Sporting goods on white: a leather football, a cricket bat and ball, running shoes, a tennis racket, a coiled skipping rope and a pair of dumbbells
Use case

Marketing automation for sporting goods brands

Players, runners and parents research kit for weeks before every new season. Maggie, your AI CMO, writes your buying guides, launch posts and social posts ahead of each one, for your shop and every channel, and you approve every one.

Free to start · No credit card · 30 free posts

Used by 600+ users and trusted by teams at

  • aeglesriphal.com
  • moonlakespa.com
  • shop.theteagroup.com
  • clo100.com
  • logtrics.io
  • mymorez.com
  • nextidal.com
  • otisapp.com
  • storaitelling.com
  • theheatpumps.co.uk
  • web-translations.com
  • exposeai.tech
  • orielipo.com
  • whitelabelcrowd.fund
  • elliptic.co
  • med.moonlakespa.com
  • netdex.co.il
  • orawellness.uk
  • reenest.com
  • syngage.ai
  • thepenthouseliving.com
  • zengolf.studio
  • imaintain.uk
  • rebuildingsociety.com
  • aurasocial.world
  • goaimex.com
  • moneyparents.com
  • newgenrenewables.uk
  • osmosisai.co
  • saunders.ac
  • teeza.app
  • thursdayclub.com
Sound familiar?

Why sporting goods brands struggle to keep their marketing going

Stock arrives, orders ship and the next range is already being sampled. The content that sells all of it comes last.

Every sport has its own season

Football kit sells before August, cricket gear in early spring, running shoes in January and before the spring races. Miss the weeks when people are researching, and they've bought elsewhere by the time you post.

Buyers want advice, not just products

Which bat size for a twelve-year-old? Road or trail shoes? What weight of kettlebell to start with? People search these questions before they buy, and if your shop doesn't answer them, a bigger retailer's guide does.

Marketplaces own the customer

Big marketplaces move volume, but they take fees, set the terms and keep the customer's details. Someone who finds your own shop through a helpful guide is worth much more to you over time.

Your kit looks the same as everyone's

In a product photo, one pair of shin pads looks much like another. Without posts about how your kit is designed, tested and used, it's hard to show why yours is worth paying for.

A sporting goods brand's packing table: a phone showing post cards waiting for approval beside a pair of football boots, a shoebox, shin pads and a roll of tape
Your week with Maggie

The new season is six weeks away, and your launch posts are already queued.

It's Monday. The new range of junior football boots and training kit arrives next week, pre-season starts in six weeks, and your last blog post was about Christmas gifts.

You paste your shop's website into cmo.so. Maggie reads it and writes your brand profile: your boots, training wear and equipment, the sports and ages you focus on, the clubs you supply, the brands you're up against and the encouraging, no-nonsense way you talk to players and parents. You correct one thing: you've stopped selling goalkeeper gloves.

By Tuesday the drafts are waiting, each with a picture in your brand's look: a blog post on how to choose football boots for different pitches, an Instagram post about the new junior range, a TikTok caption for a short video of the boots being tested on grass, and a LinkedIn post for club secretaries ordering team kit. You approve three from your phone and add a line about sizing to the fourth.

The posts go out at the times you set for each channel, spread across the weeks before pre-season, and each comes back with its link. While you're packing orders, Maggie is planning posts for the autumn running season, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which buying guides are bringing people to your shop.

What you get with Maggie

A marketing team that knows the sporting calendar

Each of those problems has an answer, and you still decide what goes out under your brand's name.

Buying guides that sell

Posts on sizing, choosing the right kit for a sport or level, caring for equipment and what to pack for a season, written for Google and for AI answers. Published to your Shopify, WordPress or WooCommerce, Wix or Webflow shop, or any site through the cmo.so API.

Blog on autopilot

Planned around every season

Pre-season, New Year fitness, spring races, summer tournaments, back to school and Christmas. Posts are written and queued well ahead, so each range is in front of buyers while they're still choosing.

Seasonal schedule

Kit in action on video

Upload a short clip of your kit being tested or used, and it becomes a post for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook (all in beta), with a caption in each one's style. Uploaded videos are only used to post them and are deleted within 7 days.

Video posts

Your brand, not a catalogue

Enter your website and Maggie builds your brand profile: your products, sports, customers, what makes your kit different, competitors and voice. Every post and picture starts from it.

Brand profile

Teams and clubs on LinkedIn

Club secretaries, coaches, schools and gyms buy in bulk. LinkedIn posts about team kit, custom orders and how you support grassroots sport keep you in mind when they reorder.

LinkedIn

Approve between deliveries

By default nothing goes out until you approve it. Swipe through drafts in the iPhone app or at app.cmo.so, edit a line, skip a post, or pause a channel when a range sells out.

Approvals
Inside the app

Your marketing team, in your pocket

Real screens from the cmo.so app on iPhone.

The cmo.so app home screen: monthly posts, website health scores and an AI visibility chartAsk Maggie: a chat where Maggie reviews 30 days of SEO and AI visibilityConnect your social accounts: LinkedIn, Google Business, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTokMaggie prepared your plan: look, voice, writing style and posting frequencyWrite a post once for LinkedIn, Google Business, Facebook and Instagram
How it works

From your shop's website to a season of posts in four steps

  1. Enter your website

    Maggie reads your shop and drafts your brand profile in minutes.

  2. Check your profile

    Correct your ranges, add the sports and seasons that matter most and choose the channels you want.

  3. Review the drafts

    Your first week of posts arrives with pictures. Approve, edit or skip each one.

  4. Let them go out

    Approved posts go out at each channel's times and every one comes back with its link.

Your other options

Why not just…

The usual ways sporting goods brands try to sell more, and where each one runs out.

…sell mainly through marketplaces?

Marketplaces bring volume, but they take fees on every sale and the customer remembers the marketplace, not your brand. Guides on your own shop bring buyers who come back to you.

…send free kit to influencers?

Gifting can work, but it costs stock, the results are hard to predict and the posts belong to someone else. Your own blog and channels keep working every week.

…pay a marketing agency?

SEO and content agencies often cost around £1,000 a month, which is a lot of stock for a smaller brand. Maggie writes and publishes every week from £15 a month.

…write it with ChatGPT?

You still brief it, check it, make the picture and post it yourself, and it doesn't know your ranges or your customers. Maggie remembers your brand and puts posts out on schedule.

Pricing

Cut the £5,900/mo marketing bill to £15/mo

Everything a marketing team does, done by Maggie.

What needs doingWithout cmo.soWith cmo.so
Full-time marketing hire£3,000/moIncluded
SEO and AI search (GEO) agency£1,000/moIncluded
Content writer, AI-assisted£500/moIncluded
Social media manager, freelance£800/moIncluded
Designed pictures for every post£300/moIncluded
SEO and GEO softwareRank tracking, site audits, AI visibility£250/moIncluded
AI writing and image tools£50/moIncluded
Working hoursOffice hours24/7
Total per month£5,900+From £15/mo

Typical UK costs for a small business in 2026, with AI already cutting freelance rates. Estimates only; your own quotes will vary.

Founding member pricingLock in these prices for good.For the first 500 members, until 1 January 2027.
72days left
FreeTry it out
£0forever
No card needed
  • 5 social posts, 30 once verified
  • 15 Maggie messages a day
  • Upgrade any time
Start free
AirGetting started
£15/mo
Lowest paid plan
  • 2 posts a day
  • 60 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Air
MaxSeveral channels
£45/mo
£75Save 40%
  • 24 posts a day
  • 300 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Max
UltraBusy teams
£65/mo
£115Save 43%
  • 48 posts a day
  • 600 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Ultra
EliteAgencies, many brands
£105/mo
£195Save 46%
  • 96 posts a day
  • 1,000 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Elite

Per website, billed monthly. Blog and social posts share one allowance; your best plan sets how much you can talk to Maggie across all your websites.

Questions sporting goods brands ask

Marketing automation for sporting goods brands: your questions

Still unsure?

What is marketing automation for sporting goods brands?

It's software that does the repeating work of marketing a sports brand: planning posts around each sport's season, writing buying guides and social posts, making pictures and publishing them on schedule.

With cmo.so, Maggie does all of it from your shop's website, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

How do sporting goods brands get more customers online?

Sporting goods brands get more customers online by answering the questions buyers ask before they choose kit, on their own shop, ahead of each season, and by showing their kit in use on the channels players and parents follow.

Maggie writes those guides and posts every week and queues them before each season, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which guides bring people to your shop.

How much does marketing automation cost for a sporting goods brand?

There's a free plan with no card needed. Paid plans are per website and billed monthly: Air at £15 a month covers two posts a day, and Pro at £45 a month suits a growing brand posting on several channels.

Founding members get lower prices for good on every plan until 1 January 2027. You can cancel any time.

Which channels should sporting goods brands start with?

Most start with their own shop's blog for buying guides, because that's what people find when they search before they buy, plus Instagram (in beta) to show kit in use.

TikTok, YouTube and Facebook are also in beta and suit product videos, LinkedIn reaches clubs and schools ordering in bulk, and Google Business helps if you have a shop. Each channel has its own posting times and queue.

Is it safe to let AI post for my sports brand?

Yes, because nothing goes out until you approve it. Approvals are on by default, and you can keep them on for every channel or let a channel you trust run on autopilot.

Social channels connect through each platform's official sign-in, so cmo.so never sees your passwords, and cmo.so never sells or rents your data.

Will cmo.so change my prices or stock?

No, cmo.so never changes your prices or stock; Maggie writes and publishes posts and never touches products, prices or stock in your shop.

She can link posts to your product and collection pages, so a buying guide can send readers straight to the right kit.

Can it write sizing and buying guides for each sport?

It can, and those guides are often what sells the kit. Maggie plans guides around the sports and products in your brand profile, such as choosing a bat, picking running shoes or kitting out a junior team.

She uses the sizing and product details on your site and anything you add, so check that your size charts are up to date.

Can it help us sell team kit to clubs and schools?

It can keep you in front of the people who order it. Maggie writes LinkedIn and blog posts about team kit, custom orders and the clubs you support, timed before each season's ordering window.

Orders still come through your own shop, phone or email.

Can it post product videos?

Yes, you can upload short clips and turn them into posts for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook, which are all in beta.

Uploaded videos are only used to post them and are deleted within 7 days.

What kind of posts will Maggie write around big sporting events?

She writes posts that tie your kit to what people are watching and playing, such as training tips, kit guides and how-to posts, around the dates you choose.

She doesn't use official event names, logos or team branding in a way that suggests a sponsorship you don't have, and you approve every post.

We have several brands. Can cmo.so handle them all?

Yes. If each brand has its own website, add them all to one account and each gets its own brand profile, channels, schedule and approvals.

If they share one shop, Maggie can write posts for each range's buyers from the same brand profile.

Can my team approve posts too?

Yes. In Me → Team you can add people and choose what each can see or change, using presets such as editor or manager.

So your product manager can check the buying guides while someone else looks after social posts.

Ready when you are

Have next season's kit in front of buyers before the first whistle

Enter your shop's website. Your brand profile and first week of posts are ready in minutes, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

  • Free plan, no card needed
  • You approve every post
  • Cancel any time

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