Marketing Your Small School is Holistic, Here's How! 🤩 Aug 08, 2022

I meet with lots of Heads of School and administrators and I'm sometimes very surprised by their view of marketing. 🤔

Some schools think marketing is about digital ads, email sequences, brand awareness, communications, SEO, and social media. 📩 📨 📥 ⌨️ 🖥️

Yes, marketing is all of those things. But it'...

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Independent School Retention Using the Connect 4 Framework Jan 21, 2022

Hi there!

As we all know - it costs more money, time, energy, and frustration to get prospective families into our school rather than keeping the families we already have and love.

🏫 By implementing the Connect 4 Framework, you’ll be sure to boost your school’s retention rates!

 Number 1️⃣ Conn...

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5 Retention Do's For 2022 Jan 08, 2022

✨ Hi there,

😓 If you're struggling with retention - you're going to see that your external brand hurt, your enrollment hurt and your community suffer.

Here are my 5 retention DO'S for 2022!

1. Surveys and third-party interviews 📋 how are you going to improve your school if you don't know what par...

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4 Communications to Send Current Parents January through March Jan 08, 2022

Hi there,

🌨 You're probably wondering: why January through March? Well, this is a key retention time point.

It's a period where parents are asking themselves, "do we opt out of the school or stay?" and "I'm spending X amount of dollars every year, is it worth it?" 🤔 

 Basically, this time of yea...

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