Meet our Marketing and PR guy Christian Smit
Christian Smit studied law and advertising and has extensive experience in broadcast production, media liaison and PR strategist.
His therapist reckons he is one of the most talented people around, which is why SportsPodium decided to rope him in and tie him down.
Over an extended period he managed high end individuals in terms of public image, press, crisis media and social profile. He also managed and worked closely with male Olympic gold medalist swimmers.
He is a polyglot fluent in English, Afrikaans, German, French and Dutch and is proficient in Yiddish. He is currently in the process of learning Hebrew. (Which is a nightmare.)
Chris is a natural networker and enjoys social interaction, he mixes easily with all levels of society and has a wide field of reference and is part of the diplomatic society in South Africa.
In SportsPodium Chris is supported in marketing by Natalie du Toit, who is our Social Media expert. They dovetail beautifully coming from different angles to cover the entire spectrum between traditional and online social media marketing. Both of them are excited and at the same time very confident in harnessing their combined skills to make SportsPodium a global success.
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If you missed our earlier blog posts, please see the links below:
- New platform launching for blockchain based social media platform aimed at the global sport community
- The need for @sportspodium – What are we aiming to solve?
- Who is the SportsPodium Target market?
- Background to SportsPodium - ICO to be announced!
- Why SportsPodium is such a good idea
- Why was Sports Podium Created?
- Sport Statistics - Soccer
- The role of role modelling as a driver for success
- What is the most supported sports in the world?
- The top 10 most played sports in the world
- SportsPodium is sponsoring Steem Saturday
- Badminton - The second most played sport in the world.
- What Steem Saturday Johannesburg is going to accomplish?
- Steem Saturday Johannesburg – The Venue
- Success of Steem Saturday 2016
- Steem Saturday Johannesburg 2017 is now open for registration
- Managing and Working with Olympic Medalists
- Let us introduce our Executive Team - Robert Marshall
- Let us introduce our Executive Team - Jaco Rossouw
- Steem Saturday Johannesburg 9 September Agenda Part 1
- Let us introduce our Executive Team - Pieter Botha
- SportsPodium Count Down Website Goes Live
@sportspodium Much respect on the foreign languages. I admire this and try to walk a similar path. I want to master english, french, spanish, and chinese! Best!
Wow, Chinese as well.
Welcome Christiaan - see you at Steem Saturday :)
Thanks, and looking forward to see you there too.
am not a chriatian. am a muslim
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To know 6 foreign languages it is honourable! I respect him!
Thanks. And that is just the half of it. Chris is an amazing person as well, caring and engaging.
Has your PR guy worked on media coverage for Tech and Design campaigns?
As a team we have great skills. We very specifically looked for a profile such as Chris, as he has worked with high profile people from many sectors. He brings an amazing network in politics, sport, fashion and business, as well all the experience, skill an know how. We are very excited and impressed with his contribution to date, and this is only the start
Dang that is a lot of languages. I have a hard enough time with English and very basic spanish.
Indeed. I speak two languages, and can order drinks and give you a piece of my mind in about more .... one of which is not Spanish LOL
Excellent post. Thanks for Share!
Thank you
Awesome stuff! This blog is doing great! Really good to see :)
When's the ICO?
Thank you very much. It is a great community and we love spreading our story with all of you. We will be formally announcing the ICO dates in the next week, and will be sharing more technical information and the white paper here as well, but please keep an eye as it will be done here first!
Awesome stuff! I'm sure you guys are excited? :D