College Athletes: How To Create The Hype To Get A College Scholarship | The Communication Blog

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

College Athletes: How To Create The Hype To Get A College Scholarship

By James Scott

The key to raising awareness on behalf of your client is to take advantage of massive online, targeted traffic available to benefit the client. The solution to the ultimate challenge of targeting exposure is to corner the web properties that are popular information sources for the decision makers that hold the key to that next step in the evolution of your client. Match your client with the needs of the decision maker.

Demonstrate empirically how your client's athletic ability can cure the ailments of the coach or personnel director who is in a position of need. Gently corner, the decision maker and hook them with catchy titles that will embed themselves in their memory.

It's crucial to add that you should communicate the role of your client for a singular position while leaving the ultimate decision of their qualities to the need of the coach or individual assigned to recruitment. This identical process can be used for a college and even high school athletes with ambitions to gain entry into a top tier university program competitor.

85% of recruitment of an athlete pivots around the exposure achieved through media hype. Hype is a process that can easily be created with the proper internet strategy which normally has a combination of press releases, article distribution, photo distribution and video clip promotion on video hosting sites.

These particular media outlets will rapidly gain massive exposure that has a localized identity that will command nationwide attention. When publicizing the achievements of an athlete who has intention of pursuing big dreams it's the publicist's job to pave the way through various combination's of exposure strategies, the rest of the burden falls on the shoulders of the athlete to perform to maintain the interest that you've help generate.

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