More than ever, technology is driving innovation in education — and the field is getting increasingly competitive. Connecting with the right audience at the right time with the right messages is crucial to your products’ long-term success. As a full-service digital marketing agency that knows education technology, Vital works across disciplines to deliver transformative results.
Website Design & Development
Our strategy, design, copywriting, and development teams create websites that drive engagement and trust among educators and institutions.
Streamline the purchasing process for educational institutions with seamless eCommerce integration that showcases your products’ unique value to your audience.
Get found online through a holistic strategy that emphasizes both high-intent and long-tail keywords to attract potential customers at all stages of the buyer’s journey.
Tell compelling brand stories that put your audience’s needs, goals, and challenges front and center to build authentic connections, trust, and demand for your products.
Optimize user journeys with tailored CRO strategies that turn website visitors into engaged clients, enhancing the effectiveness of your educational technology solutions.
Build trust, reinforce the value of your products, and transform leads into paying customers through personalized email marketing, paid remarketing, and other lead-nurturing tactics.
Amplify your brand’s presence through strategic social media marketing, engaging educators and institutions with targeted content that highlights the impact and benefits of your technology solutions.
Vital provided my team with the guidance and expertise we needed in order to maximize synergies across our omnichannel network of digital transformative initiatives.
— Andy Kauffman
Digital Marketing Strategist, University of San Diego Online
Before Vital, we struggled to have the discipline to measure results and quantify our paid strategies. Now we know exactly what’s working. Better yet, Vital pushes us to continually improve, so we’re able stay competitive in a really tough enrollment market.
— Kim Downey
Digital Marketing Strategist, UMass
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Education Technology Marketing Challenges We Solve
We know marketing for education technology — and, just as importantly, we know education. From early childhood learning to advanced degrees (and everything in between), we live and breathe the goals, opportunities, and challenges of your audience. So when the time comes to address the complexities of selling to this audience, we quite literally speak their language.
#1. Navigate complex education ecosystems
Selling within the intricate bureaucracies of educational institutions can be daunting, to say the least. From lengthy sales cycles to complex budget and approval processes, this may be no one’s cup of tea — but it is our specialty. That’s why we take a highly consultative approach that enables us to tailor our strategies to your specific offerings and target institutions.
#2. Understand educator and administrator needs
Education technology success hinges on truly understanding the priorities and pain points of both educators and administrators. Vital’s expertise bridges the gap, enabling you to craft messages that address specific challenges and aspirations. By focusing on the benefits that matter most to them, we help you build trust and drive adoption of your solutions.
#3. Reach diverse audience segments effectively
Education technology providers face the challenge of engaging with diverse stakeholders from IT professionals to curriculum developers, front-line educators, administrators, and more. We help simplify the complexity by mapping your solutions to the unique needs and goals of each audience segment, ensuring your message is clear and impactful.
#4. Overcome institutional budget constraints
Navigating tight budgets is a common hurdle for education technology providers. Vital helps you demonstrate the cost-effectiveness and long-term value of your solutions, highlighting return on investment and aligning with institutional priorities. By crafting compelling narratives and tailored strategies, we assist in positioning your offerings as essential investments that deliver measurable educational outcomes.
#5. Communicate sophisticated concepts to a non-technical audience
Translating complex education technology concepts for a non-technical audience is essential for successful adoption. Our team of expert strategists and specialists help refine your messaging, turning technical jargon into relatable, clear, and compelling narratives that resonate with educators and administrators.
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When the future of your educational technology business is at stake, you can’t afford to miss Vital strategies that drive results. For over 20 years, we’ve been obsessed with finding new ways to enable our clients to achieve the goals that matter most to their success. When you partner with Vital, you get:
A Future-Proof Foundation
We evaluate your website, your brand, and your existing strategies — then fix what’s broken, build what’s missing, and set you up for long-term success.
A Plan for Growth
You tell us your business goals, and we collaborate to build yearly, monthly, and weekly plans to get you there.
Data-driven Continuous Improvement
We harness data and AI-enabled testing to stack successes and multiply positive results.
A Process You Can Rely On
We apply fanatical discipline to executing your strategic plan, with regular meetings, reporting, and touchpoints that leave nothing to chance.
A Partner You Can Trust
A majority of our clients stick with us for years. We like to think that’s due to three factors: our amazing people, our client-focused approach, and our proven results.
Our Process
We combine deep educational technology expertise with innovative digital marketing strategies to create a uniquely effective approach to increasing sales and adoption of your products in the educational sector.
Step one: Intake and assessment
Our education technology specialists take stock of your digital marketing performance with a baseline assessment of your current online presence and marketing activities.
Step two: Discovery and research
We conduct a thorough discovery into your brand, your digital marketing goals, your audience, and your major competitors.
Step three: Plan the work
Based on your goals and your budget, we create a plan for building your digital marketing foundation and a monthly calendar for tactical deployment, with key performance indicators (KPIs) to define and measure success.
Step four: Work the plan
Our team of strategists, designers, developers, and writers partners with your internal marketing team to create digital assets, build your content library, and execute your plan.
Step five: Measure, improve, repeat
We measure and report on your customized KPIs weekly and use the data to adjust tactics and improve performance. Our expertise enables us to balance the patience necessary for long-term improvements with the agility to respond immediately to fast-moving metrics.
Ready to get your technology up and running at the educational institutions that mean the most to your company’s success? So are we! Let’s get the ball rolling. Our team will be in touch within 48 hours.