Best Websites by America's Top Universities
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Marketers and communications professionals in higher education are facing significant new challenges. Among them: the “enrollment cliff”; declining parent/student/alum engagement; and the need to stay on top of marketing best practices in an environment that is often slow to adopt new technologies.
We work with many iconic higher education institutions to assess, analyze, improve, and optimize their marketing and communications initiatives to meet the ever-escalating expectations of parents and alums, and reach the ever-elusive student and prospective student cohort.
We’re not another one of those “higher education agencies” that want to take over your marketing from soup to nuts, including branding, design, tactics, and execution. At Convince & Convert, we’ve worked with enough higher education marketers to know that you and your team are likely to be smart, progressive, motivated, and at least a little bit frustrated. You know you CAN succeed, and take your marketing and comms to the next level. We know it as well.
We’re here to help, by creating a roadmap of success that YOU can implement, not one that we will execute on your behalf.
We are a strategy and operations planning consultancy that works with universities to create and codify 18-month digital communications overhauls, with corresponding playbooks that you can use to guide your work.
Our clients and case studies speak for themselves, but in the past 24 months we’ve helped these organizations boost the effectiveness and impact of their digital communications programs:
Many of our best programs for higher education are rooted in deep audience analysis and journey mapping, to help you see which stories, channels, and calls-to-action most deeply resonate with your key constituencies.
Specific strategic plan and operations roadmap programs for universities include:
Digital Marketing Audit and Strategy
Content Marketing Audit and Strategy
Social Media Audit and Strategy
Email/Messaging Audit and Strategy
Customer Experience Audit and Strategy (especially good for campus tour optimization)
How can we help you? We’re delighted to create a custom program to propel your campus forward.
As part of our extensive work in higher education marketing, our team has created several research reports and position papers you may appreciate:
White Paper: 5 Ways Alumni Associations Can Boost Member Engagement
White Paper: Is Your Social Media + Content Strategy Keeping Up With the Pace of Change?
White Paper: 6 Reasons to Bring in an Outside Consultant
Research Report: Best Websites Among America’s Top Universities
Webinar (43 minutes): How Alumni Associations & Foundations Can Engage Members with Relevant Content
Webinar (13 minutes): How Alumni Associations & University Foundations can Boost Social Media Effectiveness
Webinar (14 minutes): The Key Social Media & Content Metrics for Higher Ed
Download the report to find out how to attract more students and increase applicants with a highly-effective higher ed website.