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It's not results helping attendances - It's Bazballers...

SporadicAddick
SporadicAddick Posts: 6,866
edited May 4 in General Charlton
On the wonderful Linkedin.

Since starting working with the club in September, attendances have improved by 13% (no baseline provided).

It's all their doing - clearly nothing to do with results on the pitch.



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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,866
    Some top quality corporate wank in the comments.

    As someone on here has famously said - just win games.


  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,047
    Some top quality corporate wank in the comments.

    As someone on here has famously said - just win games.


    “on the pitch results have helped too”

    FFS
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,437
    Why does he look like he's suffering from diarrhoea in that pic?
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    He's more worried about following through wearing a lightish coloured suit.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,469
    edited May 4
    I'm sure they do a job and are worth whatever we pay them (hopefully). 

    But complete and obvious bull like the above just makes me want them well rid. Taking credit for circumstances they have had zero control of. 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,157
    Oh dear lord. Another marketing bloke giving the word a bad name. With 10 marketing  years at P&G (seems to be entirely authentic, albeit relatively low level after 10 years) he really should know better. I've, er, "reached out to" him on LinkedIn...
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,866
    Oh dear lord. Another marketing bloke giving the word a bad name. With 10 marketing  years at P&G (seems to be entirely authentic, albeit relatively low level after 10 years) he really should know better. I've, er, "reached out to" him on LinkedIn...
    Thanks - I would loved to have done the same but as I'm still in gainful employment I need to keep Linkedin "clean"...

    In his magnanimous response to you he doesn't take "all the credit", as home form "does play a part".

    I get that it's a results business, and he's keen to show his impact, but only take credit where its due. 

    Had he written "delighted to be working with CAFC to build ticket sales and commercial capability. With great results on the pitch, success breeds success and the club has seen decent attendance growth in recent months. Delighted that Bazballers has had an opportunity to play its part in that success", then I'd probably have moved on quickly!
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,282
    If it looks, talks and acts like a wankpuffin, you can bet on the fact it probably is one
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  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,991
    In relation to re-engaging lapsed fans - I am one such fan. Season ticket for 25 years, and then on and off since COVID. This is my second consecutive season without one. 

    Not received anything beyond weekly emails, and certainly haven't been aware of any attempts to re-engage with me. Likely to get a season ticket next year, regardless of play off outcome, as there does finally seem to be some competence and ambition on the pitch. But my general feeling is that, while things are moving in the right direction on the pitch, off the pitch we're a million miles from the club we used to be, where it felt like every fan, staff member and director was pulling in the same direction. 

    The word "consultant" gets my hackles up. My employer consistently wastes hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultants, instead of asking staff and external stakeholders what we could do better and how we could do it. This feels like more of the same - instead of chucking money in the bin, get the Supporters Trust on board, speak directly to some lapsed supporters, ask them what world persuade them to come back, ask them what are the qualities the club used to have that have got lost. 




  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,054
    Was expecting to see Rob Key..... 
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,223
    Presume he's making a point/having a dig that we've given him a small budget with the line "...forced to be tenaciously hungry for opportunities given the budget available". 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,157
    I considered trying to continue the discussion with him but it's not the place for it. But he appears to suggest that the uplift in attendances started while we were still crap. He is talking about "match-to-match ticket sales" comparisons. Does he mean comparing .e.g our attendance this season vs Bristol Rovers compared with the same match last season? Or "match day 10" this season vs last. I presume the latter. Then he's talking about "fan engagement". I presume he means social media engagement. That is measurable, but the hard bit is proving a direct relationship between increased engagement (Twitter, YouTube impressions, etc) and increased sales (i.e., in a football club,  attendances). 

    At the time he left P&G the mania for "digital marketing" was at its height. Even solid, conservative marketeers like P&G had drunk the Kool-Aid their agencies had sold them, and were shifting their massive TV budgets to Facebook and Google. We were told that the death of TV advertising was imminent. But then after a few years P&G did the analysis and found that the promised direct link between Facebook likes and sales was nothing like as strong as they'd been promised. That's why whenever you watch ITV you'll be "entertained" by as many ads for Head and Shoulders or Ariel as 20 years ago.
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,666
    I love corporate bollocks like this. It makes me very happy I don't have to work with these bellends on a daily basis. Surprised Benjamin or Russell didn't mention 'reach out'. Very surprised the word data didn't get a mention.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,830
    Regardless of that, it was great to see such a great crowd yesterday. I sit in an area that is normally given to freebies and it made such a difference having those seats filled by fellow fans. 
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,978
    they do seem to be targeting the tourist trade. in the upper west noticed a number of eastern Europeans
    and event North American accents. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Team wins games of football and attendances increase.

    Who would have thought it
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,384
    msomerton said:
    they do seem to be targeting the tourist trade. in the upper west noticed a number of eastern Europeans
    and event North American accents. 
    They’re just lost Wrexham fans who never found their way home.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,234
    Seven young Spanish guys in the museum pre-game
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  • fenlandaddick
    fenlandaddick Posts: 1,770
    Word soup in full flow.

    Outside of somewhere to drink and take a piss Winning games is the main factor in crowds numbers
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 419
    Every time I see it I read it as "Ball Blazers", which sounds like some kind of trendy underwear.
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 419
    edited May 4
    Or perhaps little coats for your .... never mind
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,308
    Regard the Emperors new clothes, gaze upon their magnificence 
  • Baz-ball-ers red & white army! 😉
  • RC_CAFC
    RC_CAFC Posts: 1,757
    On the wonderful Linkedin.

    Since starting working with the club in September, attendances have improved by 13% (no baseline provided).

    It's all their doing - clearly nothing to do with results on the pitch.



    Upset at losing out on Charlton, he’s got his son to find a way in…


  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Some top quality corporate wank in the comments.

    As someone on here has famously said - just win games.


    Aaaaargh!!!!  My eyes are bleeding!
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    msomerton said:
    they do seem to be targeting the tourist trade. in the upper west noticed a number of eastern Europeans
    and event North American accents. 
    Were they chanting 'Let's go Athletics'?
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,785
    Seven young Spanish guys in the museum pre-game
    New signings for next season?
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    All this stuff is a load of old codswallop, but we will need to appeal to more fans, as we go through the gears, and hopefully get out of this poxy division.