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Bandwindow
The recruitment solution built specifically for university marching bands
Marching Band Isn't Just An Ensemble
It's a community! You want your members and incoming recruits to know that they belong.
When you can make a prospective marching band member passionately feel that they belong inside your marching band, recruiting becomes easy. Infusing relevance into every interaction is how we make this happen. The four minute video details one example of what a marching band recruit's journey can look like.
150+
University Band Programs
And Counting
The Needs Of Music Departments Are Unique
You aren't only looking to increase your quantity of majors and ensemble members. The quality of the musician you recruit is critical. You need a more competitive way to win over prospective students.
To see one example of how over 150 university music departments are achieving record-setting recruitment cycles (and having some fun while doing it), watch this brief video.
"even during the pandemic, we've developed more prospective students than ever..."
You need to better reach, communicate with, and win over your desired students (and you may be under pressure to hit certain enrollment / instrumental balance / membership goals), but you struggle with limited time, money, and people resources.
1-To-1 Recruiting Outreach
You want to be tailored, but you don't have the time, bandwidth, or infrastructure to spend hours writing each individual prospective student a personal email.
On the other hand, if your students are receiving generic static messages, they'll feel like they are just an entry in a database, making you 5-8 times less likely to recruit them.
Get Prospective Band Members To Respond
You have a prospective band member who expressed interest, but they haven't yet signed up for band camp. Static, plain, mass emails aren't getting their attention. They might not even being checking the high school inbox these emails are going to. You need a way to get students to engage.
"Our student leaders have been very excited with how responsive their potential section members have been to these texts. I feel like we're meeting these young students where they are at."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Commonly Asked Questions
Sounds Like This Is For Our Admissions Office
Somewhat, but not exactly. We can certainly loop in Admissions after you take a look and decide if it's a good fit for your department. But really, this all has to start with you, the music faculty.
You see, there is a new standard in winning over music students. A more competitive one. This new approach requires you to speak to the very specific interests of music students and paint a clear picture in their mind as to why your music department is the perfect match for their needs. This requires knowledge of music students and all the nuances of music recruiting - a component that admissions (quite reasonably) does not offer.
Just like you, we DO NOT want to introduce a tool into your environment that is duplicative, siloed, or unnecessary. In fact, maintaining a pure technology architecture within the larger university in something we obsess over!
Is Our IT Department Going To Approve Of This Tool?
We’ve never had an IT department reject this tool. It does sometimes take a couple of weeks, however, to go through the IT Office’s standard approval process (university IT teams are very busy helping everyone out!). So if you anticipate IT will want to review some information, we encourage you to initiate that request early after seeing our demo.
Typically, IT will request one or more documents from Musicwindow. We have a
--Technical overview document - Covers the commonly asked IT questions
--HECVAT - A 300+ row spreadsheet detailing all the specs that IT typically likes to know
--VPAT - For the accessibility team to review how Musicwindow adheres to accessibility standards
Please request these documents via the form below. We’ll follow up within 1 business day with any info that IT requires. The approval is typically pretty straightforward from there.
How Do I Learn More?
Typically, it looks like this:
1) Schedule a demo. We'll meet over a Zoom and look at how this might work for you.
2) Afterward, with your permission, we provide a recording of the meeting and any PDFs, short videos, client references, or materials that you can use to best introduce this to any additional decision makers.
3) When you're ready we'll decide to either A) get it rolling, B) schedule an additional meeting with other staff member, C) plan customized next steps as you see fit, or D) do nothing.
At any point, if you decide we’re not the right fit for you (or vice versa), we'll just part ways professionally.
Book A Demo Today
One of our Bandwindow magicians would love to give you a short walkthrough of how Musicwindow can work for your music school/department, band program, or performing / visual arts organization.
Contact
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Ypsilanti, MI 48197
+1 313-572-0159
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