Red O Web Design

Problem: Older website that needed to compete with many LI colleges.
Solution: New image. New website. new brand. New reach. New marketing.

Molloy College needed a new website. Red O designed a top-of-the-line CMS, built on a WordPress framework, that they could use internally – as their own. We helped them rebrand their college as a highly-desired, top college in NYS in order to compete with the 35 other colleges on Long Island alone.  The new website – combined with the new radio, TV and print advertising campaigns -worked in unison and enrollment applications shot up 300% in the first year. Website traffic rose to 6M page views per year too.

A Tough LI College Market

There are 35 colleges and universities on Long Island. Molloy being one of them. What makes them different is they operate in the catholic tradition in an age where that might not be the positive it used to be. We had to craft a careful message about the college’s roots and how it currently functions whilst only touching upon the conservative backbone of the college. A new website was only part of the full on marketing approach employed by Molloy. We worked with a local PR firm plus the college’s internal communications team to craft all new materials to support the new image, new brand and new goals of the college (which all worked because the college was able to gain university status in 2022).

molloy site
Total Brand Creation

This branding strategy started with Molloy’s USP. Molloy is well-known on Long Island for being a nursing college. But they are a full-blown college with 100s of degree program. We had to highlight the other degree programs since the nursing program was always at 100% enrollment.   

Molloy Website Image
Small But Growing College

Molloy was growing – and quickly. Molloy was once a small college with only 2 buildings. Over the last decade it built 3 more buildings and started buying up houses and vacant lots in the adjoining neighborhoods to accommodate and house its growing student and employment body. Molloy needed to stress the act that it was no longer a small school on Long Island – but now it was a major player.

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More More More

Student services: Molloy needed to stress the fact that they were growing and they were adding new services and were just as equipped to handle and take care of its 4000 students as the larger colleges on Long Island. A massive campaign was launched to show the community just how many services were now available for future college students.