THE BIG NEWS!
The new features we will describe here are going to be tied to the new dedicated PLAYER JOURNAL magazine for our ALL-STAR program. What is a Player Journal? This will be a one-of-a-kind digital magazine featuring your player, dedicated to showcasing the action and sideline shots we capture during the season, stats, articles and lots of other interactive features! At the end of the season, you will receive a PRINTED high quality magazine of your player!
Why do we think this is so huge?
Really, it comes down to this. Our gallery program is great and people like to look at the photos of their players. But there are a couple of issues that we needed to address:
(1)With the dedicated gallery, you cruise through the gallery and find the pictures you like. With PLAYER JOURNALS, we do this process for you each week. You still have the gallery, just the same as before, although it is now somewhat leaner, more edited, with more photos that are going to get our premiere treatments via specialized software to give you unbelieveable results.
Now, you will be navigating to your DEDICATED PLAYER JOURNAL custom on-line magazine which all your family and friends can subscribe to for FREE and get the updates each week. You can also share a particular page of the magazine via social media instantly whether you're on the browser version or you're on the iPad or iPhone versions.
(2) When the season ends, you need SOMETHING physical to hang on to. With every ALL STAR package, we will print a copy of your PLAYER JOURNAL and give it to you. You can (and also family and friends) order more copies (to put away for the future.) They are printed with a very high quality magazine printing process!
(3) You can at any point, download a PDF version of the magazine at any stage that it's in. You can then PRINT that PDF or e-mail it if you have someone who has a Kindle for instance, and they can load that PDF version into their Kindle.
(4) You want INSTANT results and instant gratification with social media. You will be able to check your magazine for updates each week by Sunday night or Monday evening depending on your player's level (FR/JV/V) and the game date to see new photos. There may be other updates that happen during the week as well when we get a story on the game from a parent who does a write-up of the game or we get stats from the coaches, etc.
(5) You'll be able to see things that you can order made out of your player's photos like custom posters, etc. in the magazine. Let us know if you want those removed or not for the final printed copy. You may want that to make the issue more "magazine-like" or you may not if you want it to be more photo-book like. You don't have to choose until your season is over and we're wrapping up your PLAYER JOURNAL.
(6) We are going to alter our Take Two program for other sports and do a version of the PLAYER JOURNAL for those Take Two sports (starting in 2014) which we think may make the two game coverage package something a little more interesting. Look for more details on actiongallerypros.com about the program. We will have to increase the price slightly to cover printing costs as the Take Two program was already a low-cost no-frills program and this will be adding quite a bit of value to it.
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