Thinking Out Loud

Parent Communications – a few observations, a compromise, and a suggestion

Many enrollment leaders want to communicate more with parents. And that’s good. Parents are critical to the decision process for school selection and shouldn’t be forgotten. But what enrollment leaders may not realize is that they already are communicating with parents…it’s just not as intentionally as it could be. I recently sat with a VP...
on April 18, 2012

Thinking Exponentially

Last fall, during one of my client visits, I pulled onto campus and easily found the Admissions Visitor parking spots. For two reasons, I’m always careful to pay attention to how many spots a school has dedicated for visitors. First, I can offer an assessment of whether the placement and allotment of spaces is adequate....
Karyn Adams
on April 13, 2012

Don’t Be a Touch-Me-Not

I’m often made fun of when I refer to communications as “touches.” “We’ll touch them once with a letter mailer, and follow it with a an email touch, and then….” If it’s the first time I’ve used this language in front of a client, I can often see a querulous look from my audience. Why...
on March 29, 2012

Be There!

Sometime this year we will complete our 600th marketing campaign for college admissions teams. An interesting observation that I’ve made over time goes back to a speech that I once heard from David Beamer, father of 9/11 hero Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, whom I had the good fortune of meeting in 2004. Mr. Beamer talked...
on March 26, 2012

Finding the baloney (aka Measurements: Necessary and Confusing)

My nine year old and I had a deep discussion last week on why the metric system is a much simpler and easier to use measurement system than the commonly used English system.  He understood quickly as I explained the absurdity of many of our common measurements. The conversation made me think of some of...
on March 23, 2012

The Forgotten Audience

One of the biggest audiences schools tend to ignore is…do you want to guess? It’s the audience that students generally listen to the most (especially Millenials). Yup. Parents. But even though most colleges and universities are well-versed in the traits and characteristics of Millenials—from their group ethic to their buying habits—institutions rarely engage the parents...
Karyn Adams
on March 21, 2012
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