K-O is my name in the sports world. My birth name is Kelly. I am from Ohio, where I spent my childhood and teenage years playing softball and helping my dad with his umpire association. I started managing adult softball leagues straight out of high school. In my mid-twenties Johnson County Parks and Recreation offered me a position with their organization. Taking a chance on change I left all my friends and family and moved to Kansas by myself.

I spent seven years at JCPRD. The experience was interesting to say the least. I had left my friends and family to work a job where team work did not exist, and disciplinary actions were common and encouraged. I spent seven years building bonds with my customers and my own employees. The customers were the sunshine in the dark government rigmarole that I worked in. Many customers and my own employees wondered how and why I stayed so long in job that was clearly trying to get me to quit. I stayed because I was determined not fail, and if I was going to leave it was going to be on my own terms.

In late 2014 I met an entrepreneur in a business meeting. The meeting was about some rental dates at my facility, my boss at the time was less than interested and left the meeting early.  Once it was us alone at the round table we started discussing his business plan. It was clear he needed my help and I offered. It in late January 2015 we became an official business. I continued to work at JCPRD and for him, in return he worked for me, helping me on my work that I didn’t get much assistance on.  I was finally seeing a team work environment after six years.  In mid-May we had grew enough capitol for me to quit my job and start working for All America Events.

It was not long after we started All American Events we added another partner who wanted to add a training facility for baseball/softball players. In late 2015 we opened Premier Sports Development or also known as Premier Baseball. Growing a business takes a lot of hard work and dedication, which brings me here to this class, this blog.

We are doing well as start-up company,but lack the knowledge and experience in social media marketing. I am taking this class in hopes it will help grow our customer base. I hope to learn to use the social media correctly to get the word out about our events and company.  We have currently acquired a second state to run our business in but we are unaware of how to reach the people in the new state. I hope that this class will grow that second state. I am very open to any classmates who want to use our business for the project in this class. I feel if I do it I may be too bias. If you are interested please let me know.