EdMarketing

Beyond Back-to-School Spending: Teachers Spend All Year Long

By MDR Marketing Team | 10/18/2019 | 1 Comment
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There’s a reason the hashtag #clearthelist—which asks people to buy items on teachers’ Amazon wish lists—took off this back-to-school season. Teachers are spending more and more of their own money on school supplies and materials for their classrooms. And many schools continue to push the AmazonSmile program which gives back to schools when friends and […]

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5 Ways to Get More for Your Brand By Sponsoring a Blog Post

By Guest Contributor | 10/11/2019 | Comments Off on 5 Ways to Get More for Your Brand By Sponsoring a Blog Post
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By Kimberley Moran – Senior Digital Editor at WeAreTeachers and School Leaders Now It doesn’t take long in any culture to realize the truth in the old saying, you are known by the company you keep. Look around and you’ll find people aligning themselves with brands everywhere from makeup to food to educational products. It […]

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Don’t Be Hating on Email Marketing

By MDR Marketing Team | 10/11/2019 | Comments Off on Don’t Be Hating on Email Marketing
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I went shopping before work again…because I feel compelled to look at my email when I first wake up. There was a sale, there were these boots… and the next thing I know I’m $100 poorer (but infinitely more stylish) before 8 a.m. That’s the thing with email. It finds you…wherever you are, it is […]

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How to Meet the Demands of the Socially Conscious Consumer

By MDR Marketing Team | 09/23/2019 | Comments Off on How to Meet the Demands of the Socially Conscious Consumer
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Thanks to ReadWrite for referencing us in this great article. Nearly 200 chief executives from some of the world’s largest companies met in August as part of the Business Roundtable. Discussing the most pressing issues facing modern corporations, their manifesto signaled a departure from old-school corporate philosophy. Its primary message? Shareholder value isn’t everything. Regardless of how far-reaching their call […]

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Capturing the Attention of Busy School Leaders

By MDR Marketing Team | 09/19/2019 | Comments Off on Capturing the Attention of Busy School Leaders
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Renaissance Collaborates with MDR to Build Continued Awareness Among School Leaders School leaders regularly clock more than a standard, full-time workload every week. In fact, a recent study showed that on average, principals work nearly 60 hours a week. This makes them an especially challenging audience to reach for the thousands of education technology companies […]

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What Worked: The Best of Content Marketing Report

By MDR Marketing Team | 09/10/2019 | 3 Comments
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If educators respond to relationship marketing, and every relationship starts with a good conversation, then content marketing is your best opening line. Thoughtful, captivating, relevant content that strikes a chord with the teacher audience is an ideal ice breaker. Make an educator feel like you’re worth listening to, and you are heading for the top […]

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Why Email Marketing Takes the Lead

By MDR Marketing Team | 08/21/2019 | Comments Off on Why Email Marketing Takes the Lead
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Where and how you get a lead, and what it costs to generate and qualify it, should be the prime consideration in how you apportion your lead-gen dollars. We talked with MDR’s Digital Products Manager, Sean McCloud, about how marketers can use email marketing to cost-efficiently and consistently fill the lead funnel for sales. Q: […]

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8 Marketing Tips for a Successful School Year

By MDR Marketing Team | 08/08/2019 | Comments Off on 8 Marketing Tips for a Successful School Year
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and well, the busiest! With the start of the new school year upon us, we are consistently asked “what are the few things we can do now to keep our campaigns fresh for educators and give them an edge up to our competitors?”  Well, to help you […]

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3 ways to make your company irresistible to Gen Z workers

By MDR Marketing Team | 07/27/2019 | Comments Off on 3 ways to make your company irresistible to Gen Z workers
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Thanks to TheLadders.com for referencing us in this great article. When Millennials entered the business world in the early 2000s, unemployment rates were nearly double what they are now — and steadily climbing. As Generation Z comes onto the scene, unemployment sits at record lows. Companies seeking educated new talent are in a fight to catch […]

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Take Your CSR Program Back To School

By Colleen Galligan | 07/22/2019 | Comments Off on Take Your CSR Program Back To School
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Thank you to CEOWorld Magazine for sharing our guest contributed article. By now we all know that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not only good for local communities and the world, it’s also good for the bottom line. Any business worth its 21st-century salt has embraced this fact and is running with it. But are […]

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Understanding the 5 W’s of Influencer Marketing Disclosure

By MDR Marketing Team | 07/03/2019 | Comments Off on Understanding the 5 W’s of Influencer Marketing Disclosure
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Let’s start off by explaining what influencers are and how they can help your business. An influencer is someone with an audience of followers and a platform to engage with them on, whether that’s online via a blog or website, on social media via Instagram or Facebook, or even in-person at live events. Brands can […]

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Now is the Time to Get in on the $80 Billion Back-to-School Market

By MDR Marketing Team | 06/24/2019 | Comments Off on Now is the Time to Get in on the $80 Billion Back-to-School Market
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Thanks to Business 2 Community for sharing our guest contributed article. Late summer and fall is the time when parents and their kids are shopping for backpacks, binders, and the latest styles as students head back into the classroom. But teachers are making plans much earlier. They spend springtime finalizing their lists for the following […]

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Influencer Marketing for the Education Space: The Who, What, Why, and How

By MDR Marketing Team | 06/19/2019 | Comments Off on Influencer Marketing for the Education Space: The Who, What, Why, and How
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Influencer marketing has been prominent in consumer marketing, especially in the fashion, technology, and beauty industries for quite a while. Over the last few years it has emerged in the educator space as an exciting, new way to promote your products, company, or brand to new people in the education market. Partnering with authentic social […]

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Educators are Engaged Day and Night, All Year Round

By MDR Marketing Team | 06/14/2019 | Comments Off on Educators are Engaged Day and Night, All Year Round
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The Numbers Are in and the Numbers Don’t Lie No matter what business you are in, it is important to communicate with your customers and it is even more important to know when to communicate with them. Conventional wisdom has taught us that in the education arena, the first two months of the school year […]

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How to Use Social Media for More Mindful Connections

By MDR Marketing Team | 06/06/2019 | Comments Off on How to Use Social Media for More Mindful Connections
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Thanks to Thrive Global for referencing us in this great article. Once primarily an outlet for creative expression, Instagram has morphed into a real-time competition to build cadres of followers. But enough is apparently enough. The company has announced plans to move back to being a platform blooming with inspiration and good intentions — or […]

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Getting More Bang for your Content Marketing Buck

By MDR Marketing Team | 05/16/2019 | Comments Off on Getting More Bang for your Content Marketing Buck
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It’s targeted to educators. It’s rich in detail. It conveys your message persuasively, not to mention the beautiful design! You’ve worked hard on an article, case study, eBook, or white paper and now it’s time for that content to work hard for you. That’s where repurposing, upcycling, and disseminating comes into play as part of your […]

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MDR and Lysol Selected as Winners in the 2019 PRNews Social Media Awards

By MDR Marketing Team | 05/14/2019 | Comments Off on MDR and Lysol Selected as Winners in the 2019 PRNews Social Media Awards
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We are proud to announce that MDR, together with our client Lysol, was selected as a winner in the Instagram – Best Marketing Campaign category of the 2019 PRNews Social Media Awards! Winners were announced last week at the Social Media Awards Breakfast at the Social Shake Up Show in Atlanta, GA. The My Healthy […]

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Building the STEM Workforce Today’s Talent Pool Can’t Provide

By MDR Marketing Team | 04/25/2019 | Comments Off on Building the STEM Workforce Today’s Talent Pool Can’t Provide
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Thank you to Under30CEO for referencing us in this great article. Today’s tight labor market is flipping the script on recruiting. Rather than job seekers trying to impress employers, the opposite is happening. Apprenticeship opportunities, in which employees are paid to be trained rather than incur student debt, have grown by 42 percent since 2013. And […]

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More Reasons to Add Digital Advertising to Your Marketing Toolkit

By MDR Marketing Team | 04/23/2019 | Comments Off on More Reasons to Add Digital Advertising to Your Marketing Toolkit
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The 24-Hour Digital Campaign Engagement Cycle Teachers like to surf at lunchtime—surf the Internet that is. A majority like to open their email around noon, so, a good time to catch them is while they are eating. That’s food for thought as you put together your campaign menu. In looking at our engagement data from […]

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Are Teachers in Love with Insta? Here’s What We Learned from Our Survey.

By MDR Marketing Team | 04/16/2019 | 2 Comments
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We already know teachers are embracing social media. We also learned that Instagram is the social network preferred by millennials and Gen Z. So, the next logical step was to ask what teachers think of Instagram. Recently, MDR surveyed teachers about their Instagram use, and more than 1,000 teachers shared their thoughts. The majority of […]

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Learn How Facebook Advertising Updates May (or May Not) Affect Your Education Marketing Campaigns

By MDR Marketing Team | 04/11/2019 | Comments Off on Learn How Facebook Advertising Updates May (or May Not) Affect Your Education Marketing Campaigns
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Facebook has made its way back into recent news headlines, this time regarding its ad targeting solutions. While there is no need to fret, we want to recognize that some of these changes may impact those in the education space, both Facebook users and advertisers who rely on the platform to target and reach customers. […]

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Three Ways Using Multi-Channel Marketing Will Improve Email Performance

By MDR Marketing Team | 04/09/2019 | Comments Off on Three Ways Using Multi-Channel Marketing Will Improve Email Performance
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I love email. At its best, it is a non-invasive form of one-to-one communication that is direct, cost-effective, and easy to track. But, that ping-ping-ping of incoming emails can truly get on my nerves. Each morning, I’m stressed before I even look at my inbox, because I know there will be hundreds of new messages […]

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The Impact of Libraries on the School Community

By MDR Marketing Team | 04/08/2019 | Comments Off on The Impact of Libraries on the School Community
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This year’s National Library Week theme was Libraries = Strong Communities. At MDR we are awed by the immense impact that libraries have in our communities and how their influence goes well beyond library doors. A Pew Research Center study from 2016 showed that more than 90% of Americans consider the library “very” or “somewhat” […]

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Pinterest Advertising: Target Educators Where They Are

By MDR Marketing Team | 03/25/2019 | Comments Off on Pinterest Advertising: Target Educators Where They Are
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You might be surprised to know that that there are 250 million users on Pinterest…AND millions are educators. Pinterest is a visual platform used for discovering new ideas and their advertising option is an excellent opportunity for education marketers to put their products and services in front of an engaged, qualified audience of educators. Most […]

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Teacher Appreciation Week Is May 6–10: A+ Gifts for Your Favorite Educator

By MDR Marketing Team | 03/18/2019 | Comments Off on Teacher Appreciation Week Is May 6–10: A+ Gifts for Your Favorite Educator
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Apples, coffee cups, pencils, and rulers: What do these things have in common? Ding, ding, ding — they’re gifts given to teachers every single year. This Teacher Appreciation Week, you can do better by giving teachers something that they’re truly interested in. No matter their district or grade level taught, teachers are running short on […]

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For Millennials and Gen Z, pictures are worth a thousand words.

By MDR Marketing Team | 03/18/2019 | Comments Off on For Millennials and Gen Z, pictures are worth a thousand words.
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The cool kids are on Instagram. You need to be there, too. I was scrolling through posts on Instagram for a lifestyle brand I follow recently, and the comment thread stopped me in my tracks. The call to action was a request to sign up for an email newsletter. “Sign up for email?” one commenter […]

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