Create and monetize your athlete brand on Twitter

I know you're a busy athlete. But give me your attention for a couple of minutes and I'll show you how you can leverage your athlete brand to create and monetise your Twitter following.Twitter remains a popular network for professional athletes, journalists and brands. It is these individuals that will help you amplify your story and get you sponsored and funded. Let me show you how to reach those people, connect with them, help them and then get helped by them.Here are the steps we'll need to take :1) Create a Winning Profile2) Become a Team Player - make connections...

Create The Perfect Blog/Update Post

Athlete fan pages on MAKEACHAMP allow them to create really nice blog-updates and automatically email it to all their supporters and fans - these include all the people that ever contributed to an athlete's campaign. Some athlete blog post updates on their MAKEACHAMP crowdfunding campaigns end up going viral, while others do not. We wanted to find out what makes the 'perfect' update to help athletes gain exposure for sponsorship opportunities or reach their crowdfunding campaigns goals.Here are some of the things that we found out:1. Provide ValueYour supporters are bombarded by content every day. You should try to share content...

Going Viral Just Got Easier

If you want to make a BANG in any field you need to know your field from top to bottom. This is not a hidden secret and also an obvious fact. I have a few tips and tricks that any athlete can do for their blog to go viral. The objective for athletes is for their updates to go viral and for the crowd to click, watch and like athletes' content. The first important tip is to be a good storyteller (thanks Gary Vaynerchuck!!!) , something that will capture the imagination and make a random viewer be drawn like a...

3 Easy Tips & Tricks to Raise More Funds for Your Sports Team

Selling chocolate, having spaghetti dinners and other fundraising activities are all great, but their reach is limited! Why not add crowdfunding and take your fundraising to the next level? Your players will be more motivated to fundraise for your team using cutting edge tools and their daily social media. Once your campaign is launched (if you don't have a running campaign, create one here), here are 3 tips to optimise your crowdfunding campaign and get the most out of it:1. Add Individual CampaingsCreate individual campaigns for each one of your players to boost the performance of your team. Once every...