As a product guy who has experience with startups, SaaS companies, and large technology companies I have come to realize there are principles in this “IT world” that would translate well to the world of online education. Whether you are creating your first eLearning program or looking to take a continuing education program online consider [...]
So we’ve been talking about the 4P’s of marketing and how they relate to the world of continuing education. We’ve looked at Product, Place and now are going to examine Price. Of all the areas of marketing, pricing can be the most complicated, and most impactful. Get pricing wrong and it can cost you big [...]
As Neil recently pointed out in his blog, learners have changed, and their learning preferences have changed. The question then becomes, how do you develop courses that will engage, stimulate, educate and excite the modern learner? Here are some course design tips we thought you might find helpful: Make it bite-sized. Over-loaded schedules and frequent [...]
Recently I saw this infographic from Bersin by Deloitte, HR specialists, which dissects the modern learner. While they were focused on learners in a corporate environment, their findings are applicable across industries and provide great insight into the challenges that those focused on professional continuing education encounter. Today’s work places are fast-paced ever changing environments [...]
We’re counting down to May 15th for the first Innovation Seminar exclusively for Association and Non-Profit executives focused on evolving your workforce, communications, technologies and budgets. These four key areas were highlighted in the 2014 State of Digital Marketing in Associations report conducted by Demand Metric where associations and non-profits are significantly trailing behind corporations. [...]
In marketing, the term Place refers to where a buyer can go to purchase your product. For many companies this involves deciding on distribution channels, or what resellers to work with, or whether to hire a sales team and sell directly. When applying the 4P’s of marketing (product, place, price and promotion) to the world [...]
If you’ve taken a basic marketing course, or done any reading on the subject, you’ve probably heard of the 4P’s of marketing; Product, Place, Price and Promotion. You’ve been told all you have to do is know what a particular group of people wants, where or how they want to purchase it, what they will [...]
How much time do you spend marketing your CE content to existing customers? How many spreadsheets do you have tracking what people bought in order to determine which new products they might be interested in? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could automate this? We’ve been thinking a lot about marketing recently. And I don’t [...]
I recently ran across this great infographic on the prevalence of mobile technology, and how that is enabling the boom in m-learning. What made this so interesting is that the m-learning, or mobile learning, they were referring to was podcasting. Most of us, myself included, don’t immediately think of podcasting as a form of mobile [...]
Recently we’ve been getting some questions about m-learning, or mobile learning, and thought it would be good to spend some more time on this topic. The questions we’ve been asked range from, “Do I need to offer mobile learning?” to, “What kind of content works best for m-learning?” Before we launch into answering all these [...]
