Oct 1, 2019 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, Sales, School Marketing
I have three big tips to ensure you have a call to action – in other words a sales pitch – in your school marketing. Why? Well, we can generate and publish loads of great content on our achievements and events, but if we do not actually create a sales...
Aug 31, 2019 | Marketing, School Marketing, Strategy
For the past four months, I have been facilitating the Effective School Marketing workshops for ISASA, the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa. The focus of these has been on taking a more strategic approach to marketing in schools. We’ve had some...
Jul 12, 2019 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, Strategy
What do you do when existing and prospective customers are under increasing financial pressure? Here are five practical tips for school marketing in a recession. Get into the data Independent schools in South Africa are feeling the effects of the weak...
Jun 5, 2019 | Marketing, Strategy
What do cakes, oranges and ladders have to do with marketing? Perhaps it’s my background in education, but they are great teaching tools! These three items are practical analogies I like to use in explaining 3 important marketing concepts. Sometimes, you just need a...
Apr 6, 2019 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, School Marketing
I have always been a fan of LinkedIn. Even back in the days when all it was, was a place to post your CV. I believed in the value of an online professional platform for networking. When Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016 for USD 26.2b, I was excited. I saw the...
Mar 21, 2019 | Independent Schooling, Marketing, School Marketing
Structure follows strategy. This final part in a series of 3 blogs on the topic is only worth reading if you already have a marketing strategy! We now focus on the overarching structures for marketing and admissions in independent schools. Let’s look at two concepts....
