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juliya Welcome to Rob Caskey's Sports Marketing on the Internet Web site. This site offers visitors a quick and easy way to download the complete text of my masters thesis, "An Examination of the Attitudes of Sports Marketers Toward the Use and Viability of the World Wide Web as a Profitable Tool for Marketing Sports." sergey The thesis available on this site was conducted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an MTA degree with a concentration in sport management and marketing, which I earned from The George Washington University in December 1998. Additional information about my academic and professional background is available in the About the Researcher section of this site. The data on which my thesis is based was culled in April and May 1998. A 39-question survey was sent to representatives of 158 sports Web sites. This survey was intended to gauge the opinions of sports marketers with regard to the marketing and money-making potential of sports Web sites. Forty-five respondents from some of the top sports Web sites successfully completed the survey. 5 The results of the survey were very revealing. Among some of the major findings were the following:
For more details, you may download my thesis, either as a zipped Word 6.0 document (requires WinZip), or as an Acrobat PDF file (requires Acrobat Reader). Alternatively, you may read the abstract for a quick overview of the thesis.
I would like to thank all of the site representatives who took the time to complete this survey, without whom I would not have been able to complete my thesis. If you are having trouble downloading either of these files, or if you would like to contact me with questions about my research, please send an e-mail to [email protected] Rob Caskey |