by Dan Christensen, Tudor Collegiate Strategies When you finally get that prospect to respond to your text or email after the second, third, or tenth try, most coaches will then try to get that recruit on the phone. That doesn’t have to be the next step but if that is your choice, that is totally …
AHCA Recruiting Phone Call Notes & Resources
Recruiting phone calls aren't easy much of the time, but they also sure don't need to be as hard as some coaches make them.If your goal is to make better, more effective, more time-efficient phone calls, I want to help make that happen. So, as a follow-up to our AHCA recruiting session …
The Logic Behind Your Prospect’s Dislike of Phone Calls
The coach's hand went up in the middle of one of my recruiting workshops on a campus recently."Here's what's frustrating", he said. "If I text my prospects, or send them a direct message on Twitter or Snapchat, they'll talk to me for an hour or more. But if I try to call them, it'll usually go …
You Used TO Call Me On My Home Phone
by Chris Mateer, Front RushThe recruitment process requires a fine balance between maintaining contact and giving the student-athlete room to breathe. As a coach, the last thing you want is to go too long without maintaining some form of contact. At the same time, too many calls can become …
The Not-So-Surprising Reason Your Recruits Prefer Text Messages to Phone Calls
It's not that they "can't" talk, its just that they have plenty of reasons to text instead.Simple as that.I find that's challenging for many college coaches we get to work with closely on two fronts:There's a resistance to switch from phone calls to text-based communication from college …