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Karlyn Morissette

marketing strategist, higher ed web geek, speaker, consultant, MBA, ferret lover

Entries for September, 2008

So you want to hire an interactive admissions person…

This post is directed specifically at all the Directors of Admissions out there, who are considering the creation of an e-admissions person.  I’ve heard a number of titles for it: My former one was Interactive Recruitment Manager; another popular one is Electronic Communications Coordinator.  What you call it is really immaterial.  What’s really important is [...]

Using “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” for marketing

My boss got this email today…I wish more companies had the balls to be this creative: 

Fast Tip Friday: Don’t Talk Geek (but talking like a pirate is OK…just for today)

Most of us can throw out every piece of computer/web jargon in book…but that doesn’t mean we should.  A few years back I forced myself into the habit of explaining all but the most well-known concepts in plain English to my colleagues at all times.  When I used jargon, most of them didn’t understand what [...]

When in doubt, use hot people in your Facebook ads

Typically Facebook ads that we run get anywhere between 0.05% and 0.3% click rates, with a high water mark of about 0.5%.  So you can imagine my surprise when I logged onto our account yesterday afternoon to see that the ads we started running a few days ago to recruit currents students to our call [...]

OmniUpdate does it right

I got my free uwebd mug yesterday from OmniUpdate and I have to say kudos!  OmniUpdate gets it!  They understand that as a human being, I am selfish and don’t want/won’t use a mug (even if it’s free) that comes with some crappy company logo on it.  Instead they sent me (and every other member [...]

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