Recruiting Lessons From the Sticky Note on the Hotel Bed
When you’re a tired traveler, and you’re virtually immune to all forms of marketing that a hotel chain can throw out you, their sales message needs to be simple.
It needs to hit you over the head, and get straight to the point if they have any hope of making you remember them from the other two gazillion hotel options we have.
So I’m giving credit to the folks at Hampton Inn for playing by those rules with a simple, inexpensive and direct message when this weary traveler checked into one of their hotels on the East coast not to long ago.
The yellow sticky note caught my attention right when I walked into the room, mainly because it...
3 Tips for Managing Your Coaching Energy
by Mike Davenport, CoachingSportsToday.com
Time-management is everywhere.
Books and blog posts abound with a wealth of tricks to squeeze a few more workable minutes out of your day.
But none of those are any good to you if you sit down exhausted and your head bounces off your desk after a long day of coaching and managing your program. If you’re blurry-eyed and nodding off at 4pm, you can imagine how good your afternoon practice is going to be.
So forget time-management. Let’s talk energy-management instead. Personal energy — the type of energy you need to get through your coaching day.
Your Energy Is Being Sucked Right Out Of You
We live in a busy world. And because of that, we’re constantly running low on energy. Between info overwhelm, constant connectedness, crisis-after-crisis, and...
11 Things You Need to Do Now That the NCAA Has Put Recruiting Reform on Hold
As has happened before, the NCAA has slammed on the breaks and skidded off to the shoulder of the road right before taking the proverbial exit towards recruiting communication reform. The proposed rules would have allowed a greater variety of contact over longer periods of time, starting sooner. Some coaches and conferences objected to the new rules, and the NCAA announced that they were going to take a longer look at the impact of the proposed changes. Of course, many upper division coaching staffs are already recruiting Freshmen and Sophomores and desperately trying to find better ways to communicate with them. This latest chapter in the ever-increasing trend of early recruiting just means that club and AAU coaches will continue to exert significant influence over the process as they maintain their cherished roles as gatekeepers...
2013 National Collegiate Recruiting Conference Speaker Line-Up
If you're attending the 2013 National Collegiate Recruiting Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina on June 7-9, you're going to hear the best collection of speakers and experts we've ever assembled. We're proud to announce the line-up, and will update it if changes or additional speakers are added! To attend the conference, click here. FRIDAY Dan Tudor - The founder of the NCRC event will kick-off the weekend with the annual "State of Recruiting" talk, setting the agenda for the weekend Dan Wolken, USA Today - One of the rising stars in college sports reporting will talk about recruiting trends, coaches who are doing it right, and what he forecasts for the evolving world of college recruiting. Dr. Mike Davenport - A successful rowing coach and expert in the intricacies of successful mentoring, Coach Davenport will...