The Disney Experience? Colleges Are All Ears

June 3, 2013

By: Michael Smith, Sports Business Journal The SEC, during last week’s spring meetings, put together a committee to study the fan experience at football games. Among the things they’ll look at are Wi-Fi in and around the stadium, enhanced replays on the video board and better scheduling. For Jeff James, vice president and general manager…

The Aspire Group’s Amazing Growth Recognized with a 2013 Pacesetter Award

May 8, 2013

The Atlanta Business Chronicle has recognized The Aspire Group as the 9th fastest growing company in the Atlanta region. Chairman and CEO, Dr. Bernie Mullin and Mia Ramer, Marketing & Operations Coordinator of The Aspire Group accepted this prestigious award. The Atlanta Business Chronicle Pacesetter Awards recognizes the 100 fastest growing companies in the Atlanta…

The Aspire Group Partners With Middle Tennessee Athletics

April 30, 2013

Forms second Fan Relationship Management Center (FRMC) in Tennessee The Middle Tennessee athletic department has reached an agreement with the Atlanta- based The Aspire Group to market and sell tickets for football, basketball and other intercollegiate sports sponsored by the Blue Raiders. The Aspire Group will construct an on-campus Fan Relationship Management Center (FRMC) with…

Competitive Sports Analysis Partners with The Aspire Group to Increase Marketing Resources

April 23, 2013

Partnership includes innovative research into how fantasy players make decisions Competitive Sports Analysis (CSA), creator of one of the sport industry’s most accurate predictive tools for fantasy football players, selected The Aspire Group to develop its go-to-market strategy and research for its highly analytical fantasy sports tool – ScoutPROTM. Aspire will focus on how ScoutPRO…

$1.2 Million Generated in First Year of Georgia Tech’s FRMC

July 15, 2010

ATLANTA — July 15, 2010 — Today marks a full year of ticket sales for The Aspire Group with its “Fan Relationship Management Center” at Georgia Tech. To date, the Georgia Tech FRMC has generated $1.2 Million in new ticket revenue and related donations. This is a remarkable accomplishment given that no premium seating, hospitality,…

Over the Top

May 5, 2010

By Jon Cooper Ramblinwreck.com Members of the Aspire Group, never have to ask for whom the bell tolls. They not only know for whom it tolls but what it means – it means a sale. While it’s a sound they hear constantly in their Alexander Memorial Coliseum office, the ring that was heard Tuesday night…

Georgia Tech Reaches $1 Million Dollars in Outsourced Ticket Sales

ATLANTA – May 5,2010- Ten months after Georgia Tech hired The Aspire Group to handle ticket sales and service for football and men’s basketball, the Atlanta-based firm has surpassed a million dollars of new revenue for the athletic program. Headed by well-known sports business professionals, Bernie Mullin and Bill Duffy, The Aspire Group attributes its…

Former Spirit CEO Mullin still in the action with the Aspire Group

April 19, 2010

By David Markiewicz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution It’s been about 26 months since he left his job as president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Spirit, but Bernie Mullin, it turns out, is never really far from the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta Thrashers or Philips Arena. He oversaw the two teams and their general managers…

Tech averaged 4,095 more fans than last season

February 23, 2010

by Doug Roberson We had a short in Tuesday’s paper that Georgia Tech averaged 51,584 fans last season, which was 40th in the NCAA among Division I-A schools. The entire report can be read here. The Yellow Jackets, though, were 12th in Division I-A in increased attendance year-overyear, averaging 4,095 more fans in 2009 than…

Tech will outsource its sales of tickets

May 28, 2009

Marketing agency deal may be worth up to $2.2 million for Jackets. By Chip Towers, Doug Roberson The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday, May 28, 2009 Georgia Tech has turned over its ticket sales operation to an outside agency in a deal projected to be worth as much as $2.2 million to the athletics department. The Aspire…