6-17-10: Home Team Marketing and The Cleveland Browns are proud to announce the return of the Charity Game to Cleveland Browns Stadium on Saturday, August 28th. The doubleheader will feature a matchup between St. Edward and Mentor High Schools at 3pm, followed by the St. Ignatius and Lake Catholic game at 7pm.
Tickets for the game will be $10 in advance and $12 on game day. Proceeds will benefit each of the four participating schools, as well as the Cleveland Browns Foundation. At half-time of both games a scholarship will be presented to one student from each school. Tickets will be available for purchase through the respective high schools or the Cleveland Browns Stadium Ticket Office. One ticket will be good for both games.
6-16-10: Home Team Marketing and the Illinois High School Association are launching a national platform to bring March Madness to all 50 states. The IHSA, the originator of the "March Madness" term, is launching a national platform for the official and exclusive use of the "March Madness" marks in conjunction with high school basketball and for the creation of the www.MarchMadness.org website. Founding partners will have exclusive rights to utilize the marks and logos for March Madness in conjunction with high school basketball nationwide. The March Madness high school platform will include national marketing and media rights opportunities.
6-7-10: Home Team Marketing announces the opening of our newest office today in Chicago. Greg Bloedorn has been hired as the VP of Sales in Chicago and will lead HTM's efforts on behalf of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Welcome Greg!
5-13-10: Go to Home Team Marketing's page on Facebook and check out the video of the great TV coverage our client American Family Insurance got for their Teen Safe Driver Pledge $25,000 check presentation. Here is the link http://tinyurl.com/3x46dc
5-11-10: Home Team Marketing is proud to announce our new partnership with the Iowa High School Sports Network (IHSSN). HTM will serve as the official sponsorship negotiator and sales representative for the IHSSN and will assist them in maximizing their media and sponsorship revenue platforms. Scarborough research shows that Iowa has the greatest percentage of adults attending high school athletic events at 36.8%
4-15-10: Home Team Marketing is proud to announce a 3 year partnership with the Illinois High School Association. HTM will serve as the official sponsorship negotiator and sales representative for the IHSA and will assist them in maximizing their media and sponsorship revenue platforms.
The IHSA represents nearly 800 public and private schools in Illinois, including the nation's third largest high school district in the Chicago Public Schools. The association represents over 400,000 student athletes and has over 12,500 officials registered to work in the state.
4-7-10: Home Team Marketing - Great story in the 4/5/10 issue of Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal written by Michael Smith that talks about the new partnership between HTM and K-Swiss. The article talks about how HTM will help put K-Swiss in high schools in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh in the first year of the program, with a significant expansion in the second year. As part of the program, K-Swiss will make a donation to every school involved in the program. There is also a fundraising component which gives a percentage of K-Swiss sales directly back to the schools.
4-7-10: Home Team Marketing announces the hiring of Ann Carne in our Dallas office. Ann previously was with Fox Sports Net Southwest as a senior sports marketing specialist.
3-17-10: Home Team Marketing runs the 2nd in a series of 7 Sports Business Journal back cover ads. Check it out on our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Cleveland-OH/Home-Team-Marketing/77281419937?ref=ts
3-3-10: Home Team Marketing is proud to announce the following promotions: Dan Malone to Group Director - State Associations, Dan will oversee all State Association relationships and account management. Ryan Szafraniec has been promoted to Senior Designated School Representative. Katie Galloway has been promoted to full-time Sales Assistant.
3-1-10: The OHSAA and Home Team Marketing have announced they have renewed their partnership for another 3 years. The extension of their partnership was unanimously approved by the OHSAA Board of Directors at its regularly scheduled meeting February 18th in Columbus.
HTM serves as the official marketing arm of the OHSAA and is responsible for securing all of the Association's corporate partners and for assisting with its media platform. HTM has been instrumental in promoting the OHSAA's Respect the Game and Refuel with Chocolate Milk campaigns along with the Farmers Insurance programs that support education, safety and civic participation. In addition, HTM is credited with negotiating a three-year deal on behalf of the OHSAA with Sportstime Ohio for the television rights of selected OHSAA state championships.
1-04-10: Home Team Marketing is featured in an article in the January 4th issue of Sports Business Journal. The article, written by Michael Smith, discusses how HTM is aggregating the rights of high school associations to create regional and national marketing programs using prep sports.
12-21-09: Home Team Marketing attended the annual NFHS/NIAAA Conference in Grapevine, Texas. As an exhibitor and official sponsor of the "School Sponsorships" workshop, HTM school representatives were able to meet with over 2,000 athletic directors and school administrators regarding the HTM program. This was HTM's third consecutive year in attendance at the conference and the first as an official partner of the NFHS.
12-08-09: Congratulations to all the Ohio High School Football players who competed in the OHSAA Championship games this weekend. Thanks to everyone who supported the schools by attending the games, listened to the broadcasts on WTAM and watched the games on SportsTime Ohio. Because of you, these were the highest TV ratings of any high school sporting event in Ohio ever! Way to go!
11-23-09: Home Team Marketing and the New York State Public High School Athletic Association are proud to announce their partnership to support the schools of New York State. HTM will assist in the effort to establish corporate partnerships for the NYSPHSAA. HTM will bring funding support from these partners to the Association which will increase what the NYSPHSAA is able to provide to its member schools. “Partnering with Home Team Marketing will allow us the potential for another major revenue stream for our Association. We are hopeful our partnership yields financial rewards immediately so we can continue to conduct successful state championship events and continue to fund various programs that we offer, including vital sportsmanship and chemical health programs” said Joe Altieri, Director of Marketing and Media Relations for the NYSPHSAA. The NYSPHSAA represents the state of New York, with the exception of the New York City area, and includes over half a million student athletes. HTM’s president Peter Fitzpatrick said “This is a great opportunity for corporations to support high school sports and the communities in which they are located. In this tightened economy, it’s great to see corporations putting their sponsorship dollars into the areas where it is most needed, and where it can really make a difference, scholastic sports.”
11-18-09: Home Team Marketing has partnered with Fatheads to create the first-ever authentic Fatheads of high school helmets and logos. Participating schools will receive a percentage of sales on all products bearing their school's marks. High School Fatheads can be purchased at www.Fathead.com or by calling 877-FATHEAD
11-5-09: Home Team Marketing is very proud to announce that 5 new people will be joining the team. Patrick O'Neill has joined as the VP Sales for the Ohio and Michigan State Associations. Holly Koch is a Sales Assistant. Dan McGrath is a Schools Assistant. Kyle Flannery is the Account Executive for the Fathead/Home Team Marketing partnership. Jackie Keim is the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for HTM. Over the next few months Home Team Marketing will also be partnering with CayRay Group, the company will be in charge of NE Sales.
10-29-09: Today the number of participating state associations increased from 12 to 13, with the addition of New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA). The NYSPHSAA has a total of 772 member high schools. For more information about the Association please click on the following link: NYSPHSAA.
