Yes ! You can access a links from FB that will take intrested individuals stait to our website.Prospective students will be able to share links with their online Friends and create advertising and choose a location.
It has dramatically affected communications with prospective students. Our school does have a marketing plan that includes the use of social media. Most schools have to have use this in the marketing plan because social media plays a large role in today society.
We do in fact use social networking sites to communicate with our students. There have been times where we can only reach students through these sites. For instance, if they have been missing class, we will try to call them and too why or if they need anything. If there is no response we may use a social netowking site to speak to the student and it has had tremendous success in the past.
Yes, our school has a marketing plan that includes social networking sites. The popularity of networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., has impacted our enrollment greatly. Roughly a quarter of our students come to us because they seen it on social media. Another biggie for us in internet radio such as Pandora and iheart.
Facebook has improved our communication with our students. Many of our students turn to Facebook to get information. It is a great way to reach a lot of people at once.
I believe that social media is very important to a schools success, as it has become such an important component in our every day lives.
Twitter, Instagram and facebook are great tools to reach the High School students about upcoming visits to their schools and creating energy.
I think that social media is a great way to advertise because so many people are on these sites but the big problem with is is that former students who were not happy with the outcome of thier schooling for whatever reason go on to the facebook page and complain about the school. Which in turn, prospective students are going to see these negative posts and it may influence thier decision even though they do not know the real reason for this persons complaint and thier unhappiness with the school could be due to so many factors.
Our school does take advantage of using social media as a marketing tool. We now have the option to reach students through sharing our events on related social media pages that our students and prospects might see.
Facebook is a great tool that our school utilizes. It is another way to get in touch with our students, the IM option gives us the opportunity to communicate with our students through texts.
We use many different ways to contact the students but the only social media site I use is Facebook.
Our school has Facebook and YouTube accounts run by staff at Headquarters. I think it is a great marketing tool for the 18-30 demographic who heavily use social media. I also agree with a few other posters that it can be an issue when people are allowed to post freely on these sites. They can post ill-informed negative opinions about our school that others can readily see. Our social media team is very good, however, about contacting these individuals to help rectify their problems with the school.
it affects communication as students look for quick answers on these sites and limits the amount of information that can be give to the students. our school does not utilize social networking programs
Social networking sites have affected communications with prospective students because these sites tend to be regarded as having inside information, or little clips of information. Twitter, for example, only allows 140 characters of text per post, this does not fully allow for complete information. Our school does not have a marketing plan using social networking sites.
I think social media is a wonderful way to increase exposure and I agree with many of the respondents below, that a student or students could potentially damage our reputation with negative comments...isn't there a way to set up a page on FaceBook that does not accept comments from others? Just thinking out loud...
Yes. Students use social networking to find out the opinions of others about schools and to also post their own feelings on schools.
Yes, we have a marketing dept devoted to using social networking site as this a common usage of students.
yes we do use social media. However, I feel it is more for existing students verses getting leads.
Yes our social does use social network sites. I believe it is a good forum to get ouyr message out to prospective students and direct them to our website for more information.
When I worked for a high school program in the past, I created and maintained our Facebook page and advertising. It was a great way for us to drill down to prospective students in the regions where we had schools and was an extremely effective marketing tool for us.
