Montessori Marketing Insider
Content Planning Part One: Defining Your Audience and Goals
Like the time you spend planning and preparing each Montessori lesson, planning your content marketing strategy is also time well spent.
As you may have read in our previous blogs about the benefits of planning your content for a year of digital marketing, a vital part of this preparation is clearly defining your audience and your goals for the year ahead.
We want to discuss these two important content planning steps in more detail, so you know what questions to ask and what to think ab…
Vanity Metrics: How to Use Them to Your Advantage
Sometimes it may seem like we’re introducing you, our fellow Montessorians, to a new, digital marketing concept every time you log in to read the Nido Marketing blog.
There may be some truth to this; we may be guilty as charged.
But it’s truly important and valuable to explain these concepts and ideas so you can gain a deeper understanding of how what you do (or don’t do) to market your school online, can make a big difference in your bottom line — your enrollment.
So, with that i…
Is Your School Benefiting from the Highest-Performing Montessori Facebook Ads Campaign Ever?
No, really. We mean it.
We did our homework and came up with a strategy that works consistently to boost online visibility, target more parents, and increase enrollment for Montessori schools.
After all, Nido Marketing was created exclusively for Montessorians to help them reap the benefits of digital marketing—and paid advertising is a big part of that.
Remember when we told you 2 billion people use Facebook every month?
Here’s another quick stat: 75% of parents are using social…
The Montessori Family avatar
The Montessori Family avatar
What is an avatar?
A Montessori family avatar is a representation of your ideal, mission-appropriate family. While there will be common denominators across all Montessori schools, every school’s avatar is unique.
A Montessori school in Albuquerque is going to have a different avatar than a Montessori school in San Francisco which will have a different avatar than a Montessori school in New Delhi.
In many cases, a school will have more than one avatar…
Why Every Montessori School Should Take Advantage of Google Apps (aka G Suite)
Sometimes it seems like we throw a lot at you.
How to create this, how to use that, why you should always be doing this.
At times it can feel overwhelming (especially considering digital marketing isn’t your first language) but we promise there is a method to our madness.
While there are plenty of marketing solutions out there that might help your Montessori school shine online, our goal at Nido Marketing is to provide the solutions we know will help you.
And we know because we’v…
Don’t Make Your Visitors Think: The Neuroscience behind Conversions
Digital marketing is not just a pretty face; there are brains behind it, too.
When we recommend things like adding a prominent call to action to your home page, we aren’t just tossing ideas out there willy-nilly.
Instead, we’re applying what we and countless other marketers have learned from decades of research.
And, believe it or not, that research includes learning how to apply the principles of neuroscience to improve marketing success.
What is neuroscience?
In simple ter…
The Montessori Admissions Funnel
Attention Montessorians! Matt Hillis recorded a webinar on this very topic. If you're interested in reviewing that video you can do so by visiting the "Coaching" page in the member's area or by clicking here. If you aren't a member yet, you can sign up for free!
To effectively market your Montessori school, it’s critical to understand the process that parents walk through in order to make their enrollment decision.
This understanding will equip you with the information necessary to speak…
Why You Need to Start a Facebook Group for Your Montessori Parents
By now, you know that Facebook is an excellent way to market your Montessori school:
- You can run paid ad campaigns that target your specific audience — i.e. parents in your community who are searching for the best educational experiences for their children.
- You can post daily, relevant, engaging content on your school’s Facebook page to build a following and increase traffic to your website.
But did you know, in addition to these marketing efforts, you can (and should) also…
Build Better Relationships, Save Time with Automated Email Nurture Sequences
Increasing enrollment in Montessori schools is all about relationship-building.
And relationship-building comes in many forms – it’s in the way you advertise on Facebook, it’s the information you post on social media, and it’s the way you communicate with new leads and interested families through email nurturing sequences.
This may sound like a lot of extra work, but with automated emails, it isn’t.
In fact, automated emails are a time-saving, effective way to connect with prospectiv…
When Good Content Goes Viral, Your Montessori School Wins
Chances are you’ve heard the term “gone viral” in reference to a video, a blog post, or some other form of content shared online.
Like the name suggests, viral content is content that spreads rapidly (like a virus) by way of social sharing—which means it gets a lot of attention because a lot of people are viewing it.
What you may not realize, however, is how beneficial this can be for your Montessori school.
Viral content means more social shares, which means more views by more prosp…