One of the biggest elephants in the room is how higher ed marketers are often tasked with selling a less than desirable product, a poor university offering. No matter how good of a marketer you are, it’s hard to sell prospective students on an education with a tuition...
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...
How do you boost enrollment and find donors in a shrinking higher education market? Whether you’re a seminary, graduate school, or a small private college, everyone is looking for ways to pull in more prospective students. Many different schools are relying on their...
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...
It’s not so much what that next big thing is that matters. It’s how you use it. As a higher ed marketer who works primarily in the digital marketing space, a very common question I get is “What’s the next big thing?” And it’s a good question. Technology today is...
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...
