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Best Higher Education Marketing Agencies and the Top Problems They Solve

The best higher education marketing agencies are being invited by their college and university clients to solve a spectrum of challenges and achieve a set of goals  – from the very routine to the most sophisticated ones. Over the last 25 years, in serving over 100 colleges and universities, we have solved the following challenges […]

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Top SEO Agencies for Higher Education and Their Best Practices

Top performing higher education SEO agencies help their clients realize that fortune smiles on colleges and universities that pursue and achieve top organic rankings. Prosperity takes many shapes and forms for colleges ranked on page #1 of search engines.

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Enrollment Marketing for Test Optional Colleges

At last count, more than 1,100 colleges have gone test optional. This translates to fewer names that ACT can sell to colleges for marketing. Included below are 11 proven enrollment marketing strategies for growing enrollment in your your college if you can’t rely on buying names of prospective students.

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Top Higher Education Marketing Agencies and Their Best Practices

Top performing higher education marketing agencies help their clients deploy the following best practices:

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10 Enrollment Management Trends for 2020

In 2020, higher education marketers are battling to win an outsized share of a shrinking pool of domestic and international students. Future students are expected to be more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Increased marketing funding by for-profit colleges and some large public universities has unleashed a marketing arms race. Workforce preparation for […]

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20 Higher Education Marketing Trends for 2020

In 2020, higher education marketers are battling to win an outsized share of a shrinking pool of domestic and international students. Here are the 20 innovative trends that are underpinning higher education marketing. OUTLOOK & CULTURE 1. Celebrating Heroes Colleges and universities are realizing that students, alumni and faculty — not the institution — are […]

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Higher Education Web Development: Drupal vs. WordPress CMS for your .edu

Occasionally we are asked to make a recommendation to build the higher education website in Drupal or WordPress. Here is our take on this pivotal question

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A New College President’s Guide to Your Inherited .edu

As a newly selected college president, you may view your pending move in traditional terms — relocating to a new city, occupying a new office or executive residence and joining a new campus culture. You’re also inheriting a .edu web address that can help accelerate or impede your best laid presidential plans. Here’s a field […]

College Website Redesign ROI 5 Key Metrics
College Website Redesign ROI – 5 Key Metrics

Making a business case for investing in a comprehensive website redesign to ROI-minded, quant-driven cabinet members is vastly different than making a case to marketing leaders who intuitively understand the value of a great website. For quantitatively inclined cabinet members, here are five ROI metrics that we have used to justify the investment in a […]

Five Faces of a Dean
Five Faces of a Dean

The responsibilities of an academic Dean rival those of a big city mayor. They set strategic direction, gather allies, hunt revenue, champion ideas and ideals, administer day-to-day operations and accrue power. How can Deans best flourish in their current role and prepare for their next incarnation — as college provosts and president? 1. Balance Perspectives […]