Planning

Why Response Rates Don’t Matter

Response rates produced by Student Search campaigns are, in many ways, meaningless. What? Keep reading before you decide that I’ve totally lost it. Here’s where I’m coming from: It is better to receive a response rate your admissions staff can handle than to get a response rate that overwhelms your team’s time and resources. You…

on July 1, 2013

Ideastormers Unite!

  Ideastormers! That was the rallying cry for our event last week, the 2nd Annual Ideastorm Summit. The session, held on the campus of Elon University in North Carolina (thanks again for hosting, Elon), brought together 14 different institutions and 25 enrollment leaders for a full day of rich idea exchange, discussion, trend reviews, and…

Karyn Adams
on June 14, 2013

A Lesson in Using What You’ve Got

This summer (like the last several summers), H·A ThirtyOne presented at ACT’s Enrollment Planners Conference in Chicago. Our session, title “The Best 31 Enrollment Marketing Ideas of the Year,” was extremely well attended and saw us sharing great ideas with an overflowing audience, and collecting new ideas, too. In fact, it was the idea sharing…

Karyn Adams
on February 27, 2013

An Idea for Parent Communications

Our blogs typically cover strategies and ideas for helping our higher ed clients reach and recruit students for their schools. Many of our client schools look to us for advice in reaching their parent constituents, and wisely so. Parents and families will have the largest influence on the college decision process. Developing effective communications for…

Karyn Adams
on November 20, 2012

Fresh from Concourse B (and the ACT Enrollment Planners Conference)

This blog comes to you fresh from Concourse B at Chicago’s Midway airport after having spent the last three days at the ACT Enrollment Planners Conference.  It was a great conference, and if you didn’t get to attend, I can recommend it as one of the best for enrollment planning. However, I suspect many enrollment…

on July 15, 2012

Attention! Milestone up ahead!

Every time I hit a milestone, I like to take a moment and appreciate it. Sometimes I can see the milestone coming and have a chance to mentally prepare, like that big birthday I had this year. Other times, the milestone happens without my even knowing it, and I can only celebrate upon reflection. I…

Karyn Adams
on June 6, 2012

It’s May 2nd. Now what? 7 Tips for a Better Enrollment Year

May 1st is the day many enrollment officers dread. In fact, many of the attendees at the recent SACAC/PCACAC conference were unable to talk or see beyond that date. But the date has come and gone, and now enrollment professionals across the country are looking at a number on their report and wondering…what next? Whether…

on May 2, 2012
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