School Marketing Check-in: Measuring Your Storytelling Success

June 28, 2018 Emily Cretella

It’s the end of the school year—the perfect time to review your communication wins and plan ahead for more marketing and storytelling opportunities. Use this checklist to evaluate your progress and plan for a year of content marketing success.

For more help getting things done before school is back in session, be sure to download our free eBook Summer Sprint: Tackling That School Marketing Project Before September. Already know what your summer marketing project is going to be? Great! Enter our Summer Marketing Sprint contest for the chance to win a free trip to our 2019 User Conference!

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Emily Cretella is a marketing strategist and copywriter who helps her clients create and share stories that make audiences take action. As owner of Cursive Content Marketing, Emily provides consulting, copywriting services and workshops to independent schools and higher education. Read her stories at cursivecontent.com.
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