30 January 2018
openplay
Booking System
When choosing a payment gateway, it is important to consider whether your business would benefit from an on-site or off-site service. At OpenPlay, we recommend sticking with on-site, so payments remain on your website and the overall process feels streamlined and trustworthy. The alternative leads your customers to the payment gateway website to complete the […]
27 January 2018
openplay
Booking System
What if you could get one of the top pros to advertise your sports venue in their next big match? Imagine Serena Williams wearing your logo instead of the overly-dominant Nike tick? Maybe Roger Federer could eat a banana whose skin had printed on it your opening hours and booking details? Perhaps Gareth Bale will […]
23 January 2018
openplay
Booking System, Marketing
Running sports facilities is both time consuming and expensive once you factor in staff costs, lighting, maintenance and so on. Probably what is most frustrating and challenging is filling up the dead time, particularly off-peak. Below are eight ways to help you increase revenue and usage through booking sports facilities. 1. Experiment with price […]
19 January 2018
openplay
Booking System
Only a few years ago, email was the most efficient form of online communication, no matter what the context. Nowadays, emails swarm our mailboxes like locusts, meaning important messages can get buried underneath automated advertisements, photographs of your nephew’s first solid feed, and the occasional plea from a suspicious royal looking for your bank […]
15 January 2018
openplay
Marketing
When it comes to encouraging women into sports, it starts at the very beginning- or rather, it doesn’t. From a very young age, boys are told to play outside, to get dirty, and to tackle, whilst girls are told they look pretty and they make pretty things. We could have a lifelong nature versus nurture […]