The Finalsite Blog

Will Gay, Director of Communications and Marketing at Riverside Presbyterian School in Jacksonville, Florida, joins Tim on Episode 24 of Apply Yourself to discuss mobile web design and how Riverside improved applications and admissions through SEO and PPC advertising.

Building brand awareness about your charter school is the first step to recruiting and enrolling more right-fit students.

Looking to get more families in your funnel earlier in the process? A whitepaper is the perfect solution.

Max Eisl, International Education Consultant, shares social media best practices and real stories from school marketing professionals around the world in this Social Media for International Schools in 2019 webinar recap.

To improve their fundraising efforts in 2019, schools need to focus on: engaging their youngest donors; using inbound marketing tools; improving the donation experience and making it mobile-friendly; and incorporating Instagram video into their fundraising strategy to capitalize on FOMO (fear of missing out) for Days of Giving to be successful.

There are a lot of unique and important factors to consider when designing a mobile-first website. Here are five examples of schools with fantastic mobile websites created by our experienced designers who keep these considerations in mind when designing all of our websites. 

Producing great school marketing videos can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have to be! We’ve prepared some important considerations and video marketing tips to help you meet the growing demand for video marketing.

International schools communicate with a global audience. Having your school website in multiple languages can be critical. Take a look at how these schools created bilingual and multilingual websites.

New data from more than 270 independent schools reveals how school professionals use and prioritize inbound, content, and email marketing.

Learn how Wilton Public Schools in CT sets the bar in school-to-home communications.

Learn four tips for staying sane during yield season from admissions pros at Thayer Academy and St. Paul's School for Girls. 

How can your website convert these prospective donors into actual (and potentially recurring) donors? Here are six best practices for earning more online donations this year.

We surveyed schools and districts about their biggest web accessibility concerns. Here are the results!

The overseas franchising of schools is not new to UK independent schools. Schools such as Harrow, Shrewsbury, Dulwich and Marlborough have all successfully exported for many years their educational strengths, leadership and brand by establishing sister schools abroad. Finalsite and ISC can help schools looking to expand.

Here are three simple things the Finalsite consulting team has learned about being effective with your PPC marketing efforts, and how to be smart with your budget, too.

Google has created an entire generation of Internet users that expect a great search experience on your school website that's powerful, responsive, and efficient. Fortunately, we created Advanced Search to provide an ad-free, high-performing search experience to match your website visitor's expectations. 

Want to start a school blog but have no idea how to actually start? A good blog starts with good content — and here's how to produce content your community cares about.

Resources has morphed and evolved into a powerful asset management system with numerous ways to upload, organize, and display multimedia content. We’ve highlighted ten features, tools, and options found within Resources that will undoubtedly save you time managing your school’s multimedia content.

In this third installment of our blog series “Competing with Free,” (view parts one and two) we spoke with Spartanburg Day School in Spartanburg, South Carolina to learn how they can be successful when public schools are a main competitor.  

Looking to lower the bounce rate of your school's tuition page? Keep these important best practices in mind.

We met with our team of award-winning designers to find out the secret sauce behind all those incredible awards.

What makes an award-winning website? We get asked that question more times than you can count. We've rounded up three of our award-winning districts websites to help answer that question while providing you with inspiration to design your "new standard" district website.

Schools love Posts because it’s easy to learn, simple to use, and incredibly flexible. With so many options and ways to use Posts, we've highlighted some of the more creative and useful ways Finalsite schools have used Posts to spruce up their website.

Whether you’re looking to redesign your website this year, or simply looking to make some modifications to improve the user experience, here is a roundup of the ten best district website design tips for 2019.

Consumers now rely on online reviews to help them make decisions about just about everything — from an Amazon purchase to where to enroll their child in school. Discover how online reviews affect your school, and what to do about them.

Forms Manager allows anyone to create great-looking forms in a matter of minutes thanks to its simplicity and adaptability. We’ve selected five awesome examples and best practices to help inspire you when you're building your next form in Forms Manager. 

Recruiting quality teachers will only get harder with a projected shortage in the coming years. Following the three tips in this blog will help ensure you are attracting the best, most-qualified candidates. 

If you plan on implementing an inbound marketing strategy, marketing automation will be the glue that holds it together. Here's a breakdown of what marketing automation is, how to use it, and why it is vital to your school marketing strategy.

Recruiting quality teachers will only get harder with a projected shortage in the coming years. Following the three tips in this blog will help ensure you are attracting the best, most-qualified candidates. 

Finalsite offers more than 30 Theme design websites created for schools working on a tight budget or timeline. To help inspire you, we’ve come up with five tips based on our recent launches to help you get the most out of your theme design websites.

Finalsite is pleased to introduce Timed Page Pops as a part of our Inbound Marketing platform that allows you to delay pop-ups until you can safely gauge a visitor's interest based on time or distance scrolled down a page.

In this second installation of our blog series “Competing with Free,” we spoke to Fairfield Prep to learn how they stay competitive and successful when competition with public school is challenging as public education is free. 

Finalsite has partnered with OpenApply to leverage the core strengths of each platform to drive applicants through a refined admissions funnel, saving time and money while connecting your school to additional families.

If you want your district’s webmasters to feel excited and prepared about getting and keeping your website’s content up-to-date, you’ll want to follow these eight tips.

The American School in London (ASL) continues to hold a leading reputation among international schools around the world with thousands of global daily site visitors. Learn how ASL updated their homepage to make use of images, interactive elements, and clear messaging to reflect their mission of an outstanding American education with a global perspective. 

In this first installation of our blog series “Competing with Free,” we spoke to Northwest Catholic High School  to learn  how they stay competitive and successful when competition with public school is challenging as public education is perceived to be free. 

Here’s our 5-step guide on how you can combine Forms Manager, Payment Manager, and Finalsite Payments to create a streamlined, powerful payment process that supports payments from virtually anyone around the world.

And while there are plenty of incredible things districts are doing to keep their community in the loop, there still seems to be some bad habits lurking in the background that you should nix immediately.

Now is the perfect time to get a head start on creating your perfect summer camp and programs website. To help get your creative juices flowing, we’ve come up with nine tips to help you along the website design and creation process. 

Inevitably, a current or prospective client will ask us: Why should I use a proprietary system like Finalsite instead of Open Source? Let’s take a deep dive into some of the key areas that show why Finalsite is often the superior choice.

A content offer is the bread and butter of your school's inbound strategy. Here's how to get started.

Publications offers a whole suite of exciting features and options to elevate your Posts content to the next level with enhanced creation, organization, functionality, and interactivity. To help get you started, we’ve selected some of our favorite features that we know you’ll enjoy.

The best time to start planning a summer website launch is now. Here’s the recommended timeline to ensure you launch your website by summertime.

Content migration is inevitable in almost every website redesign. However, this process can easily switch from being the easiest part of the redesign process to the most daunting — especially if you end up waiting until the last minute to do so.