First Contact Countdown: Our Guide for Coaches
Today's special edition of College Recruiting Weekly is focusing 100% on making your first contact with new recruits, and laying the foundation for a successful recruiting year
13 Questions to Ask New Prospects
In preparation for a new batch of recruits - and a new batch of recruiting conversations coming up next Monday - we wanted to give you the ideas for a foundation for getting the most out of the start of the June 15th new prospect class.
The goal is to set yourself apart from other coaches who might not be reading this. Take a look at this list and see if they’d work for you like they’re working for other coaches:
Tell me what you’re looking forward to the most in the whole recruiting process you’re about to start? Lots of prospects will ‘accidentally’ reveal their list of to-do’s, as well as what their timeline is. You might even find out who your competition is in the process.
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The First Call: How to Sound Different Than Other College Coaches
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this special client and subscriber series we’re doing on effective first contacts with new prospects, we focused on the foundation coaches need before June 15 arrives.
First, we talked about your mindset: June 15 is not a mad dash to win a recruit in one day. It is the beginning of a relationship. Then, in the follow-up video, we talked about your behind the scenes preparation: the research, planning, and intentionality that should happen before a coach ever picks up the phone.
Now comes the moment that all of that preparation is supposed to serve.
That first call…
When the Parent of Your Recruit Is Driving the Process at the Start
If you coach long enough, you’ll eventually hit that moment in a recruiting conversation when the athlete says something like, “My mom is handling most of that,” or, “You should really talk to my dad.”
Like this coach did at the start of the year, when he emailed me this question:
What About AFTER We Make Our First Contact with a New Recruit?
One of your fellow head coaches is wanting to take a more active approach. So after reading one of our recent subscriber articles, “Contacting New Recruits? It’s Vital You Tell Them These Two Things”, the coach had a smart follow-up question for us:
So to answer this coach’s question - and maybe some of your questions - let me list two things not to do…
