(MKT) Marketing Education Standards Book
Completion requirements
Frameworks
Sports and Entertainment
MKT301-2
MKT-HS.03 Standard 03 - Customer Relations
Understands the techniques and strategies used to foster positive, ongoing relationships with customers.
Topic 3.2: Resolve conflicts with/for customers to encourage repeat business.
- MKT-HS.03.T02.01 Handle difficult customers
- MKT-HS.03.T02.02 Handle customer/client complaints
MKT-HS.10 Standard 10 - Marketing
Understands the tools, techniques, and systems that businesses use to create exchanges and satisfy organizational objectives.
Topic 10.3: Acquire an understanding of marketing's role and function in business to facilitate work among departments.
- MKT-HS.10.T03.01 Explain the nature of sport marketing
- MKT-HS.10.T03.02 Describe the nature of event marketing
MKT-HS.11 Standard 11 - Operations
Understands the processes and systems implemented to monitor, plan, and control the day-to-day activities required for continued business functioning.
Topic 11.5: Utilize project-management skills to improve workflow and minimize costs.
- MKT-HS.11.T05.02 Develop project plan
- MKT-HS.11.T05.03 Schedule tournaments
Topic 11.9: Implement organizational skills in marketing communications to improve efficiency and workflow.
- MKT-HS.11.T09.01 Develop production schedules for events
MKT-HS.12 Standard 12 - Professional Development
Understands concepts, tools, and strategies used to explore, obtain, and develop in a business career.
Topic 12.8: Acquire information about the marketing industry to aid in making career choices.
- MKT-HS.12.T08.01 Discuss the nature of the sport/event industries
- MKT-HS.12.T08.02 Describe the impact of sports/events on communities
- MKT-HS.12.T08.04 Explain career opportunities in sport/event marketing
MKT-HS.15 Standard 15 - Marketing-Informaton Management
Understands the concepts, systems, and tools needed to gather, access, synthesize, evaluate, and disseminate information for use in making business decisions.
Topic 15.1: Acquire foundational knowledge of marketing-information management to understand its nature and scope.
- MKT-HS.15.T01.06 Explain the need for sport/event marketing information
Topic 15.4: Understand data-collection methods to evaluate their appropriateness for the research problem/issue.
- MKT-HS.15.T04.03 Explain sources of primary sport/event market information
- MKT-HS.15.T04.04 Explain sources of secondary sport/event information
Topic 15.7: Analyze and report findings to communicate research information to others and to stay abreast of trends and changes that could impact business decision-making.
- MKT-HS.15.T07.03 Search the Internet for sport/event marketing information
- MKT-HS.15.T07.04 Monitor internal records for marketing information
- MKT-HS.15.T07.05 Maintain a database of competitor information
MKT-HS.16 Standard 16 - Market Planning
Understands the concepts and strategies utilized to determine and target marketing strategies to a select audience.
Topic 16.1: Develop marketing strategies and select target market appropriate for product/business to obtain the best return on marketing investment (ROMI).
- MKT-HS.16.T01.06 Describe the nature of target marketing in sport/event marketing
Topic 16.2: Employ marketing-information to plan marketing activities.
- MKT-HS.16.T02.13 Identify ways to segment sport/event markets
MKT-HS.17 Standard 17 - Pricing
Understands concepts and strategies utilized in determining and adjusting prices to maximize return and meet customers' perceptions of value.
Topic 17.1: Develop a foundational knowledge of pricing to understand its role in marketing.
- MKT-HS.17.T01.06 Describe pricing issues associated with sport/event products
Topic 17.2: Employ pricing strategies to determine optimal pricing.
- MKT-HS.17.T02.13 Identify factors affecting pricing of sport/event products
MKT-HS.18 Standard 18 - Product/Service Management
Understands the concepts and processes needed to obtain, develop, maintain, and improve a product or service mix in response to market opportunities.
Topic 18.1: Acquire a foundational knowledge of product/service management to understand its nature and scope.
- MKT-HS.18.T01.05 Explain the nature of sport/event brand/branding
- MKT-HS.18.T01.06 Explain elements of the sport/event product
Topic 18.4: Position company and product/services to acquire desired business image.
- MKT-HS.18.T04.07 Explain the use of licensing in sport/event marketing
- MKT-HS.18.T04.08 Explain the role of endorsements in sport/event marketing
- MKT-HS.18.T04.09 Explain the use of naming rights in sport/event marketing
- MKT-HS.18.T04.14 Identify elements that enhance venue attractiveness
MKT-HS.19 Standard 19 - Promotion
Understands the concepts and strategies needed to communicate information about products, services, images, and/or ideas to achieve a desired outcome
Topic 19.3: Understand the use of an advertisement's components to communicate with targeted audiences.
- MKT-HS.19.T03.01 Explain the components of advertisements
Topic 19.5: Understand the use of direct marketing to attract attention and to build brand.
- MKT-HS.19.T05.01 Discuss types of direct mail tactics
- MKT-HS.19.T05.02 Explain the nature of online advertising
- MKT-HS.19.T05.03 Explain the nature of e-mail marketing tactics
- MKT-HS.19.T05.04 Describe mobile marketing tactics
- MKT-HS.19.T05.05 Discuss the use of search-engine optimization tactics for digital marketing
Topic 19.6: Develop content for use in marketing communications to create interest in product/business/idea.
- MKT-HS.19.T06.01 Write direct-mail letters.
Topic 19.7: Manage media planning and placement to enhance return on marketing investment.
- MKT-HS.19.T07.01 Calculate media costs
- MKT-HS.19.T07.02 Select advertising media
- MKT-HS.19.T07.03 Choose appropriate media outlets
- MKT-HS.19.T07.04 Buy ad space/time
Topic 19.8: Utilize publicity to inform stakeholders of business activities.
- MKT-HS.19.T08.01 Write a press release
- MKT-HS.19.T08.02 Cultivate media relationships
Topic 19.12: Understand, monitor, and manage promotional activities to maximize return on sport/event efforts.
- MKT-HS.19.T12.01 Explain the nature of sponsorship in the sport/event industries
- MKT-HS.19.T12.02 Design logo for sport/event
- MKT-HS.19.T12.03 Design tickets
- MKT-HS.19.T12.04 Explain advertising media used in the sport/event industries
- MKT-HS.19.T12.05 Describe sport/event industries’ utilization of digital media
- MKT-HS.19.T12.06 Develop a direct mail offer for sport/event products
- MKT-HS.19.T12.07 Determine advertising reach of sport/event media
- MKT-HS.19.T12.09 Maximize/Capitalize on celebrity’s appearance at event
- MKT-HS.19.T12.10 Develop and generate sport/event newsletter
- MKT-HS.19.T12.11 Explain media relations in the sport/event industries
- MKT-HS.19.T12.12 Develop a media guide
- MKT-HS.19.T12.13 Plan a media day
- MKT-HS.19.T12.16 Design program for event
- MKT-HS.19.T12.17 Create and issue script for game-day promotions
- MKT-HS.19.T12.18 Explain venue signage
- MKT-HS.19.T12.19 Select event signage
- MKT-HS.19.T12.20 Identify “out-of-the-box” sales promotion ideas for sports/events
- MKT-HS.19.T12.22 Implement ticket sales campaign
- MKT-HS.19.T12.23 Select strategies for maintaining/building fan support
MKT-HS.20 Standard 20 - Selling
Understands the concepts and actions needed to determine client needs and wants and respond through planned, personalized communication that influences purchase decisions and enhances future business opportunities.
Topic 20.1: Acquire a foundational knowledge of selling to understand its nature and scope.
- MKT-HS.20.T01.08 Determine sport/event features and benefits
Topic 20.3: Understand sales processes and techniques to enhance customer relationships and to increase the likelihood of making sales.
- MKT-HS.20.T03.03 Describe factors that motivate people to participate in/attend sports/events
Topic 20.4: Utilize sales-support activities to increase customer/sponsor satisfaction.
- MKT-HS.20.T04.01 Establish relationships with sport/event clients/customers/fans
Topic 20.5: Employ sales processes and techniques to enhance customer relationships and to increase the likelihood of making sales.
- MKT-HS.20.T05.18 Sell tickets
Topic 20.6: Implement support activities to facilitate the selling process.
- MKT-HS.20.T06.04 Sell advertising space in printed and electronic materials
Topic 20.7: Understand, perform pre-sales of, and complete the sales process to show command of their nature and scope.
- MKT-HS.20.T07.02 Identify sales methodologies used in sport/event marketing
- MKT-HS.20.T07.07 Prepare sales presentation
- MKT-HS.20.T07.08 Process telephone orders