{"id":5339,"date":"2011-11-29T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2011-11-29T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T16:28:44","slug":"scouting-services-that-come-back-for-more-money-are-ripping-off-the-unsuspecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/scouting-services-that-come-back-for-more-money-are-ripping-off-the-unsuspecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting Services That Come Back for More Money Are Ripping Off the Unsuspecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beware of Telemarketers Posing as Scouting Services <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5346\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Telemarketer-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5346\" title=\"Telemarketer 1\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Telemarketer-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Telemarketers are not high school athletic scouts, so beware of their ploy to draw you in with a cheap promo deal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scouting services which return to clients and ask for upgrades\u00a0are ripping off the innocent, pure and simple. It&#8217;s happening with so-called reputable scouting firms and it&#8217;s time this practice is exposed for what it is &#8212; a way to dig deeper into your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>When considering a scouting service, don&#8217;t be duped into a low-end deal which really does nothing but to set you up for a bigger investment down the road. Realize from the get-go that what you need which is a comprehensive promotional package\u00a0that effectively gets your info in the hands of college coaches on an ongoing basis, not just a one-time shotgun approach or through a Web site where coaches have to scour through scores of unqualified prospects to find you, the legit college prospect.<\/p>\n<p>To insure that you are getting what\u00a0is required to get you noticed by college coaches,\u00a0ask these essential questions of any scouting service which should reveal if there &#8216;s something hidden in their ploy to lure\u00a0 you in only to return later with their hand out and an explanation of what you &#8220;really&#8221; need:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why is this program so cheap?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Will this program do everything I really need to get college coaches to notice, evaluate and recruit me?<\/li>\n<li>Will you ever come back to me asking for more money to pay for a more effective promotional program?<\/li>\n<li>Is it true that you are a telemarketing company that calls prospects from a roster book of athletes you have never actually seen play their sport?<\/li>\n<li>How can you realistically represent me to college coaches if you have not seen me play or met me in person?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The answers to these questions are meant to get you to the truth of what a scouting service is trying to accomplish.\u00a0 If you are not satisfied with their answers, then hang up the teleph0ne and call the world&#8217;s oldest, most reliable and legitimate scouting organization, National Scouting Report.\u00a0 If you want an honest approach with honest answers, call NSR today at (800) 354-0072 and ask to speak to our College Coach Liaison who will put you in touch with one of our On-the-Ground scouts.\u00a0 We are real scouts, not telemarketers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of Telemarketers Posing as Scouting Services Scouting services which return to clients and ask for upgrades\u00a0are ripping off the innocent, pure and simple. It&#8217;s happening with so-called reputable scouting firms and it&#8217;s time this practice is exposed for what it is &#8212; a way to dig deeper into your pocket. When considering a scouting &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/scouting-services-that-come-back-for-more-money-are-ripping-off-the-unsuspecting\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}