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How to Get the Most Out of Your SportsTV Guide Subscription
Even at its most basic element, the SportsTV Guide was built to make you and your staff’s work shift easier. It’s built to take both a mental and physical workload off of your shoulders, [...]
Why Bars and Restaurants Should Have Arcade and VR Games
By Nick DiMatteo, Fortyfivegames Just about everyone has a favorite drink of choice, be it a coffee beverage, a soda, or a mixed drink. Sometimes the drink misses the mark when there is a human [...]
Prepping Your Sports Bar for Outdoor Entertainment
Summer is here – finally! And with that comes warmer weather and increased interest in hanging outdoors. Having an outdoor seating area is great for any restaurant, but it can a truly unique experience [...]
3 Things to Include in Your Sports Bar’s Marketing Emails
Email is one of your sports bar’s most powerful marketing tools. While social media can bury your posts in their complex algorithms and code, your emails will hit your reader’s inbox. That means you’re getting [...]
Modern In-House Marketing Tips for Sports Bars
A lot of sports bar operators spend most of their marketing efforts on trying to get new guests through their doors. And while it’s super important for growth, as an industry we sometimes forget [...]
How to Connect to Sports Fans
By Julia Nikolaus, Contributor As our culture becomes ever more remote -- remote work, remote family gatherings, remote friendships -- sports have become a point of invaluable connection. Whether it’s rooting for the same team [...]
WANTED: STVG HQ Beta Testers
Join our beta-testing team and get free emailing marketing for a whole year! We’ve been saying it for years – email is your sports bar’s best marketing tool. You own those addresses and, [...]
So, Who are Baseball’s Biggest Fans?
Last week, the 2023 MLB season began with new rules for players and new hope for fans everywhere. Many of these fans will be your sports bar’s main source of guests during the slower summer [...]
Download the 2023 March Madness TV Schedule
It's the most wonderful time of the year -- March Madness! The NCAA basketball tournament is one of the best three-week periods for any bar or restaurant who shows sports on their TVs. A total [...]
3 Undervalued Sports Your Sports Bar Should Be Showing
The NFL. NBA. MLB. NCAA. The NHL and even the MLS. We’re pretty sure your sports bar has these leagues in heavy rotation on your TVs. And so does every other sports bar around the [...]
Overview of the ERTC for Sports Bars
To say the restaurant industry took a wallop during the sweeping COVID-19 shutdowns is putting it lightly. That may be doubly so for sports bars who had no games to show, no guests to entertain, [...]
Tips for Cross Promoting Events at Your Sports Bar
Be it a watch party, eSports event, or just showing the local, big games, for it to be successful you need bodies in your seats. And like anything, folks can’t come to it if they [...]
Download the 2022 World Cup TV Schedule
The World Cup is here again and it’s very late. That’s because it is being hosted by Qatar where the heat is so unbearable that they had to delay it from the normal July schedule. [...]
6 Alternative Ways to Market Your Sports Bar
According to one report, there are 70,000 bars in the US, and more than 1,200 label themselves as a sports bar. But make no mistake, any bar is a sports bar as long as they’re [...]
Download the 2022 MLB Postseason TV Schedule
America’s favorite past time has a new look playoff format and it should be an interesting transition. Specifically, they have reworked the Wild Card portion to include a playoff series instead of a winner take [...]