CVB Blog

Year End Review: Trends that Reshaped Student Recruitment in 2025

In 2025, enrollment leaders faced intense pressure: volatile demographics, cost anxiety, policy shifts, and an AI-driven content deluge. At the same time, students continued to signal that they expect relevance, speed, and control in the college search. Platforms like...

Lead Generation for Higher Ed: Building Better Lists with Interactive Tools

For enrollment marketing professionals, few challenges are more persistent — or more important — than generating high quality leads that will yield to applications and enrolled students at a high rate. Strong lead generation is the backbone of every recruitment...

Tailored Content vs. Static Websites: What’s More Effective

Does this sound familiar? Your college website has thousands if not tens of thousands of pages of static content. Department heads and faculty stakeholders constantly send your webmaster edits or complaints asking for content changes to individual program or...

Avoiding Funnel Drop-Off: Customization Keeps Students Engaged

In the months of October, November, and December, enrollment and admissions professionals spend a lot of time thinking about the funnel. How healthy is the top of the funnel? What kind of yield are you seeing from prospects to inquiries to applicants? A persistent...
Higher Education Student Recruitment Strategies

Higher Education Student Recruitment Strategies

Help Prospective Students Overcome Fears with Authentic, Personalized Communication. If every crisis is an opportunity, our friends and clients in Higher Ed Admissions and Enrollment Management have been tasked with being alchemists, working to spin recruitment gold...

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Holiday Gratitude List …

This past year at CustomViewbook has been one of continued growth, collaboration and innovation. We are grateful for so much! Our clients’ success. Working with the best Higher Ed clients on the planet has been an honor and a pleasure. We love hearing about their...

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CustomViewbook And Mongoose Are Partnering!

CustomViewbook is teaming up with Mongoose to make the start of the college search journey more empowering and user-friendly for prospective students - and recruiters. With the overwhelming amount of research indicating that texting is the preferred communication...

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Freeze Out Summer Melt

Freeze Out Summer Melt

Engage Students and Families with Virtual and Digital Tools. The dreaded phenomenon of summer melt: three months that feel like a year for college admissions and enrollment management. Each year, 10% to 40% of students, accepted and deposited in the spring, drop off...

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Client Spotlight: Newman University

Client Spotlight: Newman University

In Challenging Times, Creativity Wins Out. Each year must come to an end – to ring in something new and better! Before we part for the Holidays, Team CVB wants to express our gratitude to our amazing Clients, and our admiration to the Admissions, Enrollment...

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Connecting With Students In A Digital-First World

Connecting With Students In A Digital-First World

Just as colleges and universities swiftly implemented new ways to provide academic continuity for enrolled students during the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, higher ed admissions offices have found themselves mastering new skills as well. Constantly changing...

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