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If you are preparing to redesign your small school’s website, congratulations! A school website redesign is a long, comprehensive process that requires strong planning, strategy, and execution to be positively impactful to your school marketing strategy.  However, due to the complex nature of a redesign, it is important to prepare…

The SEO marketing strategy for your small school or nonprofit organization should have a focus on the traffic and overall performance of your website. Tools like Google Search Console exist to ensure your website’s marketing and SEO strategies are maximized.  Unfortunately, most businesses and organizations do not use Google Search…

ChatGPT is upleveling the marketing game for many industries, including education. For the busy small school marketer working with limited staffing and resources, ChatGPT could be a lifesaver in developing content like social media copy, blog posts, marketing emails, and more. We recently published a blog post about the potential…

In the competitive world of private schools, having a well-designed and optimized website is essential for attracting potential students and their families. The website is often the first point of contact for parents looking for information about the school, and it can play a crucial role in their decision-making process….

If you haven’t seen it already, ChatGPT is taking up much of today’s news cycles in a number of industries, including tech, healthcare, education, and more. Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT (or “Generative Pre-Transformer”) is a machine learning language model that is trained on an exceptionally large dataset of information to…

One of the first questions people may ask web designers when planning out their website is: Does it really matter where my website is hosted, or if it is hosted at all? In short, yes! The hosting environment you choose for your school website can impact security, SEO, user experience…

By Emily Hannah With any small school or children’s camp, a main goal will always be attracting new prospective students. While marketing your school and getting the attention of these new students is one process, guiding them through the entire marketing funnel to enrollment, and managing that complex process in…

It is hard to believe, but 2022 is coming to a close— happy holidays and happy New Year! What a whirlwind this year has been. While we can’t wait to see what next year holds, the holiday season gives an opportunity to look back and reflect on this past year…

The holiday season is officially upon us! With Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, people begin frantically purchasing gifts for Christmas, especially with the enticing Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.  While purchasing and giving gifts at Christmas time is a joy to some, it can be a chore to others….

The holiday season can become chaotic for nonprofit organizations very quickly; when it comes to prepping for the holiday campaign season, the busiest season of the year, it’s best to plan as early as possible. Now that we’re in November, most (if not all) tactical planning around your nonprofit organization’s…

Maintaining a website is no easy feat; it takes lots of effort to carry out through the year. This is especially true for a nonprofit, already running with limited time and resources. Understanding and planning out the laundry list of website maintenance can be daunting— how often should the analytics…

Keeping your private school’s website design in tip top shape over time is no easy feat— with plugin updates, design tweaks, and overall site upkeep, there is a laundry list of maintenance must-haves to keep the boat afloat and your website performing at an optimal level.  In this blog post,…

When you are going through a website redesign or starting fresh with a new website concept for your small school, your first step is choosing which of the many website development platforms to work with. There are a multitude of options, which can seem overwhelming, but we’re here to tell…

Did you know that over 90 percent of online searches begin with a search engine? In fact, the average person conducts about three to four searches a day. If someone is looking for an answer to a question or a certain piece of information, it is almost certain they will…

Spending hours developing content that doesn’t improve your website’s rankings feels like a waste of time. Understanding copywriting tactics is key to developing winning content that improves SEO for your school website. We’ve written about writing for SEO and copywriting before. In short, SEO copywriting is writing that encourages a site…

For small schools, your rankings in search engines like Google are the secret ingredient to a successful marketing strategy. To reach your marketing goals and improve local search results, your website and its content needs to be optimized to its full potential.  In this blog post, we’ll give you insider…

While your school students, parents and families are relaxing this summer, your team may be taking advantage of the vacation and preparing your website for the next school year. We are going to share our top recommended tasks for school websites for your summer break. Summer is short— if you…

Let’s talk about free and effective marketing strategies to increase student enrollment! As summer kicks off, your school kickstarts recruiting new students to join your school community in the fall. As for parents, they will scour the internet for information on the best school option for their kids for the…

Preparing for a major fundraising campaign is a complex, laborious process for nonprofit organizations— preparing a nonprofit website to support a major campaign is just one facet of the planning! To help keep your ducks in a row during the planning process, we’ve put together a master checklist of items…