Volunteers are too valuable to treat unprofessionally!
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What If I Have To Fire A Volunteer?
Volunteers are an important resource, but what if it doesn’t work out?
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Measure for tourney success. Then do it again, and again
Using business techniques can help your tournament create metrics of success
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Six Simple Tips To Find Volunteers
Volunteers are your most valuable resource. How do you find them?
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Vendor Village can enhance tournament profits
A centrally located vendor area enhances the tournament experience and can help grow profits
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The Politics of Building Soccer Fields – Part 2
More tips on negotiating the political process of getting soccer fields in your community
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Creating partnerships key to grassroots success
Partnerships with businesses, cities, schools and other soccer organizations will build your success.
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How to run your soccer ‘biz’ like a pro
Your soccer organization may need to start running like a “real business.”
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The Politics of Building Soccer Fields
Practical tips to make soccer fields are high on local politician’s “to do” list!
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Media Training Is Your Business, Too
Hope Solo’s outburst is a reminder of why media training of youth players should be considered part of the business of running your soccer organization.
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Tournaments: Who To Blame When It Rains?
What can a host club do when rain pours on its tournament?
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Getting grants takes persistence
Grants may be a potential funding source for your soccer club or organization.
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Understanding Sponsorship Basics
As a club, league or other grassroots soccer organization designing corporate and business sponsorship proposals, be aware these terms are different.
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Soccer Advocacy 101: Part 2
What types of advocacy can soccer organizations undertake and how can they lend their voices to the decision-making process?
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Give Your Email Newsletters A Kick
The best way to keep your diverse soccer membership engaged in your communications is to send them highly relevant email communications.
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Getting In The News: 8 Simple Rules For Success
Here are eight simple rules for getting your soccer organization press. There are more, but these are the big ones.
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Soccer Advocacy 101
The good news is that every non-for-profit soccer organization can (and in many cases should) lobby, within limits!
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5 Tips For Smart Strategic Planning
Strategic Plan is a fancy name for a very practical tool. It’s a road map to the destination your soccer club, league, state association or other organization wants to get to.
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How To Protect Your 501(C)(3) Status
Maintaining your nonprofit status is one of the most critical components of any soccer organization’s future success.
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Soccer Volunteers Are Vanishing
Just as the automotive industry has responded to the need for more fuel-efficiency and produced hybrid cars, youth soccer is facing a similar adjustment.
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4 Steps For Effective Board Meetings
Soccer administrators across the country will be overjoyed to learn that board meetings don’t need to be drawn out, pointless affairs. Soccer organizations are realizing that four simple steps can dramatically improve the effectiveness of their board meetings.
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Getting more out of your brand
When people start talking about “brand,” the talk immediately turns to logo design. While a good logo is part of your brand, it is not “THE BRAND.” The brand is how people feel about and view your soccer organization (league, club or tournament). Your brand is what you can leverage to sponsors, advertisers, guest teams, potential players, potential coaches and the media.