The “Mad Men” notion of people coming up with marketing and messaging ideas while drinking whiskey and smoking cigarettes is great TV fare but definitely not reality. No school marketing and communication professionals I know have ever developed a campaign that way –...
Is it possible that messaging maxims from over a century ago can still be relevant today? The answer is a resounding yes. In 1923, Claude Hopkins, an immensely successful advertising writer and strategist, wrote Scientific Advertising. As you can tell from the title,...
We’re all very familiar with the admissions funnel. It’s a variation of the sales funnel developed by agency executive Elias St. Elmo Lewis in 1898. The problem is that, at 126 years old, the funnel is feeling its age and is becoming less helpful to schools. The good...
Here are two of the most common frustrations I hear when speaking with those working in enrollment or marketing in schools. “Every time we have to write something about the school, whether it’s for an email, the website or a digital ad, it’s so hard. It’s like we’re...
Speak to the heart. That’s how you can create messaging that captures people’s attention, influences their thinking, or even changes their minds. It’s how you can differentiate your school from its competitors and it’s how you develop recruitment and retention...
Can a computer write more effective ad copy than a human? If you look at the results of a recent campaign by JP Morgan Chase, the answer would be a resounding yes. Does that mean that we should automate the creation of marketing messaging? Absolutely not. Last year,...
