Sometimes we need a starting point. Other times we need a re-set. In either case, we have to get back to basics in order to succeed in recruiting. Jon Fugler kicks off his series on Recruiting Basics.
In this opening session, listen as Jon shares the most important principle any sports family can learn about pursuing an athletic scholarship. You'll hear about how to maximize this principle for your situation.
This entire series is a must-listen no matter where you're at in your journey. It will help you get on course and stay on course. We recommend parents AND athletes listen and then discuss this episode.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
Learn all the steps to an athletic scholarship in THE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP PLAYBOOK.
Some of the best things in life are FREE. So are some of the best resources on recruiting and athletic scholarships. Don't overlook one of the most valuable websites available-- the good ol' NCAA.
In this episode, Jon Fugler walks you through three critical pages on the site, plus a bonus site. You'll understand how these pages are highly important for your scholarship journey. By the end of this episode, you'll be eager to start surfing.
Some of the most important documents, publications and pure information is at your fingertips. An hour on the NCAA site and you'll have a clear understanding of basic recruiting rules, terms and calendar for your sport.
Listen in as Jon opens up the NCAA website. He recorded this episode in real time as he surfed the site.
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LIVE Recruiting Party with Jon
Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
In this inspiring episode, Jon Fugler gives you a pep talk to get you out of the Coronavirus blues. He'll rock your world with fresh ideas for how you can get back on track in your scholarship pursuit.
He suggests some crazy things, but take just two or three of his ideas and run with them. Such as: (1) Have a Family Summer Olympics, (2) Call 10 Coaches or (3) Attend an Online Live Event.
Jon has 10 ideas in all to get things going again-- and some of the ways have nothing to do with sports.
Jon also announces a Recruiting Party he's having, and you're invited. It's May 6 at 7:00 pm Eastern and he's even going to grill hot dogs! Yes, all online and all live. Join him for the festivities. Check the website later this week for all the details.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal.
Jon Fugler goes deeper with a topic he introduced last week: masterminds. Multiply your recruiting efforts by coming together with other families pursuing the same goal.
Jon's guest this week is Erik Johnson, who has been part of Jon's mastermind group for four years. Erik discusses the benefits he has experienced and how you can benefit, too. Johnson is a super-coach and has been a guest on the podcast twice in the past.
As you discover the benefits of a mastermind, you'll want to get on it during this season of waiting out the Coronavirus.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
You have an unprecedented opportunity to advance your scholarship dreams. The Coronavirus crisis doesn't have to kill your recruiting drive. Sure, it's going to send it on a sharp right turn, but you can still get to the destination.
In this episode, Jon Fugler explains how to use a scholarship tool available to any family. And it's free. He takes you through the benefits of the tool and how to use it to achieve success. This will multiply the effectiveness of your recruiting efforts.
Do not put your recruiting efforts on hold. Pursue. This episode will show you how.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
After 20 years in the recruiting field, the old dog has learned a new trick. Jon Fugler reveals a big secret a major college coach taught him just weeks ago. And Jon wants to share it with you can reshape your approach.
You'll learn four words that will change the way you do recruiting. In conclusion, Jon gives you an assignment that will determine how you spend the next 90 days.
If you're wondering how to spend your down time in this season of isolation, you'll be motivated to fill it with the right things. Keep your recruiting campaign alive.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
The Journey to College Made Easy Webcast Series
FRESH FAITH: Leaning on God in the Corona Crisis
In this time of isolation, you can get discouraged. And it leaks into your scholarship pursuit. In this episode, Jon shares a powerful audio clip that should shake you up -- in a good way. Listen to a piece of advice that will shift your mindset and your plan of action.
Let's get out of the rut, if you're in one. We are in this recruiting thing together, so let's win. We can overcome this setback in your recruiting efforts.
Jon also answers a parent question. You can send him yours at jon@recruit-me.com.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
Here's a golden opportunity to hear from one of the most successful D1 coaches in history. John Anderson, head baseball coach at the University of Minnesota, speaks to parents and athletes about what to do about recruiting during this Coronavirus crisis.
This is great insight for the present but also for the long-term future. Coach Anderson shares his philosophy of recruiting, giving you wise guidelines as you plan your strategy. It's not just an interview during the crisis, but the takeaways are long-term.
Coach Anderson has over 1,300 victories in his 39-year reign as head baseball coach at Minnesota and has been named Big Ten Coach of the Year eight times. He is a seasoned expert when it comes to recruiting and has a deep care for the athletes he recruits and coaches.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
These are tough days for everyone. And as a sports family, your recruiting journey has come to a sudden halt. Or has it? The Coronavirus has invaded your scholarship pursuit and you might be wondering what to do.
In this special report, Jon shares some hopeful advice that can lift you above the circumstances. Approaching reality head-on, Jon gives you solid steps you can take that will move you forward. Your recruiting efforts don't have to be put on hold. But you'll need to do things differently until we get back to normal.
This episode was recorded as a Facebook Live event and can be seen at www.facebook.com/recruitmeathletic.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal on Amazon.
Recruiting takes discipline. In this episode, Jon Fugler delivers three initiatives you can adopt to take your recruiting success to the next level. He also adds a Bonus initiative to cap it off.
You'll hear about accountability, evaluation, contacts and documentation. While most recruits ignore these elements, you'll hear how you can use these to take your scholarship pursuit to the next level.
Jon also makes a special announcement. In addition, you'll find out how the release party went over the weekend with the new Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal.
Lots of stuff in this episode. Jon even went into overtime.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship System at $80 off
Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal--Deluxe Edition
Get your free Player Profile/Resume Template
The road to an athletic scholarship is linear and there are checkpoints to hit along the way. In this episode, Jon Fugler explains four checkpoints that you'll need to get serious about from start to finish.
Families get lost, discouraged or off track without certain elements that keep them on course to a scholarship. With each of these checkpoints, Jon goes into detail about how to hit them and how to use them to your advantage.
Jon also invites you to join him on Facebook Live this Saturday, March 7 at 3:00 pm Eastern. He'll be having a party and giving stuff away. He'll also discuss in detail the key elements of planning in your scholarship pursuit. This is Jon's Official Release Party for the Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal.
Join him live or watch the replay at www.facebook.com/recruitmeathletic.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal: Your Personal All-in-One Resource for a Successful Recruiting Experience. Available on Amazon.
You heard last week about the importance of social media and how college coaches use it extensively in researching and communicating with recruits. In this episode, Jon Fugler will share how you can maximize social media for best results in your recruiting efforts.
You'll come away with key points that you can apply. You'll have decisions to make, too. As a recruited athlete, you're in a different category than the average teen-ager. You need to live up to that in your social media behaviors.
Social media is a tool. Learn how to use it well.
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Social media is a major recruiting tool for the athlete and college coaches. It can be your best friend or worst enemy. Use it right and it will enhance your scholarship pursuit.
In this episode, Jon Fugler shares what college coaches are saying and how they use social media. Some of the points will probably surprise you.
If you're not sure how to maximize social media, you'll get some advice here. This is part one of a two-part series.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal available on Amazon
There's so much new information on recruiting emerging every week. How can you make sure you're following the right advice? In this episode, Jon Fugler gives you some relief. He discusses recruiting tactics that have stood the test of time.
Learn what has worked year after year, decade after decade, despite the introduction of new information, strategies and tools. These tactics still work and you're going to want to apply them.
Jon also makes his big announcement.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship Playbook
The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal
Peel away recruiting confusion by keeping good records of your scholarship journey. If you do, you'll get to your goal faster and easier. Most of all, you'll end up at the school that is the best fit.
In this episode, Jon Fugler introduces key record-keeping tools that will set you apart from other families. While they flounder in frustration, you'll move ahead methodically. These tools aren't complicated. They're critical.
Listen as Jon explains how to create them.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
ALMOST HERE: The Athletic Scholarship 24-Month Recruiting Planner and Journal.
It's great to have goals and a plan, but how can you turn them into an athletic scholarship? In other words, how can you get a PAYout for all your efforts?
Good question. In this episode, Jon Fugler moves you from planning to critical action. He explains the three most important execution steps you can take. If you cover these three things in your recruiting campaign, you'll get results.
Jon also announces that the Recruiting Planner and Journal is hours away from being released on Amazon. He is planning on having a release party on the next episode.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship Playbook
COMING IN HOURS: The Athletic Scholarship Recruiting Planner and Journal
In this third part of his Planning series, Jon Fugler jumps in with counsel on how to take ownership of and personalizing your recruiting plan. If you want to get on coaches' radars, you must make a great impression from the very first contact.
When a coach sees that your heart isn't in the process, he or she will move on. They want athletes that are committed to getting to the next level. One way you can show them your heart is by making your recruiting campaign all yours. You're not turning it over to someone else and you're not copying other athletes and families.
Listen to the five points of personalizing your plan. As a result, you'll have power that gets results and keeps you on target for the entire campaign.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship Playbook
Coming by January 31: The Athletic Scholarship Recruiting Planner and Journal on Amazon.
If you're really serious about an athletic scholarship, and you're willing to do the work to get one, this episode is for you. Jon Fugler lays out five tangible things you should do to set yourself up for success.
These require effort. Consistent effort. The same quality it takes to become a great athlete. Recruiting doesn't just happen. You must plan and act. Then act some more. Then act even more. Having a strong plan is the first step, but following through on it is essential.
Jon leaves you with a particular element for you to add to your recruiting efforts each week. This is at the core of execution.
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Coming in days: THE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP RECRUITING PLANNER AND JOURNAL.
If you're a high school sports family seeking an athletic scholarship, you'll need to answer five important questions. In this episode, Jon Fugler leads you in a self-assessment that will help you lay a strong foundation for your scholarship pursuit. Whether you're just starting out or you've been at it awhile, these questions are important to you.
This is Part 1 of Jon's Planning Series, making sure you're on solid ground in your recruiting campaign. All the action in the world will not get you a scholarship unless you've got a solid plan.
WARNING: There's homework in the episode. Be ready to get something done.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship Playbook
Coming this month: THE ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP RECRUITING PLANNER AND JOURNAL.
You can have talent, vision, goals, values and the best intentions, but without this final element your recruiting efforts will fall flat. Your athletic scholarship dream is too critical to leave out this piece of your recruiting framework.
For the past four episodes in this series, Jon Fugler has equipped you to do it right in 2020. He caps off the series by sharing specific things you need to execute in the new year. It's going to take time and effort, but the payoff will be worth it all.
What is this final, most important piece of the Recruiting Framework? Listen carefully as Jon explains. Then get your pen and notebook out to put his counsel into action.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship Playbook
Coming in January: The Recruit-Me Planner and Journal
We've covered the top and bottom pieces of the Recruiting Framework. Today's episode will explore something that will keep you in the recruiting lane. It's the right-side boundary that will be seen and analyzed by coaches.
Listen as Jon Fugler discusses this critical piece and how to make sure it works to your favor. It can be your best friend or worst enemy. Once you listen to this episode, have a family meeting and explore what you should do next to make this third piece what it needs to be.
Next, week, Jon wraps up this series with the fourth and final piece of the Recruiting Framework.
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Doubt looms in most every sports family's mind. Unless your son or daughter is a highly recruited athlete, you wonder if they have the talent to get a scholarship. In this episode, Jon Fugler discusses the second piece of the Recruiting Framework: Talent.
He'll give you perspective. By looking at this issue from a different angle, you'll see some things that will give you hope, confidence and a strategy. Jon has been helping families for nearly 20 years, and he has a solid perspective on what it takes talent-wise to get a scholarship.
One of the things Jon discusses is getting an honest assessment from a college coach. There are ways to do it that aren't difficult. He'll share a couple of those ways.
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Part two of this foundational series explores the top piece of your recruiting framework. Jon talks about vision and goals, the fuel that carries you through the extended recruiting process.
Vision helps you get a clear picture of your scholarship destination, while goals are the markers along the way. You need both. Jon will explain how to build your vision and set your goals.
Jon also reveals that he is publishing the Athletic Scholarship Recruiting Planner in January. He has a heart to for you to document your journey in a way that leads to success. A good plan executed well gets results. The Planner will be a powerful tool to help you.
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Coming Soon: The Athletic Scholarship Recruiting Planner
Every scholarship family needs a recruiting framework. It's no wonder most sports families fail in the scholarship pursuit. They lack a framework that will define their recruiting campaign.
In this episode, Jon Fugler explains what a recruiting framework is, why you need it, what yours needs to look like and how it will lead to scholarship success.
Jon closes with a practical step to apply right away as you build your framework.
This is a 5-part series for December, fresh material that will prepare you for 2020. In each episode, Jon will teach you in detail about one of the four sides of your framework.
Let's start.
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The recruiting window won't be open forever. For your family, it may be months, not even years. In any case, no matter what grade you're in, you're always looking for ways to speed up the recruiting process.
In this episode, Jon Fugler tells you how. He prioritizes five ways to fast track your way to a scholarship. Claiming one of these right away will make a difference.
If you're experiencing doubt and fear, you need this episode. You'll come away with confidence, as well as clear steps of action to take. Make the rest of 2019 count. And prepare yourself for 2020.
If you're confused, taking one or more of Jon's speed-up recommendations will bring clarity. Push through uncertainty and take charge of your recruiting campaign. You've got what it takes.
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
The Athletic Scholarship Playbook (Paperback, Kindle or Audible)