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On September 21, 2011 Google announced that in the coming weeks they were going to start using a site’s mobile friendliness as part of their quality score ratings for AdWords campaigns.  This is on top of the decision last year to limit ad serving on high-end mobile devices if they pointed to landing pages with [...]

» Click to enlarge Making College Tuition Worth Every Euro What does Italian food, college admissions and development have in common? When the marketing is matched by the end result, cost in not an obstacle. I have just returned from traveling in Italy with my wife, where we celebrated our 25th anniversary. Before we left [...]

We’ve just conducted a survey of colleges and universities to find out whether they have a mobile website that is optimized for smart phones. Our results were pretty much what we expected. The majority do not yet have a website set up for handheld devices For those who do not have a mobile site yet, [...]

I like LinkedIn. I belong to several groups related to higher education marketing and admissions. In addition to the networking benefits, the discussions within the Groups are a good way to keep up with hot topics. Case in point – a recent discussion string from a member of the College Admissions Experts group raised this [...]

  If you saw our cartoon you know it is laughable that any organization is still getting around to electricity. Even 60 years ago that premise would have been implausible. Here are some more laughable ideas and quotes from the past. Enjoy! What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives [...]