Athlete Network understands the challenges of collegiate athletic departments
- Decentralized services over multiple locations
- Lack of engagement with former athletes
- Unavailable analytics, reporting, and measurements for current services
- CRMs are not engagement platforms
- Underutilized career and mentoring services
Top requested services by athletic departments
- Career placement services
- Mentorship program
- Letterman’s Club/Alumni Engagement
- Student-Athlete Development opportunities
- Data insights, analytics, and reporting
Athletic department benefits
- Organized and centralized services
- Enhanced on-campus student-athlete experience
- Dashboard providing tracking and reporting
- Meaningful engagement and services for former athletes
- Fundraising increases
- Recruitment tool for coaches
- Data, data, and more data
“Through real data, partnering with Athlete Network has allowed us to enhance our student services for our guaranteed jobs placement program.”
Terry Mohajir
Athletic Director
Arkansas State Universty
“Athlete Network provides our staff, athletes, and sponsors the technology platform to guide Team USA athletes in their successful transition away from elite sport.”
Leslie Klein
ACE Director
United States Olympic Committee
“Our staff is excited to partner with Athlete Network and their new technology. However, our student-athletes and former athletes will be the true beneficiaries as we consolidate all our services in one spot on our own branded Wildcat Network.”
Gene Taylor
Athletic Director
Kansas State University
“We are excited to partner with Athlete Network as we continue to raise the bar department wide. Improving the student-athlete experience across the board from recruiting to career placement is a major priority, and we now have the additional tools to achieve this goal.”
Brad Wachler
VP For Intercollegiate Athletics
Lindenwood University
FAQ
After completing our validation process and meeting with beta schools, the name describes exactly what the technology platform is. All of the services offered for current student-athletes and former athletes will be accessible in one unified location, while also connecting all current and former student-athletes with each other in one unique community. Communication between athletes improves as well as with the school and athletic department. In the end, the athletic department needs to the the “hero,” so let’s brand the platform 100% for the school. In the end, it was a simple conclusion to name the new division “Branded Networks.”
The Branded Networks software launched in early 2018 with three beta schools that included Lindenwood University, Arkansas State University, and Kansas State University. Fortunately, the adoption by other schools has exceeded all expectations and is growing by the day. Here is a sampling of partners –
We have multiple pricing levels depending upon the size of the school. All of the pricing is affordable and under $1,000 per month. Consulting is available to assist partners with funding strategies and best practices from other athletic departments. Ask us for a price quote.
Each school owns their technology platform, and it is meant to be a tool to enhance not replace current programs. Therefore, each athletic department will determine which services will be consolidated on their network. Our recommendation is that all current services, which are currently decentralized across a variety of different websites, will be offered to current student-athletes and former student-athletes via the Branded Network. Also, one major Branded Network feature is a robust mentoring program along with expanded career services, which can stand alone or complement current services.
The top services requested to enhance the current student-athletes have been career services, internship program, and mentoring program. Services for former student-athletes and engagement have been mentoring, letterman's clubs, reunions, ticketing and networking. The platform will also allow for links to other external websites and internal documents as needed.
Absolutely not, and your Branded Network will actually reduce some staffing responsibilities. With the assistance of the Athlete Network provided account executive, the Branded Network has been designed to lighten the staffing burden. Athletic departments can plan to budget more efficient roles and responsibilities due to technology and data insights. A recommended best practice is to assign a graduate assistant, intern, or current staff member to manage the partnership.
Absolutely. The inventory can be fully leveraged by the school or their appropriate rights holder. Many schools have indicated that the Branded Network could be budget neutral or even a revenue stream based on the new inventory of sponsors and partners.
Yes, Athlete Network will provide a dashboard to all school specific data and reporting. Analytics, reporting, and data insights will be one of the most valuable components of the partnership.
Yes. Current and former student-athletes will have a seamless experience when viewing national and local employer partners, regardless of origin. This will occur with no additional fees to school or companies.
Great question. We put a lot of thought and focus into this point. Compliance documents with detailed feedback and counsel from our current partners and their compliance departments are included in each Branded Network. In addition to these standard compliance documents, schools may supplement the software with additional verbiage, addendums, or completely replace the documents.
Technical development and buildout will take between 4-8 weeks depending upon responsiveness of the athletic department with workflow. Athlete Network will provide checklists, timelines, and requirements; schools will provide the content. Examples could be branding guidelines, logos, and imagery.
Three years is the contract length unless school policies create restrictions.
Yes. Branded networks are closed to the public and require a unique username and password for each user.