EDTECH MARKETING

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

Education marketing

Adult learners aren't traditional students with jobs. They're calculating ROI on time they don't have. Here's why your student-focused messaging fails with career changers.

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Marketing to Adult Learners

A 19-year-old choosing a college major faces uncertainty about future career paths. A 34-year-old enrolling in a data analytics program faces...

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Students ignore .edu email addresses by design. Here's how EdTech marketers reach student audiences when institutional email is where engagement goes to die.

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Email Marketing to Students: Overcoming the Dead .edu Email Problem

Your carefully crafted email campaign sits in an inbox your target audience opened twice this semester—once during orientation and once when...

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Privacy regulations like FERPA and COPPA don't just limit data collection—they reshape every aspect of EdTech marketing strategy. Here's what you actually can't do and why it matters.

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FERPA, COPPA, and Marketing: What EdTech Marketers Legally Can't Do

Most B2B marketers build campaigns around behavioral tracking, retargeting pixels, and granular attribution models. EdTech marketers operate in a...

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Discover how educational institutions use scholarship programs strategically as marketing and student acquisition tools while providing genuine financial aid.

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Financial Aid as a Marketing Channel: Scholarship Strategies That Drive Applications

Your competitor just launched a $5,000 scholarship program that generated 2,400 applications.

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Learn how to market inclusive education authentically—moving beyond compliance checklists to messaging that resonates with families seeking genuinely accessible schools and childcare.

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Inclusive Education Marketing

Let's play a drinking game. Take a shot every time a school website says they're "committed to diversity and inclusion" without explaining what that...

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Discover how to craft age-specific marketing messages for childcare and education—from infant care through elementary programs. What works for toddler parents fails with elementary families.

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Age-Specific Marketing Strategies

Here's a marketing truth that should be obvious but apparently isn't: parents of infants have completely different concerns than parents of...

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Discover research-backed strategies for creating compelling virtual tours that convert prospective families, with platform recommendations and best practices for childcare centers and schools.

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Virtual Tours That Convert

The average parent spends 47 seconds on a school's virtual tour before deciding whether to schedule an in-person visit. That's less than a minute to...

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Transform your childcare center's waitlist from a frustrating delay into a powerful marketing tool that builds parent loyalty, creates anticipation, and drives enrollment conversions.

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Waitlist Management as a Marketing Strategy

Most childcare centers treat waitlists as necessary evils—administrative burdens that frustrate parents and create operational headaches. But...

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Explore the psychological factors that drive parent school selection decisions, from cognitive biases to emotional triggers that influence education choices and childcare decision-making.

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Decision Frameworks That Shape How Parents Select Schools

Sarah spent three months researching schools for her daughter. She created spreadsheets comparing test scores, teacher-to-student ratios, and...

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Learn how to design education website conversion funnels that respect parent decision-making processes. Boost enrollment with research-aligned inquiry pathways that convert.

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Conversion Architecture for Education Websites

Parents don't choose schools the way they choose restaurants. The decision to entrust another institution with their child's education involves...

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