Higher Ed Pulse

On this week’s episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Zach sits down with Erin Stine, an Account Executive at CampusESP, an edtech company that focuses on parent and family communication and engagement to help universities impact enrollment, student success, retention, and annual giving. In March of 2009, Erin became an admissions counselor at The Parson’s School of Design, which is a part of The New School in New York City. Over the course of a decade, Erin worked her way up to the role of Associate Vice President of Enrollment — just a step away from a VP. But this past July, she left higher education and started working in sales at CampusESP — a shift that, at first glance, seemed a bit strange. Tune in to hear the story behind how Erin came to terms with the fact that as prestigious as the VP title was, she ultimately didn’t want the post. To learn more about Erin's story and the current work she does at CampusESP, you can connect with her on LinkedIn here.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Zach sits down with Gerald Stanley, CEO of Inroads Analytics to discuss how predictive analytics helps higher ed marketers and admissions professionals make smarter decisions on how to spend their time, energy, and money. Most enrollment marketers are at least somewhat familiar with predictive analytics as it relates to deciding which names to buy for a student search campaign, but there is so much more to predictive. Discover how schools are using predictive analytics through the academic year to empower their marketing and admissions teams with the daily insight they need to increase quality inquiries, applications, and enrolled students. To learn more about the work Gerald and his team are doing at Inroads, you can visit their website here or connect with Gerald on LinkedIn.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

One of the biggest challenges for higher ed marketers is to personalize their communications at scale. No, not just use or personalization tokens, but actually communicate to prospects where, when, and how they wish to be engaged. On this episode of Chat’s What (S)he Said, Zach and Nicole break down several frameworks for communications segmentation and discuss when and where to use email, texting, chatbots, and video SMS within your overarching comm flow. As always, you can expect decent storytelling, good insight, great ideas, and a heck of a lot of fun from this conversation between two of your favorite enrollment marketing nerds.Learn more about this episode in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of The Enrollify Podcast, we feature the first episode in Enrollify’s mini series on “My Career in Higher Education.” Janice Cheng-McConnell is the Assistant Director of Graduate Enrollment Communications at Syracuse University. Janice started working in higher ed as a fry cook in the dining hall of her alma mater, Binghamton University. Since then, she has worked at state schools, community colleges, and larger private schools, and as such, has a diverse perspective on how different admissions and marketing teams function. In this conversation, Janice reflects on the most important advice she received from mentors along her professional journey, what makes a great leader, and what higher ed needs to “figure out” if it wants to reduce employee turnover.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Higher ed marketers, like all marketers, are in the market for attention. And yet interestingly enough, there is often a huge chasm between where schools spend their media budgets and where current high school students spend their time. On the pilot episode of Signals, Matt Diteljan, Co-Founder and CEO of Glacier, and our own Zach Busekrus from Enrollify, sit down for an educational conversation about where high school students actually spend their time online.The duo offer creative ideas for how to build content programs and advertising strategies that resonate with next generations of students. Stream the episode for thoughtful commentary on how to adapt and improve your school’s student recruitment strategies to compel Gen Z to enroll at your college or university.Learn more about this episode in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It can be difficult to measure the value of advertising — especially when it comes to brand awareness building campaigns. Gen Z has a 30-40% higher ad recall than millennials, but are also quicker to recognize and skip ads than older generations. On this episode of Signals, Zach and Matt break down helpful frameworks for how to create digital ads that capture and keep the attention of high school students. Join the duo for a walkthrough and creative riff on what does and doesn’t work on Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube when trying to reach Gen Z.Learn more about this episode in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this episode of Signals, Zach and Matt are joined by TikTok influencer, Paige Pinder, to discuss how to build, manage, and grow your school’s TikTok account. Paige shares detailed insight into what does and doesn’t work on the platform, who should be (and shouldn’t be) creating content on your TikTok account, and how to increase your chances of going viral. Stream a fun dialogue filled with campaign ideas, expert tips and tricks, and examples of the colleges and universities that are early adopters of the platform and currently slaying the game!Learn more about this episode in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of The Enrollify Podcast, we feature a recent conversation between Eric Stoller and Cliff Holekamp that was originally published on the In Your Element podcast — a sister show to The Enrollify Podcast. This fast-paced dialogue drops listeners into a compelling conversation about higher education. In Your Element asks innovative leaders about the challenges, wins, and future of everything from meeting enrollment numbers to equity in education.Cliff Holekamp is the Cofounder & Managing Director of Cultivation Capital. On this episode, Eric and Cliff discuss:The ethical and financial ramifications of a needs-blind admissions modelWhy university programs like entrepreneurship are becoming more and more popularHow recruiting and retention go hand in handThe rise of technological innovation across universities and why colleges are really tech companiesIf you are not already subscribed to In Your Element, you can do so here.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Historically, colleges and universities across the country have thought about graduate student recruitment as second in importance to the traditional undergraduate student population. As such, graduate enrollment management teams tend to be under-resourced when it comes to time, money, and talent. But tides could be shifting as fewer students are going to college and as schools across the country are still recovering from losing significant revenue due to the pandemic. In this episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Zach sits down with Adam Poluzzi, the Assistant Vice Provost of Graduate Enrollment Management and Brett DiMarzo, the Director of Graduate Enrollment Management Strategy, at Boston College. The three discuss a new division Boston College has launched as a part of the Graduate Enrollment Management team to help support graduate admissions professionals with the tools, insights, and resources they need to design and implement digital student recruitment strategies. This model, perhaps the first of its kind, could be adopted by large and small schools and programs alike looking for practical and specific ways to attract, engage, enroll, and retain future graduate students.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Stream a dynamic conversation between Mickey and Zach on how enrollment managers can rethink their approach to virtual student recruitment in tandem with a more traditional approach. The duo unpacks how to create content that builds trust throughout a student’s journey from prospect to deposit and how to optimize communications that align with how students find, navigate, and digest information. Also — walk away with tips and tricks for how to make your school’s Error 404 page more dynamic! Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On the pilot episode of Chat’s What (S)he Said, Nicole and Zach take a deep dive into the should do’s and please don’ts of how to have productive recruitment conversations with Gen Z. Zach shares a couple of stories of how his siblings (Gen Z-ers) navigate, consume, and share information, and Nicole offers several frameworks for how admissions counselors and higher ed marketers can think about attracting, engaging, and delighting prospective students in a way that not only stands out, but helps to meet an institution’s enrollment goals. Tune in for a spunky, educational experience — and let us know what you think! Learn more about this episode in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of Fanatical Fridays, Zach and Mickey pontificate about what the future of prospect engagement and the admissions team will look like at colleges and universities across the country. The duo discusses the power of two way engagement and what it means for how enrollment teams operate both strategically and functionally.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There are a lot of opinions out there about what the future of higher education should look like, but what do students actually think? After speaking with undergraduate students from across New England about what the future might have in store for collegiate education, Zach sat down with Julia Wheeler, a graduate student at Roger Williams University, to brainstorm what the future of graduate education should look like.Discover Julia’s thoughts on how schools can better prepare students for graduate school, the modality of education that makes the most sense, and what experiential learning opportunities are actually attractive to prospects.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Virtual recruitment events are here to stay — even as traditional, in-person events return to most college campuses. On this week’s episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Zach sits down with Paige Steffy, a Customer Success Manager at Unibuddy, to discuss what the future holds for digital events. They discuss ideas for how to approach event marketing in unique and differentiated ways, how to structure and title your events to stand out in a sea of virtual offerings, and what enrollment marketers can learn from Netflix with respect to how events should be formatted.Learn more about virtual event marketing in the free e-course we built in collaboration with Unibuddy. This course takes you through the entire process of running an unforgettable virtual event, from planning to promotion and execution.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Zach and Mickey discuss how admissions and marketing professionals should intentionally approach professional development opportunities. How should you decide what sessions to attend at your association’s event? What balance should you strike between tactical and inspirational content? Unlock Mickey’s hacks on how to make the most out of every conference and virtual event in this week’s episode of Fanatical Fridays.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Marcus Hanscom is an incredible thinker with progressive insights about the future of graduate education and graduate student recruitment. On Enrollify’s recent Podcast Roadshow around New England, Zach sat down with Marcus to discuss the future of graduate enrollment management. Marcus talked a lot about incentive alignment. Graduate education needs to be more agile, advanced degrees that meet the continually changing demands of today’s market need to be spun up quickly, but, in order to do so, you need faculty to be on board! So, in order to encourage faculty members to create new graduate programs in a timely fashion, institutions need to find ways to ensure departments that if they meet their enrollment goals, the department will be rewarded with more resources. Marcus also talked about how over the next few years, the infamous, looming 'Higher Ed Enrollment Cliff' will arrive and many institutions will likely turn to graduate enrollment to help make up for this loss in revenue. But, graduate enrollment management needs resources now to prepare for this moment. Waiting until the cliff hits hardest just might be too late.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The student journey to enrollment is increasingly multidimensional. To meet students’ high expectations for virtual engagement, institutions will need to assess their various engagement tactics and work to bring them all under one hood. On this week’s episode, Zach sits down with Mallory Willsea, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Operations at PlatformQ Education, to discuss the strategies and tactics that separate the best virtual events from the rest. Mallory posits that virtual events, and any engagement institutions do, should be centered around the characteristics that define each student they engage with. Using data to fuel planning and follow up will be the differentiator, she believes, to facilitate student journeys that cater to students’ specific preferences and interests. Tune in for an idea-packed, entertaining, and practical episode on how to up your event marketing game. If you’re curious to learn more about PlatformQ Education’s offerings, watch the Enrollify Exclusives Zach did with Gil Rogers, Executive Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Marketing and Outreach here.Are you planning on running a virtual recruitment event for your institution? Check out the free e-course we built with our partners at Unibuddy to learn the best practices for making your event unforgettable.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

During one of the most tumultuous seasons in the life of higher education, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) cut their campus tuition in half — and claimed that students could still get the same high-quality education and campus experience, at a radically more affordable price. On this week’s episode, we talk with Tim Whittum, Associate Vice President of Enrollment Management at SNHU, about the radical ways in which the university is rethinking the modality and flexibility of higher education and what this means for the future of student recruitment. Tim and Zach posit that schools will need to get much more creative and specific about their value offering in order to stay relevant and competitive. The two also riff on ideas around how schools with predominantly online course offerings may get innovative and launch pseudo-campus environments...perhaps something like a “co-learning” space that is somewhat akin to a “co-working” space?You won’t want to miss this riveting episode which is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Roadshow series!Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Zach and Mickey debrief after The Enrollify Podcast Roadshow and riff on ideas about how the freshman year should be reimagined. Should students be required to enter college as “undecided”? Should the core curriculum include content on “how to manage a budget”, “understanding your personality test”, “possible career pathways for people like you”, etc? Students might have an idea of what they want, but they don’t always know how to get there…what if freshman year was hyper-focused on helping students understand how the world actually works before allowing them to take major-specific courses?Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Experiential learning has become such a buzzword in higher ed. I don’t know a single school that doesn’t tout their “experiential approach” to learning. And yet, so many students graduate underprepared for the workforce. In this episode, Dr. Neil Niman, a faculty member at University of New Hampshire’s College of Business and Economics joins Zach for a progressive conversation on the future of coursework, course modality, and experiential learning. Learn all about the Business in Practice (BiP) program that Dr. Niman created, which includes more than 70 courses on trending topics like “Bitcoin and the Blockchain”, “Agile Product Management”, “How to Talk Stocks”, and “College to Career: How to Stand Out in Today's Job Market”, and discover how UNH is helping students graduate with real-world working experience through their student-run digital agency, Voice Z Digital.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How do you evaluate your on-page SEO game? How do you optimize your website pages to increase their rankings for one or more targeted keywords? Learn a simple framework for how to dissect top ranking pages to boost your page on SERPs. Also — The Enrollify Podcast is heading out on the road! Next week we will be interviewing students, VPs, and CMOs on the topic of “The Future of Higher Ed: What Students Actually Want, What the World Needs, and How to Design a Sustainable Experience That Achieves Both Ends.” Follow Zach on LinkedIn for live updates!Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of Fanatical Fridays, Mickey outlines a framework he uses to help enrollment managers evaluate the strategies and tactics that worked best to recruit this year’s class (and the ones that that didn’t work at all), in order to craft a more sustainable recruitment plan for the next recruitment cycle.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Over the last 18 months, Zach has been fortunate enough to interview more than 100 leaders in enrollment marketing on The Enrollify Podcast.From VPs of Enrollment Management to Directors of Marketing, from college presidents to famous SEOs, and from CEOs of EdTech companies to brand experts at education marketing agencies.And each bit of insight, inspiration, and education garnered from the guests we've had on the show, has augmented, in some way, his approach to marketing.On this week's episode, Zach shares 10 lessons learned and takeaways taken after 100 conversations with some of the best in higher ed. The lessons are as follows:1. Stop Asking Broad Questions and Expecting Meaningful Insight2. Copywriting is the Most Accessible, Affordable, and Underrated of Marketing Tactics3. Imitate First, Differentiate Second4. Measure Twice, Cut Once5. The Future of Brand is Casual6. "How to" Content Still Really Freakin' Works7. Marketing Attribution is Still Subjective—And That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing8. 80% of Your Content Can Be Good if 20% of Your Content is Great9. Insert Yourself Into the Conversation10. Higher Ed Marketers are More Progressive Than You ThinkLearn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Join Zach and Mickey for a conversation around the do’s, don’ts, and really don’ts of hiring in and around higher ed right now. Mickey fleshes out a favorite framework he uses to help schools hire for the right roles from Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. Zach riffs on why organizations need to do a better job of paving other pathways to financial and influential success outside of the path to leadership.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to our 100th Enrollify Podcast episode (cue the confetti)! This is an extra special milestone for Enrollify, the place where enrollment marketers go to upskill, reskill, and discover new ideas, products, and services. In this episode, we put host Zach Busekrus in the hot seat and ask him all sorts of fascinating questions, from the top people who influence him to his favorite breakfast options.Making her Enrollify podcast debut will be special guest host Natalie Gleason, whose first collaboration with Enrollify was through a strategic partnership with Mongoose (where she was working up until last year). A proud early adopter of Enrollify, Natalie is now a full-time member of the team working on Enrollify and its sister brands, mainly behind the scenes on marketing strategy, but is excited to (finally) go behind the mic.In this episode, we pack in a recap of noteworthy marketing discoveries thus far, get inside our founder's head and hear more about HIS story, and get 100 random insights that may or may not help you grow, but will hopefully entertain you. Trust us, you won’t want to miss this one!Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Every marketer knows the importance of word of mouth — people trust people more than people trust brands...plain and simple. But, how do you get word of mouth to happen at scale? And how do you ensure that the words that people use to describe the experience your institutional brand offers aligns with the very way you want your brand to be perceived? Community marketing might just be the answer. On this week’s episode, Zach sits down with Kyle Campbell, a Content Marketing Manager at Unibuddy, to discuss what community marketing is, why it matters for student recruitment, and which schools are slaying this new approach to prospect engagement. To learn more about community marketing in higher ed, and get a plethora of examples of schools doing it well, subscribe to Unibuddy’s bimonthly newsletter, The Chat.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of Fanatical Fridays, Zach and Mickey close out their Summer Sessions series with a discussion around how and why higher ed marketers and admissions professionals should adopt conversational marketing and admissions frameworks to their student recruitment mix. Tune into this episode to learn the following:What conversational marketing means in higher ed student recruitment Successful frameworks for how to implement conversational marketing and admissions strategies at your institution Why prospective students respond so well to conversational messaging How to stand out from your competition with a unique tone, voice, and approach to admissions communicationsLearn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Communication flows are the bread and butter of student recruitment in higher ed — and yet, admissions and marketing professionals alike struggle to make them compelling and differentiated. On this week’s episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Zach sits down with Bryson Purcell, an Assistant Director of Admissions at Lock Haven University, and the Co-Founder of SuccessU (a student coaching service), to discuss the importance of designing a communications strategy focused on parents that acts in parallel with the drip sequences focused on prospective students. Bryson shares specific strategies and tactics that he has used over the tenure of his career to increase response rates, boost prospect engagement, and ultimately convince students and their families to enroll. You can learn more about Bryson and SuccessU by connecting with him on LinkedIn or at www.successucoach.com.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The new fiscal year has started and budgets are more or less set...but just because you’ve spent your marketing resources on a particular collection of vendors, strategies, tactics, and technology doesn't mean you have to do the same next year!On this week's episode, Zach shares five questions that every higher ed marketer should ask themselves before they launch a single campaign this fall:Where are the keyword gaps in your competitor’s SEO strategy?How can you make your content more searchable?If a user had to complete a survey before they could “x” out of your website and describe their experience with your school in three adjectives, what do you hope those adjectives would be?If people are willing to take jobs having never stepped foot in an office or met their team physically, populations of students will feel the same way about college. What does this mean for recruitment?How do we win the quality lead game and stop playing the antiquated quantity lead game?This week’s episode is brought to you by Element451. Have you heard the news? Element just launched a brand new certification course on Enrollment Analytics — and they are giving away scholarships to a few Enrollify subscribers! Apply before August 15th to qualify! Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week’s episode of Fanatical Fridays, Zach and Mickey continue their Summer Sessions series with a brainstorm on the future of college and university websites. Zach outlines a helpful framework for how to think about, audit, and augment the experience your website offers to mirror the experience of being on campus. Furthermore, Zach shares predictions for what the future of college and university website experiences will offer. These predictions include:Search will not be ancillary to navigation, search IS navigationVideo experiences and chat will be the rule, not the exceptionWebsites will become more “choose your own adventure” and less “pre-architected”CMSes will be controlled by marketing not ITDigital experience will see the kind of conversion rates that today’s on-campus events do of 40-50%….and we’ll see actual campus visits start converting at higher rates. If people are willing to take jobs having never stepped foot in an office or met their team physically, populations of students will feel the same way about college.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This special segment is the fourth and final part of our Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Series brought to you by our sister company, DD Agency, an enrollment marketing services agency that specializes in SEO, content marketing, and all things HubSpot. You can stream part one, the State of Event Marketing in Graduate Enrollment Management here, part two, the State of Content Marketing in Graduate Enrollment Management here, or part three, the State of Email Marketing here. Tune in for insights, data, and strategic recommendations for how to up your digital advertising game in 2021 and beyond.To access the full benchmarks report, visit www.BeatTheBenchmarks.com!More about benchmark data and the 2021 Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Report:The research conducted for this report spanned a period of 12 months looking at hundreds of marketing campaigns that involved thousands of content pieces and prospect actions.The vast majority of marketing tactics and channels were targeted to prospective graduate students roughly 18-50 years of age, across an extremely wide variety of demographics, psychographics, industries, professions, and education levels. The following statistics allow you to understand the breadth and depth of data we scoured that is the backbone of this report.The way schools used to rely on physical, in-person recruitment events has dramatically changed over the past few years, but has been especially impacted since the start of the pandemic.Grad school fairs are no longer the mass-recruitment lead source they once were, and schools have moved to hosting their own information sessions and open houses.The biggest change in the last year is the predominance of virtual events as a result of the pandemic, which means we now have more data on virtual admissions-related events than ever before to analyze and identify the new benchmarks.Before the pandemic, virtual events typically achieved 25-40% attendance rates out of registrants, but as you will see in the report, more students are signing up and attending recruitment events than ever before.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Zach is out at a leadership retreat this week, so we’re featuring our most recent Starter Stories episode on the pod! Get ready to meet Elizabeth Johnson — Co-Founder and Chairman at SimpsonScarborough, one of the leading market research, branding, and design firms serving higher education today.In her senior year of high school, Elizabeth thought she’d go and study psychology in college. But, after a conversation with her father who was footing the bill, she learned that she had two different major options before her — pre-med or mathematics. And while she chose the latter, her favorite college class was actually an art history course! After graduating, she went to work at a small market research firm before joining Carnegie Communications, now Carnegie Dartlet, where she worked for 10 years and served as COO until she received a phone call that would change her life forever.Christopher Simpson, the former Vice President and Spokesman for Indiana University who had been in charge of handling Bob Knight’s departure as a Hoosier back in 2000, asked Elizabeth to lunch to discuss an idea he had. That idea would lead to the founding of SimpsonScarborough. Elizabeth didn’t know it at the time, but just a few months after the company was founded, Christopher received a terminal cancer diagnosis. Tune in to hear the inspiring, challenging, and remarkable story of the birth and growth of SimpsonScarborough.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. And hear more founder journeys on our Starter Stories podcast. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In a recent Snapchat study, Gen Zers and millennials say that they watch over one hour per day watching video on social media apps alone. Over half (52%) of both Gen Zers and millennials say this increased viewing is here to stay.On this week’s episode of Fanatical Fridays, Zach and Mickey continue their Summer Sessions series and discuss how video is no longer optional in your marketing or recruitment strategy as it is the primary channel and format through which Gen-Z consumes information.Get tips, tricks, and loads of ideas on how to better utilize video in your school’s brand, marketing, and admissions campaigns. Some ideas include:1:1 Video admissions nurturing via GoodkindAsynchronous Q&A’s (“How to Interpret Financial Aid,” “How to Navigate the Application, etc.) via LoomHire a couple of student workers to storyboard 20-30 Instagram/Snapchat stories that you can use over the fall recruitment cycleDevelop video-only comm flows to A/B test against email comm flowsLearn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This special segment is the third part of our Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Series brought to you by our sister company, DD Agency, an enrollment marketing services agency that specializes in SEO, content marketing, and all things HubSpot.You can stream part one, the State of Event Marketing in Graduate Enrollment Management here, or part two, the State of Content Marketing in Graduate Enrollment Management here.Tune in for insights, data, and strategic recommendations for how to up your email marketing game in 2021 and beyond.To access the full benchmarks report, visit www.BeatTheBenchmarks.com!More about benchmark data and the 2021 Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Report:The research conducted for this report spanned a period of 12 months looking at hundreds of marketing campaigns that involved thousands of content pieces and prospect actions.The vast majority of marketing tactics and channels were targeted to prospective graduate students roughly 18-50 years of age, across an extremely wide variety of demographics, psychographics, industries, professions, and education levels. The following statistics allow you to understand the breadth and depth of data we scoured that is the backbone of this report.The way schools used to rely on physical, in-person recruitment events has dramatically changed over the past few years, but has been especially impacted since the start of the pandemic.Grad school fairs are no longer the mass-recruitment lead source they once were, and schools have moved to hosting their own information sessions and open houses.The biggest change in the last year is the predominance of virtual events as a result of the pandemic, which means we now have more data on virtual admissions-related events than ever before to analyze and identify the new benchmarks.Before the pandemic, virtual events typically achieved 25-40% attendance rates out of registrants, but as you will see in the report, more students are signing up and attending recruitment events than ever before.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This special segment is the second part of our Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Series brought to you by our sister company, DD Agency, an enrollment marketing services agency that specializes in SEO, content marketing, and all things HubSpot. You can stream part one, the State of Event Marketing in Graduate Enrollment Management here.To access the full benchmarks report, visit www.BeatTheBenchmarks.com!More about benchmark data and the 2021 Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Report:The research conducted for this report spanned a period of 12 months looking at hundreds of marketing campaigns that involved thousands of content pieces and prospect actions.The vast majority of marketing tactics and channels were targeted to prospective graduate students roughly 18-50 years of age, across an extremely wide variety of demographics, psychographics, industries, professions, and education levels. The following statistics allow you to understand the breadth and depth of data we scoured that is the backbone of this report.The way schools used to rely on physical, in-person recruitment events has dramatically changed over the past few years, but has been especially impacted since the start of the pandemic.Grad school fairs are no longer the mass-recruitment lead sources they once were, and schools have moved to hosting their own information sessions and open houses.The biggest change in the last year is the predominance of virtual events as a result of the pandemic, which means we now have more data on virtual admissions-related events than ever before to analyze and identify the new benchmarks.Before the pandemic, virtual events typically achieved 25-40% attendance rates out of registrants, but as you will see in the report, more students are signing up and attending recruitment events than ever before.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Guest co-host Jamie Gleason joins the discussion this week as Mickey breaks down his approaches to working prospective student pipelines. Mickey discusses three components to address the pipeline as the conversation gets intense quickly! From defining stages and substages, to high conversion moments, to prioritizing your daily and weekly engagement efforts, this episode dives deep. Tune in to hear the approaches Mickey has successfully applied to improve student conversions and increase enrollment.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This special segment is the first part of our Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Series brought to you by our sister company, DD Agency, an enrollment marketing services agency that specializes in SEO, content marketing, and all things HubSpot.Tune in for insights, data, and strategic recommendations for how to up your event email marketing game plan!To access the full benchmarks report, visit www.BeatTheBenchmarks.com!More about benchmark data and the 2021 Enrollment Marketing Benchmarks Report:The research conducted for this report spanned a period of 12 months looking at hundreds of marketing campaigns that involved thousands of content pieces and prospect actions.The vast majority of marketing tactics and channels were targeted to prospective graduate students roughly 18-50 years of age, across an extremely wide variety of demographics, psychographics, industries, professions, and education levels. The following statistics allow you to understand the breadth and depth of data we scoured that is the backbone of this report.The way schools used to rely on physical, in-person recruitment events has dramatically changed over the past few years, but has been especially impacted since the start of the pandemic.Grad school fairs are no longer the mass-recruitment lead source they once were, and schools have moved to hosting their own information sessions and open houses.The biggest change in the last year is the predominance of virtual events as a result of the pandemic, which means we now have more data on virtual admissions-related events than ever before to analyze and identify the new benchmarks.Before the pandemic, virtual events typically achieved 25-40% attendance rates out of registrants, but as you will see in the report, more students are signing up and attending recruitment events than ever before.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week's episode of Fanatical Fridays, Zach and Mickey flesh out a tried and true framework for social media advertising that helps schools of all shapes and sizes generate quality leads (regardless of their media budget). Furthermore, Zach shares ideas for how enrollment marketers should diversify their marketing channels based on their average annual budget for media buys. Get ready for some specific, tactical tips to up your channel strategy game!Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week's podcast, Zach sits down with Will Patch from Niche and Jeremy Tiers from Tudor Collegiate Strategies to discuss a survey they recently conducted of high school juniors.A total of 7,129 juniors responded to the survey and expressed their hopes, dreams, and fears about their college search process in a (soon-to-be) post-pandemic world.Tune in for a fascinating discussion on what these survey results suggest about the future of higher ed marketing and student recruitment.Some noteworthy stats from Niche:1. 75% of juniors believe that their chances of being accepted will be hurt if they do not submit test scores with their application to test-optional and test-blind colleges.2. Nearly half of students reported that they had already taken the SAT, ACT, or CLT; and amazingly only 6% reported that they don’t plan to take a test. Of students who have taken, or plan to take, a test, 96% plan to submit the scores to some or all of their colleges when they apply.3. 25% of juniors have already narrowed down their list of schools, while another 68% are actively doing college research. The majority of juniors reported actively started researching colleges between the summer before their junior year and the spring of their junior year.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In our first SUMMER SESSIONS☀️ episode, Mickey and Zach chat about the disruption in the higher ed industry ushered in by the pandemic and the unique challenges faced by various types of educational institutions. The hosts dive into the following questions:Is this the 'moment of truth' for schools who are facing massive enrollment declines? How do they become genuinely distinct, before going extinct?Why do enrollment marketers focus on huge virtual events, when there can be rich and engaging events on a smaller scale?When will there be a disruption of the application process? Will institutions ever rethink application deadlines, especially as they shift toward being test-optional?Jump into this first episode for additional insights by Mickey and Zach. And stay tuned for five more episodes of this special segment designed to teach you a new strategy and/or tactic to help you become a better enrollment manager or higher ed marketer this summer.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In 2019, SimpsonScarborough published a State of Higher Ed Marketing report, which noted that more marketers say their president relies on anecdotal opinions than many quantifiable measures and that only 1 in 3 are using periodic brand tracking to measure success.While tides are shifting, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in higher ed to associate brand and marketing impact with an institution's bottom line. On this week's episode, Zach sits down with Jason Simon — CEO of SimpsonScarborough — to unpack the frameworks that leading institutions are using to take a performance-driven approach to branding and marketing in higher education.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We're gearing up to launch a new, special segment of Fanatical Fridays called SUMMER SESSIONS. ☀️Get ready for 6 episodes designed especially to teach you a new strategy and/or tactic that will help you become a better enrollment manager or higher ed marketer this summer. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome to our YouTube Advertising for Higher Ed Marketers series, where we teach you how to up your YouTube creative game and generate qualified inquiries using YouTube TrueView for Action Campaigns.If a picture's worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million?!90% of Gen-Z is on YouTube and watches an average of 23 hours of content on the platform each month.And yet, many enrollment marketers still don't know the first thing about how to advertise effectively on the world's second-largest search engine. It's time we change that.On this week's episode, discover how to generate ideas and insight into how to up your school's creative assets to earn and win the attention of qualified prospective students.Furthermore, we'll teach you how to reach more qualified prospective students by experimenting with remarketing lists, optimizing your bidding strategies, and using converting and assisting keywords from your Search campaigns to create a more customized audience for you to reach.Unpack why your daily budget should be 10X your Video CPA, how to help YouTube's optimization algorithm improve your campaign faster, and how sitelink extensions on TrueView for action campaigns can drive up to 40% higher conversions! - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On this week's episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Zach is joined by Bill Faust, Senior Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Ologie, to chat about the ways in which COVID has fundamentally changed how higher ed thinks about branding, marketing, and student recruitment.They discuss how higher ed institutions will evolve their offers and experiences and whether or not schools will become more specific with their audience targeting. That would be a shift from positioning themselves as a place for everyone, which, more or less seems to be the message that most schools subscribe to today.Furthermore, they wrestle with how colleges and universities will repair the branding of higher education holistically, as offerings like Lambda School, General Assembly, and others, become more socially acceptable as alternative education pathways.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week’s Fanatical Friday’s episode is the second part of an Enrollify Podcast two-part series (catch the first episode here). Zach Busekrus is joined by a special guest, Jamie Gleason, a 15-year enrollment management veteran (both on campus and in the ed-tech/enrollment marketing space). Anthony de Mello, a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist said that “We yearn for change, but cling to the familiar.” Those who have been in enrollment management for a long time get opportunities every year to adapt what they do — and summer is often when many of those changes are attempted. Zach asks Jamie if he had opportunities to change how he did things on or after May 1st as a Director of Admission, what would he do differently? What would he focus more on and less on? What practices would he implement to bring about sustained change within an institution or within the admissions office?If you are heading into that summer mindset when everything starts to feel stale, tune into the episode for fresh ideas that go beyond the familiar.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this week’s episode, Zach Busekrus welcomes Jamie Gleason (DD Agency’s VP of Enrollment Strategy). When these two enrollment guys get rolling, the ideas (and tangents) become prolific. In part one of this Enrollify Podcast two-part series, Zach and Jamie noodle on the age-old “what’s next in enrollment marketing” question. For instance, what would it look like to introduce a video-first communication flow (yes, instead of that old email comm flow you’ve been using). Is there a point in which personalization potentially damages the idea of greater community? And are the arcane methods of print outdated for today’s audience...or is there still a place for them in the university’s comm flow?Don’t miss the show to hear insights from Jamie and Zach about what’s next in enrollment marketing.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A recent Pew Research Center report pegged YouTube as the most popular and fastest-growing social media platform, reaching 81% of US adults in 2021 — up from 73% in 2019. And Gen-Z? 90% of them watch one or more videos on the platform every month!But, enrollment professionals have struggled to effectively use YouTube for student recruitment — and it's time that changes. On this week's episode of Fanatical Fridays, Zach offers a crash course on YouTube advertising for enrollment marketers. Tune in to the show to generate ideas and insight into how to leverage different ad formats and audience types to increase your school or program's brand awareness.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Everyone talks about the importance of storytelling in marketing...and a lot of folks in higher ed think they are good storytellers, but what are the mechanics and frameworks that separate the best storytellers from the rest of the pack? On this week's episode, Zach is joined by Kerry Morrison, Chief Storytelling Officer at Goodkind — an education technology company focused on storytelling through personalized, one-to-one video.Zach and Kerry discuss how to rethink the student recruitment process and make it more sustainable (just because you need to increase enrollment by 10% doesn't mean you must buy another 10,000 names for your search campaigns).Tune in for a thought-provoking and timely conversation about the future of personalized communications in higher ed.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Zach and Mickey share practical ideas for the data points that enrollment managers should be leveraging to better personalize their communications to prospective students. Don't miss the debate on the value of personas at the end and a special announcement about a new series coming out this summer!Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

TikTok advertising today is basically what Facebook Advertising was in 2014 — organic reach is incredible, generating quality impressions is a given, and competition (in higher education anyway) is low. So why aren't more schools allocating resources to developing their TikTok strategy?According to Enrollify subscribers, it's "because we aren't sure how to get started." Well, buckle up folks because on this week's episode, Zach shares detailed insight into why enrollment marketers should up their TikTok game today, and tangible ideas for how they can do so.Watch this video to understand the various advertising options available on the platform, which colleges and universities are currently slaying their TikTok game, and what investment your school should be ready to make when starting out.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Mallory Willsea https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/https://twitter.com/mallorywillseaAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.