Member Minute: Does Your Website Pass the Whofer Test?

Welcome to EMA’s Member Minute where I’ll be teaching you an actionable strategy, tip, trick, or hack to help you meet your enrollment goals - all in about a minute.

Your website is one of your most important admission and marketing tools. According to our research 25% of families say your website is the primary way they conduct research on your school and a full third of families never reach out to you until they fill out an online form.

And yet many school websites fail the whofer test. A ‘whofer’ is a short statement that indicates who you are for. Who yer fer, get it? Your whofer should include the ages and genders you serve with bonus points for teasing your value proposition or location.

Try to keep it to a sentence or two and put your whofer in the footer of every page on your website. This will not only help your site visitors know who you serve, but will also be helpful for SEO.

Something like, “Awesome Academy is an independent, coed, high school for students who want to make a difference in the world.” 

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About the Author

Hans Mundahl is the Director of Professional Development at EMA. He has been an educator since 1995 when he first stepped into the classroom as a Fulbright exchange teacher in the former East Germany. Since then Hans has done just about every job possible at an independent school from teacher to administrator. Most recently Hans was the head of school at a K-8 day school in central New Hampshire. Hans’s spare time is usually spent with his family but he is also passionate about the outdoors and protecting the environment.

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