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August 02, 2022Attention Retention Episode 4: How to Compete in a Market When Your School Doesn’t Have a National Brand
In this episode of Attention Retention, Angie, Clayton, and Zach have an open discussion and brainstorm around how schools with limited resources and lesser-known brands can up their branding, marketing, and student recruitment efforts creatively and sustainably.
The dynamic trio unpacks:
Ideas for how to deliver a way more personalized experience with fewer resources
Pro tips for small-to-midsize public and private universities who can’t rely on athletics or a top 50 US News & World Report Ranking for organic attention
How to draw a distinction chart — where are you measurably different vs marginally different
What channels and tactics where underdogs should compete and the channels and tactics where underdogs might want to avoid
A breakdown of spend on brand vs marketing campaigns (how to know how much effort/resources to devote to each)
About the Series:
Attention Retention is a special podcast series on how to attract, enroll, retain, and empower the modern learner – brought to you in partnership with our friends at Archer Education.
Over the course of this series, we will cover higher ed’s product problem (and how to fix it), the challenges with major and program relevance in today’s dynamic market, how to successfully attract, enroll, and retain adult learners, how to compete in a market when your school doesn’t have a national brand, and much more.
This series is co-hosted with Angie Mohr, the Senior Vice President of Student Engagement and Clayton Dean, Senior Vice President of Agency & Partnership Management at Archer, and Zach Busekrus, from Enrollify.
Getting attention is hard enough, so once you have it, you’ve got to do everything you can to harness it. And that’s what our friends at Archer Education help schools do so dang well.
While you’ll get a taste of some of their ideas on how to optimize marketing and recruitment strategies over the course of this series, in order to really learn more about how Archer revolutionizes the student experience through marketing, enrollment, and retention services for colleges and universities, you’ll want to check out the content hub they built exclusively for Enrollify subscribers which you can find at archeredu.com/enrollify.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!
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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
51 min
July 28, 2022 Episode 129: Why Higher Ed Needs to Better Define Microcredential Skills
Amrit Ahluwalia is a prolific content producer and the Editor In Chief at The EvoLLLution a publication of Modern Campus.
In this episode of The Enrollify Podcast, Amrit and Zach chat all about micro-credential programs. The two have an engaging conversation about what micro-credentials are, the sustainability of these programs as new forms of revenue for schools, and how to effectively market micro-credentials to an array of student personas.
You can connect with Amrit on LinkedIn here.
Helpful links:
https://moderncampus.com/microcredential
https://evoLLLution.com
This episode is sponsored by Goodkind - an easy-to-use video engagement platform designed to make each of your prospects feel special, cared for and seen. Increase applications, increase yield, and decrease melt with the power of Goodkind.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
1 hr 5 min
July 25, 2022 The Brewstorm Episode 4: How to Get Prospects to Give Away Their Contact Info
During this episode of The Brewstorm, Shane, Dan, and Zach discuss what makes someone want to give away their contact information.
From the offer, to the landing page, to the form, why would someone give you their name and email – and maybe even phone number!?
If you would prefer to watch as these three brainstorm, discuss, and laugh, please head over to the Enrollify YouTube Channel and hit that Subscribe button today!
This episode is brought to you by Doubletake - Doubletake is a team of experts in swag for higher education. From acceptance packages, to prospective student mailers, to admitted students gifts, to admissions fair takeaways, to branded student care packages, Doubletake provides all the creative promotional products and branded merchandise colleges and universities need to elevate your brand, make an impression on students, combat summer melt, and promote school spirit. Convert prospects into applicants, applicants into students, students into raving fans, and alumni into lifelong brand ambassadors with the help of Doubletake.
The Brewstorm is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional. Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Teirs, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
48 min
July 21, 2022 Episode 128: How to Reimagine Product, Experience, and Marketing for the Lifelong Learner
Join Dr. Dustin York (an Associate Professor whose specialties include digital transformation, branding, and the future of higher education) and Pamela Bryan Williams (a Chief Strategist for Learning Design and Development) from Maryville University for an invigorating conversation around how higher education can reimagine its core products, experience, and marketing for the lifelong learner.
The duo sits down with Zach to discuss the future of learning design and development and how the Maryville team is thinking about, wrestling with, and overcoming the threats and challenges present in higher education today.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
1 hr 1 min
July 19, 2022Attention Retention Ep. 3: How to Successfully Attract, Enroll, and Retain Adult Learners
In this episode of Attention Retention, Angie, Clayton, and Zach brainstorm practical, innovative, and specific ideas for how to recruit non-traditional learners and unpack the nuances that exist in courting these audiences.
The dynamic trio discusses:
How to define adult learners (and discusses how to break this macro audience down into 3-4 key persona groups)
What kind of messaging (ad copy, email tone and style, etc.) works with each persona?
Whether or not traditional recruitment events work for this audience?
What comms does each persona need? Do they differ between groups?
What works and what doesn’t when it comes to retaining adult learners
What kind of programming must schools offer to effectively empower adult learners
And loads more!
About the Series:
Attention Retention is a special podcast series on how to attract, enroll, retain, and empower the modern learner – brought to you in partnership with our friends at Archer Education.
Over the course of this series, we will cover higher ed’s product problem (and how to fix it), the challenges with major and program relevance in today’s dynamic market, how to successfully attract, enroll, and retain adult learners, how to compete in a market when your school doesn’t have a national brand, and much more.
This series is co-hosted with Angie Mohr, the Senior Vice President of Student Engagement and Clayton Dean, Senior Vice President of Agency & Partnership Management at Archer, and Zach Busekrus, from Enrollify.
Getting attention is hard enough, so once you have it, you’ve got to do everything you can to harness it. And that’s what our friends at Archer Education help schools do so dang well.
While you’ll get a taste of some of their ideas on how to optimize marketing and recruitment strategies over the course of this series, in order to really learn more about how Archer revolutionizes the student experience through marketing, enrollment, and retention services for colleges and universities, you’ll want to check out the content hub they built exclusively for Enrollify subscribers which you can find at archeredu.com/enrollify.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!
- - - -

Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
55 min
July 08, 2022 The Brewstorm Episode 3: What Makes You Actually Click an Ad?
In this episode of The Brewstorm, we chat about what types of digital ads get our attention, what makes us click, and what we expect after the click.
What ads drove you to click/purchase? Any common themes? Let us know!
If you would prefer to watch as these three brainstorm, discuss, and laugh, please head over to the Enrollify YouTube Channel and hit that Subscribe button today!
This episode is brought to you by Doubletake - Doubletake is a team of experts in swag for higher education. From acceptance packages, to prospective student mailers, to admitted students gifts, to admissions fair takeaways, to branded student care packages, Doubletake provides all the creative promotional products and branded merchandise colleges and universities need to elevate your brand, make an impression on students, combat summer melt, and promote school spirit. Convert prospects into applicants, applicants into students, students into raving fans, and alumni into lifelong brand ambassadors with the help of Doubletake.
The Brewstorm is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional. Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Teirs, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
33 min
July 07, 2022 Episode 127: Hot Takes on the Future of Social Media in Higher Ed
Todd Sanders, Creative Director at the University of Florida, sits down with Zach to discuss the future of social media marketing and management in higher education. Get Todd’s hot takes on influencers, how to tell stories on social, and how to discern the channels and tactics that are right for your institution both today and tomorrow.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
56 min
July 05, 2022Attention Retention Episode 2: The Future of Recruitment is Niche: Reimagining Student Persona Development in 2022
In this episode of Attention Retention, Angie, Clayton, and Zach suggest that most schools need to niche down when it comes to marketing and student recruitment and hyper-focus on the student populations that they have the best chance at attracting, engaging, and servicing.
The dynamic trio discusses:
A new framework for student persona development — beyond demographics, here’s what it looks like to dig deep into niche psychographic profiling for student personas
Why schools may need to become okay with potentially isolating some audiences in order to offer a clearer, more compelling vision for success to others
A look at successful, niche marketing campaign from Archer clients
Ideas for niche marketing and student recruitment campaigns
How niche recruitment will enable an increase in quality attention and engagement
About the Series:
Attention Retention is a special podcast series on how to attract, enroll, retain, and empower the modern learner – brought to you in partnership with our friends at Archer Education.
Over the course of this series, we will cover higher ed’s product problem (and how to fix it), the challenges with major and program relevance in today’s dynamic market, how to successfully attract, enroll, and retain adult learners, how to compete in a market when your school doesn’t have a national brand, and much more.
This series is co-hosted with Angie Mohr, the Senior Vice President of Student Engagement and Clayton Dean, Senior Vice President of Agency & Partnership Management at Archer, and Zach Busekrus, from Enrollify.
Getting attention is hard enough, so once you have it, you’ve got to do everything you can to harness it. And that’s what our friends at Archer Education help schools do so dang well.
While you’ll get a taste of some of their ideas on how to optimize marketing and recruitment strategies over the course of this series, in order to really learn more about how Archer revolutionizes the student experience through marketing, enrollment, and retention services for colleges and universities, you’ll want to check out the content hub they built exclusively for Enrollify subscribers which you can find at archeredu.com/enrollify.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!
- - - -

Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
1 hr 12 min
June 22, 2022 The Brewstorm Episode 2: Hosting Memorable Student Recruitment Events
In this episode of The Brewstorm, we discuss how you can make your recruitment event a talking point on social channels and leave a lasting impact on attendees.
Spoiler alert, a standard intro speaker and some small breakouts aren’t enough!
If you would prefer to watch as these three brainstorm, discuss, and laugh, please head over to the Enrollify YouTube Channel and hit that Subscribe button today!
This episode is brought to you by Doubletake - Doubletake is a team of experts in swag for higher education. From acceptance packages, to prospective student mailers, to admitted students gifts, to admissions fair takeaways, to branded student care packages, Doubletake provides all the creative promotional products and branded merchandise colleges and universities need to elevate your brand, make an impression on students, combat summer melt, and promote school spirit. Convert prospects into applicants, applicants into students, students into raving fans, and alumni into lifelong brand ambassadors with the help of Doubletake.
The Brewstorm is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional. Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Teirs, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

- - - -

Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
41 min
June 21, 2022 Attention Retention Episode 1: Higher Ed Has a Product Problem — Here’s How to Fix it.
This podcast is brought to you by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform. Learn more about how Element451 can enhance student engagement, boost enrollment, reduce expenses, and increase staff productivity.
In this episode, Clayton, Angie and Zach unpack the challenges with major and program relevance in higher ed and discuss ideas for how to design, develop and promote majors and programs that meet market needs and consumer demands.
They discuss:
Higher ed’s current brand problem in the broader marketplace (fewer students going to college, pop culture challenging the relevance of college, etc.)
The rising popularity of alternative education pathways (Lambda School, General Assembly, other bootcamps)
Why higher ed must match what the job market is demanding — and the job marketing is changing at an unprecedented place
Ideas for how to partner with leaders in the workforce
Whether or not we’ll see the emergence of “Chief Product Officer” at schools
How product as a differentiator can attract and retain attention of adult students
About the Series:
Attention Retention is a special podcast series on how to attract, enroll, retain, and empower the modern learner – brought to you in partnership with our friends at Archer Education.
Over the course of this series, we will cover higher ed’s product problem (and how to fix it), the challenges with major and program relevance in today’s dynamic market, how to successfully attract, enroll, and retain adult learners, how to compete in a market when your school doesn’t have a national brand, and much more.
This series is co-hosted with Angie Mohr, the Senior Vice President of Student Engagement and Clayton Dean, Senior Vice President of Agency & Partnership Management at Archer, and Zach Busekrus, from Enrollify.
Getting attention is hard enough, so once you have it, you’ve got to do everything you can to harness it. And that’s what our friends at Archer Education help schools do so dang well.
While you’ll get a taste of some of their ideas on how to optimize marketing and recruitment strategies over the course of this series, in order to really learn more about how Archer revolutionizes the student experience through marketing, enrollment, and retention services for colleges and universities, you’ll want to check out the content hub they built exclusively for Enrollify subscribers which you can find at archeredu.com/enrollify.
If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Our podcast network is growing by the month and we’ve got a plethora of marketing, admissions, and higher ed technology shows that are jam packed with stories, ideas, and frameworks all designed to empower you to be a better higher ed professional.
Our shows feature a selection of the industry’s best as your hosts. Learn from Mickey Baines, Jeremy Tiers, Jaime Hunt, Corynn Myers, Jaime Gleason and many more.
Learn more about The Enrollify Podcast Network at podcasts.enrollify.org. Our shows help higher ed marketers and admissions professionals find their next big idea — come and find yours!

- - - -

Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
57 min

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