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If you wish to:

• watch the most important sports events from all over the globe on TV
• travel abroad in order to watch the events on site (stadiums and other venues)
• include sports competitions as a substantial part of your business or private trips
• have advance information and announcements of all significant sports competitions and events
• successfully organise a new sports event or make a seasonal calendar of an existing competition

you have already made the first step into the right direction –
the service package of ABPM sports calendar being the perfect choice for you.

The Assembly of ABPM Sport Agency decided to divide all registered users into three categories of business users:
- Gold subscriber
- Subscriber
- Privileged user.

We have been working on the implementation of the users’ interface for the first and third category and now it’s time to focus on the group of users that belong to the second category.

Our main goal is to convince and satisfy the users of this category of our services because we want to build a long-term relationship with them, based on mutual trust. At the same time, we are aware that trust must be earned.
These are the reasons why we have prepared different offers for this group of users depending on their subscription period and the number of services that can be included in the package:

Subscription period                          Price                               Number of services

      2 years                                     600 €                              1,2,3,4,5,6,7 (full package)

      1 year                                       400 €                              1,2,3,4,5,6,7 (full package)

      6 months                                   230 €                              1,2,3,4,5

      3 months                                   150 €                              1,2,3,4,5

      1 month                                       25 €                              1,2,3

     10 days                                        10 €                               1,2,3

       1 day                                           1,5 €                             1

Explanation: the numbers from the last column refer to the number of services that are listed in the text bellow.

The full service package of ABPM sports calendar includes following services:

1. searching for all sports events in the specified period of a specific year and taking into account city/state/team/sport as searching criteria
2. e-newsletters which are sent out every Monday by e-mail to our users, containing all the information about the most important sports events that are to be taking place the week ahead as well as a TV guide for all sports events broadcast on some of the channels available to the viewers from the Republic of Serbia
3. information updates about specific sports competitions or a specific sport through calendar updates as well as newsletter information
4. ticket orders for sports competitions
5. additional logistical support during the trip to a sport event (transportation, accommodation, etc)
6. networking with the other subscribers (only with explicit permission of such other subscribers/users)
7. provision of contacts in international sports organisations, national associations and clubs all over the globe.

Dear visitors,

The Assembly of the company has agreed on the following decision: the access to sports information will be allowed only to registered users. The decision is in effect commencing as of 1st February 2009.

The Assembly has also created the “Trust Program” which contains defined goals, subscription deadlines, application procedures and categorisation of users.

The most important part of the program is to split the users and their ranking into different sub-categories according to specific criteria. Trust on the part of individuals, sports organisations, companies and other subjects built in earlier phases of this project is one of those factors. With respect to that, all registered users will be divided into three categories of business users and each category will thus have a different status as well as different rights and obligations. These categories are:

- Gold subscriber
- Subscriber
- Privileged user

(1) Gold subscriber category includes those users who, due to their status, reputation or other qualities order a service package in the period between 15 December 2008 and 31 January 2009. Moreover, this category includes those who join the network on special invitation by the Assembly. The Assembly, under special circumstances, has the right to present individuals with Gold Subscriber’s membership even though an individual orders a package after the deadline.
This category has a privileged status in relation to other user categories. Namely, after they fulfill all their obligations detailed in the contract, and upon expiry of the 6-month subscription period, they can use a service package of ABPM sports calendar free of charge in the duration of 1 year commencing on the subscription expiry date.
(2) Subscriber is the broadest category of users and a user can obtain another category status by regularly renewing his or her subscription and timely fulfillment of contractual obligations. Those users’ subscription period and fees will be available on our website no later than 25 January 2009.
(3) Privileged user is a special user category as those users do not pay the subscription fee due to their active involvement in ABPM Sport Agency work. This group of users will be registered immediately.

Considering the fact that the Sports calendar ‘has just been born’ and that our main goal related to it is at arm’s length, ABPM Sport Agency has decided to treat all sports organisations and other subjects who show their loyalty and join us in realising our vision as long-term partners, not as clients. The result of such a decision is the creation of the “Trust Program”.

Due to an increased volume of work, testing of technical capabilities and functioning of the sports calendar, we have identified several phases of development.

It is our pleasure to inform you that the first phase is completed and the calendar is now available.

In 2009 we have already started the second phase, which presupposes that the following activities will be undertaken. They will enable subscribers to use our services in order to fulfill their needs in terms of sports information and networking regardless of whether they do sport on a professional or amateur level. These activities include:
- Protected information; access allowed only to registered users who have paid membership fee.
- Registered users have absolute control of their account: change of data, password, account overview, payment of subscription fee, renewing subscription at discount rates, 24-hour technical support, phone technical support between 12 and 5 PM.
- Besides the calendar, users will have at their disposal information regarding all clubs, companies, media and individuals who take part in competitions scheduled in the Calendar. This makes it possible to contact other clubs or individuals, which saves time as the necessary data are all in one place.
- A detailed search engine, which allows research according to all current parameters: competitions, sports, teams, venue, date and time of a match.
- Exporting calendar contents into documents, which makes the calendar portable and user-friendly as subscribers can transfer data to computers which do not have an internet access.

The deadline for the implementation of the third phase is end of 2009. Most of these activities aim at improving the sports calendar service packages. Some of those activities include:

- Creating a ‘personal calendar’ that allows for transferring of all desired information from the global calendar into a personal planner. It has the option to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook and mobile phones.
- Monthly newsletters will inform subscribers about their account status and latest information added to the calendar.
- The calendar will contain information about events other than sport (culture, science, etc.), which makes it more appealing to companies and individuals that are not from the field of sport.
- The calendar divides events into professional and amateur, inter-categories including young athletes.
- Information regarding ticket orders for events schedule-din the calendar and transportation to the venue.

We sincerely hope that you approve of those decisions as it is our prevailing aim to introduce high standards in accessing information.

Should you have any questions regarding a subscription category or ordering packages, please visit our website. Choose ‘Sports calendar – comments and questions’ on the scroll-down menu. Then ask a question or order a service package by clicking on ‘Message’. You will receive a response or an order form shortly.




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