Mark Tatum began his professional career at Procter & Gamble where he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. While working on his MBA at Harvard, he met many people working in the sports industry and took a summer internship doing sports marketing for Pepsi-Cola. After completing his MBA, Mark worked for Major League Baseball in their Corporate Sponsorship and Marketing Department. In 1999, he joined the NBA where he is currently Senior Director and Group Manager of Marketing Partnerships for the NBA. His responsibilities include overseeing the development of marketing programs for the NBA, USA Basketball and the Basketball Hall of Fame. Mark Tatum received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his MBA from Harvard University.
I think one of the things that is most misunderstood about media sales in particular is that there is not a lot of strategy put into it; that it is just about eyeballs. It's just about let's create a spot, a TV commercial, and let's go see where we can get the most eyeballs for this TV commercial. ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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