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ScoreBook.com Serves Up
Baseball Stats, ASP Style
Take me out to the B2C
ball game
By Chris
Bucholtz, VARBusiness
12:02 PM EST Mon., July 30, 2001
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A solution provider turning
a hobby into a money-maker is about as rare as a triple
play in baseball, but that's exactly what Mitch Miles
has done. Miles, an amateur-baseball-league enthusiast,
is the founder of ScoreBook.com, a site that gives athletes
stats on their own leagues in a professional-style format
as a hosted service.
Initially, Miles went to Strategic Business Systems
(SBS), a Ramsey, N.J.-based solution provider, as a
customer. Instead, a partnership was formed. SBS provided
manpower, hosting services and hardware to get the service
running.
A year after its start, ScoreBook.com has more than
350 leagues using the service and is set up to provide
stats for 13 different sports. The service gives SBS
employees a chance to work on something different, which
"really is useful from a morale standpoint," says John
Myers, corporate director of ScoreBook.com and managing
director of SBS. Myers also says the service will be
in the black by the end of the year. For a B2C service,
that may be the biggest morale-booster of all.
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