social media survival for private school principals

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Does your Private/Independent School have a solid strategy for social media communication and marketing? In this 3 hour workshop, speaker Travis Allison worked with educators in the York University Private School Principals course to create a social media strategy. Participants talked about the foundations (strategy before tactics and the WHY of your school), what to prioritize and how. The most important elements of marketing your independent school, in order, are: 1) a useable and searchable website 2) email newsletter focussed on parents trying to make a school decision 3) full use of Facebook - including Timeline 4) telling stories on YouTube If you are interested in Travis presenting at your educational event please contact him at 519.532.7366 or travis@walkingmaverick.com.

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Social Media

Survival

for Independent

Schools

Who are you?

What do you

You

need?

this morning

review

marketing is...

marketing is...

getting someone who has an___

marketing is...

getting someone who has aneed

to k___, l___ and t___.

marketing is...

getting someone who has aneed

to know, like and trust you.

People Don’t buy

w___ you do,

People Don’t buy

what you do,

People Don’t buy

what you do,

they buy w__ you do it.

People Don’t buy

what you do,

they buy WHY you do it.

What’s your WHY?

For the staff:

• What changes do parents say to you that they notice in their kids after joining _____ School?

• How would the world be different without the school?• On the most stressful of school days I still going to bed

at night knowing ____________• Despite all administrative challenges we face we never

think about giving up because ___________• Going head-to-head with any other school, we'd win

because___________• If you could re-do one thing from the early days of the

_________ School what would that be?• In what moments in the school year are we at our

_______ School best?

For parents:

• The world is better because the ________ School does __________

• When you ask your child about school what topic gets his/her heart beating faster, makes him/her smile, floods him/her with great memories?

• What has been a defining moment for you at school?

For alumni:

• What specifically about who you are now comes directly from your _____ School experience?

• If you could go back and thank your most influential _____ School mentor for one thing, what would it be?

• Name a ______ School person who has had a strong impact on you.  What specifically did you learn from them? Recount a specific story that perfectly demonstrates how great that person was and the lesson you learned.

• What has been a defining moment for you at school?

What’s your WHY?

To____, so that ____.

Who is your biggest competitor?

(race to the bottom)

free

strategy before

tactics

one more foundation

What problem are you solving?

What questions do they always ask?

social media hierarchy

1. website

(race to the bottom)

“I know there’s a problem

but I don’t know what the solution is.”

front page challenge

I GO HERE! I WANT TO

GO HERE!

(race to the bottom)

(race to the bottom)

(race to the bottom)

50

Blog Topics

2. newsletter

3. Facebook

4. YouTube

bring the

DRAMA

10 Things Every School Should Do On

**check out the full version of the “10 Things” presentation at www.slideshare.net/zoic **

5. Google Plus

Where’s Twitter?

before the last #...

That’s

NICE

but...

I believe...

Create

charismatic leaders

who make good decisions.

policy

questions?

6. Pinterest

How do we Work

Pinterest?

gimme a

Break

Travis AllisonWalking Maverick Consulting

519.532.7366travis@walkingmaverick.com

@zoic

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