Luck – October 2014 Early in my sales career I knew I wanted to make an impact in young people’s lives, and I felt the best platform for me to do so was as a ticket sales manager. The transition from a successful salesperson to a successful sales manager is an exciting yet…Continue Reading How to successfully transition from sales to management

Happy New Year! What’s New?

by Kirk Wakefield – January 2014 We hope you like the new look of the site that allows us to feature the most recent articles on top and to randomly display some of the 110 articles written in 2013 by leaders in the sports sales industry. You can pull up any month’s articles from the…Continue Reading Happy New Year! What’s New?

The Sports Sponsorship & Sales (S3) 2013 Board Meetings in Pictures

by Kirk Wakefield – November 2013 [dropshadowbox align=”right” effect=”lifted-both” width=”150px” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Look for S3 State of the Sports Sales Industry Survey on December 1, 2013![/dropshadowbox]The 9th annual Sports Sponsorship & Sales 2013 board meeting was the largest to date. Look through the pictures below to find yourself (which is what so many…Continue Reading The Sports Sponsorship & Sales (S3) 2013 Board Meetings in Pictures

S3 Alum Spotlight on Katy Gager

by Justin Pipes – October 2013 Katy Gager (Baylor S3 ’08) is a Senior Account Executive at The Marketing Arm an agency based in Dallas, Texas. She represents and manages AT&T’s brand through corporate sponsorship of professional & collegiate sports properties in the Southeast Region. Willing to move Katy transferred to Baylor for the S3 program…Continue Reading S3 Alum Spotlight on Katy Gager