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The Hidden Motivations Of Your Prospective Students

October 31, 2018/in Admissions DOA Stuff, Admissions Strategy, ER Announcements & News, ER Case Studies, Management & Leadership, Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, Virtual Adviser /by Shane Sparks

Enrollment Resources recently compiled data from over 125,000 prospective students who had completed a detailed online survey delving into their goals, frustrations, motivations and current life/work situations. We call this the “Career Training Readiness Quiz” (powered by our Virtual Adviser software). It is designed to do two things: Engage prospective students on the school’s website to help generate additional leads – typically a 30 percent bump in website generated lead flow – and help the prospective student understand if they are a fit for vocational education. Roughly 2.2 percent of unique visitors to a typical school’s website will engage with this survey.

The sample represented about 90 school systems across the U.S. and Canada with a wide variety of programs, including both male- and female-dominated programs.

Our analysis of the results has uncovered fascinating insights into career education prospective students, including where they are in their buying process, their dominant personality styles and how to communicate with them effectively, and the number one motivating trigger driving their buying decisions. Read more

[Podcast] Enrollment During High Employment Conditions

August 22, 2018/in Admissions 1st Point of Contact, Admissions DOA Stuff, Admissions Nurture Strategy, Admissions Referrals and PDLs, Admissions Securing the Start, Admissions Strategy, Admissions The Interview, Enrollment Tips, ER Webinars, Podcasts and Workshops, Management & Leadership, Marketing CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization), Marketing Nurture Campaigns, Marketing on the Internet, Marketing Strategy /by Gregg Meiklejohn

Your pool of leads could be shrinking, and fast. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States unemployment was just 3.9% in April. If your marketing is focused on people looking for work, then you need to take another look at today’s education market.

In this episode, the Enrollment Resources Panel explores alternative ways to fill your Career School’s lead funnel when it seems like everyone already has a job. Click to listen to Enrollment During High Employment Conditions: How to adapt to today’s education market. Read more

[Bite-Sized Big Ideas] A Peek Around The Corner

July 9, 2018/in Admissions DOA Stuff, Admissions Strategy, ER Announcements & News, ER Industry News, Management & Leadership, Marketing Strategy /by Gregg Meiklejohn

Get the big ideas we at Enrollment Resources believe leaders in the Education space should be thinking about in a bite-sized article or audio clip.

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The US has ratified a travel ban on several countries and it appears, by extension, to be making it tougher for students from other countries to feel welcome in the US. For example, the emerging trade war with China: Chinese authorities are publicly considering popping tariffs on students who want to study in the United States. Also, it appears the denial of US postgraduate Working Visas are making it tougher for grads to stay on and work at externships.

If there indeed is a contraction of international students, how will this play out? Listen or read after the jump! Read more

Why Andrew Will Never Get Fired From His VP Marketing Position

February 1, 2018/in Admissions Strategy, Management & Leadership, Marketing Management, Marketing Strategy /by Gregg Meiklejohn

I gave a talk at a Marketing Conference recently. I began by asking a question of the participants that went something like this:

Imagine you are running a marketing department (most in the room were) and you’re allowed only one excellent skill set (the rest being meh) to help you as you try and meet your objectives. Which of these would it be?

Tremendous design skills
Tremendous copywriting or persuasive communication skills
The ability to split test
Building brand through excellent social media campaigns
The ability to find pools of interest, media buying

After allowing the audience to debate amongst themselves for a few minutes, I asked for ‘pitches.’ Some said Design was crucial to get people to notice ads at all; others said Copywriting was crucial to present an argument for someone to take action. I heard a compelling argument about how filling a trout pond with more trout gives you a better shot at catching fish, i.e., Media Buying. And there was some gibberish about Social Media. Read more

[Podcast] Lost Revenue Finder Live

January 26, 2018/in Admissions 1st Point of Contact, Admissions DOA Stuff, Admissions Nurture Strategy, Admissions Referrals and PDLs, Admissions Securing the Start, Admissions Strategy, Admissions The Interview, Enrollment Tips, ER Webinars, Podcasts and Workshops, Management & Leadership, Marketing Communications, Marketing CRO (Conversion Rate Optimization), Marketing Management, Marketing Nurture Campaigns, Marketing on the Internet, Marketing SEO, Marketing Social Media, Marketing Strategy, Marketing Traditional Media, Virtual Adviser /by Shane Sparks

We have this cool, free five-minute process we call Lost Revenue Finder. Through it, we can find out if you’re losing millions of dollars in Enrollment Revenue due to small oversights within your Enrollment Management process. Click here to try Lost Revenue Finder yourself.

We usually run this exercise one-to-one, but we thought it would be fun to ask listening schools to try it live.

Start 2018 With Fresh Eyes

January 2, 2018/in Admissions DOA Stuff, Admissions Strategy, Management & Leadership, Marketing Strategy /by Shane Sparks

The feelings your school instills in a prospective student make or break their buying decision. Those feelings – including that all important first impression – begin long before they ever come face-to-face with your Admissions Rep.

[Podcast] How To Create A Culture of Innovation

December 1, 2017/in Admissions DOA Stuff, Admissions Strategy, ER Webinars, Podcasts and Workshops, Management & Leadership, Marketing Strategy /by Shane Sparks

Innovation is the best way to give your school a lasting and defendable competitive advantage. Yet most schools operate in largely the same manner as their competitors, preserving stale processes simply because “that’s how things have always been done.” Wouldn’t you rather your school be known as the Apple Computer or Tesla of your sector?