Essays & Writers
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Special news stories, Guest writers, and Essays

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Lessons from a Multi-tasking Mascot
Date: 3/31/2011Professional Mascot Kelly Frank just performed 19 NHL games, 12 MLB games, and 3 football games in 2 months...and still had time to deliver a long list of Mascot Tips in this must-read essay.
Categories: Mascot

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Fur and Loathing
Date: 1/3/2011For well over a decade Kelly Frank has successfully avoided ever having to get a "real job." She is a professional mascot. In her guest essay she pauses long enough to answer questions asked of her as a mascot.
Categories: marketing, Mascot

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Best of the Decade Audio Roundtable
Date: 12/31/2010Cudo, Hill, Walker and Carter look back at the last 10 years in 5 categories and shared our picks for the Best of the Decade in each category in a special Audio Roundtable.
Categories: Contests and Promotions, marketing, Mascot

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Make or Break: Mascot Appearances
Date: 6/30/2010A 21-year veteran mascot looks at 3 ways to make your mascot appearances great and 3 ways to ruin in this month's Essay.
Categories: marketing, Mascot

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38 Tweets for Success
Date: 3/30/2010We look at what some teams and mascots are doing with their Twitter accounts and how using this platform can build their brand, sell tickets and engage with their fans.
Categories: Contests and Promotions, Mascot

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Valuable Video
Date: 5/1/2009As video technology gets cheaper and better, simple solutions now exist for teams and performers at all technology levels at very low costs. Read more from Editor Jon Cudo on the uses for the inexpensive Flip Camcorders.
Categories: marketing, Mascot

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Mascot Tips From the Pros
Date: 7/21/2008At the 2002 NBA Mascot Conference we asked several top NBA mascots for their advice to aspiring mascots on how to advance their mascot career and get prepared for mascoting opportunities. We share that advice here.
Categories: Jobs, Mascot

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Spot the Fire Dog Video - Nike Rhythm
Date: 7/21/2008A special video piece was created this season for the Portland Fire (WNBA). The piece features the Fire's mascot, Spot, in a spoof of the popular Nike Rhythm ads. The video aired on the Fire's opening night broadcast and was also played in-arena for the fans. Shot and edited by local production house Lost Highway Pictures, located in Portland Oregon.
Categories: Mascot, Vendors

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Birth of a Mascot Tradition
Date: 7/18/2008It has now been 45 years since I went onto the football field as Carnegie's first Scottish Terrier, and the tradition still lives on. I'm proud to have started a school tradition at my alma mater. Read Bob Beatty's story.
Categories: Jobs, Mascot

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Brief History of Mascots
Date: 7/18/2008Before mascots were dancing on fields and good-naturedly heckling sports officials and players, they were donned upon numerous cave walls and carved on the tops of totem poles. Although they were not called by their current name, they still served the same purpose as the modern day mascot.
Categories: Mascot



