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 What is NearPost?
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NearPost is today's leading provider of Web site management services for competitive sports clubs and leagues. Our system helps clubs manage their teams day-to-day, gives them a bold online presence, protects and enhances their brand identity, and gives them powerful tools to effortlessly maintain an up-to-date Web site that serves the whole community.
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- Brand Identity
We win by addressing the needs of your club, your teams and all your members. Our features and tools give every team in your club first-class treatment. Your teams won't need to go elsewhere for these services. The club Web site puts your best foot forward, enhancing the image you want to project. You manage and control what appears on each team's Web site, an option that does not exist when your teams branch off. You have a one-stop point of access to your club's entire Web content.
- Team Retention
The NearPost system builds your club's group identity by improving intra-club communication, and by keeping your teams part of the club community. Features such as Announcements, Polls and Forums give your teams a voice. As every club manager knows, the payoff for improving communication is higher team retention.
- Ease of Use
With our intuitive administration console, you don't need to know any HTML or have any web design experience to maintain your site. Create teams, schedule games and practices, post announcements, maintain statistics, and do much more -- all using the console. Club administrators can delegate team page maintenance to team managers, so teams can update their own pages. If your club's "techie" volunteer moves on or takes a break, your site doesn't suffer.
- Cost Effective
Costing only pennies per player, the NearPost service is very cost effective. Our intuitive interface ensures that you do not need a dedicated Webmaster. The Spirit Store option also offers you the potential to generate revenues.
- We build on success
The NearPost system is full of unique and visionary features. Regular development updates and enhancements ensure that we're only getting better! NearPost 1.5 has been recently released. Please read about the new features and improvements.
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How do I sign up
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Just contact NearPost. Service begins with a custom site design. You can select from a library of existing unique designs or we can create a completely new design for you. Using your club logo as a starting point, our graphic design team creates a unique look for your site. This design process usually takes only a few days.
Once you approve the design, your Web site is published at a temporary address: http://yourclub.nearpost.com. This ensures that your current site is not affected while we build your new one. We then help you set up your NearPost site based on content from your current Web site. We also help you set up your staff and teams.
If you decide to use our Spirit Store component, we digitize your club's logo and create branded products. Your Spirit Store will be fully operational when the site is published.
When you are satisfied with your NearPost site, we handle the DNS (Domain Name Server) changes required to make your NearPost site available as www.yourclub.com or www.yourclub.org or both. Here we can make your site available from any address. If you don't have an address we can help you register a domain name or provide a NearPost address for you. This is the final step before your NearPost site becomes available to the world.
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How much does it cost
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Several service plans are available and are based on the number of teams in your club. Please see available packages for plan details.
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Where can I see examples of clubs using NearPost?
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Here are a few examples of soccer organizations that use NearPost. This list is by no means complete and is simply intended to show some examples of NearPost Powered Sites.
South Coast Scorpions Soccer Club, Braintree, Massachusets
The SCSSC utilized the NearPost™ Website Solution, a website content management system hosted by NearPost. An all inclusive website, the SCSSC is able to managed a dynamic content driven website complete with communications tools such as email, forums and polls.
North Texas Strikers Soccer Club, Mesquitte, Texas
North Texas Strikers has been using NearPost since 2002.
They host 2 major tournaments each year: Fall Classic and Spring Challenge. To host these tournament Strikers utlize Tournament Manager component of NearPost.
Also, please visit Strikers' very own Spirit Store, powered by NearPost as well.
Ayses Academy, Dallas, Texas
The program features boys and girls born in 94, 95, 96, and 97. The program offers kids a higher level of individual and team soccer skills that will enable them to go as far as they wish with the sport. These skills are taught by coaches who are imminently qualified and who provide an environment conducive to mastery of the skills and pure enjoyment of the game.
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How is NearPost different from the website I already have?
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NearPost is unique in several ways. We are not an all-sports solution that's trying to service soccer needs; we are all about soccer! We address the needs of the whole club -- all of our components are designed to communicate intelligently with your members. Our intuitive interface and delegation model makes managing a NearPost site a breeze. Also, each of your club's teams has a fully integrated, full featured sub-site within your club Web site.
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Do I need to find a hosting company to host my NearPost site?
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No, with NearPost you do not require a third party hosting company. NearPost sites are hosted at a Tier 1 facility. This means that your Web site is backed by redundant systems, fire suppression, and biometric security.
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Can I have a custom domain name with my soccer NearPost website?
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Yes. You can have as many domain names as you like pointing to your site. For example if your club has a domain www.yousoccerclub.com and www.yousoccerclub.org, both of them can be used to access your NearPost site.
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I'm not a technology person; will I have problems using NearPost?
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The NearPost system was designed with you in mind. If you're able to fill out a Web form, you will be comfortable managing your NearPost site. Every feature of the system makes use of intuitive data entry forms -- you simply fill in the required information and click on "Save." It's that simple!
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What are the system requirements for the NearPost system?
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NearPost is Web-based. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection. There is no software to install or storage space required. If you are reading this message you have everything you need to use NearPost.
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We have put together a 3 minute presentation that gives a quick insight into NearPost.
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