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.
Our idea and vision is actually very simple. Managers and coaches spend too much of their time doing administrative tasks. They spend too much time behind the computer, too much time organizing and administrating. This time should be spent on the athletes and on the club development. Club and athlete development cannot be done by the machines. We need the passionate people doing the developing, let the machines do the administration.
Here is a step-by-step process of how Sportlyzer helps your club development.
1. Keep a central database to manage all your members and contacts
We have all been there. You need to contact a child’s parent but the phone number is impossible to find. Is it in this Excel file? Or on that sheet? Or has it changed lately?
Sportlyzer simplifies this issue. All your members and contacts are in the same database. Information can be changed quickly and effortlessly. Say you need to transfer an athlete from one training group to another. You just change their group status on our platform and everything from his/her training and health data to contacts is automatically moved to the right list. No e-mails, phone calls or middle men needed.
2. Easily update, publish and manage your training schedules
We looked at our new Calendar app more thoroughly in our last blog post. We know that a lot of club managers spend a huge chunk of their tie putting together schedules and coaches spend a massive amount of time on training schedules. Even after it all seems done, there will always be the question of how to communicate the plans and schedules to athletes and their parents.
Let’s take an example. A club manager has put down a schedule for his or her coaches but it turns out that the facilities aren’t available this week. Unexpected changes in locations and time are one of the most stressful experiences anyone can have at a sports club. With Sportlyzer Calendar, schedules can be easily changed and your website or Sportlyzer platform has all the up to date information that is needed.
3. A simple way to collect membership fees
If scheduling can be stressful, financial management adds the burden of higher responsibility to that. You just cannot make mistakes with money.
“Yeah, but that’s all part of the game,” you might say.
It doesn’t have to be. Sportlyzer Invoicing app can be a helpful tool to keep your finances in check. You can send out invoices, track the payments and be in control of your membership fees. All of this saves you a considerable amount of time that you can spend on coaching or club development. Let the machines to the work so you don’t have to.
4. Comfortable communication with your club members, athletes and coaches
A lot of the problems in sports clubs (and in life in general) can be narrowed down to communication. Sports clubs are often a hectic environment due to their multi-faced nature. We have so many different stakeholders – the club management, the coaches, the athletes, their parents and the fans. Now everyone needs to get some news, some information from the club. So you have to manage e-mail lists for different age groups, different coaches, different training groups, parents, athletes, etc. What a headache!
Sportlyzer Messaging app gives you a helping hand in here. You can easily send out e-mails to people or groups without even logging out of your Sportlyzer platform. To top it all off, you also have the option to enable SMS messages for the quickest of updates. Say, for example, that due to adverse weather you have to inform people that the training is called off. SMS messaging feature is the quickest and safest way to get your message across.
…and it all boils down to this
Less administrative work
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More time for club and athlete development
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People actually working with people
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Club fills its social role and coaches bring the best out of the athletes
These are just the main functionalities for the club managers. Coaches and athletes have additional features such as training diaries, training data analysis or social feeds, which are all connected to the same central club database. Of course our platform keeps on improving day by day. Your club, however, can take the next step already today. You can sign up for free in here!
