This book will provide students in graduate level educational leadership courses a theoretical perspective on best practices in educational marketing. Additionally, veteran school leaders that want to become more savvy in the new competitive educational landscape will find the book helpful in making decisions that are both theoretically and strategically sound specific to marketing will find this book a go to support. Examples of effective best practice via real world case studies, as well as debrief questions and assignment examples for further discussion and learning will be provided.

The introduction of educational markets into public and higher education in many countries has led to competitive environments for schools and higher education institutions. This book presents the works of leading scholars and researchers in the field of educational marketing who handle issues of student retention.

Today’s administrators need to understand why, when, where, and how to market their schools to continue to serve their communities in the rapidly-changing educational climate. This book will highlight effective and tangible marketing practices for k-12 educators. The book is envisioned to be very reader friendly and offer practical solutions to current challenges that school leaders are facing. The authors envision school leaders being able to open the book and start applying the information. The book offers ideas and solutions to marketing challenges both big and small. It will also walk administrators through the process of establishing a marketing plan specific to educational contexts, help them navigate their competitive environment, and address marketing communication issues ranging from social media to crisis planning.

The intention of this book is to assist school leaders to understand and develop the knowledge and skills of business processes. It highlights the key principles and tactics of business operation that school leaders need if they are to effectively manage both the educational and business imperatives of their schools. The book is designed to act as a single reliable resource that can be referred to on a daily basis. [Back cover, ed].

How to Take Monster Bucks will reveal the secret strategies of men who consistently bag older age-class deer each season. There is a price to pay to be the best at any sport, and trophy deer hunting is no different. But this book will save you thousands of hunting hours in your pursuit of monster bucks.

Although higher education institutes are not typically thought of as a business, colleges and universities utilize marketing strategies in order to compete for students. Information and communication technologies have enhanced and changed the nature and context of communication exchange, allowing for a broader range of competition. Marketing Strategies for Higher Education Institutions: Technological Considerations and Practices provides different aspects of marketing management and technological innovations in all parts of education, including K-12, non-formal, and distance education. Highlighting research studies, experiences, and cases on educational marketing, this book is essential for educational planners, administrators, researchers, and marketing practitioners involved in all aspects of educational development.

Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach_only to have disappointing and sometimes expensive results. This book will introduce educators to sound marketing principles and action steps. Full of descriptive, concrete examples, the information is easy to adapt to any educational setting as a workhorse to capture and retain community support. The years ahead forecast challenging demographics, savvy consumers and high expectation stakeholders. Susan and David Carroll detail how to interpret demographic trends, assess your image in the community, groom your staff as ambassadors, select and use marketing communications tools correctly, pass your budgets, and other strategic marketing steps for immediate use and success. This book is essential to educators who want their schools to be aligned with the community they serve.

How do you gain a sustainable competitive advantage in today's global hospitality industry? Are there ways to attract and keep a customer over the course of a lifetime? Marketing Leadership in Hospitality and Tourism, Fourth Edition addresses the marketing strategies and tactics known to be effective in the industry such as strategic pricing and revenue management, customer loyalty programs, proven communication mixes, and more! Each chapter explores how to market services and the hospitality experience from both an academic and industry point of view. Case studies, international examples, web exercises and intriguing interviews help readers learn about marketing and also about the industry itself.

The American public school system is the biggest business in the world. Too frequently the schools are still thought of as 'the little red schoolhouse' and are marketed to their many and varied clients as such. This book provides a method by which students of teaching and learning, school board members, superintendents of schools, school principals, state and federal lawmakers, educational agencies at all levels might use some of the private sector ideas to effectively and efficiently market their products to the right 'consumers.' Holcomb discusses education as a product as well as a service. It can be measured, evaluated, weighed, verbalized, packaged...and marketed. Used here, 'marketing' is simply the exchange of money, goods, or services for other money, goods, or services. With his extensive experience in educational services, the author offers much to help the public school system.

WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL MARKETING LEADER? The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader, by former McKinsey Partner Thomas Barta and senior London Business School professor Patrick Barwise, is the first research-based leadership book for marketers in the 21st century. Based on the largest ever research study of its kind, with detailed data on over 8,600 leaders in more than 170 countries, this game-changing book identifies 12 specific behaviors--or Powers--that drive marketers' business impact and career success. Reading it, you’ll learn how to: • MOBILIZE YOUR BOSS: Make an impact at the highest level and align marketing with the company's priorities. • MOBILIZE YOUR COLLEAGUES: Inspire and motivate your non-marketing colleagues to deliver a great customer experience. • MOBILIZE YOUR TEAM: Build and align a winning marketing team. • MOBILIZE YOURSELF: Focus on goals that will benefit your customers, your company and yourself, by meeting your own needs and ambitions. By zeroing in on the value creation zone ("V-Zone")--the all-important overlap between your company's and customers' needs--you’ll be able to help the business win in the market--and achieve your career goals. Warning: This is not a marketing book. It’s a leadership book for marketers, using the latest research on what works--and what doesn’t--in marketing's digital age. BONUS: Receive full access to an online self-assessment tool and other marketing leadership resources.