Front Rush is excited to announce its newest partner to the ‘Add to Front Rush’ team, SDI Camps. If your program is currently as SDI Camps and Front Rush client, within each campers profile you’ll see the ‘Add to Front Rush’ button. With one simple click, all of that camper’s general information will convert over to your Front Rush account. No more manual entry, exporting and importing. It’s as easy as point and click.

“Coaches are finding talent at their camps or clinics all the time, so why not be able to add those potential recruits to their Front Rush database with one click.” states Front Rush co-founder Brad Downs.

SDI Camps prides itself on excellent customer service and the relationship it builds with each of their clients. Their hope is to take as much of the camp stress away from the [...]

“Coaches will be able to import players from their watch list directly into Front Rush with one simple click of a button!” States Dallas Oliver of Tennisrecruiting.net.

“The idea is to make life easier for coaches to search and add their top prospects directly into their Front Rush account. The future of recruiting isn’t importing and exporting data, it’s simple integration that is the future.” says co-founder Brad Downs.

Tennisrecruiting.net is the latest content provider to partner with Front Rush. For more information on Front Rush’s partners, click on the following link, http://www.frontrush.com/web/features/partners.html.

Tennisrecruiting.net is the premier site for junior tennis. Providing tennis coaches with news, rankings, articles, recruit data and much more.

Front Rush provides an easy-to-use and affordable recruiting software that spans over 3,500 teams at over 700 colleges and university nationwide.

Have you been checking your Other inbox?

Have you missed any important messages sent to you?

Well, its definitely possible due to the rules around Facebook’s “Social Inbox”.

Here’s the story, Coach: Over a year ago, Facebook made some changes to their messaging system that put rules into place for receiving messages from other people on Facebook. The logic was very simple: If a person is your friend, or friend of a friend, then messages that they send you on Facebook will show up in your messages section. If a person is not in the group above, then their message will go into your “Other” folder. The problem is that nobody seems to check their “Other” folder and you are not notified the same way as your primary inbox. So as a result, many messages sent to you go unread.

If you are [...]

“We’re excited to have partnered with Front Rush.” says CEO of Collegeswimming.com Greg Earhart. Simply click the ‘Add to Front Rush’ button on each swimmer’s profile and all their data converts over to Front Rush. Search. Click. Repeat. It’s that easy.

“We are pumped to be teamed up with Collegeswimming.com. When the experts in one field team up with experts in another, good things happen.”

The ‘Add to Front Rush’ button is now live in all Collegeswimming.com recruit profiles.

Front Rush provides an easy-to-use and affordable software that spans over 3,500 teams at over 700 colleges and universities nationwide. They are the industry leader in recruiting and compliance software.

Collegeswimming.com provides a database of high school swimmers. Along with providing recruit data to college coaches, Collegeswimming.com contains championship information, competition previews, results, articles, message board and individual records.

Branded 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 a recruit’s inbox, especially compared to the standard black & white text-only email.

We think they can be a great recruiting tool when used properly. The key part of the previous sentence is “when used properly”.

As most of you know, we build email templates for coaches as a service (full discloser) and we often times see coaches relying on the template as a crutch instead of using the content of the email to be the true marketing and recruiting message.

Let me explain:

Your content, your written word, your emotions in the text…THAT is what is king. The images [...]

A story recently came out in the press in response to Steve Jobs’ announcement that he is leaving Apple as CEO. As the story goes, one of the top product guys at Google received an email in the middle of the night from Steve Jobs complaining that there was a major issue with the Google icon that appeared on the iPhone. It was such a big issue that Steve Jobs was personally going to assign an Apple representative to work directly with the Google employee to resolve the issue immediately. So what was the problem? It turns out that the yellow color in the letter O of GOOGLE was slightly off.

Was this slightly off-colored letter going to cause major issues for Apple or Google? Absolutely not! The key takeaway is the care for the granular detail that Steve Jobs had/has. [...]

Technology can be scary.

We have come across countless coaches who have bravely leaped into the smart phone/tablet/web-app world, but are only utilizing a very small percentage of the capabilities of the respective devices.

For example: You bought an iPad and so far you have just opened Safari and your email program. Or, you have a new Android device and you have used it to make calls, send a text message and maybe browse the web. This is totally fine…you are amongst a large group.

If you’re ready to explore these useful devices a little more deeplly, here are a few tips on how to start learning these devices and becoming, dare I say, “experts”:

1) Try to break it I don’t mean take your device and smash it, but I do suggest you roll up your sleeves and start opening everything. Get in there [...]

I don’t watch TV, never listen to the radio and rarely pull up a magazine.

Why?

I cannot stand the advertisements. The four minute commercial breaks drive me bananas. Instead over the years, I’ve capitalized on my commute to and from the office, long trips and late nights by listening to, and watching, podcasts. Have you heard of these? They are amazing.

Podcasts are like radio shows that you can listen to or watch on your iPhone, iPod, computer, or other device.  They are a great resource for staying on top of the latest news or trends, learning a new trade, or honing your existing skills in a particular area. The amazing thing is that you get to choose the content or the topic and there is a ton of them. In addition, since they are downloaded to your device, you can listen to [...]

If you haven’t heard, Amazon.com’s popular website went down recently.

Not the website front page itself, but the infrastructure.

You see, companies like Foursquare, Reddit, Quora and many many other big name companies actually use Amazon to host their websites, their apps and their data. So when Amazon went down it was a really,really big deal because not only were many websites down but many websites actually lost users’ data. Amazon is the shining knight in terms of security and redundancy and even they hiccup’d, went down and lost vital digital information.

The reason I am bringing this up is that when you invest in applications on the web, its important to ask questions about the data…specifically your data. You should know for certain what happens in disaster situations like Amazon’s. If a meteorite comes from outer space and lands on the servers, is your [...]

excerpt from Active Camps Monthly News…

“Active Network has teamed up with Front Rush, a leading provider of recruiting and team management software, to offer upgraded software to college and university coaches. Front Rush customers that run camps will now utilize Active Network’s software, including camp management and online registration products. Together Active Network and Front Rush will work with over 2500 coaches across the country to help manage their recruiting and camp registration needs.

Together we released a data integration tool that enables the transfer of camper information between Active and Front Rush databases. What does this mean? When you find a camper that you would like to add to your Front Rush recruiting database you can select the “Front Rush” button to [...]