TournaMart has been the premier soccer event marketing and management company in Illinois since 2010 and we are now growing and advertising Nationally with over 100,000 current soccer club/team rep subscribers. Our services include email marketing and scheduling of soccer leagues, tournaments, and camps.
We started TournaMart in 2010 because we wanted to help kids from low income families participate in tournaments and leagues when most of those families simply couldn't afford to pay the typical $500+ tournament and $1000+ league entry fees. So we created a company to run our own tournaments and leagues for a price those kids could afford. Our events started attracting more and more teams until we had a large subscriber list and then other events started asking us to advertise for them too. Today we still work with events to include teams of low income kids but in addition we now provide marketing services to all events nationwide.
Our marketing approach today is very simple - we put events in touch with people who might want to participate in the events for a very low fee. Anyone who wants to know anything about upcoming soccer events in their area registers on our web site and then when an event is upcoming they will receive an email from us letting them know about it. If/when they no longer are interested in soccer events, they click the Unsubscribe link in the email and they will not hear from us again.
So if your company is running an event (e.g. tournament, league, or camp) and want to get the word out to representatives from almost every club in your area plus more, just email us at ed@tournamart.com, tell us what you're looking for, and we'll provide feedback and pricing. Our fees are so low that if 1 email blast brings in just 1 participant it will almost certainly have paid for itself. Once you decide how many email blasts you want to send, to which geographic area(s), and when then you pay the fee and point us to a web site or other content about your event and we put together an attractive draft email for you to review and approve before we send it out. Once we send it out we can provide statitsics on opens, click-throughs, etc. whenever you want them.
A significant benefit of having us sending this email instead of trying to do it yourself is that we ensure that the email is constructed properly so as not to to be mistaken for spam by the recipients. We have a great reputation with all major email service providers and know exactly what it takes to get email delivered to large sets of people. If you don't know how the SPF, DKIM, MX Records, A Records, rDNS, and DMARC fields need to be populated in email headers for sending email to multiple recipients, or don't know the impact of sending rapidly, image-to-text ratio, upper-case letters, monetary/red flag keywords, repeated characters, and different attachment formats in your email or don't know how to get on white lists and/or feedback loops then you should simply not try to send email advertising an event yourself as you're more likely to just get yourself on a black list than have your email delivered! We, on the other hand, know exactly what can/can't go in an email and are on feedback loops and white lists of every major email service provider.
Here's what some of our existing customers have to say about our event marketing services:
"We used TournaMart for the first time this year just 1 week before closing registration for our Jupiter Alliance President's Day Tournament and they helped us add 30+ teams before the deadline! Would highly recommend to others." - Tony Meola, Director of Coaching, Jupiter United Soccer Club, Former US National Team Goalkeeper.
"We have worked with Ed Morton and TournaMart for several years now. The first year we used TournaMart for our email marketing we already had a successful tournament that brought in 450 teams each year but we wanted to get to 600 teams. That year we exceeded 600 teams and managed to find enough extra fields to accommodate 650 teams but still had to turn away a large number of teams! It has been a wonderful partnership as Ed delivers a great service and really cares. Ed has helped us in crafting our message and in reaching the customers we want to reach. He goes above and beyond to make sure that we are happy and that we've achieved our goals." - Henry G, Tournament Director, Olympic Park Memorial Day Challenge Tournament.
"I have worked closely with Mr. Ed Morton for the past 7 years as Tournament Director for the Panther Soccer Club in Oswego, IL. Ed has consistently provided a service that has professionally promoted our tournament through email blasts to hundreds of coaches, teams and clubs, and our tournament would not be as successfully attended each year without his help. A great example occurred in 2013 when we barely had enough teams sign up by the beginning of March to justify running our yearly May tournament. Ed put in extra time, personally contacted coaches and clubs and sent out hundreds of emails which resulted in over 100 more teams signing up by the middle of April. Our tournament wound up being a huge success that year. In 2014, with Ed's help, we set a record for our club with over 170 teams attending our annual tournament. He responds to requests promptly and gives helpful advice regarding time frames and deadlines for communication. He has been truly a great resource for us and provides yearly expertise and communication that you can count on. Do not hesitate to use Ed Morton for your tournament needs at ed@tournamart.com. Thanks Ed for all of your help!" - Jim Z, Tournament Director, Oswego Soccer Classic Tournament
"It is my pleasure to offer this recommendation to TournaMart and Ed Morton. I have worked closely with Ed for a number of years, even before TournaMart became a reality and he was heading a youth soccer club in his town. Ed has always been easy to work with and regularly offers his assistance in the community and for the sport whenever and wherever he can. It has been tremendous to see his company blossom over these past few years and become a huge resource in the youth soccer community. I would recommend him and his company to anyone looking to promote a tournament, advertise camps/clinics, or soccer enthusiasts just looking to chat about the game." - Ed K, Chicago Fire Soccer Club-Senior Manager--Group Sales
"TournaMart has really helped us grow our tournament. We used TournaMart for email blasts for the first last year and had the largest event in our tournament’s 8-year history. This year, we really were able to build on the publicity we created last year in markets outside our local area and with Ed’s helpful suggestions, we created a very comprehensive marketing plan. This plan yielded about 20 new teams outside our area and we had over twice as many teams entered at the 90-days out mark this year. We are almost at last year’s record number of entries now and still have over a month for more teams to enter. Given this pace of entries, we are actually thinking we may have to cut-off registration before our posted deadline. Ed is easy to work with and really helped our club create a professional-looking email." - Rob Landers, Vice President, Glend-Ed Soccer Club
If you have any questions, contact us at:
Ed Morton
ed@tournamart.com, 630-631-2571