Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

The global pandemic has accelerated a trend that’s been happening for many years in higher education.

More schools are closing their doors each year because they can’t meet enrollment numbers. At the same time, colleges and universities are spending over $85 billion on software technology tools…they need this technology working better for them in order to overcome the outreach and enrollment challenges they’re facing.

Today’s prospective students engage with content at a rate that most schools can’t keep up with. That’s why HubSpot built a CRM and marketing platform totally different than others on the market.

Most institutions still operate under two outdated realities:

1. A linear prospective student journey
2. A highly-siloed handoff between marketing teams and enrollment managers

But the reality is that your prospective student experience is anything but linear, right?

To begin, let’s look at the software and technology industry as a whole. There are close to half a million tech companies in the U.S. in sectors like e-commerce, cyber security, artificial intelligence creation, you name it, that employ 7.3 million people. With a global worth of $1.7 trillion dollars in information technology, it’s clear that there are a lot of opportunities for growth. 

The software and technology industry is one that is broad and encompasses many verticals. The market is extremely fast moving and unpredictable and constantly growing. That, along with balancing product creation with your own ever-changing technology needs can certainly be challenging. Before we dig deeper into the other challenges the industry is struggling with as a whole, answer the following questions: What are the challenges you are facing in your software and technology space?

Hey, neighbor! You put a one-page list of your pet grooming services in my mailbox last week. Problem is, I don’t have a pet. So you wasted paper on me. And many others like me. You also didn’t put a website on your flyer — what’s up with that? I Googled your business name and couldn’t find your site there either; only some reviews on Yelp.