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    Introduction Former University of Oregon track coach and co-founder of Nike Bill Bowerman once said: “If you have a body‚ you are an athlete!” (Nike Inc.‚ n.d.) It is this way of thinking that describes the root of Nike’s approach to marketing. Every person is a potential athlete or “consumer”. This is a common thinking in the realm of athletics but when Bill Bowerman said this‚ it was in direct reference to the shoe industry. From their marketing strategies to their selling philosophies‚ Nike

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    The second movie I will go over is “Without Limits”. This movie is about long distance running the movie’s main character is Steve Prefontaine. The description of the movie is he was “reowned distance runner who held every record from 2‚000 through 10‚000 metes”. The movie shows him running away from kids when he was little‚ and this is the reason why he started running. Steve has been a great long distance runner sense he was in high school. He could out run anybody at his age. The movie starts off

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    amount of knowledge on athletics and was always looking to help his players maintain the advantage. “Bowerman’s 24 years as coach at the University of Oregon‚ he developed many of the world’s best distance and middle-distance runners‚ among them Steve Prefontaine and Alberto Salazar. He won four National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field championships‚ and he coached 44 all-Americans and 19 Olympians.”(cite) . Here’s a little bit about the history of Bowerman’s family. “William Jay Bowerman

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    shoes from Onitsuka Tiger started showing up on American feet‚ brought into the U.S. by some nobody company n Prefontaine‚ the first major track athlete to wear Nike product had significant influence on the design of Nike’s running shoes. Two more key players helped propel the company’s early growth: Jeff Johnson‚ a former track rival of Knight’s at the University of Oregon‚ and Steve Prefontaine‚ also a University of Oregon runner and middle-distance running prodigy. This scenario was bound to pass by

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    Nike ’s marketing strategy is an important component of the company ’s success. Nike is positioned as a premium-brand‚ selling well-designed and expensive products. Nike lures customers with a marketing strategy centering around a brand image which is attained by distinctive logo and the advertising slogan: "Just do it".[40] Nike promotes its products by sponsorship agreements with celebrity athletes‚ professional teams and college athletic teams. However‚ Nike ’s marketing mix contains many elements

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    American consumers. By 1980‚ Nike had become the number-one athletic shoe company in the United States. From the start‚ Nike’s marketing campaigns featured winning athletes as spokespeople. The company signed on its first spokesperson‚ runner Steve Prefontaine‚ in 1973. Prefontaine’s irreverent attitude matched Nike’s spirit. Marketing campaigns featuring winning athletes made sense. Nike saw a “pyramid of influence”—it saw that product and brand choices are influenced by the prefer-ences and behavior

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    Simply Running “The one who wins wants to win the most” Steve Prefontaine the famous distance runner said. This not only applies to running but to life in general‚ the more you focus your time and energy into something the better and closer the result to what you dreamed or imagined it would be. For runners either competitive or amateur‚ this often means long hard training sessions‚ putting their body through pain‚ giving up favorite foods and sacrificing their time. Runners must have incredible

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    Nike and Flying Fish Nike and Flying Fish is a 1998 artwork fathered by Ke Francis ;an art teacher‚ owner of Hoop snake Press‚ and manager of the university of central Florida’ publishing company‚ Flying Horse Press. A layered style supports the arrangement of items painted. “A rabbit trap layered under a funnel with a flying fish that’s face to face with a drawn image of Nike‚ the Winged Victory of Samothrace‚ a Greek pagan goddess. Francis’s work is a seventy-two and a forth by seventy-eight

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    Phil Knight went from being an average cross country runner at the University of Oregon to becoming a multi billionaire. It didn’t happen overnight or even in a year. Running was Phil Knights passion. But he was tired of his feet hurting from cheap American shoes. So he began testing different shoes while running cross country for the University of Oregon. After he had tested many different pairs of running shoes he decided that he could make a running shoe that was more comfortable and not too expensive

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    them all‚ America’s greatest distance runner‚ Steve Prefontaine. Within this paper my goal is to depict an accurate description of Prefontaine’s life and explain what gave him such a significant impact to the world of sports within the United States.

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