By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Think about some of the biggest decisions you’ve made in your life – things like buying a car, a house, moving to a new city/state for a job, changing jobs or careers, or getting married. For most of us there was a process involved with …
Wanted to Make Sure You’re Talking About These 3 Things
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services College and universities love to throw out facts and figures in an attempt to separate themselves from their competitors.The problem with that strategy is, facts tell, stories sell. I expanded on that idea in last week's article about …
Why Storytelling is Your Best Yield Strategy (and How to Use It)
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Around this time each year I get asked by admissions counselors and leaders what the best yield strategy is. I would argue there are a number of different things that you can do at various stages to increase your chances of getting a …
How Often Will You Use This Yield Strategy?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Tomorrow I’m off to Wisconsin to lead my fourth workshop of 2019. As you might imagine, talking about how to convert undecided students will be a big focus, just like it was in the previous three.Storytelling remains one of the …
How Many of These 29 Things Are You Doing?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services There are a number of different ways that you can create better recruiting stories. While I was doing some fall cleaning, I came across a bunch of them in various documents and notes on my MacBook.My first thought was to pass along …