by Bart Caylor | Mar 14, 2022 | Marketing Strategies, content marketing, Marketing Trends, Blog, Featured
Stories are powerful marketing tools. Here’s an introduction into brand storytelling for higher ed marketers. Content marketing has now become the rule rather than the exception for higher education marketers. Back in 2013, a guy named Joe Pulizzi wrote a book called...
by Bart Caylor | Mar 7, 2022 | Websites, Blog, Featured, Higher Ed Marketing
At the core of every higher ed institution’s mission (and fiscal viability) is a strong enrollment focus. That’s why optimizing for conversion on your enrollment-focused website is so important. Getting your target audience to the site is one thing (through techniques...
by Bart Caylor | Feb 28, 2022 | social media, Enrollment, Blog, Featured, Higher Ed Marketing, Marketing Strategies
What social media networks do you focus on for enrollment marketing? Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, maybe Snapchat and TikTok, all seem like obvious choices. But what about LinkedIn Marketing Solutions? If you haven’t already, there are some pretty compelling reasons...
by Bart Caylor | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Advancement, Fundraising Advancement
Almost every college or university depends on the generosity of their alumni and friends to help advance their mission. Unfortunately, many higher ed donation pages can be uninspiring, or worse yet, confusing or intimidating for users. Any kind of negative experience...
by Bart Caylor | Feb 14, 2022 | Featured, Marketing Strategies, Marketing Trends, Blog
Big data has worked for a lot of fast-growing brands to guide marketing messaging and decisions. But is it okay for higher ed marketers? Over the years, I’ve been an advocate of using metrics, analytics, and big data to drive higher ed marketing decisions. Quite...
by Bart Caylor | Feb 7, 2022 | Branding, Marketing Strategies, Blog, Featured
If there is one blind spot that those of us who work in higher ed marketing suffer from, it’s the assumption that the benefits of going to college are obvious. Many of us enrolled in college in an era when it was much safer to make that assumption. But it’s important...
