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 3, 2024

Amplify Student Voices: Let Them Tell Their Stories

How often do you find yourself wondering what your school’s marketing messaging should be? What are your prospective students interested in? What do they see that sets your institution apart? The easiest way to hear your students’ stories is from the students themselves. We’re chatting with Kathy Howell and Kathy…
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August 27, 2024

How to Include Donor Stories in Your Marketing Campaigns

In 2021, Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, received a record-breaking $100 million gift from an anonymous donor. So how did Kenyon’s marketing department creatively share the story of this generous anonymous donor while emphasizing the importance of gifts at every level? Kenyon’s Vice President for Advancement, Colleen Garland, and Vice…
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August 20, 2024

Messaging Modalities, Personas, and Strategic Actions

Take another trip back in time with us as we revisit another compelling episode of the Higher Ed Marketer Podcast. In 2022, Jay Baer, Business Growth and Customer Experience Researcher — and tequila sommelier — shared his three essential keys to marketing with us. By identifying audience personas and adapting…
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Bart
Caylor

President & Founder
Troy
Singer

Digital Marketing
Specialist
April 20, 2021

Messaging for the Individual: How Data Can Help You Create Engaging Stories (Part 2)

How do we help uncover and explain the most informative and persuasive information to prospective students? How do we tell stories that get them excited about education? We start by finding and utilizing data, analyzing that data, and then creating segmented marketing messages that will move the needle. In part…
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April 13, 2021

Messaging for the Individual: How Data Can Help You Create Engaging Stories (Part 1)

How do we help uncover and explain the most informative and persuasive information to prospective students? How do we tell stories that get them excited about education? We start by finding and utilizing data, analyzing that data, and then creating segmented marketing messages that will move the needle. Bart Caylor,…
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April 6, 2021

When Crisis Hits: Reputation Management in Higher Education

A single headline-making crisis can permanently alter how the public perceives your institution. In the face of a crisis, your reputation is on the line. How should you communicate a crisis to your stakeholders and how can you manage your reputation in the process? These questions and more are answered…
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March 30, 2021

Using your Distinctiveness as a Selling Point

When you’re not a large public university, you have to market yourself in a different way. Especially if you’re a faith-based institution, a single-sex college, or even an HBCU, you’ve got to set yourself apart from the rest of the field. You’ve got to be distinctive as a selling point…
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March 23, 2021

Building Stronger Relationships Using Data w/ JP Spagnolo

Marketing revolves around relationships. And the best way to strengthen those relationships and connect with prospects on a deeper level is through data. In this episode, JP Spagnolo, VP of Strategic Enrollment Management and Marketing at Capital University, joins the podcast to share how building relationships through data helps craft…
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March 16, 2021

Enrollment Marketing: How to Leverage a Mascot Program

Butler University has a unique target audience for one of their marketing campaigns — the pets of prospective students. Kristi Lafree, Director of Enrollment Marketing at Butler University, joins the podcast to talk about how the marketing team is finding innovative ways to use Blue, Butler’s very own 65-lb English…
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March 9, 2021

Creating an Adaptable Brand Promise in the Age of Social Media

On today’s episode, Bart Caylor, President & Founder at Caylor Solutions Inc, and Troy Singer, Senior Account Executive at Think Patented, chat with Deedie Dowdle, Vice President for Communications and Marketing at DePauw University about: – Working internally to create university marketing campaigns – Creating a brand promise that captures…
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March 2, 2021

How a Multi-Platform CRM can Drive Marketing Insights

On today’s episode, Bart Caylor, President & Founder at Caylor Solutions Inc, and Troy Singer, Senior Account Executive at Think Patented, have a conversation with Jeurell Smith, Institutional Data Analyst at Otterbein University about: – How to lead multi-platform CRM integration at your university – Benefits of syncing your data…
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February 23, 2021

From TikTok to Print Ads: Innovative Marketing in Higher Education

Marketing has never been more important for institutions than it is right now. How are you able to recruit prospective students during a pandemic? How do the ways you communicate to parents and students differ during this time? These questions and more are answered on this episode of The Higher…
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February 9, 2021

Driving Affinity Through Innovative Marketing at Universities

From the private sector to Purdue, Ethan Braden has already created a legacy that university marketers across the U.S. admire. On today’s episode, Bart Caylor, President & Founder at Caylor Solutions Inc, and Troy Singer, Senior Account Executive at Think Patented talk with Ethan Braden, Senior Vice President of Marketing…
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