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Marketing & Sales
K-12 marketing and sales cycles run 12 to 24 months, involve multiple decision-makers, and reward operators who understand the market better than their competitors do. This category covers buyer personas, message mapping, funding alignment, RFPs, procurement mechanics, and the relationship dynamics that determine which deals close. The practical go-to-market guidance your marketing and sales team can use in the room.
Rural Schools Are Small, Remote, and Increasingly Powerful
The rural K-12 market is not a secondary consideration or a footnote to a broader go to market strategy. It is a substantial, diverse, and underserved segment of American education.
How to Pull a Smarter Education Data List (And Actually Use It)
One of the most underutilized capabilities in EdTech marketing is the targeted list pull. Companies either avoid education data services entirely because they feel intimidating, or they engage a provider without enough preparation to get real value out of it.
Four EdTech Awards Worth Pursuing (The Rest Are Participation Trophies)
So many EdTech award programs are not worth the time, effort, and expense. Here’s four that are worth it.
Your EdTech Might be Invisible to AI Search...Here's Why
SEO is not dead. But if you are not optimizing for AI answer tools, half your audience is never finding you.
Your Email Program Is Training District Leaders to Ignore You
Educators receive more vendor email than almost any other professional audience. They have developed a fast, accurate filter for content that exists to serve the sender rather than the reader. Once your company lands in that category, getting out is hard.
Your EdTech CRM Deserves Better Than What You're Feeding It
Education data services are transforming how EdTech companies build and maintain their contact databases. Here's what to know before you engage a provider.
The Conference Starts Three Weeks Before You Get There
Companies that come back from conferences with real traction are the ones that treated the conference as the last step in a preparation process, not the whole event.
Message Mapping for EdTech: A Step-by-Step Guide to Persona-Specific Positioning
Most EdTech companies have one version of their pitch. It covers the product, the outcomes, the pricing model, and the implementation approach. It is usually built around what the company wants to say, not what each buyer persona needs to hear.
K-12 Enrollment in 2026: What Declining Numbers May Mean for EdTech Companies
Public school enrollment is slowing down. That doesn’t mean the market has to do the same. Here is how to read the numbers and what they actually mean for your go-to-market strategy.
You Can't Wait for An Audience to Find You, So Go Get One
Building your own audience from scratch takes time. Third-party lead generation programs let you access someone else's established audience.
K-12 RFPs: A Primer for EdTech
A Request for Proposal is the most unambiguous signal the education market sends: a district has a defined need, has allocated budget, and is ready to select a solution. The only question is whether you are prepared to respond well enough to win.
The K-12 Buyer Persona Guide for EdTech Companies
Every EdTech company has, at some point, been in a district conversation and realized too late that they were talking to the wrong person. Or worse, the right person, but with the wrong message. The buyer persona framework exists to prevent both failures at scale.
Content Marketing Isn't Easy, But it Can Be
How to build a content program that builds trust with district leaders, generates qualified leads, and compounds in value over time.