Founded in 2006, Tudor Collegiate Strategies is the nation's only recruiting marketing and consulting service for college coaches, athletic departments, and admissions departments. We've had nearly two decades of consistent 10-15% annual growth, and are now looking to move into a new phase of growth - with the right partner.
What do we do? Primarily, we create marketing and communication plans for athletic and admissions departments. We do this through our proprietary focus group research methods, utilizing data gathered from recruited students and student-athletes and converting that into useable messaging that tells a better story to our clients' next round of recruits, increasing their response rates, and training our clients how best to interact with their teenage prospects in a way that increases their closing rates. We invented the industry, and are the only provider of these services in the country.
With gross revenues of $1,100,000 to $1,200,000 the past two fiscal years, we now have opportunities to continue our growth and expansion in the college athletic department space, as well as taking advantage of rapid expansion in our admissions department advisory services. We currently work with colleges and universities of all sizes, from large Division I powerhouses to small, private NAIA colleges - and everything in between. Our reputation and history of success in the athletic space has opened doors to growing our work with the non-athletic side of campuses around the country, and we want to capitalize on our unique market position and nearly 20 year history of success in working with our clients. We have been a part of helping to building many national championship teams, and increasing revenues for the college campuses themselves.
Created in 2006, the enterprise wasn't actually supposed to get this big. The founder, Dan Tudor, brought his history of coaching, athletics, television sports and sales to colleges as a small consulting service designed to help college coaches improve their communication and sales skills. Starting with an idea and $0 of investment capital, Tudor quickly built his reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable source of expertise not available in the marketplace. He began a small weekly email training newsletter that is still published today, now boasting more than 60,000 subscribers in the college sports and admissions world. Workshops, online training, and client services followed. In 2017, having reached the maximum amount of business he could handle on his own, contracted representatives were brought in to help expand the business. And, it worked. By 2021, revenues doubled and eclipsed the $1m mark.
So, why are funds needed now?
To provide a more stable and manageable workforce, a transition to employee status began in 2024. This has allowed the company to bring in a higher level of consultant - all of whom are former college coaches and personnel - to market to, and interact with, new and existing clients. That also required a series of small, private loans and line of credit to fund that transition. Now, through work with our current financial advisory, we are seeking a funding partner to put the necessary funding in place in order for us to reach gross revenues of $2.5m by 2026, and $5m by 2028.
The roadmap is there, the reputation in the marketplace is rock solid, and the opportunity is ripe: We currently only work with about 5% of college coaching staffs, and about 1% of admissions staffs. We have simply not had enough funding to handle all the business that is available, so we have had to grow slowly and methodically. Now, we see an opportunity for rapid expansion of our clientele and services in the higher education industry. It's not an emergency situation, and we can certainly continue to grow slowly, but with the right partner we feel we can rapidly become a major force in the industry in a much shorter timespan. There are additional initiatives we are planning to role out, focused on the tech side of what we do and how we engage with our clients, which we can elaborate on as discussions progress.
We are open to different proposals for funding, and have had prior discussions through the years about everything from being acquired, to taking on partners, as well as privately funded investment and lines of credit. Finding the right partner is more important to us than securing the most money. We listed $1m as the desired investment, but can work with as little as $500k, or as much as $2m.
For more background on what we do, you can visit dantudor.com or simply Google search "dan tudor recruiting". Or, contact us at
[email protected] to arrange a time to talk - we're happy to answer any questions you have, and will give qualified investors an honest, accurate look inside our organization.
We appreciate your consideration, and look forward to any discussions you feel are warranted! Thank you.