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Email Marketing For Schools: Perfecting Your Follow-Up Strategy
Hello everyone. Welcome to week seven of the Digital Marketing Health Check for your school. If you aren't working through the digital marketing health checklist, click here to access the toolkit...
Digital Marketing Health Check | Week #6 | Messenger Marketing
Hello everyone, welcome to week six of the Digital Marketing Health Check for your school. Today we are looking at Messenger marketing. First of all, I will tell you a little bit about what...
Digital Marketing Health Check | Week #5 | SMS Marketing
Welcome to week five of the digital marketing health check for schools. Today, we are taking a look at SMS marketing. It's often a little overlooked element of our digital marketing for schools, but...
Digital Marketing Health Check | SEO for Schools
Welcome to week four of the Digital Marketing Health Check for Schools. Today we are covering search engine optimisation, or SEO. In week one, we covered your school’s website, in week two we...
Digital Marketing Health Check | Week #3 | Google Ads Health
Today is the third part of our Digital Marketing Health Check eight-part series and we will be looking at your school's Google Ads health. Google online advertising is part of our top layer, all the...
Digital Marketing Health Check | Week #2 | Facebook Health
Hello everyone. Today is the second part of our Digital Marketing Health Check eight-part series and we will be looking at your school's Facebook health. Facebook advertising is part of our top...
5 Essential Elements for Creative School Website Design
"We want something new, different" It's a phrase we often hear from our clients who want to stand out from from other private school competitors. Newness is enticing—it's synonymous with innovation...
Digital Marketing Health Check | Download the Checklist
This is the first video from our 9-part 'Digital Marketing Health Check' series, each week I'll release a new video covering a different element of your digital marketing strategy and looking at how...
Facebook Ads for Schools Examples
It's widely known that digital marketing is a must for most schools these days. But with so much stuff online, it’s tough to figure out which digital marketing campaigns will actually catch parents'...
Does your school use online Enquiry Forms?
Every school needs to keep up to date with enrolment enquiries, and the Enrolments team will have different ways of doing this. I’ve seen it all, from an excel spreadsheet tightly kept in a back...
5 Google Marketing Tools for Schools
Today we're going to talk about free Google Marketing tools that you can use as part of your school's marketing tool kit. Google has recently consolidated all of their different tools into the...
Geofencing for Schools – The Power of Location-based Advertising
What is Geofencing? Geofencing allows you to draw a virtual fence around a location and send push notifications or show ads to people once they enter that area. This is done using location...
Building School Community
Today, I want to discuss a really important topic, building community, specifically talking about building parent connections. It's important for students to build connections and to feel connected...
School Testimonials To Build Social Proof
In today's article, I will be discussing social proof. When parents are on the fence about choosing your school for their child, school testimonials are one of the most impactful ways to give your...
Managing a Marketing Department
In today's article, I will be answering a question from our Facebook group. The question was from Mel Farley around managing departmental expectations in relation to the production of marketing...
Alternatives To Facebook For Open Event Advertising
It's officially Open Event season again and I am seeing LOTS of Facebook Ads for Open Events. But what are your alternatives? In this episode of Marketing Mastery for schools I look at four...
YouTube for Schools – Embracing the Value of Video
YouTube boasts a massive audience and is the perfect platform for schools to build brand awareness and reach new audiences. Embracing the value of video will allow your school to better engage...
How successful schools write copy that compels parents
How do School Marketers decide what to write on their advertising and collateral, such as billboards, flyers and magazine ads? So many school marketers struggle with copywriting that will appeal to...
Traditional Marketing for Schools – Measuring Your Success
As marketers we want to show a return on investment for our efforts, however, with traditional marketing, this can be difficult. Here you have a few ways you can measure your traditional marketing...
Increase Enrolments by Journeying with Parents
Parents go through a long decision-making process when deciding which school to send their kid's to, as school's marketers we must understand this journey and plan our marketing accordingly. In this...
Putting Together your School Social Media Plan
Your plan for the year How can you plan your social media for the whole year ahead? As a marketer, you have these sort of peak seasons and off-peak seasons, and you have to keep your...
How to promote your school on social media
Success with social media advertising can be explained in four key steps. In this article, we summarise the framework to work through before you launch your next campaign. Plan your peak...
Marketing Reporting for Schools
How do school marketers show value to their Principals? One of the most challenging parts of our role as school marketers is showing value for what we do, and we are expected to show value every...
Search Engine Optimisation – Getting Seen on the Internet
If you have a website, then you need to know all about SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, or you won't be seen. It's all well and good having a pretty website, but more effort and attention should...