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...
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...
Knowledge is power. Big data can give your marketing the edge you need to reach the right prospective students. There are thousands of marketers across a variety of industries that are leveraging big data to promote products and services, almost in real-time. But in...
Influencer marketing is a powerful tool to help cultivate new prospective students that too often gets neglected. But the whole idea of influencer marketing is a really important aspect of the higher ed marketer’s toolbox that needs to be leveraged. Whether...
Undergrad education marketing has a degree of beautiful simplicity. Graduate enrollment marketing isn’t quite so easy. When it comes to undergrad enrollment marketing, schools have the luxury of buying lists to recruit students. With all the data available to higher...
Having a mobile app isn’t just a vanity project. It can be a powerful tool to cultivate new students by giving you an exclusive marketing channel. If you’re skeptical about creating a mobile app for your school, I was too. Over the past 5 or 10 years, I’ve shied away...