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The Ultimate Recruitment and Marketing Tool for College Athletic Bands
If you are involved in recruiting for a college band program, you may want to have a look at this...
OVERVIEW
Bandwindow is a forward-thinking communications platform built specifically for the needs college athletic bands.
- Supercharge Recruiting - Increase both the quantity and quality of band members you recruit with outreach that is 10X more engaging for today's Gen Z student
- Drive Event Attendance - Increase attendance at events like Band Member For A Day, concerts, Spring Game, and others, with modern-looking and effective communications
- Engage Your Fans - Excite your fans, alumni, and donors with attention grabbing, compelling communications
- Streamline Auditions - Easily manage your audition process including video uploads, scheduling, scoring, promotions, and more.
- Capture Video Stories - Convert the passion of both your current students and alumni into an ever-growing library of content that brings prospective band members over the fence toward joining
Bandwindow provides enormous relief and powerful capabilities for time-starved band directors, band recruitment committees, and administrators.
Check out some of our materials below and if it seems like this might be a fit, we invite you to get in touch.
150+
University Band Programs
And Counting
"I knew this would be a successful tool if we could have 57 students enroll with a music scholarship. That's what we were aiming for. In our first year using Musicwindow, we actually ended up enrolling 91 music students. Our faculty couldn't be more excited."
Dr. Peter Folliard
Dean of the Augustana University School of Music
Recruit Your Highest Quality Athletic Band
The future of college athletic band recruiting has arrived. Traditional recruiting approaches have significant gaps with today's Gen Z student. We're in this new era where prospective band members have new standards and new expectations.
By infusing relevance into every interaction with modern and engaging tools, you will gain attention, interest, and increased sign-up from potential band recruits.
Recruiting students for a music department is more competitive compared to other departments within the university
Students are questioning if pursuing Music is the right choice in this economy. There is a finite pool of talent out there that competing music departments are all going after. It's quite challenging.
Interactive Visual Quizzes give your band program a powerful competitive advantage. Collect interest from significantly more potential students (who would otherwise be unknown to your organization), and create a smash-hit first impression that tilts the student's decision making in your favor.
The Old Methods Of Outreach Are Not Getting Attention - Individualize Your Recruiting Experience Instantly
When we find out that Kaitlin plays Tuba, is interested in Music Ed, and likes Athletic Bands, if our communications are not speaking directly to those music-specific interests, that is a gigantic missed opportunity.
"Billboard-like" communications are static - they appear the same to different people who are interested in different things. This style of outreach makes your prospective students feel like they are "just a number in a database," making you 5-8 times less likely to convert them to an audition or band camp sign-up.
"Our university's overall enrollment is actually down and this is a focal point for the university, but thanks to the tools and strategy from Musicwindow, the Music Dept. is up about 50% in enrollment this year compared to last year!"
The New Way To Get Attention And Convert Potential Music Students
In 2024, getting potential students to pay attention to recruiting messages is more challenging than ever. If you are still sending one-size-fits-all plain emails that feel like a mass-memo, you are missing out on opportunities to fill your ensembles and studios.
"Even during the pandemic, the UNT Green Brigade has developed more prospective members than ever"
Dr. Daniel Cook
Former director of the University of North Texas Green Brigade, Director of Bands Ithaca College
Rapidly Collect TikTok-Like Content For Recruiting
The way to connect and build trust with prospective students has changed in recent years and candidly, most music departments are no-where near keeping up. In 2024, having authentic video stories is a non-negotiable for effective higher-ed music recruitment.
Our Video Stories solution allows you to build your content library in the easiest way imaginable.
What Bandwindow'ers Are Saying...
Our audition numbers are through the roof higher than in the past.
This is going to revolutionize how we find students to come here.
The product has clearly provided value, reduced the manual amount of work that we had to do, and improved our recruitment results.
I will sing Bandwindow's praises as the best recruiting tool for any bands. I just won't tell anyone within 300 miles of us because I want it to be our hidden advantage!
Our instrumental area is up close to 50 students over last year.
Musicwindow saved our audition day this year. The submission process worked seamlessly and allowed our faculty easy, straightforward access to auditions while working from home.
We’ve signed up 39 freshmen in the last month! That is the largest freshman class we’ve ever had at HPU.
We are able to reach all of our constituencies, whether it's prospective members, whether it's alums, fans, or parents.
Musicwindow is an intuitive way to reach students with dynamic messages. There is less time spent on each individual so we can focus on creating a larger reach. My faculty have more time back... that's huge.
Students are responding to our texts. We previously didn't feel like we had an open line of communication because when you send an email, it just sits there. The way our music faculty are texting back and forth with prospective music students is a game changer for a music school recruiting operation.
Detroit Institute of Music Education
Prior to using Musicwindow, DIME had casually looked at software for its critical event promotion needs but found nothing that offered the right functionality that they needed. Most of the other products were over-priced for the size of their organization.
Purdue Bands & Orchestras Case Study
How the Purdue Bands & Orchestra is leveraging a team of 20 student ambassadors to recruit 500 freshman per season and transitioning their operation from pen & paper to an all-virtual format.
Cornhusker Marching Band
The UNL Cornhusker Band wanted to increase the pool of talent auditioning and they needed to attract, book, and coordinate hundreds of students for precise audition time slots. The impact made to their band program was significant.
University of Northern Iowa
The University of Northern Iowa School of Music was under pressure to fill audition slots for both music majors and ensemble members. Their biggest struggle was getting attention and trust from high schoolers who no longer responded well to the static email format.
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