What if you had complete confidence that you were doing exactly what you needed to do, when you needed to do it, in terms of getting your son or daughter into a college where they would thrive and catapult themselves into a successful future? Connect2CollegeCoaches gives the families of student-athlete's that peace of mind. Utilizing a dynamic text and e-mail reminder system, Connect2CollegeCoaches takes the time-intensive, multi-year project plan related to marketing your student's athletic and academic skills to college coaches and breaks it into manageable monthly "mini tasks" for both parents and students. If a family commits to taking action and completes the tiny tasks being delivered to them in a sequence of success, Connect2CollegeCoaches will ensure that family is doing what needs to be done to position the student for the best possible outcome in terms of being admitted to a college that fits the student and earns them athletic scholarship money as part of their overall funding strategy. Play instead of pay!

Today I’m sharing suggestions on how you can do just that from Dean Tsouvalas, editor-in-chief of StudentAdvisor.com, a website which provides a variety of information about colleges. With the tremendous popularity of Facebook - if it were a country it would be bigger than all but two countries — it seems like every college and admission counselor is now on Facebook. A Kaplan survey of college admissions counselors found that 82% of admissions officers reported that their school is using Facebook to recruit students while 56% use Twitter and YouTube. While counselors are checking students out online, they are also trying to engage them on the Internet.