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© 2017 Christian Brothers Services, Romeoville, IL. All Rights Reserved.No part of this presentation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted by any means without the written permission of Christian Brothers Services.
Christian Brothers Services
2017 Spring Webinar Series
March 9, 2017
Catholic School Managementa division of Christian Brothers Services
2017 SPRING WEBINAR SERIES
Marketing Your School for Image, Enrollment and Resources Using Facebook
Opening PrayerOpening PrayerCreator God, through your worldand people that surround us, we
pray that we may grow more awarethis day of your life giving presence.Open our minds and hearts to apply
the knowledge from today’s webinar for the good of all.
We ask these things in Jesus’ Name.Amen
Creator God, through your worldand people that surround us, we
pray that we may grow more awarethis day of your life giving presence.Open our minds and hearts to apply
the knowledge from today’s webinar for the good of all.
We ask these things in Jesus’ Name.Amen
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2017 SPRING WEBINAR SERIES
Jennifer TrefelnerAdjunct Consultant
Catholic School Management
Marketing Your School for Image, Enrollment and Resources Using
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
About Today’s Presentation
- Facebook can be a useful tool in marketing Catholic schools for image, enrollment, and resources. Learn how to develop a social media plan for your school's Facebook page to reach your target audiences.
- Enjoy understanding the "best practices" for research, planning, implementation, and evaluation of your Facebook initiatives.
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
About Today’s Presentation
-Specific topics below will be discussed:
- Utilizing a social media survey
- Developing an ambassador program
- Writing content regarding your marketing pillars
- Learning how to schedule posts
- Utilizing the "events" option
- Tricks to easily understand Facebook analytics
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Goals for Today
1. Learn the framework of a successful Social Media Plan
2. Understand how to implement
the RPIE strategy for Facebook
3. Explore how to create an ambassador program
4. Learn tools for successful implementation strategies
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Facebook Statistics
• Worldwide, there are currently more than 1.86 billion monthly active Facebook users, which is a 17% increase from last year
• There were 1.15 billion mobile daily active users in December 2016, an increase of 23% from last year
• 1.23 billion people logged onto Facebook daily in September 2016, which represents a 18% increase year over year (Credit: Zephoria Digital Marketing)
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeedSource: Statista, The Statistics Portal
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeedSource: Statista, The Statistics Portal
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeedSource: Brandongaille.com
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Marketing is the process of researching, analyzing, planning, implementing, and controlling carefully formulated programs designed to bring aboutvoluntary exchange relationships with specifically targeted audiences.
Research
Marketing Defined
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Catholic Schools Can Be Marketed for:
Research
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Marketing Mantra
The consistent delivery of
the right message,
to the right person,
in the right way,
at the right time.
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Marketing a Service
Marketing isnot only concerned withtalking to the school’s
publics …
When you are marketing a service you are marketing a relationship.
More importantly,service marketing is concerned with
listening to those publics.
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Two-Way Communication
• It is reassuring to know that when you are marketing your Catholic school for image, enrollment, and resources, you can use social media, as a two-way communication tool to reach your target audiences.
• After our session, you will be able to better understand the strategies and framework which can be established to launch a successful Facebook plan for your school or organization.
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Review of Goals
1. Learn the framework of a successful Social Media Plan
2. Understand how to implement
the RPIE strategy for Facebook
3. Explore how to create an ambassador program
4. Learn tools for successful implementation strategies
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#1 Goal: Learn the framework of a successful Social Media Plan
Create a formal plan to address your specific audience, determine who will be the administrator, and solidify how often content will be posted.
Date – posting Marketing Pillar 1 Marketing Pillar 2 Marketing Pillar 3 Other
FacebookAudience:Administrator:Frequency of posts:
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#1 Goal: Learn the framework of a successful Social Media Plan (cont’d)
Organizing content will provide clarity …
Date – posting College Preparatory
Curriculum
Faith Formation Extracurricular
Activities
Athletic Opportunities
Week 1 – Wed Release of Advanced Placement
Scores
Club Expo Recap
with photos
Week 1 – Fri Junior Class Day of
Reflection
testimonies and
photos
Announce Athlete of the Week
Nominees
Week 2 – Wed Video of Rocket Launches
through science classes
Success of Anchor
Club’s trip to
Annual Convention
Week 2 – Fri Volunteer work at
Habitat for Humanity
Upcoming sports for the next
week
Social Media Plan (Example)FacebookAudience: Prospective and Current Families Administrator: Director of Institutional Advancement Frequency of posts: Mondays and Fridays (and as needed)
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#1 Goal: Learn the framework of a successful Social Media Plan (cont’d)
Marketing Pillars
Your school’s key marketing
pillars should be consistent
and reflect your mission.
In addition, this is an area to promote what separates you from the competition.
Source: www.warc.com
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#2 Goal: Understand how to implementthe RPIE strategy for Facebook
1. Research
2. Planning
3. Implementation
4. Evaluation
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#2 Goal: Understand how to implementthe RPIE strategy for Facebook (cont’d)
1. Research Research is the systematic gathering of information to describe and understand a situation; check assumptions about publics and perceptions, and check the public relations consequences. Research helps define the problem and publics.
• WHO do we want to reach?
• WHAT do we want them to DO?
• WHAT messages do we want to communicate to each public
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#2 Goal: Understand how to implementthe RPIE strategy for Facebook (cont’d)
2. Planning - Goals: Longer term
- Audiences: Who do you want to reach
- Objectives: Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-based
- Strategies: Serve as a road map or approach to reach objectives
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#2 Goal: Understand how to implementthe RPIE strategy for Facebook (cont’d)
3. Implementation - Execution of the plan
- Actual messages posted or scheduled
- How many reached
targeted audiences
- Understand monitoring
tools for execution
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#2 Goal: Understand how to implementthe RPIE strategy for Facebook (cont’d)
4. Evaluation - Measure effectiveness of the program against objectives
- Identify ways to improve for the future
- Adjust the plan, materials, etc., before going forward.
- Can serve as research for the next phase or program
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#3 Goal: Explore how to create anAmbassador program
Create a social media ambassador program which empowers trusted parents to serve as your eyes, ears, and megaphone!
Program Goals:
1. Virality
2. Authentic Endorsement
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#3 Goal: Explore how to create an Ambassador program (cont’d)
1. Find parents you trust and respect
2. Meet to discuss goals, hold an informal focus group, review process for sharing information, discuss best ways to reach target audiences, policies for the group, etc.
3. Implement plan and evaluate successes
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#3 Goal: Explore how to create an Ambassador program (cont’d)
a. Use #JCHSRamFam
b. Send Jenn content to share
c. Tag other entities you are posting about (Football, TCPalm, Schools)
i. Use the “@” sign before typing the whole “John Carroll High School” (not JC HS)
name or the name of a Facebook friend you are trying to tag in a post or picture.
(For example, if you write @JohnC… by then John Carroll High School’s Facebook
page should appear for you to tag.)
d. If you see some of your friends in JCHS photos, please tag them. This is very beneficial for
JCHS because then those people will get notifications when the photo is liked,
commented on, or shared.
i. You can tag them by clicking on the photo and pressing the little tag button at the
bottom of the photo. Then squares around each person’s face in the photo will
appear, and you will be able to tag the people you are Facebook friends with.
e. Post content on your own using information we provide
i. Katherine will send you the e‐newsletter text and some photos.
f. Talk to parents and students about what they like and what they would like to see
g. Let us know as our eyes and ears if there are problems or concerns we need to be aware of
and address
h. “Check in” while on campus
2. Ideas/Suggestions
a. What suggestions do you have for our social media sites?
b. Weaving website ideas into this conversation
3. Closing
a. Thank you!
b. Meet in May
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#4 Goal: Learn tools for successful implementation strategies
Examples of tools that assist in the implementation of your Facebook strategies: 1. Utilizing a social media survey
2. Learning how to schedule posts
3. Utilizing the "events" option
4. Tricks to easily understand
Facebook analytics
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#4 Goal: Learn tools for successful implementation strategies (cont’d)
1. Utilizing a social media survey- Learn what social media sites each one of stakeholder groups is using
- When are they checking the sites
- What content do they want to see posted
- What suggestions do they have for you to share
- What technical barriers hold them back
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A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#4 Goal: Learn tools for successful implementation strategies (cont’d)
2. Learn how to schedule posts- Find which times your stakeholders are
likely to visit your FB page and schedule posts for those times
- Tag people in the comments or the following day
- Save information that is not time sensitive to run on the weekends or on holidays
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#4 Goal: Learn tools for successful implementation strategies (cont’d)
3. Utilizing the "events" option- Create “Events” for major school
events
- Have Ambassadors invite their friends
- Post to event page, then share on school page
- Enjoy the perks of notifications, reminders, sharing, etc. set through Facebook
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
#4 Goal: Learn tools for successful implementation strategies (cont’d)
4. Tricks to easily understand Facebook analytics- Understand how people are engaging with your Page
- View metrics about your Page's performance
- Learn which posts have the most engagement
- See who your local audience is
- Export data
- Compare month-to-month data
- Watch notifications
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BONUS: Fun ideas …
Enjoy these fun ideas! - Handle multiple accounts
- Tagging photos through your personal Facebook page
- Linking your page to Twitter
- Tagging entities you are promoting
- Using hashtags
- Host audience building campaigns and contests
- Host a “call out” for content
- Have fun with videos
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Follow CSM
• Facebook: Catholic School Management
• Instagram: CatholicSchoolManagement
• Twitter: @CathSchoolMgmt
• Use a Hashtag: #CathSchoolMgmt
A 40 year commitment to helping Catholic schools succeed
Learn More
To learn more about Catholic School Management’s services and how they can help you devise a Social Media Plan.
• Call 203-421-5169 or email [email protected]
• Attend the Summer Certificate Programs in Monterey, California on June 26 - June 28
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Q&A
For Questions Regarding Marketing Your Schools
Contact:
Maria Ribera [email protected]
or 203.421.5169
To sign up for any of our Spring webinars:
cbservices.org/educationalresources.php
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© 2017 Christian Brothers Services, Romeoville, IL. All Rights Reserved.No part of this presentation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted by any means without the written permission of Christian Brothers Services.