While youth soccer remains wildly popular in the US, many clubs are seeing minimal growth or even slight declines. Like any activity, you have to advertise your organization so people know about it. Youth soccer has a new crop of potential participants every year, so you need to let families know it’s an available option. What clubs do to advertise themselves and the methods they use can have a big impact on their registration numbers. Here are some ideas that may help.
Entries Tagged ‘advertising’
Divers – Get Some Nuts
I’m sure everyone has seen this by now, but just in case. Very funny. I can honestly say I never imagined I’d see Mr T and soccer at the same time. It makes my brain hurt.
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Reader Survey
This is a very small blog, so we don’t exactly rake in big bucks from the few advertisements we get. But one thing that helps advertisers know the readership of a blog and what their ad dollar is going for is a readership survey. BlogAds is running their fourth annual readership survey, so if you [...]
Life Beyond Google Adsense – Try Partners
Blogging about soccer isn’t likely to get you on the road to riches. We write about the beautiful game because we love it. However, it doesn’t hurt to get even a meager reward for your efforts to help pay the broadband bill, etc. Many of us run Google’s Adsense ads on our pages, [...]
Advertising Futbol During Football
I’ll admit that I enjoy watching pointy ball as well as round ball, but with soccer season in full swing for our kids, I’ve yet to catch a pointy ball game until today. I should be out playing pickup, but have to watch the urchins while Soccer Mom drops her Dad at the airport. So [...]
Referral and Sponsor Shout Out for September 2006
As we do every month at On The Pitch, here’s a shout out to some of the sites that linked here and sent traffic our way this month. Be sure to pay them a visit and return the favor!
Here are the Top 5 referrers for September 2006:
Down East Soccer
Triangle Soccer Fanatics
LDSM, [...]
Frog Soccer
This is what happens when you do computer animation and drugs at the same time. Or some ad exec who loves soccer had a vision during a bad acid trip and woke up thinking ‘this would be a GREAT idea’.
UPDATE: Yes, even something as annoying as the Crazy ‘Ring Ding Ding’ Frog [...]
Referral and Sponsor Shout Out for August 2006
As we do every month at On The Pitch, here’s a shout out to some of the sites that linked here and sent traffic our way this month. Be sure to pay them a visit and return the favor!
Here are the Top 5 referrers for August 2006:
Triangle Soccer Fanatics
The DCenters
Soccerblogs.net
Down East [...]
Referral and Sponsor Shout Out for July 2006
With the World Cup ending, there is no question that soccer blog traffic has waned a bit. So every shared link helps expose soccer blogs to a wider audience. I wanted to send a shout out to some of the sites that linked here and sent traffic my way this month.
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Because You Can Never Watch Enough Soccer Ads
As the World Cup gets closer, you can find more and more World Cup Ads online
Are You One Of Us?
The excitement is building. You can feel it. On TV, in the bars, on the street. The excitement is DEFINITELY building.
What Was FIFA Thinking? Show Me The Money!
I am absolutely floored FIFA would give Anheuser-Busch exclusive rights to sell beer during the World Cup. In Germany!
