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SEO In-House vs. Outsourced: Should You Hire an Agency?
Key Insights SEO is crucial for online visibility, increased website traffic, brand recognition, and revenue growth. While it may be tempting to handle SEO in-house, it’s essential to recognize that effective SEO requires meticulous attention to detail, constant monitoring, and adaptation to evolving search engine algorithms. When deciding between in-house …
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Adapting to Google’s Cookies Deprecation: Essential Strategies for Marketers
Key Insights: Google announced in July 2024 that Chrome will not fully block third-party cookies but instead give users the option to manage tracking permissions. This shift allows for greater user autonomy and may lead to fewer users permitting third-party tracking. With the potential decline in third-party cookie data, competition …
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How To Use Cold Email Marketing to Reach New Audiences
Cold email marketing is often underused in top-of-funnel strategies, yet it’s a powerful way to introduce your brand to new audiences and build awareness early in the buyer’s journey. Cold emails work best as part of a multi-channel strategy, including display ads and social media. It creates a unified approach …
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Learn About Key Higher Education Marketing Metrics From Paula French’s UPCEA Blog
Search Influence’s Director of Sales and Marketing Paula French recently wrote a guest blog post for UPCEA titled “How Higher Education Marketing Metrics Help You Boost Enrollment.” While this is Paula’s first guest blog post for UPCEA, she is a regular speaker at UPCEA conferences and our joint webinars. As …
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Track and Report the Right Higher Ed Marketing Analytics to Improve Your Strategy
Key Insights Many institutions don’t track crucial metrics like cost per inquiry (CPI) and cost per enrolled student, missing opportunities to optimize their marketing efforts and better allocate resources. Higher education institutions need precise tracking and insights to enhance their marketing strategies, effectively engage prospective students, and drive enrollment. Institutions …
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Higher Ed Marketing Insights From Paula French’s Article for University Business
Search Influence’s Director of Sales and Marketing Paula French recently wrote an article for University Business sharing expert insights for higher education marketers. This article, titled “How to boost adult learner enrollment by tracking the right costs,” discusses the importance of establishing a metric-driven approach to efficiently attract the modern …
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Not Tracking Cost Per Inquiry? Expect Budget Waste
Key Insights Tracking and optimizing CPI is crucial for higher education marketers to ensure budget efficiency and maximize return on investment. Failing to track CPI can make it difficult for higher ed marketers to correlate marketing success with enrollment, justify budget allocations, and optimize campaigns. Tracking CPI empowers higher ed …
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AI Content Marketing: Achieve More in Less Time [ANYWORD X SEARCH INFLUENCE WEBINAR]
Key Insights: AI content marketing is changing the way agencies, internal marketing departments, and freelancers go about their daily workflow. As more marketers add generative AI to their competitive toolkit, the gap between those who use AI versus those who don’t will grow. This makes jumping on the proverbial AI …
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Social Search: How Gen Z & Millennial Search Habits Are Changing
Key Insights Gen Z and Millennials increasingly favor social search over traditional search engines like Google. As social search becomes more prominent, brands need to optimize their presence on social media platforms to capture the attention of younger, tech-savvy audiences. Social search engines prioritize visual content, which resonates more with …
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Will Scott Talks Higher Education Schema in Seer Interactive Guest Blog
In a June guest blog for B-Corp certified digital marketing agency Seer Interactive, Search Influence Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott breaks down a fundamental, yet often overlooked, higher education SEO tactic: schema markup. Schema markup for higher education websites is a form of microdata added to a website’s HTML to …
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