Digital marketing for the admissions office

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BUILDING AN ONLINE MARKETING PLATFORM IN YOUR ADMISSIONS OFFICE.

Kyle Pucko & Nick Shontz

COFOUNDERS. COWORKERS.

Kyle Pucko Nick Shontz

-search.twitter.com #collegemail

THIS IS THE PROBLEM WE ARE TRYING TO SOLVE

28 Colleges. 24 hours.

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45 MINUTES: FIVE COLLEGES. FIVE EMAILS.

AND AGAIN.

1. The Marketing Role in Admissions 2. Remove Layers of Uncertainty 3. Measure, Test, Repeat.

AGENDA

YOUR ROLE FOR TODAY Associate Director, Barnaby University

“Should we start an in-house, in-department online marketing initiative?”

First Contact

37%

14%

48%

Online AppOnline Interest FormAll other

Marketing and Recruitment Expenses

5%

25%

70%

TravelDirect MailDigital

THE PIE GRAPH CHALLENGE Does your marketing spend align with CRM data?

*Fictional Data.

At Barnaby University: 62% of enrolled students entered communication plan through online channels, yet only 5% of recruitment spend focused in online

marketing and recruitment.

MOST INFLUENTIAL ONLINE SOURCE FOR COLLEGE INFO

Noelllevitz.com

II. REMOVING LAYERS OF UNCERTAINTY

Discover simple answers to simple questions. Ask “why?”

How many unique website visitors view our admissions page per day? Week? Month?

QUESTIONS TO ASK:

What percentage of out-of-state visitors request more information?

What percentage of out-of-state website inquiries apply?

If Admissions had $1,000 to spend on marketing and recruitment, where would we start?

CRM Manager Digital Marketing Manager

Social Media Manager Digital Marketing Manager

Communications Specialist Digital Marketing Manager

WHO ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS?

Doesn’t have to be someone’s role to ask these. Open to anyone and everyone.

CRAWL. WALK. RUN.

(Insert Existing Position Here) = Digital Marketing Manager

analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com

FREE GOOGLE ANALYTICS CERTIFICATION: 12 HOURS

facebook.com/blueprint

FREE FACEBOOK AD TUTORIAL COURSE: TEN HOURS

III. TEST. LEARN. REPEAT.

wright-brothers.org

THE DIGITAL MARKETING PROCESS

Objective: What is the goal of your marketing campaigns? Call-to-Action: What action do you want users to take?

Conversion: How are you tracking when they’ve taken that action? Optimization: How can you get more users to take that action?

AUDIT YOUR PATH TO CONVERSION

19% 13%

AUDIT YOUR PATH TO CONVERSION

AUDIT YOUR PATH TO CONVERSION

If I want more info from this college, I have to enter my social security number …

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NEWSLETTER

Created intuitive form fields.

Target: East Coast

Ad: East Coast Message

Destination URL: Personalized

Content.

DIGITAL CAMPAIGN STRUCTURE.

AND NOW WE MEASURE! UNPAID ONLINE LEADS PER MONTH

Fictional data submitted through barnabyuniversity.org

400

800

1200

1600

Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb

*58% Non Resident Leads

PAID ADVERTISING LEADS PER MONTH

*25% Non Resident Leads

0

225

450

675

900

Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb

Fictional data submitted through barnabyuniversity.org

DETERMINE A COST-PER-INQUIRY If admissions had $1,000 to spend, where would we start?

Facebook

Twitter

AdRoll

Bing

Pinterest

Display

Newspaper

College Fair

Television Ads

Radio Ads

0 25 50 75 100

$100$90

$80$70

$60$50

$40$30

$20$10

*barnabyuniversity.org Fictional data submitted through barnabyuniversity.org

COST-PER-INQUIRY BY MONTH

0

15

30

45

60

July August September October

Fictional data submitted through barnabyuniversity.org

We should spend a higher percentage of our annual marketing budget in September.

COST PER 1,000 IMPRESSIONS

LinkedIn

Display

Twitter

Facebook

AdRoll

Bing

AdWords

Radio

TV

0 7.5 15 22.5 30

$25.00

$20.00

$14.00

$12.00

$10.00

$8.00

$6.00

$4.00

$2.00

*hypothesis for retail industry

CASE STUDY. ZIP CODE TARGETING.

2012-2015 by Zip

More than five enrolled students

(out of state) made list.

Campaign based on those

parameters.

HOW DO WE IDENTIFY NEW RECRUITMENT OPPORTUNITY?

*GoogleAnalyics

WHAT IS THE CONVERSION RATE BY STATE?

*GoogleAnalyics

Track Referrals:

*GoogleAnalyics

SEGMENT LEADS BY SOURCE

HOW TO APPROACH THE WEB TEAM?

COLLABORATING WITH THE WEB TEAM

What to do. What not to do?

PERMISSIONS + GOOGLE VIEWS = TESTING GOLD

Applicants

GEOFLI

Awareness: Consideration Phase

Admitted

Enrolled

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX

Simple geo-target display ads: Baltimore and Philadelphia University of Phoenix

EVOLUTION OF GEOFLI

Study at BU Hey, Boston! Study at BU

.25% .75%

Click-through-rate for testing.

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THE PROBLEM WE’RE TRYING TO SOLVE

ONE-SIZE-FITS-NOBODY

BEFORE GEOFLI

Hello, Chicago!

CHICAGO MEETUPS

Students from Chicago thrive at ASU. Each year we spend a lot of time in the region connecting with high schools and counselors. If you’re from Chicago and would like to meet your counselor, signup below and get started on your journey to ASU.

Shelby Simon is your ASU Contact

Please contact me for information about admissions requirements or any other questions.

SSimon@asu.edu

(480) 339-2092

AFTER GEOFLI

BEFORE GEOFLI

10,000 Website Visitors

300 Online Inquiries

3% Conversion Rate

10,000 Website Visitors

600 Online Inquiries

6% Conversion Rate

AFTER GEOFLI

Nick@GeoFli Kyle@GeoFli

GEOFLI.COM

DISCUSSION. QUESTIONS?

INDEX SLIDES

GeoFli.com

MEASURING EMAIL MARKETING BEYOND CLICK-RATE

Source: GeoFli.com

DESTINATION URL INCLUDES HIDDEN FIELD

Leads Uploaded to CRM. Begin Receiving Internal Communication.

Leads immediately enter admission’s communication plan: *Segmented direct mail

*Segmented email communication *campus visit invites

*financial aid information

Tag Every Lead Back to Source.

Once student enters communication plan, the created source follows all the way to enrolled.

Source Channel Inquiry Date Apply Date Enroll Date

Digital Advertising FB 3/2/2014 5/7/2014 8/5/2014

Digital Advertising

Keyword Search 3/5/2016 7/1/2015

Website Contact

Homepage Contact

Form3/10/2016

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