Wassom’s Marketing Wisdom Blog
How to Recover COVID Drop-Out Enrollments
It can be very disconcerting when families who loved you pre-COVID and even flexed with your school closings during the pandemic, may now choose NOT to come back. I call these COVID Drop-Outs. What can you do to try to salvage these enrollments, assure they have a...
Keys to Effective Social Media Marketing
Effective social media marketing matters. For this blog, I am sharing with you the expertise of two social media marketers. Their responses to the questions below can help make your social media marketing program even more effective. “Millennials, who are the majority...
Going Beyond to Generate Loyalty and a Good Review
I recently went to a local automotive service center to get some services done on my car. With lots of choices for vendors, I returned to this shop, even though they are not the least expensive. Why? Because in addition to doing a good job, they bend over backwards to...
The Enrollment Opportunities in the Staff Recruitment Crisis
Is your school unable to start families eager to enroll because you cannot find teachers? If so, have the number of families on your waiting list increased to an all-time high? Is your current staff harder to retain than ever? The pandemic, the Great Resignation, and...
Bump Up Your Volume of Referrals from Friends and Family
Parent surveys reveal that over 85% of young families turn to referrals from friends and family when investigating early care and education services for their children and family. Beyond that, research shows that some 57% or more also check online reviews....
Three Ways Teachers Can Improve Communication to Families
Real-time apps, such as Remini, Brightwheel, and Tadpoles, have become the norm as a method of communicating daily classroom activities with families. However, parent surveys show that families want more communication specifically about their child. Even when they...