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Annotations for Responsive Wireframes

In 2013, we started making our wireframes responsive, instead of drawing them in Omni Graffle as we had for the previous ten years. And it’s great, but one of the challenges we immediately ran into was figuring out how to convey page notes in the responsive context. To solve this problem, we created a tool […]

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Higher education marketing strategy for shrinking budgets

When budgets are shrinking, competitors are multiplying and program offerings are expanding, this higher education marketing strategy will help you outsmart competitors without outspending them.

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Why We Love Higher Education Marketing

Three simple reasons we love working with colleges and universities: It keeps us smart One of our favorite parts is working with smart professors, which perpetually keeps us at the edge of digital knowledge and emerging ideas. It keeps us sharp Because colleges and universities don’t have big budgets, we have to constantly help them […]

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Website Tracking and Reporting Issues – Campaign Attributions

In our experience, measurement, collection and reporting of website data are usually not a well-defined piece of a marketing plan for many businesses. One such area where marketers often struggle with Google Analytics (GA) reports is related to campaign attribution. Due to technicalities and nature of the internet, it is not straightforward to know the […]

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Inbound Marketing Plan: 6 Key Ingredients

An Inbound Marketing Plan is similar to a marketing plan but exclusively focused on achieving business goals by creating and igniting relevant, trust-building and shareable content. It answers fundamental questions like “who, what, why, where, when” for the inbound initiatives such as blog posts, social media posts, online press releases, articles, infographics, polls, white papers, […]

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Can higher education branding deliver value for students?

Does higher education branding actually help prospects and parents make sound choices?

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Responsive Web Design Magazine to Grow Relationships & Revenues

Big day! We launched a responsive web design magazine for our wonderful client, Oncology Nursing Society. They are a trade group that serves the educational, networking and information needs of 30,000 oncology nurses across the planet. The client had originally approached us to build a tablet app, which we are perfectly capable of building. However, […]

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Inbound Marketing & Paid Marketing: Good Alone, Better Together.

Inbound marketing and paid marketing are good alone, but better together. While paid marketing gives a short-term boost, inbound marketing creates an enduring foundation.

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International Student Enrollment Trends

The Elliance team recently partnered with Manchester Business School’s Miami Center to market its unique global MBA program. Manchester Business School is a prestigious brand in the world of business education. Working with this global client has helped us appreciate some of the changing trends in the higher education world, including the enormous increase in […]

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Enrollment Marketing’s Four P’s of Successful Graduate and Adult Programs

What programs should one focus their enrollment marketing efforts on? The answer lies in the four P’s.