Commercial wise Everton has always been pretty pathetic over the past 10 years or longer in the Premier League Era :-(
There has been slowly gradual improvement since Moshiri has entered the equation thankfully and although not totally impressive compared to other 'rivals' its a start
People can complain about being sponsored by Sports Pesa as its african or sponsors betting but they pay us 9.6 m a year compared to the 5.3 million Chang Beer paid ! And it has also provided promotion of us in Africa with the Sports Pesa Cup etc ! Lots of people here used to complain you'd never see anything advertised about Everton in Asia when we were sponsored by Chang so at least there has been some movement with that in Africa?
Side deals of Angry Birds, Sure etc are great too
The Kitbag deal affected a lot of way how commercial revenue could have been increased by club as the only way for buying a jersey was the 2 club stores in Liverpool and on website ,which isnt too great, if you live abroad like I do, and your waiting well over a month for a jersey :-( Also at certain periods of time and with players, the commercial division never tried or targetted certain countries :-( Tim Cahill with Australia, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard with USA, Li Tie and Li WeiFeng with China :-(
Also the out sourcing of food/beverages from Goodison Park :-(
Hopefully in the future all these kind of issues can be rectified and add extra income pools for the club
Training Camps and friendlies in different regions of world too and use the nationalities of current players to promote friendlies
In France this year, Everton has got great promotion on tv due to Digne, Zouma and Schneiderlin and also Gana Gueye as he came through Ligue 1
Everton at the moment is getting smothered by the commercial power and media coverage of the so called top 6 but all of this can be targetted at and eaten into if we target in the right way
We need to aim like we are Hagen Das
Special and exclusive just for the few with taste first and then go take the whole slice of the commercial pie when the floating fans want to have something different to the sad bland brands of 'top 6' football clubs