by Bart Caylor | Sep 26, 2022 | Ideas, Generation Z, Branding, Blog, Featured
As a father of up-and-coming college students, I try to be mindful of desirable Gen Z swag. School-branded products have been a marketing staple for generations. But what might have been hot-ticket items for millennials, like lanyards or carabiner clips, are a bit...
by Bart Caylor | Sep 19, 2022 | Marketing Trends, Blog, Featured, Higher Ed Marketing, Marketing Strategies
Is centralizing marketing at your college or university the right move? It’s an age-old question that surely keeps administrators of up-and-coming schools awake at night. After all, centralized marketing is trending upward cross-industry. According to a 2020 survey of...
by Bart Caylor | Sep 12, 2022 | Marketing Strategies, Email Marketing, content marketing, Inbound Marketing, Blog, Featured, Higher Ed Marketing
In higher ed marketing, as in any company’s marketing department, the mantra is often the same: “Do more with less.” We all know there’s a limit to what your team can do in-house, of course. But where is that limit? When do you seek help from digital marketing...
by Bart Caylor | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Future of Higher Ed, Branding
I believe 2020 was a wake-up call for a lot of institutions when it comes to online school marketing. Too often, online programs have been an afterthought in enrollment marketing strategies for traditional colleges and universities. But the Pandemic propelled colleges...
by Bart Caylor | Aug 22, 2022 | Marketing Strategies, Enrollment, Blog, Featured
I last wrote a piece on why higher ed marketers should care about campus security in 2019. Of course, a lot has happened since then, for better and worse. Campus security has become a hot-button issue of late with the terrible loss of life at Robb Elementary School in...
by Bart Caylor | Aug 15, 2022 | School Websites, Strategies, Inbound Marketing, Enrollment, Blog, Featured
Search engine optimization (SEO) has had a few shake-ups since I blogged about seven SEO basics for enrollment marketing in 2015. I addressed significant SEO changes in 2020, citing trends in Google’s mysterious algorithm that rewarded or penalized specific...
