Commercial Services

COMMERCIAL SERVICES — ABOUT US

We are about finding function for our form, finding markets for our ideas and working hard to make things happen. We are responsible for commercial activities including advertising sales, business operations, marketing and project management. We look after The Slattery Media Group’s clients and generate revenue for their business, and our business. When we are busy, so too are our creative teams, who are working hard to deliver the products that we’re taking to the world.

OUR COMMERCIAL SERVICES

Specific services provided include:

  • Publishing account management
  • Print broking
  • Photographic account management, including accessing archives and commissioned shoots
  • Advertising sales
  • Marketing and publicity
  • Distribution including retail and direct market
  • Publishing and media consultancy

NEW & NOTEWORTHY

Season 2010, here it comes

NABCover.jpg The first AFL Record for season 2010 has just been produced by The Slattery Media Group. This acts as a program for the NAB Cup, the official pre-season competition of the AFL, and also as a preview for the remarkably popular AFL Dream Team competition. The Dream Team preview edition (pictured) will be sold through newsagents across Australia (RRP $7). The 124-page magazine, featuring profiles of every player on AFL lists for the 2010 season has been produced in this format for the last two seasons, and is a proven seller.

Also on sale in February will be the AFL Record Guide To Season 2010 (RRP $39.95, on sale at newsagents and bookstores) – the 15th edition of what has become the statistical bible of the AFL. This year’s guide contains 992 pages crammed with statistics, history and information as well as a thorough review of the 2009 season and a comprehensive preview of the 2010 season.

AFL Record Guide To Season 2010 also includes full details on the draft, profiles on every player in the competition – from rookies to superstars – and an analysis of each round of the 2010 fixture.

The Slattery Media Group has been the official publisher for the AFL since 1995.

The pre-season Record is available at the game, and in newsagents, Angus and Robertson stores, Borders and Big W. Or click here to purchase.

Geelong Cats, True Champions

GeelongCover_LR_small.jpgToday The Slattery Media Group published Geelong Cats, True Champions, a 100-page souvenir publication celebrating Geelong’s 2009 premiership win. The book captures all the moments from an epic Grand Final that was as hard fought as any in recent memory.

Geelong Cats, True Champions features action and celebration photos of every Geelong player on Grand Final Day, a quarter-by-quarter analysis of the big game, a detailed match review and report; match day statistics, and all the greatest moments from the 2009 season. Plus, a round-by-round season review, and revealing essays, including:

  • Winning two premierships in three years: what it took for the Geelong Cats to rebuild from last year’s loss to claim its eighth Premiership.
  • Norm Smith medallist Paul Chapman and his influence on the 2009 Grand Final.
  • How coach Mark Thompson has crafted two premiership wins from what history will remember as one of the greatest teams of all.

This tribute publication will provide a lasting memory of the Geelong Cats’ victorious win – it is a must-have souvenir for all Geelong fans.

It is also a remarkable publishing feat – to produce a 100-page book, featuring 80 pages of stories and photos from the big game and have it on sale in Geelong by midday the day after the Grand Final. The Slattery Media Group CEO Geoff Slattery said: “I remember producing a similar publication when Collingwood won the 1990 premiership. We had that on sale by the following Sunday – eight days after the Grand Final – and we thought that was a remarkable achievement. There are few publishing companies in the country who would not only attempt such a project, but do it with such detail and excellence. More than 30 people worked on the book. It is a credit to their work ethic and commitment.”

Geelong Cats, True Champions will be available at the Supporters’ Day at Kardinia Park, the Herald Sun Shop and online at slatterymedia.com/books from 12pm on Sunday 27th September. It will be on sale in newsagents, bookstores, The Cats Shop and AFL Stores from Monday September 28th. RRP $15

The Socceroo

Cover_Oman_Web.jpgThere are just eight months to go until the Qantas Socceroos take part in the biggest sporting event on the planet: the 2010 FIFA World Cup. A surprise guest four years ago in Germany, Australia was one of the earliest confirmed participants this time, booking its ticket to South Africa in June after cruising through the final stage of Asian qualifying. The Socceroos face a tough schedule in coming months as the race for places on the plane to South Africa heats up.

Top of the schedule is the Netherlands on Saturday, October 10, followed by an Asian Cup qualifier against Oman four days later.

Both matches will be previewed in the latest issue of The Socceroo. The Slattery Media Group is the publisher of The Socceroo, the match-day magazine for Australia’s home internationals. This issue, Jason Culina explains his decision to move back to his home country and join Gold Coast United, coach Pim Verbeek gives his highlights from almost two years in charge, and there are interviews with Socceroos stars David Carney and Scott McDonald.

The Socceroo will be on sale at Sydney Football Stadium on October 10 for Australia v The Netherlands, and at Etihad Stadium on October 14 for Australia v Oman.

My first job was in a bakery and I had to wake with the sparrows to open the store before the first customers arrived for their freshly baked bread. I hated that job, because I’m not so good in the mornings, but following the advice of wiser heads around me, I stuck it out and some of the insights learnt of customer needs and the workings of small business remain relevant every day. It also paid for my first big adventure, so the other lesson being, work hard so you can play harder.

The commercial operations team has grown, with many of us growing along with it, myself included – having started in what was a very different business and a different role some three years ago. It is my job to get the best results from our ideas – so we have to be thinkers every minute of every day. I’m proud of what we are as a business so we work hard to take our ideas out to the world. There is no better feeling than seeing our work on the shelf of your local bookshop, leading into Friday night’s football coverage or on the front page of the sports section over breakfast on a Sunday morning.

Dianne Biviano
Marketing Manager, Books
Adele Morton
Distribution Manager
Olivia Hudson
Senior Account Manager - Photography

Around the World