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SCHOOL BRANDING.
Take some minutes and think through the school(s) or university(ies) you attended. What four qualities instantly come to mind when you think of your alma mater? Is/are the school(s)/university(ies):
1. Supportive?
2. Challenging?
3. Welcoming and flexible?
4. Fulfilling?
To succeed in your effort to brand your school, you must know how it is seen by those within and without. If you are not sure of what current and prospective students would say your school stands for, then the information shared herein will be of uttermost importance to you.
Every Top, Standard, Successful or Selling School has a distinct identity. It is through its identity that the school is distinguished from every others.
You can easily find out what differentiates your school from the millions in existence on earth, by truly and thoroughly looking at it based on your SCHOOL SERVICES, CORE VALUES, COMMITMENT and MOTIVATION or DRIVE. Meaning, you need to ask and answer, in fact, probe sincerely whether it/they has/have to do with:
1. The teachers professional development?
2. Provision of academic and psychological needs of the learners?
3. Staff cooperation and not individual competition?
4. An understanding that each pupil/student is unique and deserves a personalized attention?
5. An in depth knowledge of each pupil's/student's holistic needs, potential, and what stimulates his or her educational curiosity?
Each of these Tips Below is Intended to Help You Achieve Your School Branding Goal:
a. Match your school's brand identity with your targeted market's preferences.
Definitely, you want your brand identity to set your school apart, to reflect your school's strengths, values and missions. In order to avoid generic or misguided messaging, the marketing team and other shareholders must first clearly define their school's positive qualities, characteristics or values, and, how everyone of them match with their potential prospect's aspirations, challenges, and educational preferences.
Schools could start by making a list of their 5 to 10 top peculiarities, and clarify how they meet their targeted market goals and needs. These are the key messages they will use to guide every aspect of their advertising, working towards consistently targeted campaigns that both reflect their unique culture as schools, and the definite features of their audience. Over time and with consistent efforts, the distinctiveness they're emphasizing become one with their name, that is, they communicate their true missions as schools.
The moment schools are understood by what they offer that are in line with their purposes of existence, prospective parents and pupils/students would be attracted, because these schools have goals, services and values that agree with those of the prospective parents and pupils/students.