Can you and your clients trust online reviews? The quick and straightforward answer is YES! Online customer reviews, in general, can be trusted. One reason to rely on online reviews is the fact that most platforms today are successful in thwarting efforts to post unverified and fake reviews. Gone are the days when anonymous reviewers could post reviews at will on these sites.
For a moment, take off your business hat and put on your “searcher” hat. As a searcher, online reviews are particularly useful for you and people like you looking for trustworthy and useful information about the products and services you or they need.
Switching hats back, online reviewers are usually actual users who can provide details about their experience with a particular product or service. This way, consumers get a perspective not coming from the business or service provider. This is a point of view that you as the business cannot always provide.
However, as a user, you must exercise caution and due diligence when reading online reviews. A sound suggestion is to read as many reviews of the same service or product as possible. You can better understand and appreciate the particular product through many different customer experiences.
When reading reviews, it is also worth mentioning that it is important to be discerning and deciding which reviews to believe and the ones to ignore or not to take seriously. For instance, if you encounter reviews that are too exceptional or seem too good to be true, they are probably reviews that you need to take with a grain of salt.
Written By: Adam Bennett | April 27, 2022
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.
You are not alone if you find it a struggle to increase your private Lutheran school’s enrollment. Many private schools are in the same situation, and the problem isn’t only the low turnout. Their marketing efforts are inefficient as well.
Problems that most Lutheran private schools contend with are:
- Failure to increase public awareness
- Low site traffic
- Low social media engagement
- Lack of organized parent/student visit accommodation.
Fortunately, there are ways to reverse the situation. The first step is to understand the parents’ and students’ school selection process.
By researching your target market, you can determine if your private school’s core values are aligned with your audience and if your activities and curriculum are relevant to their needs. Then, assess your various ways to reach out to your prospective enrollees.
Getting the services of a digital marketing agency that understands Lutheran private schools can be very beneficial. They know various enrollment strategies to help private schools attract more students. These include presenting stories of successful alumni and other services that only experienced agencies can provide.
A reliable marketing agency can also help improve your Lutheran school’s website. They will have professional web designers who can create user-friendly websites that are optimized for search engines and rank on top of the search engine results pages (SERPs). You can achieve your marketing objectives by working with a professional service provider.
Written By: Adam Bennett | April 20, 2022
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.
An internet marketing plan is an important component of a business's total marketing mix, regardless of its size or whether it does business online. If you're entirely new to online marketing for small businesses, getting started might seem like a daunting process as internet marketing is constantly evolving.
Small business marketing for a local company may include numerous offline local advertising approaches. Still, to optimize sales in today's economy, a business must also incorporate a good share of internet marketing strategies.
A small business will be interested in several significant areas of internet marketing. Some are more vital for local, offline businesses, while others are more beneficial for e-commerce businesses.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | April 18, 2022
Chad is a Partner and our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
You may think that your school has been doing all the right things. However, how sure are you that people that matter have heard about your school or the things you have been doing? Merely doing the right things does not guarantee that your target audience is aware of your existence. Your target audience – families in your community, as well as the surrounding areas of your operation – need to know!
Suppose this is the case with your private school, and your entire organization agrees that you need to come up with a more effective and robust marketing strategy to lure more applicants in. In that case, one of the proven techniques you need to consider is using inbound marketing, together with other tested methods.
Written By: Adam Bennett | April 13, 2022
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.