Web publishing made easy for your sports program! At SportSites, we're as passionate as you are about high school sports programs and youth/adult sports leagues. That's why we're delighted to offer you the ability to quickly and easily build and maintain a customized website for your favorite sports program. And best of all, no technical skills are required! If you can fill out a form, you can maintain a SportSites website. We've taken all the work out of creating a website for your team!

Who is it for?

SportSites is designed for people who want to create and maintain a complete website for their favorite high-school sports program, youth/adult sports league, or small college. It doesn't matter what the sport is, our system works for football, basketball, baseball, rugby, soccer, lacrosse, track, softball... any sport ! Often, our users are actively-involved parents who want to support their child's team, but don't have the time or skills to build a website from scratch and keep it up to date.

What can I do with SportSites?

Many leagues and sports programs already have a website -- perhaps yours is one of them. Most of them don't convey much information that's been updated since the last time users accessed the site. Consider the last time you accessed your league's current website. How much of the information was actually useful? Was the calendar last updated a month ago? Do the scores reflect games that occurred weeks ago while ignoring last Friday's score? How useful was the team picture or the bios of the coaching staff after you've looked at them a couple of times?

Why are so many sports program websites not kept up-to-date? Because not many "regular people" possess the technical know-how that is required and also have the time to devote to keeping all of the information categories up to date. That means your organization continues to rely on time consuming, labor-intensive and costly but still relatively ineffective traditional means such as phone trees, newsletters, and the U.S. mail to convey the really important information because your website simply isn't up to the task.

But I already have a website for my team..

Even if you already have a website, chances are that it only contains one kind of information: the stuff that stays static and doesn't change often, such as player lists, "who to call" numbers, etc. That's because the average person doesn't have the know-how or time to update the site with more dynamic, changeable information.

Unfortunately, that's not good enough. How many times have you added a new event to your calendar; or deleted one; or changed the timing or venue of one? Changing it is one thing, but timely notification of the change to all affected parties is yet another. However, timely notification is extremely valuable to your participants. Such changes ripple down and affect their personal schedules and calendars. Your organization must be able to not only quickly update the calendar, for example, but even more importantly, to quickly and automatically notify the affected persons through some medium such as e-mail. You can't afford to wait for your participants to ask about updates. That will be too late. Instead, you must tell them before they realize they even need to know.

What your organization needs is a website that:

• A "regular person" can keep up-to-date from home, work or anywhere in the world by quickly filling out simple forms.
• Provides information accessed to satisfy a specific request: The order form for season tickets; the stadium seating chart; and driving directions to an opponent's venue all fall into this category. Interested persons only look for this information when they have a specific need for it. Keeping it current is simple because it doesn't change very often.
• Provides Information accessed upon conclusion of events: A recap, updated statistics and a new picture gallery from last Friday night's game fall into this category. Interested persons expect this information to be updated and available shortly after the completion of the event. Your organization must possess the means to update it quickly and easily or else you will disappoint many fans.
• Provides information participants and fans need ASAP: How many times have you added a new event to your calendar; or deleted one; or changed the timing or venue of one? Changing it is one thing, but timely notification of the change to all affected parties is yet another. However, timely notification is extremely valuable to your participants. Such changes ripple down and affect their personal schedules and calendars. Your organization must be able to not only quickly update the calendar, for example, but even more importantly, to quickly and automatically notify the affected persons through some medium such as e-mail. You can't afford to wait for your participants to ask about updates. That will be too late. Instead, you must tell them before they realize they even need to know.

That's where SPORTSITES INC. can assist. We help high school sports programs, youth/adult sports leagues, and small colleges like yours communicate who, what, where, when and how to participants, parents, fans, alumni, media and other interested persons. And we provide the means for them to access information when they need it, so they're not constrained by your operating hours or inconvenienced by your location or confused by your "Who To Call" list.

How Does It Work?

SPORTSITES INC. has created a website template that is:

• FLEXIBLE: Your organization can easily configure the website to meet its exact needs. You decide which menu items are important to your program. Need to include a calendar but not statistics? Easy!
• DYNAMIC: "Regular people" can add, delete and modify content just by filling out simple forms. You won't need a Webmaster who is proficient with fancy programming languages. Our editing program, EASYED, enables regular students and/or parents to keep all content up to date with just a few minutes of effort per day. While working from anyplace in the world where web access is enabled and a browser is available.
• COMPREHENSIVE: The template can be configured so it supports virtually any sport from football to lacrosse.
• CONSISTENT: If your program has multiple sports, such as at a high school, it's possible that each sport currently has its own independently developed website. In that case, it's also likely that the menus, navigation, organization, content and perhaps even the colors aren't consistent across the sites. Our template enables each sport to customize its menu items but at the same time keeps the things you want to be the same "across-the-entire-athletic-program" the same.
• ALL-INCLUSIVE: We can assist you in registering your domain name, getting your site professionally hosted, etc.

How Much Does it Cost?

SportSites is designed to be affordable for almost everyone! The total cost depends on your needs. Some of our customers want us to handle their domain name registration and site hosting. Others only want to subscribe to our EASYED publishing system. In addition, we can configure a site for just one sport/team, or one that supports multiple sports or teams. In any case, there will be a very modest monthly fee to cover your use of EASYED. Just give us a call or drop us an email and we can discuss your specific needs. We don't have high-pressure sales reps... just concerned sports lovers who want to help your team communicate as effectively as possible.

How Did SportSites Get Started?

When it comes to high-school sports, SPORTSITES INC. has been there and done that! We've been involved with sports programs, especially high school ones, since the early 1990's. We understand what works and what doesn't and we understand why. In other words, our solutions have been devised and used in the real world by people that have experienced first-hand the frustrations created by ineffective communications.

Contact Us For More Information

SPORTSITES INC.
Marietta, Ga.
404-456-7273
sales@sportsitesinc.com
www.sportsitesinc.com

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