The Higher Ed Marketer is centered around marketing professionals in the field of higher education. If you’re looking for real, practical advice on how to level up your marketing game, this is the show for you. Each episode features conversations with some of the best and brightest marketing minds in higher education, discussing the future of marketing, new technologies and so much more.
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September 16, 2025
Turning Your Website Into a Recruitment Powerhouse
When Kesha Boyce Williams joined USC Upstate, she inherited an eight-year dream deferred: a much-needed website redesign. But rather than treat it as a technical update, she led with strategy, relationship-building, and storytelling to turn the university’s website into a true enrollment driver. In this episode, Kesha shares how strategic…
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September 9, 2025
Leading a University Rebrand with Purpose
What does it take to lead a beloved institution through a name change without alienating stakeholders or losing sight of your values? In this episode, Dr. Mark Milioni, President of Mission University (formerly Baptist Bible College), shares the deeply intentional and strategic process behind one of higher ed’s most thoughtful…
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September 2, 2025
Big Celebration and a Sneak Peep into Season 7
Fall is here and that means another great season of The Higher Ed Marketer Podcast. Sneak Peak into Season 7 50,000+ downloads…WHAT?!?!? Thank you for helping shape this community. Next week – Season 7 Launched. The Higher Ed Marketer Podcast is powered by Caylor Solutions—your go-to partner for higher ed…
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July 25, 2023
What Would Ted Lasso Do?: Driving Organizational Change Through Branding
Jenny Petty, Vice President of Marketing Communications at the University of Montana, had a tall order to fill when she arrived at the school in 2021. After nearly a decade of declining enrollment, the university was in desperate need of a branding facelift. Jenny knew she and her team…
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July 18, 2023
Start Early: Serving Freshmen and Sophomores in Your Funnel
Many college and university admissions offices are so focused on processing applications that they forget that students want to feel a connection with their school. As Liz Rainwater, Director of Admission Marketing and Communication at TCU, reminds us, trust is the foundation for every relationship. That’s why the folks at…
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July 11, 2023
Everybody Wants to Be on a Winning Team: Confrontation and Caretaking in Higher Ed Marketing
Higher ed creative teams have seen incredible changes since Covid, for better or worse. We saw a shift that included a greater appreciation for work-life balance for employees, but is there a point when leadership’s focus on caretaking hurts more than helps? WAYNE BARRINGER Wayne Barringer, Founder of Jaro Group,…
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July 4, 2023
Be Curious: Showcasing Your School’s User-Generated Content
As digital marketing channels continue to elevate new ways of promoting user-generated content, higher ed marketers have to continue identifying emotional stories that will speak to their target audience. That’s because prospective students want to feel a genuine connection with their peers through real stories. Nate Jorgensen, Senior Director of…
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June 27, 2023
How to Plan Your SEO Roadtrip: Mapping Your SEO Investment
A practical SEO strategy is critical to keeping your school’s enrollment website. But how can you know when to invest in pay-per-click ads versus the long content game? Guus Goorts, Founder of DutchMarketer.com and author of Successful Student Recruitment With Google Ads, believes building an SEO strategy is like planning…
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June 20, 2023
I Want to See the Dorm Room: Marketing Insights From Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki has been a marketing icon since his early days with Apple spreading the word of a product that’s now synonymous with personal computing, Macintosh. Today, the best-selling author and host of the Remarkable People podcast is the Chief Evangelist for Canva. Guy talks with us about why his…
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June 13, 2023
The Sky’s the Limit: How Drone Shows Can Pull in Your Higher Ed Community
Drone shows are much more than pretty lights in the night sky. Through curated storyboarding and other audiosensory elements, these innovative spectacles can bring communities together by painting a larger story. After Joy Fulkerson, Director of Leadership and Civic Engagement at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), saw a local theme…
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June 6, 2023
A Professor in a Box: Boosting Your Mental Bandwidth With ChatGPT
As a veteran of the newspaper business, Jaime Hunt, Vice President for University Communications and CMO at Old Dominion University, has seen firsthand how resisting change can destroy industries. That’s why she believes higher ed institutions and organizations need to hit the pause button on banning ChatGPT and other…
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May 30, 2023
Diversity of Voice: Attracting Mission-Fit Students With CMS Deliverables
When evaluating a school’s content marketing system (CMS), it’s easy for higher ed marketers to get tunnel vision when defining their target audience. But as Kat Liendgens, CEO of Hannon Hill, reminds us, the national pool of traditional college students is shrinking fast. That means marketing teams need to get…
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May 23, 2023
The 5 Steps of a Student Intake Optimization Strategy
So many small and mid-sized colleges and universities are caught up in trying to spread brand awareness that they’ve forgotten their core purpose — meeting the needs of prospective students. Philip Smith, Founder and CMO of Education Marketing Agency, thinks it’s time for higher ed institutions to stop trying to…
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