Not every moment in a parent’s experience with a school is equal. Some of them are more equal than others. Some of them are moments of truth. Of the many interactions a parent has with a school, some have deeper and more lasting impact than others. They are the ones...
To distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace, schools must become parent-centred. These days, being a child-centred school doesn’t provide much competitive advantage. Child-centred approaches are clearly linked to educational success and have been woven into...
More than ever before, it is critical that heads of school become integrally involved with marketing. Why now, you ask? Because marketing has morphed from being a fixed set of activities that emanates from a particular office to something that now touches every...
“Surprise” and “school” isn’t a word pairing that would generally be regarded as positive. There is little that parents dread more than the unexpected call from their child’s school. Based on that, surprising parents may not sound like the basis for an effective...
Independent school marketing is in many ways a cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy. We promote schools based on certain attributes and then we research why parents have chosen our schools and remain satisfied with them based on those same attributes. That, in turn,...
Let’s face it. Branding projects are a pain in the butt. They’re time consuming, expensive, require intense introspection, demand the finesse of giving stakeholder groups just the right amount of voice, risk exposing deep divisions about foundational principles...
