EDTECH MARKETING

Learn to better influence today's faculty, families, and students.

Your mobile-first EdTech app is invisible to schools requiring Chromebook compatibility. Your web-only platform frustrates students who want to study on phones. Here's how usage context determines platform strategy.

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Multi-Platform Strategy for Learning Apps: When to Build Web vs. Mobile-First

You built a beautiful iOS app with smooth animations and native gestures. Teachers love it during demos on their personal iPhones. Then you try to sell to school districts and discover they've standardized on Chromebooks running web apps. Your iOS...

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Search Intent for EdTech Queries: What Teachers Actually Type When Looking for Apps

Your product page ranks for "differentiated instruction software" and "personalized learning management system." Your organic traffic is abysmal....

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Paid acquisition costs $50+ per user while your blog sits empty. Here's how educational content becomes distribution infrastructure that compounds over time instead of burning budget.

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Educational App Blogging: Why Your Product Needs a Content Strategy

Your Facebook ads now cost $67 per app install, up from $28 last year. Google Search ads deliver installs at $53. Your unit economics are...

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Your EdTech subscription hemorrhages users monthly at rates that would bankrupt most SaaS businesses. Here's why education subscriptions fail and how to build retention that actually works.

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Subscription Fatigue in EdTech: Why Your App's Churn Rate Is Probably 60%+

Your monthly churn is 58%. You've normalized this catastrophic attrition by telling yourself "that's just how EdTech works" or "summer always kills...

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Parents download free educational apps, then refuse to pay for anything inside them. Here's the psychology determining which in-app purchases convert and which trigger uninstalls.

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In-App Purchase Psychology for Educational Apps: What Parents Will Actually Pay For

Your educational app has 50,000 downloads this month. Your in-app purchase conversion rate is 1.8%. You've acquired users efficiently, but you're...

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Your unknown EdTech app faces trust barriers that take years to overcome. Curriculum publishers have institutional credibility you can borrow through strategic partnerships that work for both parties.

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Co-Marketing with Curriculum Publishers

Your reading comprehension app has better assessment algorithms than established competitors. Teachers don't care because they've never heard of you....

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Your acquisition funnel leaks users faster than you can capture them. Meanwhile, community-led EdTech products grow through word-of-mouth you can't buy. Here's how communities become distribution infrastructure.

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Community-Led Growth for EdTech: Building User Groups That Scale Your App

Your paid acquisition costs $47 per user. Retention at day 30 is 23%. The math doesn't work—you're burning capital acquiring users who disappear...

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Referral Programs for Educational Apps

Your learning app offers $25 credit for each successful referral. Six months later, you've paid out $150 total—six referrals from 10,000 active...

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Most EdTech gamification is digital participation trophies nobody wants. Here's the psychological difference between badge systems that drive adoption and those that clutter interfaces.

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Gamification Marketing: When Badge Systems Actually Drive EdTech App Adoption

Your app awards a "First Lesson Complete!" badge with confetti animation. The user dismisses it without reading. Three lessons later: "Learning...

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Educational app categories are algorithmic wastelands where brilliant products die unseen. Here's why standard ASO fails in education and what actually works.

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App Store Optimization for Educational App

Your math app has better pedagogy than Khan Academy. Your language learning app uses more effective spaced repetition than Duolingo. Your study tool...

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