SPM 425 Professional Selling in Sport

This course focuses on promotion and sales of sport. Quite often, selling is a student's initial entryway into the sport business. This course will examine the relationship between rights holders and sponsors of sport teams and events. It will also examine how events sell tickets and the technology associated with ticketing. Presentation skills, prospecting and closing will be addressed. This course will utilize guest speakers from the Tampa sport industry and will culminate with the class being a part of selling tickets/sponsorship for a Tampa Bay area sport event.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

SPM 290 and 395.