Baker Dillon Group Forms Strategic Alliance with SportsInk, LLC

The Baker Dillon Group has formed a strategic alliance with SportsInk, LLC, a sports communications and consulting firm. The two firms will work together to provide enhanced marketing for high school and college athletic programs and develop programs for Convention & Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) to attract sporting events.

Fresno, CA (PRWEB) August 30, 2004 --- The Baker Dillon Group has announced it has formed a strategic alliance with SportsInk, LLC, a sports communications and consulting firm based in Akron, Ohio, the heart of one of the great sports regions in the U.S., to provide enhanced marketing for high school and college athletic programs and develop programs for Convention & Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) to attract sporting events. The union brings together a wealth of shared resources, industry knowledge, and documented results from coast-to-coast.

The Baker Dillon Group is a total involvement advertising, marketing, branding and promotion firm based in Fresno, California, and a leader in nutraceutical industry marketing communications having worked with Technical Sourcing International, Wisdom Herbs, Enzymatic Therapy, Kyowa Hakko and others. The firm has provided sports marketing as well as professional athlete, Hollywood celebrity and music industry PR representation including celebrity endorsement. Clients have included Major League Baseball players Mike DiFelice and Billy Koch, M&A Sports Management, Field of Screams baseball tournament, actor Gretchen Wyler and singer Lisa Starnes.

SportsInk is under the direction of founder Jeff Brewer, an award-winning communications professional with over 20 years of experience as a college sports publicist and consultant. His successful career includes participation at private and public colleges and universities. He has coordinated media relations for numerous outstanding future NFL, NBA and MLB student athletes.

The alliance offers added experience and insight into external relations for the sports and media marketplace. SportsInk clients include Athlon Sports, Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, ESPN Radio and Regional Television, Fox Sports Radio, Pinnacle Sports Complex, Roy Hobbs Baseball and SportsTicker.

In assisting CVBs, the two firms work will focus on enhancing the organizations profile to sports event organizers searching for new venues. High school and college consulting projects will focus on the external areas of media and public relations, marketing/promotion, advertising, development/fund raising and ticketing. The Baker Dillon Group and SportsInk combine a unique mix of real marketing solutions to create, produce and direct marketing strategies aimed at developing awareness, building image, enhancing credibility and generating greater revenue opportunities.

For more information visit www.BakerDillon.com or call (800) 570-1262. The SportsInk web site is www.SportsInk.com.