Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan, Texas Rollergirls roller derby star and author of Rollergirl:Totally True Tales From The Track, shares secrets of operating and marketing sports teams, and branding special events, as my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success.
The show airs live on Thursday, January 25, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan discusses how all female roller derby leagues share ownership among the skaters in a cooperative business model. She also provides ideas on marketing, promoting, and branding special events. You will learn:
* How a cooperative ownership model works and how it can be successful
* How to market special events for sold out successes
* How to brand a special event to widen its appeal
* How to multiply and continue the success of one event over and over again
A founding member of the Texas Rollergirls, Melissa Joulwan (photo left courtesy: Celeste Danger) gets (and gives) bruises as Melicious, number 11 on the Hotrod Honeys. In 2005, she was voted Fan Favorite and in 2003, she won the Miss Texas Rollergirl title at the annual Whammy Awards.
Her most recent journalistic gig was as the sole writer for You Decide, a syndicated monthly feature that appears on KQED.org, Salon.com, and other public broadcasting station sites. Her work won the Grand Prize at the 2004 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, as well as the 2004 Golden Dot Award for Best Non-Commercial Online Journalism from George Washington University.
Melissa has published articles on fitness and nutrition, music, culture, and the rise of Roller Derby for mainstream magazines, alternative publications, and web-zines, including Paste, Carbon 14, the Austin-American Statesman, Chemical X, ACE Fitness Matters, and others.
As spokesperson for the Texas Rollergirls, Melissa (photo left courtesy: Rebecca Davis) appeared on Good Morning America in August 2004, where she schooled Diane Sawyer on becoming a Rollergirl. She's also been interviewed for other broadcast media, including the Today show, The Early Show, and National Public Radio. Her interviews with print media include The Associated Press, The New York Times, SPIN, Inside SPORT, and Drill.
In 1996, Melissa launched Go, girl!, an online zine dedicated to getting women involved in sports; it had a monthly readership of 17,000. From 1998 until relocating to Austin in 2001, she worked as a copywriter and Creative Director for Organic, Inc., in San Francisco, leading creative teams to extend well-known brands online. Her clients included Sony Playstation, Macys, Nike, Blockbuster, Hard Rock Cafe, and Home Depot. She also led brand development projects for Internet start-ups, and taught all-day seminars in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles on Writing for the Web and User-centric Web Design.
My review of Rollergirl:Totally True Tales From The Track
Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan's blog: Blog*Jam
Listen Live, Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time, by clicking the media player.
If you miss this very informative show, it will be available for download as a podcast for iPod, iTunes, and MP3 players; or play it right on your computer. To download this, or any other of my guest interviews, go to the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment. You can also subscribe to the show feed.
Let's talk with Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan and learn about special event marketing, promotions, and branding, and how they can boost your business to the next level, on Blog Business Success Radio.
