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Practical ideas, proven strategies, and real-world lessons for education organizations looking to improve marketing performance, strengthen revenue growth, and better understand how schools and districts make purchasing decisions. Explore articles covering K-12 marketing, sales strategy, leadership, revenue growth, demand generation, and market trends.
Strategic Plan vs. Operating Plan vs. GTM Plan: What Education Companies Keep Confusing
Read more: Strategic Plan vs. Operating Plan vs. GTM Plan: What Education Companies Keep ConfusingMost education companies have a plan. What they do not have is three plans, and that is the actual problem. Every fall, a leadership team sits down, builds one document, calls it the plan, and then spends the next year confused about why the document does not answer the questions they keep asking it. The…
Why So Many Education Organizations Struggle With Marketing, and What to Do Instead
Read more: Why So Many Education Organizations Struggle With Marketing, and What to Do InsteadThe K-12 education market has changed significantly in the last five years. Most education organizations’ marketing hasn’t. I keep hearing versions of the same conversation. The team is working hard. The content calendar is full. The product is strong. But the pipeline is quiet, and leadership is starting to ask questions. The problem usually isn’t…
How to Win More K-12 Education RFPs: Build a System, Not a Response
Read more: How to Win More K-12 Education RFPs: Build a System, Not a ResponseMost education companies treat RFP responses as a writing problem. The ones that win consistently treat them as a systems problem. The difference shows up the moment a bid lands. At organizations without a system, the same fire drill plays out every time: someone forwards the RFP to a list, people scramble to pull content…
Your K-12 Go-to-Market Strategy Isn’t Broken. It’s Built for the Wrong Market.
Read more: Your K-12 Go-to-Market Strategy Isn’t Broken. It’s Built for the Wrong Market.A go-to-market strategy that works in SaaS or standard B2B doesn’t translate to K-12 education without significant rework. The market structure is different enough that the standard playbook, identify your ICP, build a funnel, run demand gen, produces very different results here than it does elsewhere. Most education companies figure this out the hard way.…
When K-12 Marketing Stalls, the Answer Usually Isn’t a Full-Time Hire
Read more: When K-12 Marketing Stalls, the Answer Usually Isn’t a Full-Time HireWhen marketing stalls in a K-12 education company, the instinct is to hire. Get a senior marketing leader in the building. Give them ownership. Let them figure it out. It’s a reasonable instinct, and it’s often the wrong move. A full-time CMO hire in this market takes months to learn the rhythms that determine whether…
Former Teachers Who Move Into EdTech Sales Often Struggle — Until They Unlearn One Habit
Read more: Former Teachers Who Move Into EdTech Sales Often Struggle — Until They Unlearn One HabitMost education companies that hire former teachers to sell are making a smart bet. Former teachers know the problems their buyers face because they lived them. They have credibility in a district conversation that no amount of sales training can manufacture. A rep who once ran a third-grade classroom in a Title I school doesn’t…
An Automated Sales Funnel Shouldn’t Automate Everything
Read more: An Automated Sales Funnel Shouldn’t Automate EverythingMarketing automation has a real role in K-12 education sales. It’s just a smaller role than most vendors give it. Automated email sequences, retargeting, and lead scoring are genuinely useful for building awareness and staying visible during the long stretches between meaningful touchpoints with a district buyer. Use them. But organizations that treat automation as…
