Presentations
Multi-Generational Recruitment: Marketing to Diverse Audiences in a Multi-Channel World
Learn about the latest trends and best practices for recruiting millennials and generation-X for graduate higher education programs. Topics covered include Audience Profiling, List Tactics, Variable-Data Technology, Mobile-optimization, and Social Media strategies.
View presentation hereRecruiting Across Generations: Building a Healthy Inquiry Pool Using Multi-Channel Strategies for Diverse Audiences
This workshop covers multi-channel marketing strategies that are effective for recruiting different generations of prospective students. Learn how to build and maintain a healthy inquiry pool of prospects as well as how to engage those prospects to take the next step towards applying to your programs.
View presentation hereEmerging Trends for Catholic Marketers
This presentation covered the latest trends in integrated marketing and fundraising, and specifically explained how variable-data technologies are used to link together various media within a multi-channel campaign. Attendees learned how direct mail, email, personalized microsites, social media, and mobile devices are linked through the use of QR Codes, Mobile-optimized email and landing pages, and Personalized Microsites (PURLs).
View presentation hereIntegrated Marketing: How to Communicate with Prospects using a Cross-Media Approach
Learn how to communicate with prospective students using a cross-media approach. This presentation covers current marketing trends, variable-data technologies, innovative cross-media formats, marketing automation, and real results from higher education marketing case studies.
View presentation hereMulti-Channel 301: Integrating Direct Mail, Email, Mobile and Web using Variable-Data Technologies
The average person sees over 3,000 marketing messages a day! How do we recruit prospective students across multiple media while maintaining key marketing messages and a simple “call-to-action”? The answer is related to your understanding of today’s Variable-Data Technologies. With so many types of media available today – including direct mail, email, SMS text, smartphones, tablets, social networks, personalized Landing Pages and Microsites, traditional print and website advertising – it is critical to maintain high levels of integration and personalization across all channels!
View presentation hereCross-Media Trends
This presentation highlights the latest trends in integrated marketing across various channels including online, direct mail and mobile fundraising. Find out in this presentation where is the industry now and where is it going so you can make the right adjustments to your fundraising campaigns.
View presentation hereDigital & Direct Mail: How to Integrate QR Codes, Mobile sites and Personalized Media using Variable-Data Technologies
This presentation uncovered how variable-data technologies are used in multi-channel fundraising campaigns, specifically through the use of direct mail, email, QR Codes, Mobile-optimized landing sites, and Personalized URLs (PURLs). Learn everything you wanted to know about generic vs. personalized QR codes, tips for mobile optimization, how Personalized landing pages work, and how these digital channels work with your existing direct mail and email communications.
View presentation herePersonalized Marketing Across Multiple Channels 201: Recruiting Students in the 21st Century
This presentation is from the 2012 NAGAP Conference in Austin, TX. Focused on how to recruit prospective students using an integrated marketing strategy..
View presentation herePersonalized Marketing Across Multiple Channels: Recruiting Students in the 21st Century
A 4-part presentation covering multi-channel marketing trends, innovative direct marketing technologies, how to plan an integrated multi-channel campaign, and a review of case study data. Specific focus on student recruitment for higher education admissions. (Presented at NAGAP 2011 Conference)
View presentation herePURLs and QR Codes: An Easy Entry into Cross-Media Marketing
Learn how a state-of-the art Personalized URL Platform can glue that makes multi-channel direct marketing campaigns stick! Plus everything you wanted to know about QR Codes and mobile optimization.
View presentation herePURLs: A Simple Way to Get Started with Multi-Channel Fundraising
This presentation covered 3 topics:
- Overview of Latest Trends in Multi-Channel Marketing,
- Understanding PURLs and what they can enable you to do, and a
- Review of Examples of how PURLs can be implemented.
PURLs & Admissions: Converting Prospects into Applicants
A new multi-channel marketing package for converting prospects into applicants. Covers 4 topics: Intro to PURLs, Multi-Channel Integration Strategies, Impact of PURLs on Admissions process, and Best Practices for Maximizing Response Rates. (Co-Presented in 2009 at the NAGAP Conference by Marymount University and Direct Development.)
View presentation hereDirect Development is currently a corporate member and sponsor of the National Catholic Development Conference (NCDC) and a member of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington (DMAW). We are also Affiliate Members of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP) where we provide support and educational workshops for the graduate admissions industry. We present workshops, seminars and webinars regularly throughout the year for all of the associations we are affiliated with.