Category Archives: The medium

The alternatives to advertising: how else to reach schools.

Whatever you might think of GDPR, I guess most of us can agree that the intention of the EU was not to have the incredible upsurge of emails that occurred as the big day came. But that is exactly what … Continue reading

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They are not “that kind” of email

Emails addressed to schools which use generic addresses (such as office@stjohns.northants.gov.sch.uk) and which don’t have any teacher details attached can of course still be used in the post-GDPR world. The reason for this is quite simple: the data used contains … Continue reading

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What are generic emails and do they work?

Quite simply the Schools.co.uk generic list of schools is a database of almost every primary and secondary school in the UK. The only schools missing are those that have stated that they do not wish to receive any marketing material … Continue reading

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What is the best way to test postal mailing

Let’s imagine you want offer your new product or service to the head of history (or indeed any other teacher) in all 5000 secondary schools in the UK.  And let’s say that you want to do that by post. The … Continue reading

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No email, no post, then what?

By Tony Attwood You won’t be surprised to see that I start this little piece by denying the validity of the premises behind that headline.  Like many others I don’t believe that GDPR has meant the end of emailing, nor … Continue reading

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