Former President George H.W. Bush was riding on a bus during the Presidential campaign of 1988 with a reporter, who recounted a memory of sitting next to the then Vice President as they were pulling away from a campaign stop.Mr. Bush, noticing a person waving by themselves as the bus began to …
Recruiting Reminders During My Daughter’s Campus Tour
Your perspective on effective recruiting techniques always reach a new level when you experience it personally, through the eyes of one of your children.My daughter is a high school junior, and we took her to visit a college for the first time yesterday.Statistics, research, and all the data …
Hosting Group Recruiting Visit Days the Right Way
Full disclosure:The vast majority of the time, I will tell a coach I am against group visit recruiting days.I've seen more go wrong with them than I have seen go right. Honestly, more disaster stories have originated from large campus recruiting visit days than most other parts of the …
Next Level Questions to Ask Your Prospect AFTER They Visit Campus
More and more college coaches are beginning to realize the importance of effective questioning after their prospect visits campus.What you say to them in the first week after they visit, and the information you ask them, can not only help set you apart from your competition, but it can glean …
Key Questions to Ask Your Recruit AFTER They Visit Campus
In college recruiting - especially this time of year - there is often a singular focus from coaches who are doing all they can to ask the right questions of their recruits in order to get one thing from them:Their commitment to visit campus.That's the holy grail of college recruiting, no …