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2 Commonly Overlooked Causes for Enrollment Shortfalls - And How to Fix Them

There are two commonly overlooked causes for failing to achieve enrollment goals that can live inside your institution - here's how to fix them.
For several years now, you’ve seen the stories about a supply and demand crisis in higher education causing about 50% of colleges and universities to fall short of their… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2018/2-commonly-overlooked-causes-enrollment-shortfalls-and-how-fix-them/

Contact Strategy: People Buy From People

Does your contact strategy include people interacting? People buy from people. People they trust. Does your lead nurturing process help your potential new customers get to know your staff and build trust? Maybe it should!
Think about the last big purchase decision you made. One that cost you 5-figures or more. Or that put your job on the line. Did it come down to your level of trust,… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2018/people-buy-people/

All The Martech In The World Won't Make You a Marketer

The Martech stack now offers over 5,000 solutions from companies including us. And the list grows daily. And here’s the other things, all the Martech in the world won’t help you sell a product/solution where the market doesn’t need or want it or you hav…
The Martech Stack or the Martech Sink Hole? The Martech stack now offers over 5,000 solutions from companies including us. And the list grows daily. Wow. Does the Chief… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2018/all-martech-world-wont-make-you-marketer/

Comment: Why Most CMOs are Failing

The following is offered as my comment to "Death by Powerpoint: Why Most CMOs are Failing to Plan (and Planning to Fail)!". I tried several times to comment to this post at… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2018/comment-why-most-cmos-are-failing/

Amazon Losing Billions - You Should Be Scared

Amazon is losing billions from its retail business and rivals should be scared. Amazon clearly doesn't care about making money from its retail business. Lookout everyone else and not just their competitors in the retail industry.
Amazon Losing Billions - You & Their Competitors Should Be Scared Breaking News: The Street (05/02/2018) "Amazon is losing billions from its retail business and rivals… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2018/amazon-losing-billions-you-should-be-scared-2/

The Amazon Effect...Are You Ready?

The Amazon Effect - Goes Far Beyond Retail...Are you and your business ready?
Unless you've been living under a rock, you are well aware of the impact that Amazon has had on the retail industry. But, the "Amazon Effect" goes far beyond the retail… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2017/amazon-effectare-you-ready/

Is Affiliate Marketing for Your Business?

Many marketers still haven’t discovered the value and secret of affiliate marketing...Let’s not jump off the deep end here. Affiliate marketing is not new, it’s been around longer than the Internet, a lot longer. And, for sure, the digital world did not i…
Many marketers still haven’t discovered the value and secret of affiliate marketing...Let’s not jump off the deep end here. Affiliate marketing is not new, it’s been around… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2017/affiliate-marketing-your-business/

Are CMOs' Jobs in Jeopardy?

This post comments on the state of CMO job security and what CMOs are or aren't doing to retain those jobs.
That's a good question. According to this Forrester research, 37% of CEOs, say the CMO will be the first to go if the organization misses its growth targets. In this article… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2017/are-cmos-jobs-jeopardy/

Marketing Planning 101 - Are You?

Based on the fact that so many businesses fail to do marketing planning, you might think it was the hardest thing in the world to do. Marketing to many businesses means nothing more than advertising, marketing promotion, and marcom (short for marketing co…
Based on the fact that so many businesses fail to do marketing planning, you might think it was the hardest thing in the world to do. Marketing to many businesses means nothing… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2017/marketing-planning-101-are-you/

Whatever the Channel: Marketing Success Depends on 5 Factors

The five most important factors that you have to worry about when creating a direct marketing campaign are, in order of importance, target, offer, format, creative and timing.
The five most important factors that you have to worry about when creating a direct marketing campaign are, in order of importance, target, offer, format, creative and… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/07/whatever-channel-marketing-success-depends-5-factors/

Marketing...It's About the Numbers

Somehow marketing has come to mean nothing but “marketing communications” and “content marketing” in this digital world we live in. How that happened, I don’t know. But marketing is so much more and the bottom line is that it’s about the NUMBERS; the only…
Somehow marketing has come to mean nothing but “marketing communications” and “content marketing” in this digital world we live in. How that happened, I don’t know. But marketing… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/06/marketingits-about-numbers/

Marketers Are Focused On the Wrong Things

Marketers are focused on the wrong things. What should you be focused on?
Marketers are focus on the wrong things. There, I said it. And to those of you that are reacting with a “Hell no!”, prove me wrong. Social Media Marketing Ideas That Won’t… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/06/marketers-are-focused-wrong-things/

Market Analysis - Identify Your Target Markets

Market analysis is the foundation of your marketing plan and you need to identify the key prospects and customers for your products/services to be successful in today’s highly competitive global world....
Market analysis is the foundation of your marketing plan and you need to identify the key prospects and customers for your products/services to be successful in today’s highly… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/market-analysis-identify-your-target-markets/

Market Planning Process

A marketing plan is a map that guides an organization from Point A (its current state) to Point B (its desired state). That guidance comes from the marketing planning process, which answers four questions: where are you now; who do you want to be; what’s …
A marketing plan is a map that guides an organization from Point A (its current state) to Point B (its desired state). That guidance comes from the marketing planning process,… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/market-planning-process/

Differentiation - Colleges Need to Be Uniquely Valuable

There’s an interesting article, Why College Brands Look So Similar, that appeared on InsideHigherEd this week and it’s generating a bit of chatter and on LinkedIn. The lack of differentiation is a topic that pops up every year – we even offered up this wh…
There’s an interesting article, Why College Brands Look So Similar, that appeared on InsideHigherEd this week and it’s generating a bit of chatter and on LinkedIn. The lack of… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/05/differentiation-colleges-need-be-uniquely-valuable/

Do You Know What a "Lead" Is?

This is an important question, especially if you are in marketing and have the responsibility for generating leads for your sales organization. Based on recent research, it’s surprising how many marketers don’t have a clue what a “lead” is for their busi…
This is an important question, especially if you are in marketing and have the responsibility for generating leads for your sales organization. Based on recent research, it’s… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/03/do-you-know-what-lead/

The Drones Are Coming!

The drones are coming! If they aren’t, the hype surrounding their impact on consumer marketing and package delivery certainly is. At least this is what Amazon, Wal-Mart and now Google would like us to believe. In fact, Google is predicting that drone …
The drones are coming! If they aren’t, the hype surrounding their impact on consumer marketing and package delivery certainly is. At least this is what Amazon, Wal-Mart and now… https://www.dwsassociates.com/blog/2016/drones-are-comming/