Chicken or Egg – Effective Education Marketing Strategy

Chicken or Egg?

It depends on how savvy your education marketing strategy really is.

Many marketing firms would say CHICKEN.  A truly insightful education marketing firm would see the correct answer as YES, or IT DEPENDS. On what, you ask? What time is it? Are you hungry? Health conscious?

For me, it depends on time of day. For dinner, I will take a great piece of fried chicken any day over a tiny, lonely egg. My felt need at 5 pm is DINNER but at 6:00 am, I pick the egg. Enter #marketingtrends – programmatic marketing.

A silly illustration to describe an important digital marketing trend is micro-targeting based on programmatic capabilities. All important info that we consider for our education marketing strategies. 

For example, according to Joshua Spanner, head of Google’s Media Lab, Google’s recent Search App campaign with dynamic content that changed based on location of user, time of day, and other live data points delivered their strongest mobile results to date. Spanner also refers to the “micro-moment” – the intersection of demographic and psychographic data with intent and decision that programmatic buying can make possible.

According to eMarketer, advertisers in the US will accelerate growth in their programmatic digital display ad investments in 2021 as spending approaches $97 billion. That will represent a 29.0% increase over 2020 and will account for more than 89% of all digital display ad spending.

As the big boys like Google and Yahoo hone in on the massive amounts of data they collect, they can leverage that data to build even more effective ad delivery platforms targeting more specific consumer behaviors. As publishers aggregate and anonymize their findings, they offer more highly targeted and responsive programmatic media buys using geo-targeting, time of day, etc. The result is the increasingly effective ROI of programmatic ads. When campaigns deliver results, repeat buying is the response. Make sure you are using the education marketing strategy to harness the power of technology to grow enrollment.

It is a year of continuing technological change with increased marketer opportunity. At the same time, the person at then end of the ad message should never be forgotten. In the digital world, the messaging has to remain consumer focused to answer the felt need. Additionally, data helps us deliver better campaign results, while being mindful to protect consumer privacy,  a primary responsibility for the platforms and advertisers who hold the data.

The final takeaway is that while technology continues to drive greater opportunities, we can’t forget that we are serving people. Elevate Education Marketing has the experience and expertise to meet needs, deliver value, and build trust. Here’s to  exciting enrollment growth! 

Are you taking advantage of all that technology has to offer your organization? If not, schedule your complimentary consultation now!