You can also watch the video by clicking here.
There are many ways to get involved:
- Donate money to the project, all monies will be used to develop community fan pages and if you have a preferred team any money donated will be allocated to that teams community fan forum.
- Purchase and own your own community fan page for £500.
- Name your fan club page
- Get a QR code to invite new members
- Earn a % of all income from advertising and sponsorship on the page, paid monthly. This includes a % of advertising and sponsorship attracted by our marketing team.
- Own the page and appoint an ambassador to run it on your behalf. In this instance the income is shared between you and your nominated ambassador
- Purchase and own multiple pages and appoint page ambassadors. Enjoy multiple income streams as the project grows, this will return a healthy ROI.
- Become a sales agent, selling community pages and earn 20% commission
- Donate £20 and get access to all of the Vantage Football data reports (normally £15 pcm)
- Purchase an equity stake. If you are interested email phil@vantagesportsinternational.com
Community Fan Hub
All of the football clubs playing in the main divisions in England and Scotland have community fan hubs. Once an ambassodor is appointed the fan community hub can be sei to live. Clubs outside the main leagues can also have their own community hub on request. (example below)
Once a community fan base is established and an ambassador is appointed to look after the dat to day running of the community hub. They will have the facility to upload images and videos, blogs and vlogs, as well as match reports. The ambassador can appoint fans to facilitate the production of some content items. (examples below)
(example from Queens Park community hub) (example of Rangers community hub)
The Fan Forum
This is the equivalent of a private social media group where all group members can safely message, exchange ideas, make arrangements, upload pictures and videos. To further enhance fan safety and to protect minors, there are anti-bullying and child safety filters which block certain words or phrases.
There is a clear disclaimer at the top of the fan page warning of the consequences of inappropriate chat content.
A fantastic forum to enjoy football banter with your friends and fellow supporters. The forum not only embraces safe messaging to protect young fans, but also promotes the club with data feeds to keep fans updated with events in real time.
The forum also provides a great upportunity for local businesses and companies or individuals who provide niche products or services. Advertisers can post adverts on fan forums and know with certainty the passion of the audience
Super Fan Fantasy League
A fantasy sports product with a unique difference. Everyone knows all about Fantasy Football, however we have developed a fantasy sports game with a massive twist! Instead of creating your dream-team from Premier League players, our game players need to predict some match events (goals, cards, corners and scorers) in all games played by their own favourite team. This game can be played by supporters of any team, no matter how small and which sport. All they need is a fan base.
Each unique fan page has its own Super Fan Fantasy League competition. This is FREE to enter to all fan club members and it challenges fans to compete for prizes based on their knowledge of their team. Each player tries to predict certain events in the match like goals, corners, players to score or receive a card etc. The more complex the prediction, the higher the points value that can be gained. The winner is the player with highest points total for each match.
To add a bit of fun to the fan predictions, there is the facility to add your reasoning. These are automatically added to the community fan group blog page.
The following reasoning is from Colin (Liverpool Super Fan)
"Liverpool v Real Madrid, the Southampton game surprised me in that Soton were good value for the 2 goals they scored, Liverpool were again good in the last 25 mins in which they scored 2 goals and could of scored 4. Madrid weaker without Vinicius Jr and therefore I expect Liverpool to win, it is hard though to judge Real Madrid as their performances in the champions league not as good as their league form recently ie 2nd 4pts off Barcelona. I think draw half time- Liverpool full-time as Liverpool are really good in the 2nd half of matches"
Playing the Game
The fantasy football game is simple to play, just select your predicted events and the game platform will advise you of how many points you will receive if you are correct. Players can predict up to 6 match events - How brave will you be?
After you have clicked on finalise you will be advised how many points you will be awarded if your prediction is correct
Getting Club Buy-In
Each ambassador has a key role to play in getting buy-in from the clubs they support. The benefits to the club is that they can showcase events and promotions, and other activities like new kit launches to a focused fan-base. The benefits to Super Fans are that club buy-in will enhance the quality of the prizes for each matchday game. It is possible to attract prizes such as signed shirts, photographs with players, and match-day tickets. These prizes can in some instances be a dream come true for dedicated fans.
This is more likely to happen with smaller clubs who are trying to increase their fanbase and attract new fans.
Advertising and Sponsorship
The Vantage Sports International community fan hub is an ideal forum for advertisers and sponsors. It allows advertisers and sponsors to get direct access to closed groups and this type of online platform attracts consistent targeted marketing. Community hub ambassadors can also play a vital part in helping to grow adverising revenue.
- Promotion of their community fan hub increases hub members and therefore becomes more attractive to advertisers and sponsors. Vantage Sports International have a dedicated team to attract new and repeat advertisers.
- As ambassadors participate in a revenue share on all income attracted by the community hub, this incentivises hub ambassadors to proactively seek out advertisers and sponsors.
- By forming strong relationships with the clubs, ambassadors can acquire prizes for each game week Super fan competition to further engage fans.
(example of sponsorship on the community fan hub)
There is no limit to the number of sponsors and advertisers that can appear on each community hub and there is a choice of locations.
- Main club community hub
- Fan Forum
- Competition area
- Blogging area
All of these attract different audiences for advertisers to consider.