Hey guys I am in a weird mood tonight and want to thank you guys for putting up with me. I truly believe that you all need to watch the whole movie"Scrooge - the musical" but if you want to see the best part go to youtube and watch the song 'I like life' I live by it as life is to short to bicker and I know that i am far from perfect and I am sure my doctor will tell me that after my physical and I know my dentist is going to tell me that on Thursday when he goes into my mouth And I am not saying that we can't agree to disagree because that is normal but we should respect our fellow man and his opinions I do commend all of you for your passion for your teams!!
Another match.... another "W" and a step closer to hosting the Championship match. We're still making things a bit wild when trying to finish off a match but our defense is much improved from the broken gaps we had at the start of the season. And to think we are doing all of this with subtractions to the roster while the rest of the league makes additions to theirs. Indoor City USA is about to hoist another banner up the rafters. MASSIVE weekend coming up for the entire league. Baltimore is nipping at our heels and the Milwaukee faithful will be putting hate aside to root on the Rampage who can give us a lot help by picking up a win over the weekend.
The big man is going to shine bright on the biggest stage of them all. They'll be two reserrections going on April 4th.
At the time I posted it I was concerned with the Blast being the lower seed and having to play the second game in Mexico. I want to face Monterrey in the finals.
The Wave time machine heads to 2005.... A true MISL classic : http://onmilwaukee.com/myOMC/blog/show/4029
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Championship Match to air on Fox Sports Wisconsin Wave also grabbed Associated Bank as the official sponsor of the game.
Peter/Redknapp and all Wave supporters: PLEASE try to sell the place out on 4/4 Nothing would be sweeter that Baltimore burying you in your own building before a packed house
FSN Wisconsin That is great news. Is this only local TV in Wisconsin? Direct TV and Dish offer the channel, but nothing is coming up as far as programming. Would be great for marketing if the entire country had access to the game
Just made the deal so perhaps it hasn't made the programming info on your guide just yet. If you have direct tv and pull in FSNW then yes you can view it. Too bad there isn't a better FSN option in Maryland because if the Blast make it in, they would be able to distribute the feed to your area.
Wave are over in Middleton on Saturday for a little warm up before the finals. Link I guess you can say the Wave are going PASL style this weekend... should a fun afternoon for all involved.
Red man... sell those damn tickets! You can get 4 front row seats in the best section in the house as of yesterday!
Wave seem to be doing a good job of getting the word out... I think this match will be pretty heavy with walk up sales. I'll lock myself into a prediction of 5-6k in the arena on 4/4 .... I can live with that.
I guess they do have to practice their whining and flopping before the big game. You don't want get rusty.
Aside from Philly everyone is the guilty of the above. I think u should be more worried about the location of your team for next year.
We've grown this action plan since this memo was written last week, but this will give you an idea of some of the efforts we are making to sell the MISL Championship Game out: Operation Sellout for the MISL Championship Game: A) Contact all Wisconsin Soccer Clubs for email blasts and group, individual and family four pack sales: 1) East Troy SC In person board meeting on Monday – Rick and peter 2) Whitefish Bay SC In person board meeting March 29th – Rick and peter 3) Brookfield SC – Rick 4) RASA – Rick 5) Cedarburg SC – Rick 6) Kettle Moraine SC – Greg 7) Women’s Soccer Club – Greg 8) Mt. Horeb – Greg 9) Waunakee – Greg 10) Yahara SC – Greg 11) Sun Prairie – Greg 12) Ashwaubenon – Trevor 13) Kimberly – Trevor 14) Menasha – Trevor 15) Little Chute – Trevor 16) Appleton – Trevor 17) New Berlin SC – Krista 18) Muskego/Mukwonago – Greg 19) Waukesha SC – Kory 20) Washington County FC - Steve 21) Park and Recs – Trevor 22) All other soccer clubs in state that did not bring groups this year – Greg, Trevor, Kory, Kilee and Rick B) Posters and Flyers at Indoor Centers 1) Brookfield Indoor Soccer – Rick 2) Uihlein Soccer Park – Rick 3) Keva – Greg 4) Breakaway – Greg C) Posters and Flyers at Soccer Retailers 1) Stefan’s – Jeff 2) Others - Jeff D) Email Blasts 1) Time-Warner (200,000)- Matt 2) Business blast – Krista 3) Milwaukee Kickers – Krista 4) Whitely Accounting – Greg 5) All Wave sponsors (also deliver posters and championship game tickets) – Steve, Jeff, Jon, Leah, Jim 6) TicketMaster (50,000) - Kory 7) Wave Campers – Matt 8) New email list – Kelsey and Matt 9) Ask season ticket holders to forward championship game email to their contact lists – Kory 10) Have all staff, coaches, players, Jim and Nancy forward championship game email to their contact lists – All 11) Blue Cross - Jeff 12) Go Pink – Steve 13) Wave Insider – Matt 14) JCC and area synagogues - Jon E) Promotions, Poster and Flyer Distribution 1) Book Donation Program, Wave of Hope. Player appearances to support the book drive – Matt, Jamie, Chellee 2) Bars and Restaurants (Posters, group tickets): a) Bar Louie – Rick b) Trinity, Water Street Brewery, Black Rose, Turners, RCs - Leah c) Goolsby’s – Steve d) Center Court – Jeff e) AJ Bombers – Jon f) Swig – Jon g) Water Buffalo – Jon h) Sullivan’s – Jon i) Ward’s - Jim j) Horny Goat – Steve k) Highbury – peter l) Leff’s Lucky Town - Jon m) YMCAs- Steve n) Multiple location partners: Toppers, Cousins, Hooters, Sport Clips - Steve m) Others – All 3) Promo at Admirals Game 3/23 and 4/2 – Leah 4) Player Appearances – Leah and Jamie 5) College reps distributing flyers, posters and emails – Ben, Ryan, Mary F) Social Media a) Twitter – Kelsey and peter b) Facebook – Kelsey c) Four Square – Jon d) You Tube – Kelsey and Matt G) Public Marketing a) Easter Bunny mall appearances – Leah b) Brewers exhibition games – Leah c) Bars during NCAA Tournament games - All H) Media Appearances a) TV and Radio appearances – Matt b) J-S sports and Cue section – Matt c) ESPN Soccer Saturday – Matt I) Advertising a) Journal-Sentinel sports front page on 3/29 and 4/3 – Matt b) Six J-S quarter-page ads (trade) next week – Matt c) J-S online ads – Matt d) Kiss FM ads (trade) – Matt e) The Hog, WKLH & Lake FM ads - Matt f) Electronic Outdoor ads - Matt g) ESPN 540 – Matt h) Fox Sports Wisconsin - will carry game live & promo the game on Bucks coverage Friday and Saturday - Matt J) Other Sales Efforts a) WYSA Mailing of 25,000+ camp flyers this week stuffed with season ticket and championship game flyer – Krista b) Making Waves schools – Deliver ½ sheet flyers for Family four pack with Hey Sections that still need delivery, ask all schools to do email blasts to teachers – Kilee c) Contact all previous group and individual contacts for email blasts and group, individual and family four pack sales – Kilee, Kory, Rick, Trevor, Steve, Jeff, Jon and Greg d) Phone calls to individuals who have previously purchased tickets as part of group packages – Kilee, Kory, Rick, Trevor, Steve, Jeff, Jon and Greg e) Phone calls to former season ticket holders – Kilee, Greg, Trevor, Kory, Rick, Lisa and players f) Rapid Rabbit Auto-Calls by Keith to camp list Sales chart: March 22: 800 March 23: 1,100 March 24: 1,600 March 25: 2,000 Unlike regular season games which include season tickets, we're starting at zero and working our way up. Easter is obviously a tough sell as groups are difficult to put together on a holiday. The four packs are selling well though and we're reaching a lot of people with our outbound calls, social media, direct mail and email blasts. Most of the sales should come in the last few days. If we can keep selling 300-500 a day and hit 3,500 by end of day Tuesday, i'll feel pretty good about filling the Arena April 4th. We expect pace of sales to increase when advertising starts on Sunday. Early in the week may only be 300-500/day. By end of the week I hope the pace to be more than 700/day.
Mr. Wilt, many thanks. Love the viral approach to running things with the Wave this season, very enjoyable.
Don’t worry about my team, worry about the whole league. If you have to give away tickets in homeless shelters and crack houses to fill the Cell for the championship game, this league is in serious trouble. I would say the same thing even if the game was being played in Rockford. Hey, is that a Wave flyer and free tickets on my car’s windshield?