By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Students continue to tell us that email is their preferred method of communication with colleges and universities during the college search process.How do you think those same students (and their parents) would describe the emails that …
Smart Experimenting with Email Subject Lines
by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies If you feel you are having trouble getting recruits to open and read your emails, a big reason could be ineffective subject lines. I often hear coaches say they have given up on emails because they do not think recruits read them. But, recruits will …
This Will Get Them to Talk
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services In last week’s article I gave you the following reminder – The majority of students become increasingly tired of the college search process the longer it goes on. They get tired of the emails, phone calls, and text messages from colleges …
Stop Using These Phrases During Phone Calls (and in emails and texts)
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Considering how hard it is to get and keep the attention of young people these days, it’s important to know which words and phrases to avoid.Over the past few years I’ve shared many of them with you, but there are two phrases that a …
Here’s When You Should Be Sending Those Emails
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Back in September I sent you an article with email subject line tips in it. That article quickly became one of the most read in 2019, and a number of readers have reached out to let me know that making one or more of those changes led them …