It’s Registration Season. What Should Be On Your Website?

Lots of Regions are in the thick of registration right now. Parents will be out there looking for places to sign their kids up for soccer. How do you make sure they sign up with your Region?

1. Make sure your homepage is up to date. Make sure that vital information such a registration times, dates and places are visible or somewhere that they can easily be located. These dates are the first thing parents are looking for when they go to your Region website right now.
    
2. Put together an FAQ for Registration. Parents will have questions about registration – what ages can you register your child at? How many registrations are left? I missed a registration, how can I still register? These are all questions that are common during registration, and if you have an FAQ page next to the registration information that contains these types of questions, you will eliminate the need for parents to physically call or email the Region. Don’t know which questions to put on the FAQ page? Ask the Regional Commissioner or the Registrar for your Region (or whoever fields those calls/emails).
    

3 Must-Haves for Every Region Website

Region websites are an invaluable tool for communicating with your community, parents and volunteers. It's likely the information hub for your Region - so it's important to include all the important information you want your members and families to know.

Here are three things that should be on every Region website:

1. Contact Information
This information should be included prominently on your Region's homepage. Whether it's a contact form,  email address or a phone number, make sure it's posted somewhere that visitors can easily spot. Questions arise regularly, and if they are not answered on the website, the parents will want someone to contact. Parents can get frustrated if this information is not readily available on the website.