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Marketing strategy · prepared by 9xNine for Soro Futbol Academy

The plan that turns Coach Ray's pedigree into a full roster, every season.

A high-level look at the opportunity, the plan, and the numbers — the five-minute version. The full detail lives in the Blueprint and the rest of the package; this deck is meant to be walked through together, not read cold.

For: Soro Futbol Academy / Coach Ray
Context: Phase 0 discovery meeting
From: 9xNine — an operator, not an algorithm

Coach Ray coaching a player during a Soro Futbol Academy training session Real training day, Soro Futbol Academy
02 / 11 The thesis

You've built the following. What's missing is the system.

A real Instagram audience, a library of training video, and a coaching résumé most local academies can't touch — Assyriska FF, Sandhausen SV, Atalanta Primavera, Nervion. What's missing isn't more content. It's the plumbing that turns a follow, a like, or a DM into a booked training session, without adding another thing to Coach Ray's plate.

03 / 11 Why Soro is different

Kids don't just play here. They aspire to get here.

Coach Ray coaching a player one-on-one
Team huddled together before a training session

At North County Soccer Park, the path up is visible to every family who walks in. Kids come up through SISL, and the front fields — where Soro Futbol Academy trains — are the level they're working toward. Parents watch Coach Ray before they ever talk to him. They want their kid seen, hoping it earns an invite to come train. That's not a funnel we have to build from scratch — it's already happening in person, every week. Our job is to give it the same pull online that it already has on the field.

The standard, not just the skill

Respect. Listen. Next play.

Coach Ray teaches the game the way it's meant to be played — and just as much, the way you carry yourself while playing it: respect for coaches and teammates, staying open to feedback, and resetting instantly after a good play or a bad one. Exactly what club coaches expect, and exactly what club-track kids need reinforced.

Every kid gets greeted

Nobody's a stranger here

Coach Ray knows every name and makes every kid feel included from day one. Simple, but it's the reason parents describe Soro's as a place kids don't want to leave — not just a place they train.

Kids love Soro's. That's not a brand line — it's the reason the following already exists, before any of this marketing system goes live.

04 / 11 What we found

Real proof, no path to booked.

Full teardown, with the cost of each gap and the fix, in the Opportunity Audit →

05 / 11 Why this works

One hub. A few spokes. A wheel that keeps turning.

Think of a bike wheel. Your gateway page — the one with real programs and a booking button — is the hub. It's strong, and it's the one place a visitor actually becomes a booked session.

Every Instagram post, every email, every review is a spoke. Each one goes out to where a parent already is — their feed, their inbox, a Google search — and points back to the hub.

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A spoke goes out (a post, an email, a review) and earns attention where people already are.
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It points back to the hub — one strong page built to turn that attention into a booking.
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The spoke keeps working after you publish it — a post from six months ago can still bring someone to book today.

That's the difference from an ad: an ad stops the moment you stop paying. A spoke keeps earning attention for free, indefinitely — which is why Month 12 is worth more than Month 1. More spokes, all still pulling on the same hub.

GATEWAY PAGE Instagram Posts Email Follow-Up Reviews & Proof Blog / Articles Camp & Season Pushes

Arrows show attention flowing back to the hub — every spoke feeds the same booking page.

06 / 11 What we're thinking

Six spokes we'd build first — let's react to these together.

This is our prep for this conversation, not a finished decision. Each pillar below is a category every future post, article, and email would ladder up to. Tell us which ones land, which don't, and what's missing — the full package builds out from whatever we agree on here.

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Pillar 01

On the Field, Off the Field

Respect, listening, resetting after every play — plus film, strength, and academic balance.

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Pillar 02

Proof on the Pitch

Real training clips & testimonials.

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Pillar 03

Club-Ready

Tryout prep & supplementing club athletes.

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Pillar 04

Community & Belonging

SISL to the front fields — the invite every family hopes for.

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Pillar 05

Parent's Sideline Playbook

Support advice for the buyer, not the player.

Pillar 06

Skill & Position Breakdown

Technical, evergreen education.

Goal-scoring drill during a training session
Two players chasing the ball
Close-up of the real Soro Futbol Academy jersey

Real Soro Futbol Academy training — not stock photography.

💬 Discussion prompt: which 2–3 pillars should we build out first?

Full pillar detail — content-idea examples, audience reasoning, and how each maps to the calendar — in the Blueprint → and the scored Production Backlog →.

07 / 11 The plan · first 90 days

Momentum in a season, not a year.

Days 0–30

Stand up the engine

Gateway landing page + booking flow live, real reviews collected and published, and the inquiry→booked-session sequence turned on. Posting begins 2–3×/wk from existing footage.

Days 31–60

Establish the voice

Lead-magnet guide live ("Is your athlete ready for Soro's?"), Pillar 02 drill-highlight cadence in rhythm, social to 3–4×/wk.

Days 61–90

Build surface area

Club-Ready seasonal content timed to the next tryout window, first Community & Belonging piece, reporting loop live so we can see what actually books sessions.

Full 12–18 month sequence in the Blueprint; every item scored in the Production Backlog.

08 / 11 Illustrative pipeline

What a working engine looks like, in numbers.

1,200
Reach / mo
Instagram + site + word of mouth
~55
Inquiries captured
~4.5% with real capture
~20
Evaluations booked
~36% of inquiries, nurtured
12–15
New enrollments
private, group & camp / mo

Illustrative, not a forecast. Conversion rates are industry-typical placeholders to show the shape of the funnel; we replace them with your real numbers as data comes in. The point: with capture and follow-up in place, the audience you already have starts producing booked sessions instead of unanswered DMs.

09 / 11 The investment

Start the engine. Scale what books.

★ Spark Start — recommended
$3,000 month 1, then $2,500/mo
Includes the full $4,000 build — plan + first month of execution
6-month minimum · approve the plan every month
Path B — Strategy, Yours to Keep
One-time, no commitment$4,000

Pillars, calendar, and production-ready briefs — yours to run however you like. Clean handoff into execution later if you'd rather have it managed.

Full pricing detail and objection-handling in the Blueprint.

10 / 11 Why 9xNine

An operator, not an algorithm.

Michael Weisfeld — 15+ years in B2B marketing ops and lifecycle, deep in HubSpot CRM, marketing automation, and lifecycle marketing; past work spans HP, Honeywell, Equinix, and National Funding. Think of it like an orchestra: AI is the players, but there's a conductor in front of it — a seasoned operator setting the score and keeping every part in time. AI does the heavy lifting on drafts so the engine moves fast; every piece still gets human direction and review.

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Player in action during a Soro Futbol Academy training session
Next step

Let's react to the pillars, then build.

This deck and the pillars on slide 6 are the starting point for our conversation, not the finished plan. Tell us what resonates, and we'll fold your feedback into the full build before anything goes live.