I love road biking. (I also love metaphors.) If I have an hour or two of “Ken-time” and the winds are favorable (more on that in a bit), I love to gear up, hop in the saddle, and head out onto the long open roads for a leg-stretching ride around my home in Appleton, Wisconsin.…Read more
Tag: Enrollment Management
Co-Founder and Principal Rick Bailey on “Starter Stories”
Founder of Enrollify Zach Busekrus hosts “Starter Stories” a podcast series telling the stories of founders of leading higher education consulting and professional services. Zach invited Rick Bailey to give the backstage story on the start of RHB. Following is the transcript or you can listen here. Rick Bailey: In the book, was a question.…Read more
Imagine Voraciously Webinar Transcript
Rick Bailey was recently invited to lead a webinar about his recent book, Imagine Voraciously, by Bay Path University’s Center for Higher Education Leadership and Innovative Practice (CHELIP). In the webinar, Rick highlights some of the takeaways from the book and offers insights to encourage your own voracious imagining. You can watch the recording here.…Read more
Interest or Intent? Take the Guesswork out of Your Higher Ed Marketing Communication
This piece of advice and counsel is long overdue. While the related concern is not new at all, the COVID pandemic magnified its urgency in terms of our addressing it. The traditional funnel of movement toward engagement by audiences and constituents has been in disarray for years. We’ve been warning you about that for a…Read more
Sheep, Lions, and Your Institution’s Self
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of driving on I-80 through Iowa, as I did when I took my daughter back for her second year of college, you know that the long, rolling road is abundant not only with views of corn and soybeans, but opportunities for the mind to wander. Mine wandered right to…Read more
RHB on the Slate Stage: Change Management in Slate
Slate is a CRM that is always evolving, and throughout the course of our work, change is more than just inevitable: it is required. Over the years, our processes shift, Technolutions unveils new features, and we uncover new opportunities to use the system’s tools better. So how do we retool our instance’s engine without losing…Read more
RHB on the Slate Stage: Optimizing Your Digital Marketing Efforts Across Platforms
Digital advertising is a marketing must for most institutions, and by funneling campaign responders into our Slate instances, we have an efficient yet powerful mechanism for generating and converting leads throughout the lifecycle. However, we can only optimize our strategy if we’re able to effectively track efforts across our platforms, and this task isn’t always…Read more
RHB on the Slate Stage: Strategic Campus Visit Portals
Many of us are currently immersed in making plans to welcome visitors back to campus. We know that especially for institutions with a sizable residential population, campus visits are a key tool for recruitment and yield, and we’re continually striving to make these experiences more personalized and impactful for their prospective students. But managing all…Read more
RHB on the Slate Stage: The Art of Automations
For Slate users, one of the biggest efficiency wins that we hear extolled over and over by users is found within Rule Builder, where we’re able to replace many of those previously manual business processes with streamlined automations that essentially do the work for us. But, sometimes, these opportunities can trip us up. One the…Read more
Take a Break with Our Annual Summer Reading List
Summer reading can be so recharging—a time when we savor the most special and most diverting books. Here, we recommend books that are moving, challenging, engrossing and motivating, ranging from science fiction to takes on Coco Chanel, racism and the church, taking charge of your life and even some inspiration for higher ed professionals. These…Read more