| |September 20209marketing have become crucial in every sector. With the emergence of internet and social media fans of the athletes like to connect with them on the social media platforms. With the biggest leagues coming in sports agencies ensure engagement of the fans, promotions, and individual athlete and team promotions through the digital media.Sports Analyst: They are specialists who analyze individual sports person performances, competitor analysis, predict the likely outcome of a match, and advise sports coaches. They even conduct statistical modelling to find relevant information and trends specific to their domain.Sports Event Management: With the culture of different formats of sports and leagues coming in, the role of a sports event manager has become crucial. Different promotional events before a league is conducted in order to create a buzz. Sports event managers also drive various regional and national sporting events.Sports Agent: Sports agents usually represent a sports club or a team. Sports agents handle the business contracts and financial matters of the sportspersons. Aside, representing the sportsperson for brand promotion and endorsements are also taken care of by sports agents. These agents handle operations of business and financials.Sports Content Writer: Sports content writers specialize in the coverage of a specific sport. They can work for individual sports or publishing agencies or syndicate stories for a news outlets. Their primary jobs is to engage and deliver informative news on sports to readers of blogs, newspapers, magazines, and digital platforms.Sports Sponsorship: For brands around the world, sports has been a huge profit driver. Companies, in order to gain visibility infront of a large audience leverage sports events as a marketing technique. Strong brand management skills help sports professionals to move along a hierarchy or get an entry level position in sports sponsorship.Sports Technology- Wearable B2C & B2B: Wearable technology in the sports industry is leading the revolution. Technology companies are also taking massive strides to develop and market wearable technologies to the athletic teams. Athletes on the other hand are also adopting these technologies to transform their coaching, how the sport is played, safety etc. A career in this domain looks promising since these technologies are also moving towards the B2C segment from the professional sports arena towards the general public.Sports Infrastructure: Infrastructure is the backbone of sports. Realizing the benefits of sports in general and sports infrastructure in particular, countries have started investing heavily in sports infrastructure. To facilitate sport participation it is a key domain to venture into and provide an impetus to the youth of the country to participate in sports.Depending on how students want to specialize in their career, sports management can incorporate various aspects of fields like finance, business, law, operations and marketing. Students have the option to work in the local community or breakthrough into professional leagues. Promotion of sports, channels, teams and events is an integral function given the competitive nature of sports
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