Small Business Saturday: After Banner Month For LVSportsBiz.com, We Ask For Your Help To Advertise Or Donate
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
On the final day of November, I’m happy to report that this month had the second highest number of views for LVSportsBiz.com since our website’s launch in June 2017, according to our web traffic. Overall, we have drawn 268,217 readers since the day we started this specialty news site nearly 2 1/2 years ago.
To stay financially viable, LVSportsBiz.com has relied on advertisers like MGM Resorts International and Drinkade, owned by the Maloof family, plus readers who have made donations.
As publisher, I have made the decision to not put our content behind a pay wall or require readers to pay after reading a few free stories a month.
I’m proud of our journalism, which we practice to report on an intersection of news between business, sports, politics, marketing and fan issues in a market exploding with sports development in all areas.
We report on everything from Las Vegas’ most newsworthy stadium construction site to interviews with sports-biz newsmakers like Golden Knights corporate sponsorships chief Jim Frevola (below).
There’s so much important sports-business deals to cover.
Bear witness to the always-enterprising Vegas Golden Knights, stadium-building NFL Raiders, growing esports scene, remarkable attendance of the Las Vegas Aviators and their new stadium, UFC’s expanding global footprint, the evolving UNLV sports environment, two NASCAR weekends at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the WNBA Aces, the NFR at Thomas Mack Center this month, the annual PGA Shriners golf event and the next frontier of pro soccer and potential downtown redevelopment with a new stadium. We report on it all, choosing to report on this crossover sports-business news segment.
I appreciate those who have stepped up to make contributions through a pop-up donation window that appears when readers log onto LVSportsBiz.com. The donations are welcomed, but do not pay all the bills. We rely on ads to pay the lion’s share of our bills.
So, as we head into December and then the year 2020, I am asking you to consider taking out an advertisement — or making a donation. If you read our content, you are consuming our product and hard work for free. I hope you can see the value of our work and the number of people we reach with our stories. Our newsmakers include UFC President Dana White, MGM Resorts International Jim Murren and Aces center Liz Cambage. (below) We also discuss sports-biz issues with other media members like Channel 3 sports anchor Bryan Salmond. (below)
If you value our stories, photos, videos, insight and analysis, please think seriously about taking out an ad or making a contribution of ten bucks or more. It all helps and keeps us moving ahead into 2020 and another year of news coverage.
If you can advertise with LVSportsBiz.com, contact Alan Snel at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday season.
