For Youth Sports Facilities, Clubs & Academies

Registration opens. One email goes out. Then everyone hopes.

You built the programs, the coaches and the reputation. What you don't have is somebody making sure every family on your list hears about every season — on time, and more than once. That's the whole job. We do it every month, and it gets better every month.

Book a Discovery Call See what we found → 20 minutes. Tell us where to look and we'll come to the call having already looked.
$3,150
per month, all in from month one
30
days to your first shipped assets
1
focused priority at a time
0
changes to your registration system

We Looked First

Before we pitch you, we go read your registration email.

Everything below is real — found this season in live youth soccer registration emails and live program pages. None of it is hypothetical, and none of it is hard to fix.

Finding 01

"Register" was a hyperlink on one word

Floated above a large logo image, in a fall registration email going to more than a thousand families. Most people scanning that email never found it.

Finding 02

That link went to a login wall

The families who did click landed on a member sign-in page instead of a registration page. Every brand-new family stops right there.

Finding 03

One description, three different programs

Template copy duplicated across all three tiers and never renamed. The elite academy's own registration page still described a different program by name.

Finding 04

The last line told families not to sign up

A prerequisite reminder closing out a promotional section. The final thing a prospective family read was a reason they probably weren't ready yet.

Finding 05

The coach who sells it wasn't in it

No name, no face, no voice, no philosophy — for a program whose entire differentiator is the person who shows up and runs it.

Finding 06

One send, and then nothing

No follow-up to the families who never opened it. No reminder before the deadline. Nothing at all to the ones who opened and didn't act.

What that actually adds up to

Not one of those is a budget problem, and not one of them is a talent problem. They're all the same problem wearing six different hats: nobody owns this. The season arrives, somebody writes an email at the last minute, it goes out once, and everyone gets back to running the facility.

That's the job we take.

Why It Happens

Marketing dies in youth sports for reasons specific to youth sports.

None of this is a reflection on how well you run the place. It's structural, and every facility we look at has the same four.

01

The calendar doesn't wait

Registration windows open and close on fixed dates. Miss one and the revenue isn't delayed — it's gone until the next season comes back around.

02

The owner writes the email

At 11pm, the week registration opens, because there's nobody else to do it. So it goes out once, and it goes out late.

03

Nothing carries over

Every season starts from a blank page again. Twelve seasons in, you have twelve one-offs and no system that got smarter along the way.

04

The list goes cold

Every family who tried a class and drifted away is still sitting on your list. They're the warmest audience you will ever have, and nobody is talking to them.

What We Build

A season engine that runs whether or not you're thinking about it.

Not a campaign. Not a project with an end date. A living system that ships every month and knows more about your families in month twelve than it did in month one.

Season campaigns, end to end

Open, reminder, last call, waitlist. Written, scheduled and sent for every session of every season. You approve — you don't write.

The dormant list, revived

The families who came once and drifted, sequenced back with an actual reason to return rather than a "we miss you."

Trial-to-enrollment follow-up

The free trial is the strongest offer in youth sports and it's where the most money leaks out. Every trial gets a follow-up, every time.

Off-peak yield

Adult leagues, field rentals, birthday parties, clinics. The hours youth programming doesn't cover, sold on purpose instead of by accident.

Reviews and referrals, on a rhythm

Parents are your best channel by a distance. Asked at the right moment every month, not once a year when somebody remembers to.

Found when parents search

"Indoor soccer near me." "Is my kid ready for competitive." Written for Google and for the AI assistants parents increasingly ask first.

The part most agencies get wrong

You keep your registration platform. DaySmart, Dash, SportsEngine, TeamSnap — whatever runs your enrollment stays exactly where it is. We build around it. No migration, no website rebuild, no new logins for your front desk, nothing for your staff to relearn mid-season.

The Math

What this costs, against what it actually replaces.

Marketing has always been an overhead decision. The engine makes it a utility bill — one number, everything included, no headcount to manage.

Agency retainer
$8–12K
per month, plus ad spend
Big-team overhead from people who have never sold a registration season.
Full-time hire
$70K+
per year, plus benefits & tools
One person, one skill set — and you still have to manage them.
Doing it yourself
Nights + weekends
for as long as you can keep it up
Right up until the season you were too busy to promote properly.
The 9xNine Engine
$3,150
per month, all in from month one
Senior strategy, AI-fast production, shipped assets every month.
Run it with your own numbers

You know what a season is worth to you per family. Divide $3,150 by that number. Whatever comes back is how many extra families a month this has to bring in before it pays for itself — and it's almost always a smaller number than owners expect.

How We Work

AI-first. Human-led. You'll always know which is which.

We run an AI-first operation, and that's precisely why one team does the work of ten and you pay three thousand instead of twelve. But nothing reaches your families without a person deciding it should. You are not getting a robot with your logo on it.

01

A twenty-minute call. No deck.

We ask what your seasons look like, what's actually broken, and what you've already tried. If we're not a fit, we say so on that call rather than three weeks later.

02

We go look.

Your site, your emails, your reviews, your competitors, your search footprint — read properly, before you've paid us anything. The findings at the top of this page came out of exactly that work.

03

The Reveal.

We show you what makes you the obvious choice in your market — usually the thing you're too close to see — and exactly what ships in the first thirty days.

Straight Answers

The questions owners actually ask.

We already have someone handling marketing.

Then we may not be a fit, and we'll tell you that on the call. We replace nobody-owns-this. We don't replace a person who's doing the work well.

Do we have to change our registration system?

No — not now and not later. Your enrollment platform is the first thing we design around, because it's the last thing any facility wants to touch mid-season.

We're seasonal. Can we pause in the off-season?

Three-month minimum, then thirty days' notice any time. Worth knowing, though: the off-season is when next season's registration actually gets built. Switching off there is usually the expensive choice.

Is AI writing emails to our families?

AI drafts. A human reviews and decides. Nothing goes to your list without a person signing off on it, and you approve the plan before any of it ships.

How fast does anything go live?

First assets ship inside thirty days. The engine build behind them — the strategy, the messaging, the sequences — is included in month one rather than billed as a separate project.

Do you work with clubs, or only facilities?

Both, plus academies and independent coaches running their own programs inside someone else's building. The season problem is identical; only the list size changes.

Next Step

Your next registration window is already on the calendar.

Twenty minutes, no deck, no pressure. Tell us where to look and we'll come to the call having already looked.