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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August 19, 2025
Putting AI Tools to Work for Your Marketing Team
This episode is number three in our Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for essential…
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August 12, 2025
How to Leverage Student-Produced, Authentic Content
This episode (2 of 4) is part of Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for…
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August 5, 2025
Speak With One Voice: Getting Students Involved in Enrollment Marketing
This episode (1 of 4) is part of Enrollment Rx: Strategies to Fill Your Funnel, a four-part series focused on diagnosing and treating common enrollment pipeline challenges. As fall reveals how well your funnel is performing, we’ll help you optimize lead generation, nurture flows, and student engagement. Tune in for…
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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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