{"id":2998,"date":"2008-12-05T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2008-12-05T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T04:50:43","slug":"steve-astephen-mega-agent-to-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Steve Astephen: Mega Agent To The Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/steve-astephen-l.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/steve-astephen-l.jpg','popup','width=265,height=456,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/steve-astephen-l-tm.jpg\" height=\"344\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Steve-Astephen-L\" \/><\/a>Not getting enough of action sports super-agent <strong>Steve Astephen<\/strong> darting here and there in front of the TV cameras with a cellphone to his ear? Well then, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/partners\/msnbc\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur.com<\/a><\/strong> has just want you&#8217;re looking for in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/partners\/msnbc\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur Insider: Marketing That Takes Flight<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steve Astephen&#8217;s legacy is everywhere. It&#8217;s in the oceans. It&#8217;s in the mountains. It&#8217;s on the street. But more than anywhere, it&#8217;s in the air, where his clients&#8217; exploits inspire the next generation of action sports stars. Ten years ago, Astephen revolutionized the action sports industry when he recognized the marketability of its larger-than-life athletes and created an agency focused on turning them into brands. He has since partnered with Wasserman Media Group and become one of the biggest names in the game, but he still remembers when his biggest asset was the sort of infectious energy that comes only from someone eager to break the mold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure &#8220;revolutionized&#8221; is the right word, but he certainly brought a circus-tent load of commercialism. We just hope Steve&#8217;s &#8220;legacy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t run us over the next time we go outside; &#8217;cause that thing is apparently <em>everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/partners\/msnbc\" target=\"_blank\">Entrepreneur.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not getting enough of action sports super-agent Steve Astephen darting here and there in front of the TV cameras with a cellphone to his ear? Well then, Entrepreneur.com has just want you&#8217;re looking for in the Entrepreneur Insider: Marketing That Takes Flight. Steve Astephen&#8217;s legacy is everywhere. It&#8217;s in the oceans. It&#8217;s in the mountains. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}