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Pittsburgh Branding Agency Shares its Branding Best Practices
Pittsburgh Branding Agency Shares its Branding Best Practices

As one of Pittsburgh’s longest standing B2b and higher education branding agencies, Elliance has been delivering prosperity to regional and national clients for the past 28 years. Our arsenal of branding best practices includes: 1. Know Why You Brand When choices proliferate, branding ascends. Three reasons why successful organizations brand: In the sea of sameness, […]

higher education seo for featured snippets
Higher Education SEO: Why Ranking in the Featured Snippet Spot is a Worthy Endeavor

Featured Snippets are the highlighted results at the top of a Google Search Results page. Also known as position “zero”, they appear above the first organic result. Google displays these results when they determine that this format will help the user more easily discover what they’re looking for. Featured Snippets can show up as a […]

Recruiting Adult Students: A Playbook for Growing And Increasing Enrollment
Recruiting Adult Students: A Playbook for Enrollment Success

This blog post about how to recruit and enroll adult students was partly inspired by our work with forward thinking clients like Kathy Groves and Emily Horstman at William Woods University, Jacqui Spicer and DaRon Hairston at Baker College, Mollie Cecere at Carlow University, Brad Sims and Dianne O’Neill at Capitol Technology University, and Karen […]

Pittsburgh SEO Agency Shares its SEO Best Practices
Pittsburgh SEO Agency Shares its SEO Best Practices

As Pittsburgh’s longest standing SEO & Inbound agency, Elliance has been using these best practices to deliver prosperity to regional and national clients.

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Higher education marketing and the battle for meaning.

Third in a three-part blog series on a concept that the author R. Todd Erkel calls “the battle for meaning.” We will look at the evolution of higher education marketing and its relationship to code, content, Google’s algorithm, and page one organic search results.  The Battle for Meaning in the Age of Name-Image-Likeness Once upon […]

ChatGPT: Friend or Foe of Marketers
ChatGPT: Friend or Foe of Marketers?

Can ChatGPT help under-staffed and under-resourced marketing teams become more productive? We analyze each marketing function and rated its performance.

The Ultimate and Definitive Guide for Higher Education Marketing
The Ultimate Guide to Higher Education Marketing

This guide was written to help under-resourced, small to medium colleges and universities who can’t compete in the marketing arms race and yet need to out-wit and out-smart the deep-pocketed Goliaths. We call them small giants. As one of the leading higher education marketing agencies, we learned the strategies and tactics presented here from serving […]

cause marketing and the battle for meaning
Cause marketing and the battle for meaning.

Three examples of companies, their special cause marketing initiatives, and keyword phrases pivotal for winning their battles for meaning.

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Vaccine Confidence and the Battle for Meaning

This three-part blog series considers how companies and cause marketing can mature beyond nourishing brand loyalty and secure keyword phrases linked to bedrock principles.

Thinking of Marketing as an Ecosystem
Thinking of Marketing as an Ecosystem

Marketing, like ecology, is a complex ecosystem of reciprocal relationships thriving in a network of mutuality. Parts grow, interdependence begins and symbiotic relationships form. It adapts to each new season.