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    Quantitative and qualitative approaches geared to your needs and challenges.

     

  • Strategy

    The brand platform and communications plan that will move you forward.

  • Creative

    Superb execution to make your strategy come alive and accomplish your goals.

Case Studies

Examples of projects we've done for some of our favorite clients

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  • DePauw University

    DePauw University wanted to take a holistic approach to its institutional marketing. So we changed everything - from the print admissions suite to the website to the alumni magazine. And the list goes on.

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  • Brooklyn College

    With a new president at its helm, and new initiatives on the horizon, Brooklyn College was set for a revamping of its public persona. A comprehensive brand initiative led us to focus on two simple things: 1) loads of programs and 2) purposeful students.

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  • St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School

    St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School has a great educational philosophy and a history of solid, steady improvement. For their next step, they needed market research and a creative partner they could trust to complete the package. Enter Neustadt Creative Marketing.

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  • University of Puget Sound

    Do you want to attend a liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest? If so, you need to consider the University of Puget Sound. That in a nutshell is the sales proposition that NCM developed for the college. Deceptively simple.

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  • Wesleyan University

    Wesleyan University’s recent admissions performance has been nothing less than stunning – a 22% increase in applications in 2009 has been followed by a 6% increase in 2010. What can we do to maintain our client's impressive forward progress?

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Live Feed

News, facts, and photos from
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  • Bragging Rights

    The Madeira School website has won a CASE Bronze Award, something that we are very proud to share. It was chosen from a pool of 65 entries, and no ent...

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    June 4, 2013
  • Opening: Junior Copywriter

    Neustadt Creative Marketing is seeking to hire a full-time junior copywriter to join our creative team. Within our category we are a national leader f...

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    May 21, 2013
  • The number of images taken during the recent Pomona photo shoot.
  • DePauw's East College, by day.
  • The inspiration for DePauw's logo is even better in person.
  • Ever gone to a creative presentation dressed in the proposed color palette?
  • Tufts Breaks Admissions Records for Class of 2017

    When Tufts had its most selective year ever in 2012, with an acceptance rate of 21 percent, we knew it was only the beginning. We had teamed up with t...

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    February 25, 2013
  • Mark with Sydney, the Sugar Glider.
  • Holiday cards... coming to a festive mailbox near you.
  • NCM Seeks Web Content Loader

    Neustadt Creative Marketing is seeking to hire a temporary person to load content for an independent school website. This person will need to be organ...

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    September 12, 2012
  • NCM Seeks Office Manager

    Neustadt Creative Marketing is currently seeking an Office Manager and Executive Assistant. Responsibilities include normal office management tasks (f...

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    August 3, 2012
  • of high school seniors give their parents their Common App login.
  • Our new address on Eastern Avenue in Fells Point, Baltimore. Come visit!
  • Tufts' JUMBO, NCM's first fully-integrated web/print magazine.
  • Increase in applications at St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School

What's Fresh

Mark Neustadt's recent posts
on the state of educational marketing

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  • MOOCs

    Imagine a high school student in China. His or her family is sufficiently affluent to support an American college education in the United States. Ques...
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    March 28, 2013
  • The Coming Realignment on Diversity

    The smart money assumes that in the next few months when the Supreme Court issues their ruling in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of ...
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    March 23, 2013
  • There is no such thing as underground . . .

    This quote is too spot-on to miss. It was spoken by film director, Harmony Korine in an interview in Salon. He had been asked whether he was “se...
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    March 19, 2013
  • Fixing Law Schools: An Immodest Proposal

    Law Schools are in terrible shape: enrollments are declining as students question the wisdom of taking on a large amount of debt given uncertain job p...
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    March 9, 2013
  • Marketing College to Men

    One of the seismic shifts of our time is the rise of women as the dominant educational class. Prestigious institutions, like Harvard, Yale, and Stanfo...
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    March 7, 2013
  • Work-study

    Today’s New York Times published a letter from a philosophy professor at Brown about work-study. Here it is: To the Editor: Re “College Admiss...
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    March 5, 2013
  • A New College List

    There was notice last week in the Chronicle of Higher Education of a new college ranking developed by a collaboration of four prominent university eco...
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    February 23, 2013
  • Consumerism in College Admissions

    In the spirit of the season . . . One of the great distortions in the selective college admissions process is the extent to which young people who des...
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    December 30, 2011
  • Typekit and Academic Websites

    It’s been two years since Typekit launched their service for embedding non-system fonts into websites. Today it is possible, as never before, to...
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    December 21, 2011
  • Updating Your Visual Identity System

    What do I mean when I say “visual identity system?” I mean a set of graphic design parameters that an organization follows to give all the...
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    November 28, 2011