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2023 School Marketing Resolutions with Aubrey Bursch and Tara Claeys – Enrollment Insights Podcast #62

by Angela Brown

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In the Enrollment Insights Podcast, you’ll hear about novel solutions to problems, ways to make processes better for students and families, and the questions that spark internal reflection and end up changing entire processes.

In this episode, we talk to school marketing experts Aubrey Bursch and Tara Claeys about what schools should start and stop doing in 2023 when it comes to recruiting families and managing their digital presence.

Aubrey and Tara photo

Aubrey Bursch is passionate about supporting small and independent schools to increase enrollment, retention, and revenue. As the daughter of lifelong educators and the mom of two independent school students, she combines her passion for schools with her 20+ years of marketing and development experience to help schools identify and implement high ROI initiatives. Aubrey, Founder & CEO of Easy School Marketing,  co-hosts the Mindful School Marketing podcast, leads the free Small School Leaders monthly meet-ups, facilitates the Small School Solutions professional development program, hosts the Small School Leaders Virtual Conference, and speaks nationwide.

Tara Claeys has a marketing background going back to a time before the internet was a thing! Her extensive experience creating WordPress websites for schools has resulted in well-designed and functional websites within a small school budget. Her company, Design TLC makes the website process easy so schools can focus on growing enrollment instead of spending hours creating a website that doesn’t accomplish their marketing goals.

:35 – Meet Aubrey and Tara
2:20 – What Tara and Aubrey have tried that didn’t work and what they learned
7:15 – The practices Aubrey and Tara use to brainstorm and bring new ideas into their work
10:25 – Resolution #1: Stop putting all of your eggs into the enrollment basket
14:35 – Resolution #2: Stop ignoring your online presence
18:50 – Resolution #3: Start understanding what families are thinking and use it to create an exceptional customer experience
22:58 – Resolution #4: Start focusing on student-to-student marketing
25:35 – Resolution #5: Stop ignoring your website
29:33 – Tara’s quick website maintenance checklist
33:25 – Resolution #6: Start connecting your website to other marketing tools
40:03 – Resolution #7: Stop thinking about your website as only being for prospective families (we know, this sounds controversial)
45:10 – Where to find Aubrey and Tara to learn more

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by Angela Brown
Angela is the Manager, B2B Brand Strategy at Niche, where she supports content and partner engagement strategy in Niche's work with K-12 and higher education institutions. Before joining Niche, she was the director of marketing and communications at Flint Hill School, a PK-12, co-ed day school outside of Washington, DC. In addition to developing research and content for Enrollment Insights, Angela is a frequent conference presenter, guest author, and podcast guest.