Fever Announce Front Office Promotions
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowJulie Graue has been promoted to chief operating officer, and John Weiss has been appointed digital marketing director of the Indiana Fever. Graue has been with the Fever through 15 seasons, hired originally as a ticket sales manager in 2001. She has contributed significantly to the growth of the franchise including responsibility as director of sales, director of business operations and vice president of business operations. Graue has led sales and marketing efforts on a daily basis, leading to consistent revenue growth over the past five seasons. Indiana ranked fifth in the WNBA in attendance in 2016. The Fever’s single-game revenue was the largest since the club’s first season in 2000; single-game attendance was the largest since 2001. Weiss has spearheaded the WNBA club’s digital marketing efforts since 2013 and guided recent sales growth via email marketing, database acquisition, social media and the development, design and content management of Fever-related websites. As of late summer, the Fever ranked near the top of the WNBA in social engagement metrics and online single-game sales. The Fever’s digital database, comprised of email subscribers and social media followers, grew by 20 percent in 2016.