Social is SexyCourting Admissions’ Target Market in Today’s

Ever-changing Online Social Scene

Brendan Schneider, S E W I C K L E Y A C A D E M Y

Travis Warren, W H I P P L E H I L L , I N C.

Friday, October 510:30 - 11:30

What is Sexy?

Full-Pay,Mission-Appropriate

Students

Social is Sexy but...

there is more to it.

Markets are now conversations.

Conversations that are changing all the time...

Markets are now conversations.

Conversations that are changing all the time...

FLICKR / STUCKINCUSTOMS

That said.

FLICKR/MARCP_DMOZMarkets were Markets

FLICKR/ROOTOLOGYMarket-leaders

FLICKR/LAWRENCE_EVILIndustrial Interruption

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Power swung so decisively to the supply side that market became a verb: something you do to customers.

“One problem: there is no demand for messages. The customer doesn’t want to hear from business, ... The message that gets broadcast to you, me, and the rest of the earth’s population has nothing to do with me in particular. It’s worse than noise. It’s an interruption. It’s the Anti-Conversation.

That’s the awful truth about marketing. It broadcasts messages to people who don’t want to listen. Every advertisement, press release, publicity stunt, and giveaway engineered by a Marketing department is colored by the fact that it’s going to a public that doesn’t ask to hear it.”

Networked Markets

New revolution in Marketing enabled

by the Internet.

6. “The Internet is enabling conversations among human

beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media”.

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15. “the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court”

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elcome to Blank School. It is my hope that by exploring our web site, you will discover the countless opportunities available at Blank to young men who are in pursuit of academic excellence, sound character development, and athletic and artistic training at the highest levels.

Since our founding in 1900, Blank has been a leader in the education of boys. Our traditional approach to education provides our talented and diverse student body with the tools necessary to be successful leaders, thinkers and innovators in today’s world. While we are proud to send our students to the finest universities and colleges, our focus remains on the development of the whole boy. At Blank, our goal is to prepare our students to be good men as much as it is to prepare them to be exemplary scholars.

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94. “networked conversations may appear confused, may sound

confusing. But, they are organized and have better tools, more new ideas,

no rules to slow them down”

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FLICKR / MARCP_DMOZ Markets were Markets

Markets are now conversations.

Conversations that are changing all the time...

Social is Sexy but...

Search Engine Optimization

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The Long Tail

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With SEO we exposed the long tail to Google.

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