by Sean Devlin, Front Rush
Have you ever wanted to include a URL in a letter or email that you were sending out but the address was really long?
It might have looked something like https://www.frontrush.com/login.aspx?URL=Recruit&SportId=899&iframe=1. This is horribly messy and, more importantly, hard for your recruits to remember.
There are a couple tricks to use with your email program, whether you use Front Rush or another more basic web-based recruiting contact manager:
1) Get your own domain: If you go to sites like godaddy.com, you can buy your own domain for about $10 and point the really along address to it. So instead of the really long address like the one I gave you earlier, you can get something like universityrecruitsite.com. "Universityrecruitsite.com" is much much easier to remember than https://www.frontrush.com/login.aspx?URL=Recruit&SportId=899&iframe=1 and it doesn’t take up nearly as much space.
2) URL shortening sites: Another trick is to go to URL shortening sites like tinyurl (http://tinryurl.com), or bit.ly (http://bit.ly). Once you get to the site, you simply type or paste the really long address and in return, they will give you back a really short/neat address. So for example:
https://www.frontrush.com/login.aspx?URL=Recruit&SportId=899&iframe=1
becomes
http://bit.ly/11DTVW
3) “Click Here”: Many email tools allow for you to turn words into actual links. So instead of saying “Please go to https://www.frontrush.com/login.aspx?URL=Recruit&SportId=899&iframe=1”, you can say “please go to our questionnaire located here”, and the word “here” will be a link back to your website. Typically this works by typing out the text , highlighting the word(s) you want to be a URL and then using that respective applications URL button.
All of the above tricks are intended to keep your outgoing correspondence short , easy to read, and easy to remember.
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