How do I organise a set of sports fixtures?
The job of a team captain for any sport such as football, tennis, rugby or
badmington involves a lot of phone calls or emails to see who is available to play
a
match on each fixture date. Keeping track of all the emails and notes you
have
taken can be extremely tedious.
With agreeAdate it's so much easier.
First, you create a new event via the button on the My Events page.
Next, enter details such as the title for the event.
Then add the fixture dates that you want to request availability for. You can
enter all of the fixture dates here at once so that you can get commitments from
everyone for all dates in one go.
The next step is to add your players as invitees. You can select these from your
address book if you've added them before, or you can add new contacts.
Enter
categories against contacts if you want to be able to quickly pick contacts
by
category in the future. e.g. A Team Tennis, B Team Tennis, etc. You can also
import
from Outlook, CSV or other formats.
You can now send out the invitations. Press the button under the list of
contacts and check the text in the email template. This text will be saved so you can
use it for any new invitations later. If you want to save it as a template for
use in other events, click on the button at the bottom. Send yourself a sample
to
check how it will look. When you are happy, press Send, sit back and relax.
Your invitees will now receive their invitation emails.
Your players will tick the dates they are available for. You will be notified by
email when they update their availability. This email will also contain a link
into your event to make your life easy.
If anyone contacts you directly, you can click on the icons in step 4 to update
the availability so all your information is in one place.
When you are ready to confirm dates and who is attending on each date, tick the
dates you want to confirm. Everyone available on these dates will then be
selected automatically in the grid. You can de-select people by clicking the icons
if
need-be. If you need to update availability for someone, you can do this by
clicking on the icons.
Finally, send out the confirmation emails using the button on the final step.
Check the email as you did with the invitations by sending yourself a sample.
Click Send to send everyone confirmation of the dates. They will get a
personalised
email showing which dates they are confirmed for and those they are not.
They
will also get a button to enable them to reply.n to enable them to reply.
If you need to send emails to anyone at any time, just click on the Send Emails
button and select one of the recipient options. If you want to send attachments
such as maps or other documents, just copy the recipient list and use your own
email software (such as Microsoft Outlook).
Once you've done this once, it's even easier to set up the next event. Just
start a new event from scratch or pick a similar meeting from My Events and click
on Copy Event.