How To Ensure Your School’s Video Content Is Effective
Video marketing is such a big buzz at the moment, and it’s known to be one of the most successful ways to market a business. And the same goes for your school. If your [...]
How To Show Your Non-Marketing Peers The Value Of Marketing
You and I both know that proving marketing’s worth is a hurdle we have all faced at some point. Some of your colleagues just don’t see the value in it or they don’t understand [...]
How The Top 3 Independent Schools Use Social Media & What You Can Learn From Them
Using social media effectively should be an important part of your school’s overall marketing strategy. Although, we know you may not always have time to keep up with ever-developing social media trends.Despite this, the fact [...]
Is Inconsistent School Branding Putting Your Audience Off?
Some might say as long as you’re getting the message out there, what’s the problem if the branding is a bit… ‘off’? In actual fact, this could be damaging how your school brand is [...]
Social Listening & Why It’s Important For Your School
You know as well as I do that your school needs to build a solid reputation online as well as offline. However, building a reputation for all the wrong reasons is not the route [...]
Creating An Effective Social Media Plan For Your School
I think every school should have a social media plan. Regardless of whether that’s a small-scale spreadsheet or a huge project planned on a platform like Asana or Trello, you need a plan! Creating [...]
In-House Photography Tips For Your School
Making sure your school has good photography is essential in ensuring the effectiveness of your school's marketing material. You know how brilliant your school is and the best way of capturing this is through [...]
9 Top Tips To Help You Achieve An Effective School Website
Having an outstanding website for your school is probably one of your top goals as a school marketer. After all, it’s the crown jewel in your marketing arsenal and only has an average of [...]
16 Effective SEO Tips For Schools To Skyrocket Your Organic Traffic
When it comes to SEO for schools, private schools and higher education, knowing where to start is challenging. But by focusing on the right elements, you will be able to drive droves of organic [...]
Maintaining Your School’s Reputation During Lockdown
Online reputation has been a growing focus for schools over the last decade. Where a sporadically updated website once did the trick, the age of social media and reputation management have increased the importance [...]
Social Media During COVID-19: Five Schools Doing It Well
Throughout this difficult time, it’s more important than ever that schools are continuing to communicate effectively with their students, parents and the wider school community. It’s a difficult time for everyone, especially the younger [...]
Our Favourite Online Marketing Courses
During this challenging time, it’s likely that you’ll have slightly more time on your hands after the initial rush to get the necessary crisis communications out to your school’s students, parents, staff and the [...]
Time To Consider A Virtual Open Day?
We know that a well-thought out open day requires months of planning. Certainly at Ambleglow, we've been working with our school marketing clients on promotional opportunities to publicise these events since last year. With [...]
How Schools Are Dealing With Closures Due To Coronavirus (COVID-19)
At the time of writing, it appears that schools will be closed for months rather than weeks, with expectations that coronavirus will peak in mid-May to mid-June. But this is a story which moves [...]
Communications For Your School In A Crisis
There are a huge number of crises that affect schools, however all of them will result in a finite number of emergency responses which you can be prepared for. For example: Students are kept [...]
Ideas For Your School’s Social Media During COVID-19
It’s difficult to know whether your school should continue as normal or whether you should be adjusting your tone and your school social media posts slightly. Our advice would be to find that all-important [...]
7 Key Steps For Planning Your Communications Strategy During A Crisis
If COVID-19 is a reminder of anything it's this; the unthinkable really does happen. With countries around the world closing their borders, shutting down public spaces and shoring up failing economies, few of us [...]
Creating The Best First Impression For Your School
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen nearly called Pride and Prejudice, First Impressions. You can understand why she did this because the story really centres around two pupils not liking each [...]