Property Focus
– The team at LSU is capitalizing on the National Championship and has a primary focus on growing their football season ticket holder base, adding 160 new season tickets. Additionally, they are working to build group nights out for winter sports including basketball, baseball, softball and gymnastics, last week selling 413 group tickets as a team.
– In Lexington, football is the main focus.The sales team started their pre-sale for new football season tickets and sold 391 new season tickets in the first three days.
– The team in Atlanta is honing in on group sales for basketball. They have some great initiatives coming up including Spirit Day, State of Georgia Day, Alumni Day, Youth Day and Scout Day. Great work on being creative in your group ticket efforts which resulted in 166 group group tickets sold last week!
– The Eagles of Georgia Southern are focused on their football campaign for 2020 with 12 new season tickets and 24 renewals, while adding in 70 group tickets for basketball.
– Camille is getting settled in at Robert Morris, working on theme nights, fan experiences and ticket campaigns for new and renewal season tickets moving forward.
MVP
Shout out to the General Manager of LSU, Sam Haughton! Sam is leading the sales team at LSU during a great span of success on the field/court, while also adding in sales with 64 group tickets for basketball, 56 new baseball season tickets and 25 new football season tickets. Great leadership and salesmanship from Sam!
Weekly Read
https://www.si.com/college/2020/01/10/college-football-attendance-decline-ncaa
Great article on SI.com a few weeks back breaking down the decline in college football attendance. Good reminder for each of us as to why our job is so important and to keep the issues fresh in our minds so we can continue to provide good insights to our clients!
Get To Know Your Colleague – Kyle Teegardin
Kyle is the newest member to the Taymar Sale U. team! He is taking the lead at our newest property, The Citadel, as the Director of Sales. Kyle is a native of Joliet, IL but moved south to attend Southern Illinois University. He kept his northern Illinois ties with his favorite professional team being Chicago Blackhawks. Before joining the TSU team he worked for the spring training camps for the White Sox and Dodgers as well as the Frisco Roughriders and Kannapolis Cannonballers….quite the team names here! His favorite athlete is Walker Buehler, pitcher for the LA Dodgers, who he got the chance to see up close at the spring training camp he worked. Baseball seems to be the theme here…..Kyle is a longtime umpire on the side and still does it to this day! Kyle and his wife Kylie are excited about their expanding family come July as they are expecting their first child. Please join me in welcoming Kyle to the Taymar Team!
Super Bowl Pick ‘Em
The Super Bowl is happening this weekend and we want to see who can best predict the outcome! Email me (bboaz@taymarventures.com) your Super Bowl winner, final score and MVP. We will give a shout out to the winner next week!
