Reflecting on my past experience, I believe I have grown because of this experience. I was able to grasp subtle differences that was characteristic of a media/news agency. It was interesting because I could relate to other experiences and concepts of marketing and business which I was familiar with. Furthermore, I developed a clear understanding of the role of PR and the significance of data base and information in expansion and venturing ideas for clients.
Now that I have my mentorship goals discussion report and evaluation done, I began working on the details of my website. After the initial review, I received some invaluable feedback from Dr.Tiel. I had to pay close attention to her points in order for me to get maximum points. I had maintained a word document that had the main points, learnings and other important lessons from the mentorship experience. I had to journalize that and update my website.
Reflecting on my past experience, I believe I have grown because of this experience. I was able to grasp subtle differences that was characteristic of a media/news agency. It was interesting because I could relate to other experiences and concepts of marketing and business which I was familiar with. Furthermore, I developed a clear understanding of the role of PR and the significance of data base and information in expansion and venturing ideas for clients.
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Now that my mentorship was over, there were several documents that I needed to work on which were part of the SRM 670. The mentorship goals discussion worksheet was important and required an interaction with my mentor, Gary. I emailed him explaining him what needed to be done from his end. He was very prompt in his response and didn’t hold me up for a long time. In addition, I sent him the link for the mentee evaluation which he filled out in a short notice.
My mentorship was nearing its end and I was determined to finish it off on a good note. Yesterday, I researched the adult and youth soccer clubs in Wisconsin. I came up with the information that I was looking for. Just as how other adult soccer clubs were listed for the various states, Wisconsin adult soccer club listings were no different. However, I did manage to get some meaningful information regarding the contact information of the coaches. I was unable to get the coach’s contact details for all the teams but I included the information of the board members for the teams that were left out. And with that I had finally completed my assignments and others tasks for the mentorship program. Now it was time for me to start on the coursework requirements.
The youth soccer teams in Minnesota were not that many as other states. The youth soccer clubs in the country across all the states have a well maintained website from where outside parties can have access to the club information. Contact information of all board members and the coaches were provided which made it easier for me to create a completed list. I was able to finish the youth soccer clubs in Minnesota as well as touch upon the youth soccer clubs in Wisconsin.
I started with Illinois today and I already had the sources for gathering all relevant information because of my past experience and research for other states.
After having finished the task for the social media handles on the National Premier Soccer League, I was assigned another set of activity which dealt with the youth and adult soccer clubs in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. I had done a lot of data compilation of teams, youth and adult in many states in the past and this was nothing new to me in terms of technique, skill or knowledge. But this assignment had an interesting part to it. I had to also the list of Minor league baseball teams and the amateur hockey teams in these states. This got me intrigued and so I asked Gary what the plan was or the purpose of collecting contact information of teams of different sports. He explained that there are some clients who want to expand outside soccer and broaden their presence across the country. I did not go much into details and aspects of this move or venture but it reinforced the fact that data collection and maintaining a database was critical for an organization like the International Soccer Network LLC.
Today, I wanted complete the social media handles of all the teams and conferences in the National Premier Soccer League. The last one was the West region and there was just one conference in this region. It was the Golden gate conference. There were 5 teams in this conference and their social media presence was fairly good. I followed the same procedure and steps to obtain the information for the collective social media handles of National Premier Soccer League.
The Midwest region didn’t have any conference under it but all teams were listed under the main banner. It had a good number of competitive teams/clubs from all parts of the Midwest region. The numbers of each team in this region was a combination of popular and unpopular cubs solely judging from the social media figures. There were 13 teams in this region and the Minnesota Reserves outweighed other teams by a massive margin in the number of likes on the official Facebook – 59000. The closest team to Minnesota Reserves was Detroit City FC with 15000 likes on Facebook. While I was wondering and trying to wrap my head around this difference, I realized this had many other factors that are critical for a sports franchise. However, I went ahead with extracting the social media figures from the team’s official social media pages.
By this time, this task of gathering information of social media handle had become slightly monotonous in the sense that there wasn’t much to learn or grasp a new lesson from this activity. However, it was a job required to be done on a timely manner. It was now time to go south for the Sunshine conference. The Sunshine conference mainly comprised on teams in Florida. There were 6 teams listed in this conference. Miami United is the most popular among the teams in this conference. It had over 26000 likes on its official Facebook page. The rest of the teams didn’t come close in terms of that figure. After I was done with the Sunshine conference, I decided to finish the southern regions so I began working on the South Central conference. South Central teams consisted of 8 which made up the conference. This conference leads in the number of teams listed in a particular conference.
Moving on to other parts of the country, the South region, like the northeast, had several conferences under it. They are Southeast conference, South Atlantic conference, Sunshine and the South Central conference. For South Atlantic conference, there were four teams listed. Among these teams, Carolina Railhawks was the most popular with over 13000 likes on Facebook, over 2000 followers on Instagram and just a little shy on 10000 followers on Twitter. I went ahead with the compilation process and got done with the South Atlantic conference. I began to work on the other conference and touched on the southeast conference. This conference had 6 teams again and the process was pretty much the same as other conferences and regions.
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AuthorI am Jason Salam, MBA - Sports Management student at Tiffin University, Ohio. I have a background in business administration, particularly in marketing. Blogger and sports enthusiast! Archives
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