By Mandy Green, University of South DakotaI have been getting a lot of emails lately from coaches who are realizing that they waste a lot of time during the course of their day looking at and responding to emails. They are looking for tips to help them organize their day and get their email under …
“Retracting” an Email: A Fool’s Game
by Sean Devlin, Front RushFrom time to time, we will get a question from a Coach asking how to "retract an email" that was already sent.In other words, they sent an email and realized there was a typo, or it was sent to the wrong person, or it was sent too early. We will then explain that …
Why Your Recruiting Message Needs More Verbs, Less Adjectives
One of the concepts we'll be talking about at the upcoming National Collegiate Recruiting Conference is the right way, and the wrong way, to communicate with this generation of recruits.And a lot of what separates a successful message from one that gets ignored revolves around the way you as a …
One Stupid Thing College Coaches Do To Depress Their New Prospects
Yes, it's stupid.The good news? It's easy to fix.Actually, the fact that it's so "easy" is what makes it so stupid, in my opinion.I'm talking about your new prospects who do what you want them to do by going online, finding your program's web page, hunting down the recruiting …
The Right “One-Two Punch” for Your Recruiting Emails
by Sean Devlin, Front RushBranded email templates are very popular in college recruiting now.These are the emails that coaches send to recruits that have pictures of the university, and school colors and action shots, and more. Coaches love to send them out because they really can pop-out of …