How Connected Are You With Your Audience (Part II) In our last edition of this column, we asked “How Connected Are You With Your Audience?” and introduced two new concepts: connected reach, the reach you have with your audience via channels that provide direct engagement, and connection density, the average amount of touch points you have […]
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Today’s twenty-somethings have migrated to the smartphone as their screen of choice. The next generation will know of no other alternative. By Alex Brown and Graham Richmond The term “mobile first” has now been used in two broad contexts, to describe social networks that emerged first as mobile-apps, as well as to describe the millennial […]
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Apps Are a Vital Tool for Reaching Today’s Prospective MBA Applicants -by Graham Richmond and Alex Brown Two weeks ago, we wrote about the continuing rise of smartphone usage among young people and what it means to business school admissions offices and the higher education industry in general. We suggested that the ‘Millennial’ generation might […]
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Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW offers helpful Tumblr tips, provides tools for enhancing your social media productivity, delves further into the demise of the mobile web and showcases an in-house article about the future of GMAC. […]
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Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW tackles trends in mobile phone usage, explores the new Twitter Photo Collage feature and offers thoughts on what a massive Gmail user base means for Google+. As always, the goal of […]
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Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW focuses on web site and blog design – and why your web site is not good enough. We also look briefly at some tips on re-branding and a use case for […]
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Earlier this admissions season, we posted about the importance of transparency in MBA admissions – especially with today’s ‘always on, always chatting/texting/posting’ generation. In short, our point in the piece we authored was that business schools can earn a tremendous amount of goodwill with applicants by being frank and by regularly communicating as candidates enter […]
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Web Marketing Wednesdays Hello and thank you for reading this week’s edition of Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW)! As our regular readers already know, the aim of this column is to provide a concise rundown of key news items and tech tips for business school admissions and marketing staff. Without further ado, let’s see what’s been […]
View Post Business, Business school, Education, facebook, Marketing, MBA, MBA admissions, Social mediaWeb Marketing Wednesdays: Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! The aim of this column is to provide a regular rundown of key news items and tech tips for business school admissions and marketing staff. Before we dive into a few key […]
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I’d like to take a moment to wish all of Southwark Consulting’s clients and blog readers a happy and healthy 2014! We have a number of great projects on tap for the coming year, so stay tuned to this site for all of your business school admissions and enrollment management news and advice. Warm Regards, […]
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