Mar 29, 2021 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, School Marketing, Strategy
I’ve recently completed a YouTube series on the 10 top global consumer trends. This prompted me to write a quick guide to the three types of trends I recommend school leaders consider when developing marketing strategy: Consumer trends, educational/ school marketing...
Nov 29, 2020 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, My journey, School Marketing
Traditionally, independent schools are high-touch environments as far as any form of support goes. They are people places. In most schools, it’s all about the children. I remember a colleague remarking what a pleasure it is to deal with schools when supplying services...
Oct 22, 2020 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, School Marketing, Strategy
There’s been a lot written about resilience and innovation during this year as a result of unanticipated restrictions and protocols adopted during the pandemic. As a strategic marketer, I’ve been amazed at how schools both locally and globally have risen to the...
Jul 20, 2020 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, School Marketing, Strategy
In preparation for a recent Zoom interview with Aubrey Bursch of Easy School Marketing in Maryland, USA on the subject of schools reopening in the context of COVID-19, I posted a question to my LinkedIn network. I received a flurry of responses and the post was...
Jun 15, 2020 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, School Marketing, Strategy
Don’t you just love a freebie that you can access when you need it? Last week, I published a video to summarise these resources. You can click through to the video here, on the image below, or read further for the links to the individual video content. I have divided...
Jan 17, 2020 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, Sales, School Marketing, Strategy
I do believe that independent schools in South Africa are changing their approach to Open Days: We are seeing Open Days from schools that previously did not host one There is a more strategic approach being taken by some schools, more tailored, experiential and...
