- Sport and Social Clubs Across the Nation Unite to Create Marketing Platform with Access to Over 1.1 Million Active Professionals
- Join the SSIA Facebook Page
- Latane Meade, President of VAVi, and Finalist for Entrepreneur of 2011
- Tim Horan and Philadelphia Sport & Social Featureed in Roxborough-ManayunkPatch
- Jersey Club Sports Provides Athletic Social Outlet
- Mike Cray and BSSC feature in the Baltimore Sun
- Inner Tube Water Polo Splashes in New York City
The History of the SSIA
2010
In 2010, an initial outreach was performed to approximately 70 Sport and Social businesses nationwide. From this group, about half responded and almost all of these respondents were interested in learning more about how Sport and Social businesses can work together to accomplish similar goals. From these conversations the first and most obvious way to learn more was to survey the industry. A survey created and sent out to 70 Sport and Social businesses, of which 35 responded and completed the survey. From this, a research report was performed on the survey results and distributed to the 35 businesses that responded. This report established that the Sport and Social businesses in aggregate represented over $50MM in revenue per year and over 1MM members. Please visit the SSIA research page to learn more about these initial survey findings.
2011
The First ever Sport and Social Industry Conference was organized because of overwhelming interest in the surveyed clubs to meet the many other business owners in their industry. The event took place in February of 2011 in San Diego, California. A total of 38 attendees from 28 businesses participated and the consensus was that this event was an amazing success. In addition, all conference attending club owners agreed that there should be a similar event at least once per year and that the SSIA should begin to structure itself in a way to help its member organizations accomplish three common objectives:
- Increase Industry Revenue
- Decrease Industry Cost
- Maximize Industry Collaboration
A working group was established on a volunteer basis to begin meeting and planning for each of these objectives. Over a 8 week period, this working group consisting of 12 businesses owners held conference calls and completed tasks related to establishing SSIA priorities, budgets and fund raising plans.
The working group is now working to form an executive committee and board of directors to help guide the organization in the near term
2012
The 2012 Sport and Social Conference is scheduled for January 19th and 20th in Tampa Bay, Florida. Please visit our conference page to learn more.