Follr Support Series – How To Create a New Supporters Club Website

Follr contains community Websites for every sports team imaginable, soccer (AKA football), football (aka football), basketball, hockey, baseball and many other professionals, organizations and interest groups associated with the industry. The question is; how do you create one?

Please follow these steps – if you have additional questions give us a call on:

(888) 201-5160

or email:

info@follr.com

Step 1:

After you log into your Follr account you will see the Activity Screen:

Step 2:

This screen highlights two places to see communities:

(i) From the top menu you can click on “Communities”:

(ii) In the right panel you will see “Discover Communities”:

Step 3:

If you click on “Communities” from the top menu you see a page that by default shows you the communities you are currently a member of:

To create a new community simply click on the “Start a Community” button:

Step 4:

You will then see the “Start a Community” page:

Simply fill in the information and click the “Create Community” button at the bottom of the page.

Note:

(i) All fields marked with an asterisk have to be completed.

(ii) There isn’t a limit on how many communities you can create.

Follr Releases Follr Global, A Sports SaaS Platform For Fan Management, Engagement and Monetization

New white label offering provides a single platform to manage fan communication, brand protection and marketing while increasing content reach and opening new revenue channels and markets

Wappingers Falls, NY (June 26th, 2018) Follr, Inc., a SaaS (Service as a software) company today announced the release of “Follr Global”, a white label software platform that provides sports franchises, media companies and organizations in the entertainment industry with a broad suite of services to help fan management, engagement and monetization. The news follows the companies recent announcement about record growth.

The Follr platform is centered on Follr Communities, highly customizable Websites that enable fans and supporters clubs to create an online community around a common team, person or shared interest and passion. Each Follr Community provides a single point of entry that provides fans with a broad suite of features that include:

  • An ecommerce platform
  • Marketing tools
  • Communication channels
  • Content and social media aggregation
  • Event management
  • Free and paid memberships
  • Automated social media distribution

Mark Wayman

“We are very excited to release Follr Global primarily because it enables large organizations to control every aspect of fan management while concurrently opening up new revenue from latent sources,” stated Follr Product Lead Mark Wayman adding “The fact that we can also integrate Follr Global into existing technologies and provide a complex suite of management tools through one interface is something we expect will save our clients enormous amounts of time and money.”

Follr Global opens up the Follr software to sports franchises and teams looking to manage a distributed fan base while protecting their brand, controlling and owning fan data and leveraging official supporters clubs to increase market share. This is achieved in part by a security hierarchy that enables global design changes, content updates and sharing. Simplification of supporters club administration, coupled with the ability to work with existing sales and marketing software, allows the platform to seamlessly integrate into an organization’s operations. Available as a white label product, it can additionally be customized to match the existing brand of any organization using it.

The Follr platform also provides rich fan demographics through member profiles which detail personal and professional interests and experience.

Stephen Fells

“The growth of online sports marketing, especially fan driven conversation and content creation, has created new problems for brands and is compounded by the efforts of many, especially in sports, to reach a global audience,” stated Follr CEO Stephen Fells adding “We have seen this manifest in our own record growth making the timing of the release of Follr Global ideal; this is the perfect time for a centralised solution that solves busines problems for fan based organizations while additionally helping fans to connect with the teams, players and artists they love.”

Follr Global can be licensed. Its release is one of several announcements the company expect to make during 2018.

About Follr, Inc.:

Follr, Inc. (www.follr.com) is a software company founded in 2011. Located in California and New York, Follr provides Web-based business and personal marketing products.

Follr Communities provide vibrant, social communities and groups to engage individuals around a membership, club, group, shared passion or interest.

Follr Profile Websites enable individuals, companies and brands to tell their story using a combination of personal or corporate history, social media profiles (Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare etc.) and content. They are personally branded Websites used as an initial point of contact and represent an aggregation of all online and offline information. Accessed by an enduring, easy to remember URL they represent a more complete picture and story in an increasingly digital world.

The Follr network provides users with the ability to create and edit their Follr Profile Website and Follr Community. It additionally facilitates improved networking while providing access to millions of jobs.

Follr is funded through Blossom Ventures. For more information see the company Website, Facebook or Twitter.

“Follr – Reinventing The Fan Experience”

Contact:

Follr, Inc.
(888) 201-5160
info@follr.com