Marketing

7
Apr

Understanding the Sales Cycle

Now more than ever it’s important for C-suite leadership to understand the buying cycle and how long it takes a qualified inquiry to make it through the sales journey. Deciding to save money in the short run on advertising and inquiry development could have a long-lasting effect. And on the flip side, mounting an immediate and massive nurturing / rejuvenation

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6
Sep

How to Integrate Traditional & Digital Marketing

Welcome the inaugural episode of the Norton Norris podcast! We’ll be sharing tips, tricks, best practices, we’ll be inviting guests, some of our clients, our colleagues as well as some thought leaders in the; marketing, admissions, training, and assessment space, so we hope you stay tuned! In today’s episode Trent sits down with Vince Norton to discuss How to Integrate

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30
Jul

What Google Updates Mean to Your Organization and SEO Strategy

Regardless of your business type, getting top online visibility can be a key part of your SEO strategy. In fact, websites that make it to the first page of Google searches score 36.4 percent of web traffic. The higher your ranking in a Google search, the more organic traffic you’ll realize. However, Google comes up with plenty of updates throughout

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18
Jan

Be the Turtle, Not the Hare

The importance of measuring SEO effectiveness over time. We live in an impatient world. That’s not much of a surprise to anyone. As technology and new possibilities for data mining continue to advance at a dizzying pace, so too do our expectations in terms of achieving results from those advances. Such is the case with search engine optimization (SEO). The

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30
Apr

Giving Context to Google Search – The importance of schema markup to boost your SEO

It’s something virtually every organization out there with any kind of web presence finds itself struggling with constantly—how can we improve our Google search ranking? We all know this is one of the great mysteries of the universe. For years different strategies have emerged, disappeared, and emerged again. It seems like every month there’s a new tactic or algorithm that’s

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28
Feb

Bad News – Beware of Buying Education Leads from Vendors

I’m not sure when lead vendors surfaced in the educational vertical. Was it before or after insurance and mortgage? Or was it around the same time when “credit repair” and “work from home” offers started surfacing. Maybe it was in the late ‘90s after Google and search engines gained traction. At any rate, their inception and early years aren’t important.

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14
Dec

Why SEO Needs to be Part of the Digital Marketing Mix

Search engine optimization. SEO. It’s important because it helps you make the most of your web presence by drawing more traffic to your website. SEO is paramount to the success of your digital marketing. You want your business to be one of the top search results when internet users enlist the help of search engines to find what they’re looking for

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15
Nov

11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Campus Appearance

As kids, most of us were taught: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” However, appearance can mean everything when it comes to marketing your school. Don’t get us wrong: Your website is certainly important! However, while you’ve been paying attention to your digital presence or other marketing mediums, you may have forgotten about the physical look and feel of

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10
Oct

Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Inquiry Attribution

In our last blog post, we touched on the challenges of attributing sources to inquiries. Data is king, but there are other – subtler – elements that must be incorporated to make final marketing decisions. The goal of attribution is to report accurately the financial return of any marketing communication. Seems simple enough: Track all campaigns, and when inquiries are

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12
Sep

6 Challenges of Inquiry Attribution

In the “old days,” lead reporting looked something like this: A TV spot ran, a prospective student called a tracking phone number, and someone at the campus worked the lead and then added a tally mark on the white board to keep track of total leads. Technology has evolved over the years, changing everything we know about reporting and attributing

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