jonnyo wrote:
what service do you offer for coaches? I have a hard time finding the info on the website? but perhaps I m not looking at the right place?
@JonnyO - I assume you're asking about SportTracks? I don't want to derail the TP thread too much but...
For coaching: Basically we're pre-release right now - collecting coaches interested in training platforms. Those that sign up will get emailed monthly(~ish) feature updates and the chance to define and drive our feature priorities in the next few months as we light this sucker up (as well as free services during the development phase).
None of this has been publicly announced and we have no marketing materials.. yet. In fact I'm probably going to get a bit of grief for leaking this info on slowtwitch. :|
Where things stand now: coaches can connect with athletes, view their workout data as well as creating planned workouts, and communicate with athletes around their data.
Our high level roadmap looks like:
1. planning + data analysis [done] >>> 2. monitoring + communication [next week] >>> 3. supporting coaches who have LOTS (~50+) of athletes >>> 4. business development
#3 is all about scaling the online coaching relationship: allowing coaches to focus on exception cases vs having a lighter touch with athletes in the green zone; letting coaches manage data and messaging in bulk with customized automation.
#4 is intentionally vague but *could* span from coach website creation & SEO, customer acquisition (CRM-ish features, bulk mailing services), content creation and management (coach videos, blogs) and even handling athlete billing for the coach. No promises here, this is a few months away.
We've got a slightly different engineering philosophy than TP. We typically push out continuous feature updates on a 2-4 week cycle instead of year long "big bang" style projects. So you won't get a "Coaching is done!" email - it will be more like a continuous stream of "Now you can do this."... "Now you can do this."... "Now you can do this."
It seems to work for us.
Thanks for asking and listening. Cheers!