Recruit your
highest quality athletic band
we help college marching bands recruit members in record numbers
while increasing the caliber of member you attract
Featured Uses
Avoid missing out on top talent while collecting auditions on rapid fire
Increase your audition sign-ups, send specific audition information to specific segments of auditionees, and remind students to turn up to their audition or submit an audition video.
Band directors are constantly offering clinics at high schools, conducting honor bands, and interacting with recruits in a variety of places.
You put in all this work to get that first touchpoint with prospective recruits - how do you convert this activity into better recruiting outcomes?
How the Michigan Marching Band leverages their live performances to attract, identify, segment, engage, and delight their audiences.
100+
College Marching Bands & Music Departments
And Counting
Band directors want to develop stellar musicians, put on crowd-thrilling performances, and define the future of band education. But a bunch of other responsibilities (that don't really have anything to do with band) get in the way.
Band faculty all want to attract the most talented musicians possible but are stuck with limited time, people, and monetary resources to achieve this. It is challenging to keep up with the best ways to win the hearts and minds of young students and promote events.
Bandwindow solves these problems and more for time-starved marching band directors.
 Cornhusker Marching Band Case StudyThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornhusker Band wanted to increase the pool of talent auditioning. They needed to attract, book, and coordinate hundreds of students for precise audition time slots. By implementing Bandwindow they: |
Real band directors
Real stories
We had the chance to interview a few marching band directors at the 2019 CBDNA Athletic Band Symposium
Commonly Asked Questions
Every university we work with either uses Slate, Ellucian, Salesforce, or an equivalent. Bandwindow is a categorically different product than an admissions database; Bandwindow gives music schools a significant competitive differentiator.
As one of many examples, if your brass professor wishes to share an invitation to a local DCI event with all the marching band recruits who expressed interest, he or she would not be able to use an admissions database to get the word out and get the students excited with visually-engaging content. A somewhat straightforward use case, and you've already hit a brick wall if you're solely leaning on an admissions database.
Old-school batch & blast CRM tools were not designed to attract and inspire a 17-year-old to participate in your ensembles or study music at your school. Bandwindow can, however, direct more students to your university's admissions website (who would not have been reached otherwise), which Admissions always appreciates.
Our product has been built to ensure zero redundancy in feature set and no data that slips through the cracks. Contact us for more info.
Yes. Bandwindow has been built, tested, and implemented at over 80 universities (and counting), most of which have strict rules around what technology can be used. We have had zero IT departments reject this tool. Bandwindow adheres to strict industry-standard information security guidelines. A complete summary of our technical specs (most of which is very boring information if you are not in IT) is available upon request.
You can view an on-demand mini demo of our product by clicking the button below. You will be taken to a questionnaire where you will answer a few simple questions. After submitting, a mini-demo will be auto-generated for you which you can view and interact with at your leisure.
If it still seems interesting from there, you will be offered the opportunity to speak with a strategist from our team who will put together a solution that is tailored to your unique program. The way you do things might be different than the universities featured on our website, so having a conversation at some point would be prudent.
Yes. We have many band directors, faculty, and administrators who have little technical skills who are realizing value from Bandwindow everyday. We get it - you do not have time to learn a new software. We know that for the most part, you are not a technologist or marketer. You are a musician or music educator. Bandwindow does the heavy lifting. The product has been built specifically for faculty and directors who are not accustomed to fancy technology.
We are a team of band enthusiasts, marketing experts, and engineers. We have all been performing arts students before launching Bandwindow. Our team has an oddly specific combination of expertise in the college band industry, engaging Gen-Zers, and marketing.
