What's New

Plug and play templates featuring your favorite sport in the eMarketing Center

Active's eMarketing Center has added NEW templates for soccer, football, baseball/softball and hockey which are available for free download. You don't need HTML skills to use these templates—they have been built to be "plug and play" and don't require any knowledge more complicated than a simple cut and paste click of the mouse. The templates are easy to use and they look great. Without hiring a designer or using any custom images, you can efficiently reach out to your participants with appealing, professional designs.

Take a look at the new templates now.

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ActiveSports will be attending the CYSA-N Soccer Expo on March 27 in Santa Clara. Drop by Booth #200 to meet with team member Greg Lopez. Greg is looking forward to seeing you and will be available to answer any questions you might have. Here are the details to remember:

CYSA-North Soccer Expo
March 27, 2010
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
ActiveSports Booth #200

Save time at the show by scheduling a consultation now so you can choose the ideal time slot and we can prepare to address your organizations' specific needs.

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Our newest partner, Positive Coaching Alliance, offers you access to the best and latest tools and resources available to youth and high school sports coaches, parents and organizational leaders. Among those: the Responsible Sports Season Evaluation tool. Developed by Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) as part of the Responsible Sports Program, this no-cost tool helps teams and leagues gather anonymous, objective feedback through online surveys of parents and other key groups.

The surveys yield a set of insights into areas of strength and areas of opportunity for development and improvement for your team or league. The Season Evaluation tool handles all of the survey sends and results and delivers PCA's recommendations on how to use the survey results to benefit your team, school, league or organization.

Register today at ResponsibleSports.com/Survey

Don't have time right now? Simply sign up for more information. You'll get an email with next steps!

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Product Tips and Tricks

A win-win for you and your players - Get More People to Go Online

Using online registration saves time you would normally spend on tedious data entry, as well as providing convenient access for your customers and participants. It makes sense, both financially and operationally, for you to encourage online registration as the preferred option for players and parents. Here are a few tips to help you establish online registration as the standard:

• Schedule fewer walk-up registration sessions to push more people towards online registration
• Advertise online registration on all paper materials and phone voicemails
• Offer a discount for registering online
• Email past participants reminding them to sign up and include a link to online registration

There's more - go to our ActiveSports online resources to read how you can increase the number of people registering online, making life easier for you and your players.

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Thousands of leagues and teams use eteamz to build websites, communicate with their members, and provide online registration. Spend less time on paperwork and more time on the field this season with your very own website! With an eteamz website you can:

• Customize a sports-themed template to match your team's colors, fonts & graphics
• Upload, edit and share photos and slideshows with a click of the mouse
• Track & manage stats for games, even across multiple seasons
• Advertise your sponsors and their logos
• Communicate easily with your team via SmartMessage Center
• Collect money for small price-point items such as team dinners, signage or the coaches gift with SmartPay
• Post & manage message boards & multiple website pages
• And so much more!

What's the difference between FREE Basic and PLUS?

Join 3 million other members and create your eteamz website today!

Get 40% off PLUS now!
Use coupon code: WLRYU9
Don't delay – offer expires on April 30th

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In The Sportlight

Fairbanks Men's Hockey League

League: Local USA Hockey adult league
Location:Fairbanks, AK
Website URL: http://www.fairbanksmenshockey.com
Active Client Since: 2009

The Fairbanks Men's Hockey Association (FMHA) is a non-profit dedicated to promoting the growth of adult competitive and recreational hockey in the Interior of Alaska. The goal of FMHA is to provide the best possible experience for all participants by encouraging, developing, advancing and administering the sport of hockey. Players range in age from 18 to mid-60's and the skill levels vary from Tripod to ex-Division I. While defined as a “men's” league, in actuality FMHA is co-ed with nearly 30% of players being women. Last winter the season extended for 34 games and included a double elimination tournament.

FMHA originally used a paper-based registration process that ended up costing them lost registrations and payments, in addition to lost time that could have been better spent on the ice. It quickly became apparent that incorporating an online registration and electronic payment system was going to drastically improve operations. After doing some research, FMHA selected Active Network to provide the technology solutions for league registration and payment processing. The cornerstone of Active's technology features an integration with USA Hockey's membership database which automatically verifies USA Hockey membership status and creates an export file for the league's Cyber Sport registration software – all online!

At the beginning of the Fall 2009-2010 season, FMHA debuted Active's system to their players. Within a few weeks, online registration was so successful a decision was made to eliminate paper registrations completely. Staff saw noticeable decreases in the workload as data was now being automatically collected, processed and tracked. No missing paperwork, no data entry and best of all, automatic verification of player membership via the integration with USA Hockey. Staff members were assigned different levels of administrative access, allowing FMHA to control who was able to simply look in the system and who was granted high-level editing rights. As LeagueRegister was implemented and launched, the ActiveSports Tech Support team was on call to answer any questions and troubleshoot any issues. Plus, FMHA had access to detailed online product tutorials, further helping to smooth the transition.

"The time spent to get up and running has been more than offset by the time saved this season alone," notes Keith Berrian, League Secretary for FMHA. "As to recommending LeagueRegister, I would say yes, it has met our needs perfectly so far."

Interested in LeagueRegister for your hockey league? Get more information

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Team Huddle

Todd Alloway and Kathleen Gendron, Account Managers

Todd Alloway and Kathleen Gendron have been part of the Active team for close to 3 years each, but have recently moved onto the growing ActiveSports team as Account Managers. Their new positions will involve supporting as well as educating existing clients on the full suite of Active products. They have comprehensive knowledge of how each piece of our technology can complement an organization and help it grow. Both Todd and Kathleen mention that building strong relationships with their clients is a primary motivator and they are excited to begin their new positions. As they begin to reach out to clients, you might hear from them soon!

Todd spends most of his spare time with his wife and kids. He has a seven-year-old son named Caden and a 4-year-old daughter named Kendal. Todd plays basketball once a week, but has hung up his football and softball cleats in order to spend more time coaching his son's football team and taking his daughter to dance class.

Kathleen is based out of the Boston area and enjoys exploring dog parks with her fur ball Murphy and renovating her 1920's house with her husband, Luke. She plays in recreational soccer, lacrosse and ultimate Frisbee leagues and has coached youth soccer for several years. Kathleen is a Patriots, Celtics and Red Sox fan and is looking forward to baseball season starting in April. Go Red Sox!

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