Blog — Marketing Insights for Private Schools

Practical marketing insights, guides, and ideas for private school admissions and communications teams from The Bonjour Agency.

The Future of School Marketing: What Happens in 20 Years?

· Beyond Bonjour

Most school marketing advice looks two years ahead. This looks twenty, and asks what happens when parents stop reading our websites because their AI reads them first. School leaders should be asking whether they're preparing for that future, or still protecting the past.

Your Students Are Pushing Back on AI. They Might Be Right.

· Beyond Bonjour

Gen Z isn't afraid of AI. They're suspicious of it and for good reason. Having watched social media harm their generation, they're asking whether AI simply removes the struggle that makes learning real. School leaders should be asking the same question.

Authenticity in school marketing

· Beyond Bonjour

Authenticity is the alignment between what a school says and what families experience. So if your website talks about your school being a caring, pastoral led school but when a family arrives they fail to see this you’ll be running into problems.

How long should a marketing video be?

· Beyond Bonjour

It’s probably the question I’m asked more than anything else when working with a school on a video project. How long should it be?

How to measure the ROI in Marketing

· Beyond Bonjour

When it comes to starting a podcast for school marketing and recruitment, I’m sometimes told the new podcast project will only go ahead if the SLT can see a clear ROI on the investment.

Balancing business personality with systems

· Beyond Bonjour

Lisa will hate me for writing this. You might not know her, she’s the person who publishes the content on the company LinkedIn page and sometimes replies to emails for me when I’m ridiculously busy.