Sports Marketing: Tactics to Drive Consumption Intentions
What you'll learn
- Motivate fans and followers of a sports organisation to engage with the organisation on social media
- Conceptualise tactics that strengthen global viewing intention of a league with reference to the assessment of brand globalness and localness
- Assess attitudes and consumption intentions towards women’s sports
- Derive appropriate marketing and communications tactics to increase the intention to watch a women’s sport event
- Encourage desired behavioural intentions via sports influencer marketing activities that stand on strong brand credibility and parasocial interaction
- Incite desired behaviours through unscripted videos about a sports brand based on an analysis of uses and gratifications
- Understand structure and impact of sensoryscape for sports venues to affect fans' intention to revisit home games because of memorable game day experiences
- Identify appropriate TikTok content categories for an athlete and assess their impact on engagement behaviours
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of marketing and branding is beneficial, but not required.
Description
Build and strengthen your sports marketing and branding skills with this specialised course on sports marketing tactics to drive consumption intentions for sports organisations and brands. The material in this course is designed for professionals and students to learn how to foster consumption intentions towards different sports products through principles of marketing and branding and was successfully taught to hundreds of university students and business professionals.
The course includes various sessions that cover relevant marketing and communications concepts in the sports industry. The sessions introduce necessary theories and relevant applications for practitioners to learn how and why to implement specific activities, achieve set goals, and improve their sports organisation’s marketing performance.
The course covers:
Driving fan engagement on social media
Effect of brand globalness on viewing intentions
Women’s sports and consumption intentions
Influencer marketing and celebrity athletes
Uses and gratifications of unscripted video series
Sensoryscapes in sports venues and the intention to revisit home games
TikTok video categories and user engagement behaviours
Although the course is designed to build and strengthen marketing and branding skills of sports and other marketing professionals, anyone who enjoys learning new skills in the realms of marketing and branding through sports brands will take away valuable learnings.
Upon completion of the course, students know how to
motivate fans and followers of a sports organisation to engage with the organisation on social media,
conceptualise tactics that strengthen global viewing intention of a league with reference to the assessment of brand globalness and localness,
assess attitudes and consumption intentions towards women’s sports and derive appropriate marketing and communications tactics to increase the intention to watch a women’s sport event,
encourage desired behavioural intentions via sports influencer marketing activities that stand on strong brand credibility and parasocial interaction,
incite desired behaviours through unscripted videos about a sports brand (i.e. sports documentary series and other online video content) based upon a thorough analysis of uses and gratifications,
address and create sensory stimuli that affect spectators' intentions to revisit home games, and
identify and define TikTok video categories for athletes and examine their influence on engagement behaviours.
Who this course is for:
- Sports management and marketing professionals
- Marketing enthusiasts
- Business students
Instructor
I am a Researcher for the Sports Business Research Academy, as well as Lecturer of Digital Marketing and Branding at BHMS Business & Hotel Management School and Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. My main research interests include second-screening and spectator sports, uses and gratifications of watching unscripted shows, retro marketing and apparel promotion, driving social media engagement, intentions to watch women’s sports, and metaverse adoption. I also work as a Digital Marketing and Communications Specialist for the Swiss National Museum. I hold a Doctor of Business Administration degree and a Master of Science in Marketing degree from Heriot-Watt University, UK, and a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in International Management degree from FHNW University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.