Teambug.com

As a sports team manager, you're probably used to spending several evenings just keeping on top of your team admin. Teambug offers a great solution to this common headache by providing managers with a free online and mobile application that really does improve team communication.

This service focuses on effectively managing your sports team - whether it be for the organisation of upcoming matches, or keeping your players and fans up-to-date with a website dedicated to your team and their activities.

The unique approach the guys at Teambug have taken is to focus on assisting the manager/organiser with his/her communication duties. The manager's application allows you to add fixtures, invite players to matches, create teamsheets and select your dream team with an interactive formation picker. Now you can manage all of your contacts from one central hub!

The easy-to-use and customisable website-builder produces a really slick-looking team website. Here, team players can update player profiles, browse the photo galleries, check fixtures lists and results and so on.

One of the key features that Teambug offers is the ability to quickly and easily communicate with your players using their mobile texting service. Everything can be handled effortlessly from the PC, meaning the team manager can automatically send an email and/or text to the team players to invite them for upcoming matches. A simple Yes/No reply mechanism is used for both email and text, and the team manager only has to check-in online to see the status of who has replied. Plus the online service also allows you to send a standard style 'write your own text message' to your players updating them on the latest information on what is going on.

The website service is free to set up and customise - they even provide the hosting. You can also communicate with your players with their email system, which is also entirely free. You will get a complimentary amount of text messages when you first sign-up, otherwise you can choose from a subscription package or pay for a bundle of text messages whenever you require.

Another handy feature is being able to access the website via your mobile phone. A mobile-friendly version is automatically available by visiting the mobile site address from your phone. It means your players can keep up-to-date with all the fixtures and game plans wherever they are!

Teambug covers just about all team sports and because each website is based around individual sports teams or clubs, it's certainly possible to run a Football Team and a Netball team with multiple accounts. Thus, whether you are managing multiple sports teams or a team, at town or county level, it can all be easily managed.

Further details can be found on their website: http://www.teambug.com/