Social Media for Athletes
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Sean OBrien in Sports Marketing
This is a crazy phenomenon. It makes these athletes and super stars human and reachable. Social Media makes it easy to be a fan. If you are already on Facebook it is easy to keep up with a team or a player’s news if they are updating their own account.
Most of these Athletes have personal websites that are pushed through their Twitter accounts. Its genius; they have thousands if not millions of fans who are driven to their personal site. Most of these sites offer player merchandise, newsletters, and even opportunities to sign up for their personal basketball camps (for a nice profit of course). (more…)
Top 25 Pro Athlete Websites
Posted on 12. Nov, 2008 by Sean OBrien in Design
As a Professional Athlete myself, I’m always interested to see what other athletes are doing to promote themselves on the internet. One would think that with the amount of money flying around in most high-profile sports these days, the highest earning athletes on the planet would surely have the slickest looking websites; this is not always the case. What shocked me more is that I could only find 2-3 athlete websites using Wordpress as a CMS. Suffice to say there are some great athlete websites out there but they are in the few, so I’ve compiled a list of my favourites for you everyone to check out.
I didn’t really want to join the list of billions on the web posting a ‘my favourite blog designs of 2008′ article which most likely they ripped from SmashingMagazine anyhow, but spending a few hours today doing some research I’ve discovered that there are absolutely zero resources on the web to list professional athletes websites (I got the list mostly from googling famous sports heroes and trying to find their websites) and it seems the more famous the athlete, the less they spend on their website budget (mostly I would think, because the internet is not a great marketing tool for sports compared to Television and Print media – sorry guys!).
Anyhow, I thought I could be the first to publish a list like this featuring athletes, and I would hope with a few Diggs from you guys out there this could be become a valuable resource for webdesigners who have been given the task to build the new Roger Federer website. So enjoy and read on to check the sites!