What Marketing Taught Me About Education Improvement

September 28th, 2009 by Rob Jacobs Leave a reply »

I spend a lot of time looking to the field of marketing and branding as a source of ideas, insight, direction, and inspiration. Marketers and education have more in common than you would think. What follows is a list of reasons why I think marketers could improve education.

Why Marketers could improve education

Marketers are concerned with creating ideas that are memorable.

Marketers are forced to be creative and innovative.

Marketers are expert users of data and statistics

Marketers want to reach people and impact their thinking

Marketers are expert at using current and emerging technology

Marketers try to reach people and communicate their ideas in creative and innovative ways

Marketers are very much results driven.

Marketers are passionate.

Marketers seek to inspire.

Marketers are expert at anticipating and understanding global trends.

Marketers seek to create the future, not just react to it.

Marketers understand their biggest asset is their employees’.

Seth Godin said, “Your marketing changes the way people act.” Don’t we try to do that in education? So the key question is: Who is having more success, marketing or education?

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