The Datum Marketing Blog
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The School Open Day Checklist: What Families Notice First
Mon 28th Sep 2026
A school open day checklist helps you see your school the way a visiting family does, from the first search to the drive home. Families often decide how they feel about a school within minutes of arriving, and many have…
How to Make Your Website Readable by AI Search
Wed 23rd Sep 2026
Making your website readable by AI search starts with the same foundations as good SEO, applied with more care. Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT search, Copilot and Perplexity all read web pages, pick out the clearest answers and summarise them for…
Marketing team capacity: the third option between hiring and outsourcing
Tue 22nd Sep 2026
Marketing team capacity is the problem nobody puts in the plan. The plan says three campaigns a quarter, a brand refresh in the spring and a steady flow of social, sales and event material in between. Then the requests arrive,…
Twelve Months to September 2027: A School Admissions Marketing Plan
Mon 21st Sep 2026
Every September intake is decided in the twelve months before it. The families who arrive in September 2027 will have found you, visited you, compared you and chosen you across the coming year, and most of those moments are already…
Two Icons, One Bar: Aston Martin x Champagne Bollinger at Pebble Beach
Tue 1st Sep 2026
Some projects arrive with a brief and a deadline. Others arrive with two of the world’s most recognisable luxury names, a global motoring event, and a build window measured in days rather than weeks. That was the brief we were…
10 Years On: What a Long-Term Print Partner Does for a Private School
Tue 11th Aug 2026
Ten years is a long time in any working relationship. In school marketing, it is even more significant. Admissions cycles change, prospectuses get refreshed, and marketing teams often turn over more than once in a decade. Throughout all of that,…