TJRO

I just reviewed your sons profile and can I give you a few suggestions that came to us from the Regional Scout of a MLB team when he reviewed my sons profile....

First make sure all links go to another website or contain where the information was obtained.. (ie.. your newspaper articles should go the actual newspapers site or you should place the logo, date and location of the article, scan it if you have to do so) Copy and pasting info into its own page and then having that page reside on a private site looks does not allow the reader to verify the info as accurate and they will not follow-up on it.. (If you look at my sons old HS Profile you will see what I mean under press articles.. I C/P article but clearly noted when and where it was written)

Don't list how to read the stats.. Recruiters already know that and it appears that you feel the recruiter doesn't know his business.

Provide a name and email link to his coaches or those who can vouch for him.. Recruiters will follow-up and by doing this it shows consideration and that you are stating accurate information.

Get rid of the make money links (ie USA Today links) Your trying to sell your son not the newspaper and they have nothing to do with him.. Anyone who knows the internet knows that those links are pay for click sites.

The written evaluations you discuss.. get them up on the web, preferable scanned copies of the originals where they can be reviewed by the recruiters, again with links or phone numbers of who wrote them so they can contact that person if the want.

Kill all the links that don't pertain to his career in detail (ie.. Babe Ruth links and such) Look at how on my sons site how the link for Blue/Grey takes the viewer directly to the info about Chris on their website

The site has too much info on it.. its way to busy if that makes sense. Makes people not want to read it instead of holding their interest. Make it as clean and simple as possible. Example: Take all the articles off the front page and just place a link that says Press Coverage and have that link take you to a press page.. Keeps front page less distracting. Same thing with stats.. Just provide a link instead of "pushing" them out there.

Get his physical stats up front where they are one of the first things that are seen, that and school GPA info are two of the first things recruiters care about.

These are offered as suggestions, I am not criticizing the site, just helping to point out some things that are noticable to my communications/marketing eye and the things I was told to do by a MLB recruiter.

My sons site is out of date as he is playing college ball, not sure if all the links still work to real sites anymore but if you want to see it here is the link..

http://www.aenetwork.com/profiles/cjkearney/index.htm

Again.. it may not be the flashiest but it told his story and many colleges that saw it did tell him they liked how it was laid out.

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