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Whatever the Channel: Marketing Success Depends on 5 Factors

The five most important factors that you have to worry about when creating a direct marketing campaign are, in order of importance, target, offer, format, creative and timing.
The five most important factors that you have to worry about when creating a direct marketing campaign are, in order of importance, target, offer, format, creative and… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/07/whatever-channel-marketing-success-depends-5-factors/

Why You Can't Afford to Pass on a Retention Audit

A retention audit is an evaluation of your processes for retaining customers (businesses) or students (colleges). You need to evaluate the processes if you ever hope to improve your retention rate – because a higher retention rate means higher customer/s…
A retention audit is an evaluation of your processes for retaining customers (businesses) or students (colleges).  You need to evaluate the processes if you ever hope to improve… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/07/why-you-cant-afford-pass-retention-audit/

How to Lower New Student Acquisition Costs

Lower new student acquisition costs means your college and program can hit profitability sooner rather than later. So here are a few proven ways to make it happen…
Lower new student acquisition costs means your college and program can hit profitability sooner rather than later.  So here are a few proven ways to make it happen… Stop… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/how-lower-new-student-acquisition-costs/

Tips for Recruiting Millennials to Your College

Instead of another article on how to leverage Snapchat or Pinterest or Periscope – this post is going to focus on your audience, Millennials. Here are a few important strategies you need to implement in order to see greater success recruiting millennials…
Instead of another article on how to leverage Snapchat or Pinterest or Periscope – this post is going to focus on your audience, Millennials.  Here are a few important strategies… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/tips-recruiting-millennials-your-college/

Do You Know What a "Lead" Is?

This is an important question, especially if you are in marketing and have the responsibility for generating leads for your sales organization. Based on recent research, it’s surprising how many marketers don’t have a clue what a “lead” is for their busi…
This is an important question, especially if you are in marketing and have the responsibility for generating leads for your sales organization.  Based on recent research, it’s… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/do-you-know-what-lead/

Do You Know How Many Sales Leads You Need? Find Out With...

How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? In October we introduced the beta version of our mobile Sales Lead Flow Calculator to help you answer this question. In late November, we released the gold version at the Google Play Store. We’re happy to…
How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? In October we introduced the beta version of our mobile Sales Lead Flow Calculator to help you answer this question. In late… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/do-you-know-how-many-sales-leads-you-need-find-out/

How Many Leads Do You Need?

How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? You can now answer that question using the Android version of our Lead Flow Calculator on any Android smartphone or tablet. You can calculate that number in meetings on the fly without having to take your…
How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? You can now answer that question using the Android version of our Lead Flow Calculator on any Android smartphone or tablet. You… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/how-many-leads-do-you-need/

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        • Are You Sitting Around Waiting for Business?
        • Get More Our of Your CRM Investment
        • Tips for Building Affordable, Effective Marketing Research Program
        • Smart College Recruitment Targets Wisely Using Segmentation
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        • Marketer's Toolkit Goes Mobile
        • A/B Testing: Some Important Rules to Follow
        • Targeting is Not Rocket Science
        • Snap Chat for Student Recruitment
        • Colleges Must Lead the Way in Marketing to Millennials
        • How Many Leads Do You Need?
        • Do You Know What a "Lead" Is?
        • Do You Know How Many Sales Leads You Need? Find Out With...
        • Content Marketing: It's a Mess
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        • What Is The Best Marketing Channel?
        • Do You Need a Marketing Plan?
        • Data Analytics Improve Enrollment Performance
        • Why Facilitated Strategic Planning Workshops are Most Effective for Your College...
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        • Your Website Needs Help
        • Better Adwords Performance ASAP
        • Higher Education Marketing Assessment Tool: A Demo
        • Join Marketing Connection Today
        • Marketers Are Focused On the Wrong Things
        • Marketing...It's About the Numbers
        • Colleges Without Market Research: Penny-Wise, Pound Foolish
        • Top Benefits You Enjoy From a Mystery Shopper Audit
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        • The Future of Content Marketing
        • Pokemon Go: Student Recruitment & Retention?
        • Whatever the Channel: Marketing Success Depends on 5 Factors
        • When Your Customers Aren't Your Customers - Social Media Pitfalls
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        • Why You Can't Afford to Pass on a Retention Audit
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        • Your Trouble With Adwords
        • You Can't Recruit & Retain if You Don't Know Your Audience
        • Facebook Live for Student Recruitment
        • How to Make Significant Improvements to Student Recruitment Results
      • 09
        • Why Facilitated Strategic Planning Workshops are Most Effective for Your College...
        • Video Marketing: Tips for Greater Success
        • The Details Are in the Plans
        • Digital Metrics: How Much is Real & How Much is Bullshit?
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        • How You Can Enroll More Non-Traditional Students
        • Your Email Metrics Are Wrong
        • Too Much Content Too Much Waste
        • How Asking the Right Questions Can Increase Enrollments
        • Content Marketing for Higher Education Recruitment and Retention
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        • 5 Ways to Increase Graduate School Enrollments by Leveraging Data
        • Big Data, Predictive Analytics & Marketing Research Strike Out in Election 2016
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Whatever the Channel: Marketing Success Depends on 5 Factors

The five most important factors that you have to worry about when creating a direct marketing campaign are, in order of importance, target, offer, format, creative and timing.
The five most important factors that you have to worry about when creating a direct marketing campaign are, in order of importance, target, offer, format, creative and… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/07/whatever-channel-marketing-success-depends-5-factors/

Why You Can't Afford to Pass on a Retention Audit

A retention audit is an evaluation of your processes for retaining customers (businesses) or students (colleges). You need to evaluate the processes if you ever hope to improve your retention rate – because a higher retention rate means higher customer/s…
A retention audit is an evaluation of your processes for retaining customers (businesses) or students (colleges).  You need to evaluate the processes if you ever hope to improve… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/07/why-you-cant-afford-pass-retention-audit/

How to Lower New Student Acquisition Costs

Lower new student acquisition costs means your college and program can hit profitability sooner rather than later. So here are a few proven ways to make it happen…
Lower new student acquisition costs means your college and program can hit profitability sooner rather than later.  So here are a few proven ways to make it happen… Stop… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/how-lower-new-student-acquisition-costs/

Tips for Recruiting Millennials to Your College

Instead of another article on how to leverage Snapchat or Pinterest or Periscope – this post is going to focus on your audience, Millennials. Here are a few important strategies you need to implement in order to see greater success recruiting millennials…
Instead of another article on how to leverage Snapchat or Pinterest or Periscope – this post is going to focus on your audience, Millennials.  Here are a few important strategies… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/tips-recruiting-millennials-your-college/

Do You Know What a "Lead" Is?

This is an important question, especially if you are in marketing and have the responsibility for generating leads for your sales organization. Based on recent research, it’s surprising how many marketers don’t have a clue what a “lead” is for their busi…
This is an important question, especially if you are in marketing and have the responsibility for generating leads for your sales organization.  Based on recent research, it’s… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/do-you-know-what-lead/

Do You Know How Many Sales Leads You Need? Find Out With...

How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? In October we introduced the beta version of our mobile Sales Lead Flow Calculator to help you answer this question. In late November, we released the gold version at the Google Play Store. We’re happy to…
How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? In October we introduced the beta version of our mobile Sales Lead Flow Calculator to help you answer this question. In late… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/do-you-know-how-many-sales-leads-you-need-find-out/

How Many Leads Do You Need?

How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? You can now answer that question using the Android version of our Lead Flow Calculator on any Android smartphone or tablet. You can calculate that number in meetings on the fly without having to take your…
How many sales leads do you need in your pipeline? You can now answer that question using the Android version of our Lead Flow Calculator on any Android smartphone or tablet. You… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/how-many-leads-do-you-need/

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