Join the Global Leader in Athletic Recruitment as a FirstPoint Licensed Agent
By becoming a FirstPoint Licensee, you join a trusted global brand and leverage more than two decades of proven expertise, cutting-edge tools, and unparalleled support to build your own business in the exciting field of sports recruitment. FirstPoint works across 16 sports, including soccer, basketball, rugby, swimming, track and field, golf, tennis, and more, ensuring a broad market to engage and recruit talent.
Start Your Own Business
£200,000 Earning Potential
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The Opportunity
Financial Potential
High earning potential with the opportunity to generate net profits exceeding £200,000+ annually for high performers. Low operational overhead due to FirstPoint’s centralized resources and investment in a world class digital platform.
Entrepreneurial Independence
Operate as a business owner with flexibility in managing day-to-day operations, benefiting from the best of both worlds.
Brand and Market Leverage
Association with a trusted, high-profile brand with a large audience, coupled with pre-build demand for college placement services and a market presence around the world.
Support Framework
Access to comprehensive training, professional tools, and dedicated support, tapping into experienced expert staff.
The Role
The opportunity to represent FirstPoint in a specific territory, sport, or service area, recruiting aspiring college athletes and securing partnerships with clubs, schools, and organizations. You will deliver FirstPoint’s renowned services using our proven systems, resources and expertise.
Why Choose FirstPoint USA?
Work in your territory and your sport
FirstPoint USA has developed a presence and profile across the world, delivering events and working with athletes in 87 different countries, which has in turn created opportunity for prospective licensees to take advantage of in your respective territory. And with 16 different sports that we service, you can choose to operate within a specific sport or multiple sports to suit your skillset and network.
Frequently Asked Questions
While there are similarities, licensing involves less control from the parent company than a franchise. Licensees often have more autonomy in their day-to-day operations, while still adhering to the agency’s overall standards and guidelines.
Responsibilities typically include recruiting and evaluating athletes, managing the recruitment process, building relationships with college coaches, ensuring compliance with NCAA regulations, and upholding the agency’s reputation.
Various options are available within each territory and the sports within that territory.
The up front fee is £20,000 with a £1,000 a month monthly fee.
Benefits include leveraging an established brand, accessing proven systems and training, utilizing existing technology and resources, benefiting from national marketing efforts, and having a support network within the agency.
You will receive an extensive onboarding training program, access to our suite of resources, legal and compliance guidance and ongoing mentorship. FirstPoint will also provide marketing resources in digital and print format, while each licensee will also be supported by digital advertising campaigns promoting activity in your territory and/or sport.
Once an athlete is signed by licensee, they will be passed onto our College Placement Team to progress through our onboarding and activation phase. The Licensee will not be required to do any further work with the client beyond this stage.
You will use your network of parent and athlete contacts, sports coaches, local clubs, schools and other parents who have been previously engaged with FirstPoint in their respective territory, to engage with prospective student athletes. You’ll be supported by our Sports Team to identify typical athlete profiles and target audiences.
FirstPoint invests significantly in marketing through targeted advertising campaigns on social media, Google and other channels, supported by wider marketing, communication and PR activity. Licensees will benefit from targeted marketing to audiences within their respective territory and sport, which will generate prospective client leads. An annual fee of £6,000 is required from each licensee to contribute towards targeted marketing activity in your region, but you will also benefit
Licensees need to understand contract law, NCAA regulations, and other relevant legal frameworks. FirstPoint will provide ongoing legal guidance and resources.
We will provide training and resources on NCAA rules and regulations, and we have systems in place to monitor compliance. Licensees are responsible for adhering to these regulations.
FirstPoint offers initial training programs and access to webinars designed to keep licensees up-to-date on industry trends and best practices.
We have featured a potential earnings illustration featured within our brochure but there is no limit to how much you can earn. Our forecast estimates a net income of £106,000 based on signing 40 athletes, increasing to £585,000 for signing 200 athletes.