Ifbyphone (News - Alert), a telephone application platform company, today announced that it’s signed a strategic agreement with JumpForward, an on-demand sports-relationship-management solutions provider, to deliver a comprehensive communications solution for high school athletes and college coaches.

 

The combined solution is expected to provide unified communication solution for the athletic recruiting process.

 

“Calling potential high school student-athletes is a core activity within the athletic recruiting process,” said Chris Higgins, a former NCAA Division I college coach.

 

Higgins described JumpForward as a company that enables college coaches to collaborate among one other, while automatically tracking, managing and organizing each call placed.

 

“It’s truly innovative, transforming a simple phone call and wrapping an intelligent recruiting application around it,” Higgins said.

 

JumpForward officials say their company provides a converged on-demand communications platform that empowers high school athletes and parents to navigate and streamline the entire athletic recruiting and communications process.

 

The Ifbyphone application first calls the athlete’s designated number and then dials the college coach’s phone, keeping the student athlete’s number private.

 

By combining JumpForward’s SRM solution with IfByPhone’s platform, time spent searching for college coaches’ phone numbers is eliminated, allowing high school athletes to focus more on contacting the coaches.

 

From their Unified Communications (News - Alert) Dashboard, athletes can instantly call college coaches by clicking the “Start Call” button, powered by ifbyphone. For college coaches, JumpForward’s on-demand SRM solution automatically tracks, manages and organizes calls placed by college coaches to prospect high school athletes.

 

“We’re proud to partner with forward-thinkers like those at JumpForward who grasp the power of Ifbyphone applications to help them serve an area of obvious need, such as fostering communications for student athletes and college coaches,” said Ifbyphone Chief Executive Officer Irv Shapiro (News - Alert).

 

Jai C.S. is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jai’s articles, please visit his columnist page.