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Case study · COVID Pivot

How we ran "Joe's vs. Pro's" from a Pittsburgh apartment, and what every service business can steal from it.

March 2020 froze the events industry. We ran a live Madden broadcast with Steelers players Benny Snell and Terrell Edmunds out of a downtown apartment, then scaled it into Knights Arena. The full case study, and the operating-mode lessons that work for any service business.

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