Wednesday 1:00 – 4:30 | The Providence Art Club
A website in an organization’s greatest marketing asset. But attracting people there, keeping them engaged, and getting them to take action can be tricky. We’ll dive into ways to generate more organic traffic, via Search Engine Optimization, so that you don’t lose prospective families when it matters most.
Via interactive hands-on sessions, we’ll dive into keyword research techniques to generate share worthy content on your website, as well as explore common user experience barriers, in a peer to peer exercise. This workshop is for anyone in an admissions, marketing or communications role.
The session will end with must-have analytics reports for every school to be viewing, as well as a robust Q&A session with members of the Enroll Media Group team – bring your digital marketing questions!
Wednesday 4:45 – 6:00 | Providence Art Club
Google Analytics is stopping Universal Analytics (the current analytics configuration as schools know it) for good in July 2023. We will break down what schools need to do to save their analytics data, and start tracking in the new version of Google Analytics 4. We will also review tips for enhancing the data you collect on prospective families in order to help improve your marketing and website decisions to drive enrollment while staying privacy-centric in an increasingly shifting landscape. Bring your laptops and Google Analytics log-ins and get ready to embrace this change with confidence!
Thursday 9:00 am – 9:45 am | The Providence Art Club
There’s no question our brains are instinctively activated by certain types of stimulation. Our challenge is to harness and channel the right types of stimulation to create more effective marketing. Fortunately, neuroscience can be an important asset for us, teaching us how to use emotions to wake up our brain, how to feed our brain’s desire for familiarity and simplicity, and how to surprise our brain with word games and other unexpected language manipulations. In this workshop style session, you will see how you can apply neuroscience to improve your school’s marketing strategy.
Thursday 9:45 am – 10:30 am | Providence Art Club
During this session you will gain the tools needed to boost your school’s brand and become the master influencer of your school. Reveal the heart and soul of your school. This fun, but practical session, will touch upon the length and breadth of branding–from the big-picture mission and beloved traditions to the micro-decisions of colors and fonts and style guides.
Thursday 10:45 am – 12:00 pm | The Providence Art Club
Grants? Who has time? Do you know what documents you need? Where to search? How to write a great proposal? Do you have time to get it all done? Probably not. And yet, you may be thinking about grants to support your school programs or your nonprofit activities. Can grants really help? Yes, with a little luck and a great plan. Let me help you! Learn how to create productive conversations within the faculty and administrative team because of new and unexpected enrollment changes.
Thursday 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm | The Providence Art Club
Looking to take your email marketing plan to the next level or finally get started on building one? In this presentation, you’ll learn the importance of email marketing along with some key rules to live by and the key components of what makes a successful and sustainable email marketing plan for YOU!
Why Email Marketing:
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Thursday 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm | The Providence Art Club
Many schools have had a flood of inquiries and applications as parents tried to find educational alternatives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. You may be looking at the best enrollment numbers in years or perhaps a change in attrition numbers. How do you keep the students you have or work to improve the perception of your school? Through the results of many Attrition Studies conducted by Jill Goodman Consulting, participants will better understand parent and student behavior and why families choose to leave before graduation. That research resulted in the Six Components of Parent Retention, a framework of in-depth questions about the program and the school’s parent experience. Participants will use that as an opportunity for self-reflection, assessment, and crafting a strategy to retain all those new families or set your school up to attract the students you want. Learn how to create productive conversations within the faculty and administrative team because of new and unexpected enrollment challenges.
Thursday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | The Providence Art Club
Enrollment is up, but how do marketers help their schools retain current families? Retention reflects the vibrancy of the school body and how connected and informed the families are. We are still about helping schools attract new families, but retention of present families is equally important.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the power of marketing internally. We will examine the Pillars to Effective Internal Marketing and how to apply them. Participants will assess what they are doing now to enable schools to support optimum retention and discover new strategies that will build on what is already in place.
Friday 9:00 am – 10:00 am | The Providence Art Club
No school likes to think of their graduates as “products,” but in a world of reverse engineering, backwards design, and value propositions, it’s helpful to work towards a collective aspiration. Portraits of a Graduate can inspire, direct, and play an instrumental role in fulfilling a school’s mission, creating a new strategic plan, and tantalizing prospective families. Here’s how The Buckley School went about creating its Portrait, and why it became so important to all we do.
Friday 10:00 am – 11:00 am | The Providence Art Club
As a school branding professional, marketer, designer, or content creator, being and staying creative is essential to your success. In the best of times keeping the creative fire burning takes focus and hard work. Add to that the stress and isolation of the past couple of years and it is no wonder maintaining a sharp creative edge can be a real struggle.
In this session we’ll look at the importance of establishing some self-care habits for creatives as well as some practical creative exercises and initiatives you can add to your practice to revive, inspire, and maintain your creative health.
Friday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | The Providence Art Club
Back by popular demand! Brand Together has been fortunate to have O’Neill and Associate’s team of experts give a session at every conference we’ve held. Come to this presentation and you will see why. Whether it is a public health crisis, natural disaster, a legal difficulty, or a human tragedy, a crisis is like an octopus with lots of tentacles: How do you keep your brand intact in the face of the unexpected? How do you communicate with different constituencies? How can you be responsive to a developing situation? How will the crisis affect admissions, development, and alumni relations, and what can you do about it? The team has expert knowledge and wide experience with the kinds of challenges schools face. The resolution to your future crisis begins now–with educating yourself on how to prepare! Come for the session, and stay for the roundtable discussion to follow during lunch.
Thursday 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Round Table Session | The Providence Art Club
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