Maintaining an accurate, current list of email addresses on a school-by-school basis is an important consideration for many education marketers.
Having this data on hand allows for effective marketing solutions that takes into account the relevance of a product or service, the ability of prospects to make a purchase and other similarly important factors. For example, sharing information about an elementary school learning platform with high school teachers and administrators makes little sense. With accurate school email address lists, marketing campaigns can focus on the right decision-makers at the right time.
Why focus on a school email database?
Accurate, current email lists are a foundational need for education marketers.
Good lists and solid data are among the most important parts of outreach in terms of direct marketing to educators. A reliable list of basic contact information for every educator at each school your organization wants to market to means you and your team can focus on crafting the all-important messaging.
Outreach to groups of educators and administrators at the school level can have a number of benefits. Your company may want to raise awareness of a new product among all teachers to encourage school-wide purchasing. You may have a solution that is highly specialized and therefore want to reach out to a specific sub-audience within a school, whether targeting kindergarten teachers or physics instructors. No matter the specific reason, a school email database will support targeted and relevant marketing efforts.
Instead of spending valuable time looking up contact details yourselves or leaning on often overworked IT teams for support, your organization can turn to the professionals for some targeted assistance. Agile offers full support for email outreach, from building accurate and current email lists for marketers to providing more in-depth campaign assistance. That includes addressing needs ranging from CAN-SPAM requirements to ensuring all the contact information your team needs is fit for its purpose.
What should be included in a public school email address list?
Up-to-date email addresses are clearly the foundation of a dependable school contact list. They can help marketers reach their intended audience, whether that’s administrators for school-wide purchasing or individual teachers who want to boost achievement in their classrooms.
There are other types of information to include that can also help marketers, however. Full names, titles and historical data can all help add context to outreach efforts and improve targeting. Including phone numbers means it’s simpler to connect with interested prospects as they move onto the next stage in the sales process. By ensuring this information is both current and accurate, it’s far easier to have confidence in your next marketing campaign. You’ll realize two key benefits:
- All prospects are contacted exactly when you want them to be, without worrying about things like staff turnover, promotions and retirements.
- Starting the conversation on the right foot. You’ll address prospects exactly as they want to, and should be, addressed.
Of course, maintaining school email lists can turn into a major project, especially when your organization may want to reach out to hundreds or thousands of educators across many schools. Our Prospector solution can help you build and download your own email marketing, leveraging the experience and expertise of the Agile team to maintain and update your lists when you are ready while your team focuses on its core duties.
Agile is here to help your team maximize its marketing efforts. To learn more, get in touch with us today!
