A few words from Chris Gruler
I was heavily recruited for baseball as I was graduating from high school. Aside from being a great honor, it also taught me a lot about the college baseball recruiting process. There were guys on my team that had better hitting skills, more power, were faster runners, had better grades and test scores and still weren’t offered scholarships.
The difference between these athletes and the ones receiving scholarships can be summed up in one quality – they were not PROACTIVE.
The truth is not every college coach is going to be able to see you. You have to make yourself known to a coach by standing out from the rest of your teammates and showcasing your skills.
With a click of a button, you can proactively place yourself in front of college coaches across the country at their convenience.
Player Profile Websites
The key to getting college coaches to pay attention to you is making it easy and user-friendly for them. Most college baseball recruiting programs and services send mass emails of generic player profiles to coaches – in reality only a few of these coaches actually open and read the emails.
From my discussions with various college coaches over the past years, I would say less than five percent actually pay attention to the massprofiles sent out by sports recruiting services.
Protege Branding now offers an individual, unique format to help position yourself in front of the coaches you want to notice you.
ProtegeBranding.com has created an individualized profile page that will allow any high school player to upload all of their personal, academic and athletic information onto their own personal Web site. No more college recruiting service sending out your generic profile that most likely won’t be viewed. Protege places the power of your future in YOUR hands. This Virtual Player Card is a player profile that allows you to easily send your information to all of your colleges of interest. Not only will you have your own Personal Player Web site for recruiting purposes, but your friends and family can also follow along with your progress in real time.
Using the Player Profile Web sites, which are both user-friendly and visitor-friendly, you can successfully increase the chances of a college coach viewing your site and noticing your potential during the college baseball recruiting process. Think about how powerful it is to send an email directly to coaches with your personal site and link as opposed to a sports recruiting service blasting out hundreds of emails with an endless list of players crammed together.
Protege Branding
ProtegeBranding.com is dedicated to creating a multi-platform branding strategy that increases name recognition, visibility and awareness. Protege enables clients to create a unique and distinct brand through user-friendly Web sites and promotion management.
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Thanks for checking out ChrisRGruler.com. I have used the Player Profile Website that was developed for Amateur and Pro Athletes to have a platform to showcase their abilities, accomplishments, and personal desires online. Whether you are trying to get College Coaches to notice you or want an easy way for your fans to reach you
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- "first steps in protecting your child’s brand equity..."
- As a parent of a student-athlete your number one objective is to get your son or daughter the proper exposure to targeted decision makers. There are many ways of accomplishing this, such as all-star games, traveling leagues, showcases and college camps. In most of these situations the decision makers are overwhelmed with an enormous amount of information. It’s important to effectively communicate the most critical information about your son/daughter in a concise, user-friendly format. An excellent example of this is the Player Profile Web site and Virtual Player Card. This would have been an invaluable tool to me to help Chris when he was being recruited for baseball by Arizona State. It definitely would have also helped disseminate his information to pro scouts as well. You may benefit from having this tool available and at the same time you will be taking the first steps in protecting your child’s brand equity. You never know, he might be the next super star!
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- "College baseball recruiting can be a complex and overwhelming process..."
- College baseball recruiting can be a complex and overwhelming process. As a former college baseball recruiter, I found it extremely difficult to view online profiles, as we would be constantly bombarded with profiles of student-athletes we did not know. Chris has developed a product that not only personalizes the communication of online recruiting, but will put your son or daughter on more radar screens. He will effectively reach more coaches eyes, thus creating more opportunities for your child. Chris has been through the recruiting process himself at the highest level and understands the value of being proactive in your career. It’s about positioning yourself for the future. I highly recommend Protege’s Player Profile Web sites for your college recruiting service needs.
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- “For the past several years I have been immersed in the world of domain investing, domain asset acquisition and deployment, social media and online branding. The Player Profile Web site is one of the most intuitive tools that I have seen for any athlete looking for a dynamic way to increase their brand recognition and present their stats, pictures, videos and sports moments to scouts and coaches. When it comes to having an edge on the competition, using creativity and the full scope of multimedia to engage your audience is the best use of the Web. If you think about the return on investment, the Player Profile Web site is a must for any serious athlete looking for an advantage in the college sports recruiting process.”