Benefits of a Team Profile
How to create a Team Profile
How to get the most from your Team Profile

Benefits of a Team Profile

Year on year, sevens teams are faced with the challenge of finding sponsorship for the upcoming season. This is where many team managers feel that UR7s.com can add most value. Until now, it’s been almost impossible to give your team and sponsor year-round exposure to a targeted audience of any critical mass. UR7s.com provides you with a platform that aggregates the world rugby sevens community and that audience of critical mass. We have also provided you with the tools to gain exposure to this audience as and when you can.

The more proactive you are with your team profile and throughout UR7s.com, the more exposure your team will receive.

“Profiles” on UR7s.com are more than just profiles. They’re comprehensive micro-sites, which provide you with all the functionality of an advanced website. Amongst other things, you can use your Team Profile for the following:

• gain greater exposure for your team, players and sponsors
• create leverage for discussions with potential sponsors
• be tagged in UR7s news articles and tournament reviews
• manage your squad and team selection
• manage your tournament schedule
• find new players for the season or a particular tournament
• banter with other teams
• bring your micro-site to life by uploading photos & videos
• win stash and other prizes for your team mates

UR7s.com is yours to leverage – you can get out of it as much as you’re willing to put in.

How to create a Team Profile

Before setting up your team profile, first make sure you have registered your personal profile on UR7s.com. To do this, select ‘register’ on the homepage and follow the instructions.

Now that you are a member of the world online rugby sevens community, it’s time for you to start competing online as well as offline and giving your team some exposure. Follow these 3 simple steps to get up and running:

1. Once you have logged into your personal profile, select ‘my page’ from the UR7s.com homepage. Once you are on your page, scroll down about half way and select the option ‘create your team now’. Once you have selected this you will be taken to the team creation page.
2. The information that you enter on the tournament creation page is very important, as this is what’s seen on your tournament’s profile. It’s all pretty straight forward - four things to note in particular:
   • The “alias” is what you want the “xxx” in your www.ur7s.com/teams/xxx profile url to be.
   • In the “Description”, tell everyone in the community about your side in as serious or quirky a manner as suits – first impressions and all that…
   • When uploading your team logo, you are giving a cropping option – the area that you select for cropping will be what is viewable in areas of the site other than your profile itself.
3. Once you have completed the initial team details, hit submit and your team will appear on UR7s. However, do not stop here. As your team will be new to UR7s.com, its profile will receive a lot of traffic straight away. To make the most of this traffic, you should try and fill out your profile as quickly as possible with your players, photos, video clips or a blog telling us all what you’re about and what your schedule looks like. You should also search for tournaments you are playing in and select them so they show up in your “competing in” page. Doing this straight away will ensure that there is something more than just the basic information to entice people back to your profile and to talk about your team.

How to get the most from your Team Profile

In short, the more proactive you are with your team profile and throughout UR7s.com, the more exposure your team will receive.

Every time you upload videos, photos and notices, every time you post a blog or enter discussion in the forum, your team will appear on the relevant landing pages across UR7s.com. Team blogs will automatically appear on the homepage, the best videos will be featured and the more proactive you are across the site, the better your chance of being a Featured Team.

Furthermore, the more tournaments that you are seen to be competing in and the more media they upload with your team tagged, the more exposure your team will receive through those tournaments’ activity.

We’ve set out the 5 most important tools in your team profile and a few tips on getting the most out of them below. If you have any further questions on how to get the best out of UR7s for your team email us on teams@ur7s.com.

1. Media
   Perhaps the most important section of your tournament profile is the media section. Here you can upload action or behind-the-scenes video, audio and photos. As you upload these they will also appear in the photo and video landing pages directing users back to your profile. The best footage will remain on the photo and video landing pages as featured or most popular media. Our tip: video montages set to music always go down a treat!
2. Blog
   The tournament profile blog is the most efficient way to get a message out to the rugby sevens community and gain immediate homepage exposure. It’s the perfect way to announce who’s playing for your side the coming weekend, write reports on the tournament just past or even just airing something you saw at a 7s tournament recently. Of course when you are on tour that’s when the real fun takes place, make sure you blog back to everyone at UR7s about the tour, where you are staying, would you recommend the tournament etc. The more information everyone has, the better our game will become. Popular topics the blog section is used for include:
   • Team selection for an upcoming tournament
   • A report on your experience at a tournament and how your team fared
   • Tour diaries
   • Sponsorship agreements and other key milestones
   • Putting word out if you are looking for players last minute for a particular tournament
3. Players
   Be sure to invite all of your players to register on UR7s.com and add themselves as players on your team profile. They just need to click “add yourself” underneath the pitch on your team profile homepage. The team profile administrator will receive notification of this and can then confirm whether that person does indeed play for your team. You can then make team selections on the profile homepage pitch from the squad of players listed on your “players” page.
4. Competing in
   Be sure to search for any tournaments that your team will be competing in and click on “compete in this tournament” so that you will show up on the tournament’s “competing teams” page.
5. Notice Board
   The notice board is an important tool to be used to post documents or more static information about your team. For example, tour schedules, press from other sources or player profiles; basically any information on your team that you have not placed in the description area of the profile.

Every time you take one of the above actions, it will appear somewhere else across UR7s.com, driving other users to your profile. UR7s.com is yours to leverage – you will get out of it as much as you’re willing to put in.

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