February 18th, 2010
Parents and Coaches are starting to familiarize themselves with different social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Digg. Initially they were extremely against their high school children using these platforms. Over the past year, not only have they allowed them to use these networks but the parents use it for business promotion, brand control and [...]
Tags: High School Athletes, Social Networks
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January 25th, 2010
Thank you to everyone at the Ohlone Baseball Fundraiser for the hospitality and allowing me to share my story. Everyone was great and the players were some of the most down to earth and genuine kids I have met to date.
Here is a quick video of some of the guys joking around with one of [...]
Tags: Ohlone College, speaking engagement
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January 22nd, 2010
Hey everyone. Hope you had a great week. I will be traveling to Pleasanton tomorrow to speak at the Ohlone College Baseball fundraiser. I will be doing a video blog during the event and would love for you to check it out. I will be sharing some great information on the recruiting process and my [...]
Tags: Ohlone College, seminar, speaking engagement
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January 15th, 2010
What a crazy question right?!? As of 2009, the easy answer is no way. But why can certain websites online make millions of dollars in revenue annually? There is a very simple answer to this question: Traffic. Traffic is gold. Now there are a lot of methods and reasons to why a certain website versus [...]
Tags: Athlete Branding, Athlete Domains, Online Revenue, Steve Nash
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January 5th, 2010
Hey guys! ProtegeBranding.com was lucky enough to steal a quick interview after training last night with UFC Middle Weight Aaron Simpson. He is preparing for his fight next Monday night at UFC Fight Night 20 on Spike. Aaron does a fantastic job of video blogging on his site (SimpsonMMA.com) to keep his fans in contact [...]
Tags: Aaron Simpson, Fighting, mma fighter, UFC
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December 27th, 2009
1. Personality- Remember when Randy Johnson was visiting the New York Yankees to potentially sign a deal? He was approached by a member of the paparazzi who was constantly following him, bombarding him questions, and just wouldn’t leave him alone. Randy then got frustrated, pushed the camera out of the way, and said, “Get out [...]
Tags: Athletes, business, facebook fan page, JamieVarner.com
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December 25th, 2009
Wanted to send out a quick Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of our clients and followers. Thanks for all the support and looking forward to big things in 2010. Take care and be safe. -Chris Gruler
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December 22nd, 2009
With the holidays coming up this week, we decided to throw the Player Profile Websites on sale. Normally the price of the Websites are 449.00, but we have lowered it to 297.00!! That is less than a baseball glove or bat! This is a great stocking stuffer! Well, only if you can fit your computer [...]
Tags: College Recruiting Tool, Custom Player Profile, Player Profile Websites
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December 3rd, 2009
I want to start off by saying that there are a lot of good open source Content Management System’s available which do a great job. A few examples are Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress.
ProtegeBranding.com uses WordPress for all of its Professional Athletes and Small Business Clients. I accidentally stumbled upon WordPress two years ago, and it [...]
Tags: Plug-ins, SEO, Websites, WordPress
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December 2nd, 2009
I recently wrote a quick article regarding a lot of questions I have been receiving about off season throwing/weight gain/conditioning programs. Click here to check out the article and let me know your thoughts. Thanks. -CG
You can contact me here if you are interested.
P.S. I am currently in the process of writing three e-books [...]
Tags: baseball, conditioning, Off Season, strength, velocity, weight gain
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