Hello everyone! My name is Doug Warwick originally from northern California. I am a senior at San Francisco State planning to major in Marketing currently living in the city. Over the past three years I have worked for United Markets, a local grocery store in Main County, but I recently left to focus on my academics. I enjoy going to movies, playing and watching sports, cooking, playing board games, and being with my friends and family. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because it is a day to eat and stuff your face. My favorite sports teams are all Bay Area teams: the Warriors, 49ers, Giants, and Sharks.
When I graduate with a Marketing degree, I want to get into sports marketing. My dream would be to work for a sports franchise, mainly the Giants or 49ers in their marketing departments. I would be good at sports marketing because I am a sports fan so I know what a sports fan is looking for when they are sitting down watching a game. You could say that sports is my genre of choice. Somewhere in the Bay Area would be great but I wouldn't mind going other places. Working for a franchise, such as the Giants, I get to help project an image to the community about what the team stands for off the field. But these jobs are extremely difficult to get so always have a back up plan.
My second choice, and one that seems pretty fun, would be to work at an advertising agency. Finding ways to appeal to different markets and selling products to people all over the globe, or even just locally, would be a fun job. Having worked in a grocery store, I saw just a portion of how much advertising it took to keep relevant among competitors. News paper ads every Sunday with the weekly specials and a blurb from the regular customers on how they love the great customer service. Not to mention all the fundraisers for local schools, and other nonprofits, and other charitable donations that takes place. All of this leads up to an image that a community can stand behind and support.
Sport Marketing, this is my second time to hear that today. It makes me wonder what kind of job will be offer in sport marketing field. Why so many students are interesting on sport and sport marketing? I'm not deeply enough to understand sports. I might get bore when I watch the real life baseball games as like my classmate Han.
ReplyDeleteLing I think students are so interested in sports marketing because many students like sports. A lot of kids grow up playing sports, or having parents who watch sports and they just took after them.
ReplyDeleteDoug I think it is great that you want to work for a sports team. I would encourage you to look at the Sharks and Warriors for their upcoming seasons, as I told Jae on his blog. My friend just interviewed with both those two this past week, so I know they are looking. I think it would be cool to work for a advertising agency as well. When I was a senior in high school I took a marketing class, that participated in Goodby & Silverstein's Got Milk competition. We were competing against three other classes from all over California to pitch the best Got Milk campaign to the firm. We unfortunately lost, but the experience I got out of it is everlasting. I know with your personality you could make it far in the marketing industry. Have you applied for any internships?
No I haven't started looking yet. I was hoping to find one for the summer but I'm feeling pressure just to finish my classwork. I'll start searching more aggressively over Thanksgiving and Christmas probably. Do you know any good links to look at for internships?
DeleteWhere is my comment? I think there was a problem. Anyway, we have a common thing. I am also looking for an internship of sports team. We can share the information. Good to know that. I hope we meet at Giants' office. Haha, good luck
ReplyDeleteJust like Ling, I dont know anything about sports marketing because its a brand new and pretty fresh career to me . but one thing i pretty agree with Vincent, whether kids like sports, the growth enviroment including parents are very important. I dont like sports very much because i am lazy, but i did play badminton a lot when i was little .We look forward to hear more detail about how it(sports marketing) works.
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