Ian Cummings

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4 Necessary Steps to Take Before Committing to the Sports Media Industry

The sports media industry is where passion and skill intersect. It’s where you can do what you love, while also playing up to your professional strengths – whether those strengths rest in...

6 Steps for Performing Audience Segmentation During Brand Analysis

Your audience is everything in the world of sports media. In order to sell what you’re creating, you have to know who you’re selling it to, and you have to know them...

6 Ways to Use Marketing to Expand Your Personal Sports Media Brand

In sports media, your content and brand form the core of your value proposition. However, effectively conveying that value to your audience requires an effective marketing strategy. Marketing, at its core, is about...

4 Ways to Contextualize Data to Make More Informed Content Decisions

Data carries an ever-important role for the sports media professional – both as an individual content creator and as part of a content team, and especially in the modern age. Producing data-driven...

5 Ways to Keep Audience Attention and Extend Their Stay on Your Platform

Every creator operates at the mercy of the audience. To produce content that gets the eyes, you need to have a target audience and understand that target audience. To understand that audience,...