TargetX Introduces 1st Online Planner for College Recruiters

As colleges work harder to recruit today's students, they find it nearly impossible to keep track of all the projects and events required. Higher education marketing company TargetX is offering an online planning tool that promises to revolutionize the Admissions Office.

Bristol, PA, June 29, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Interactive recruiting firm TargetX today launched the first online planning tool to help colleges keep up with the dizzying array of communications and events necessary to recruit today's students.

"eXpressPlan is the first web-based planner designed exclusively for college admissions officers," said TargetX CEO Brian Wm. Niles.  "It enables schools to schedule, track and manage all their recruiting efforts, including printed pieces, online communications and events," he explained.

Activities and tasks can be laid out over the course of a year or longer.  Everything gets assigned to the appropriate staff members, who receive regular email reminders.  Managers have access to a realtime dashboard that keeps them up to date on all projects.

"This will help everyone who thinks their recruiting communications plan is getting to be overwhelming," said Niles.  "And from what we hear, that's just about everybody in college admissions."

The unique tool allows the entire staff to follow the ever expanding and changing lineup of recruiting activities.  "Finally, everyone in the admissions office will see the 'big picture' of what it takes to recruit a class these days," said Niles.

As colleges are forced to add more projects and events to compete for students, the "big picture" is growing more complicated.  "We see the eXpressPlan as a simple solution to an increasingly complex problem in admissions," said Niles.  For more information, visit http://www.targetx.com/plan/index.html

In addition to the web-based module, TargetX offers experts who will create a new communications plan for a college, integrate it into the eXpressPlan and deliver it ready for the staff to follow and implement.

About TargetX

TargetX is the leading provider of interactive recruiting solutions to higher education, helping colleges lower their costs and strengthen their connections with prospective students.  In 2004, TargetX launched a new division called iRecruit to help colleges use the full power of the Internet to recruit today's web-savvy students.  The company offers communications planning, creative services and proprietary technology to such clients as Columbia University, the University of Miami, Drexel University, Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Oregon and Ohio State University.

TargetX has also developed a reputation in higher education for objective and expert counsel. The company offers a popular series of one-day workshops and online seminars for admissions and marketing officers, provides presentations at dozens of conferences, seminars and workshop around the country, produces a weekly online newsletter containing tips and trends for college recruiters and marketers, and generates the only podcast devoted to student recruiting and college marketing.

Today, TargetX is helping more than 350 colleges recognize and repair the disconnect between the way they market themselves and the way students seek information.

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