Preparing the recruitment campaign

We welcome you to the first in our series of posts designed to guide you through a successful recruitment campaign this sports season.

Recruit new athletes and manage team payments

Our latest software update helps sports clubs recruit new athletes and get a good control of all the team payments.

What really stops people from sports participation?

Let’s not talk about being lazy. Everyone’s lazy to some extent, we know that. General attitudes to sport are changing in the right direction though. We are getting more health-conscious and aware of our bodies, more positive about doing sport and its effect on our life. It’s a process we all can contribute to, but it’s an inevitably long process. How can your sports club get more people to participate, here and now?

Sprint 10.1 adds longer trials, Calendar widget and Club Welcome page

We’re super happy to announce that we have come out with another important Sportlyzer product update, codenamed Sprint 10.1. This time we focused on getting you started with Sportlyzer in the best possible way, with the new Club Welcome page designed to lift you off and an extended trial period to get you going. We also added the cool Calendar widget feature for your website. Check it out!

Why are you involved in youth sports?

John O’Sullivan, one of the brightest writers about youth sports, has recently come out with an article outlining the biggest problems in youth sports today. It’s one of the best written pieces on the topic. Problems with management, coaching and parenting all boil down to this – the child’s interests aren’t made the core of their physical activity.

How can a sports club recruit youth volunteers?

I came across a good article on Canadian Sports Information Resource Centre blog focusing on a topic so relevant to grassroots sports clubs – how to recruit volunteers. Finding people to help you with your cause with limited finances has always been an uphill battle, but youth volunteers can be a good resource to develop your club now and in the future. Here’s how!

How using a club calendar energizes your sports club?

A technical detail or an essential part of who you are? Like for many other businesses offering services, scheduling, and calendars are a core part of what a sports club has to offer. For the outside world, it’s a way how you establish a connection with your members and your customers. Inside a club, it’s a tool to organize your activities and manage processes. Let’s have a good hard look at the benefits a club calendar can bring to your sports club.

Seven daily problems for sports club managers

So you’re living the dream and working in sports. You get to do what you love and there aren’t too many people who can say that. Sports is your passion but on a day to day basis, there are some things inside a sports club that are just truly annoying, yet essential for the club to function. We have listed the main glitches in sports club management with ideas how to turn these into assets instead.

How Sportlyzer helps your club development?

With the beta release of our new Calendar app, we have made a big step in the direction of helping sports club managers organize their daily business and level up in their training quality by reducing the burden of administration. But there are so many more ways that Sportlyzer can help you develop your club. Let’s have a quick overview what Sportlyzer does.

Stepping up the game: How to achieve change in a sports club?

Constantly developing your sports club is a huge part of what club administrators do. If you don’t keep up with the times, you risk with stagnation and eventually losing out to your competition or to other sports. You risk becoming irrelevant.

So what can you do if you see that a change is necessary? How to take your club up to the next level on a technical, philosophical or organizational path? This can be a considerable task as people can become accustomed to their own ways. To help you with that, we have adjusted the 8-step process proposed by Harvard Business School professor Dr. John Kotter to the environment of the sports clubs.