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26 May 09

The Seven Essentials of Enrollment Management « Building Marketing Strategies for Higher Education

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The marketing focus of enrollment management is on the “admissions funnel,” the model that visually describes moving prospects down through the admissions process and into the university’s enrollment.

10 May 09

Who’s Linking? Research on Social Media Callouts. | SquaredPeg

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some schools are very up front with their social media efforts, other bury their hard work deep in a 3rd level text link
To your target audience, the Facebook ‘F’ is probably just as familiar as other ‘brand name’ logos. So why not put it where they can see it?
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- Research of 1,387 four year schools has been conducted to determine the usage of direct Social Media Callouts (SMC’s) to external social networking sites.
- Facebook is the clear winner.

29 Apr 09

Do we really need a social media strategy? | .eduGuru

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Social media isn’t the solution to the upcoming decreasing number of college applications. It’s not the solution for attracting the higher quality students. What it can be, is a strong spoke in your marketing wheel, but don’t try to convince your administration that it is a replacement for the things in your marketing mix you’re hearing prospective students are no longer interested in (viewbooks, CDs, etc.).
The only addition I’d throw into the fray is that schools could gain huge benefit by leveraging tools like Facebook to allow students to pull personalized content to their profiles.

A current challenge with Facebook pages for schools is that students still have to access the institutional site to get specific information relative to their interests (outside of asking questions via facebook of course). An ability to deliver this to students in Facebook, empowers the student to get an even greater percentage of relevant content in a place they prefer.
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- It is a concept we’ve wrapped our heads around for a while. As a CRM provider for higher ed, that offers students a personal portal on a client site, we saw that we were able to personalize content to students, but one challenge with portals is getting students to return over an over. Sadly, you will lose some once the novelty runs its course.
  
  So, we’ve created a Facebook app that clients can put on their Facebook page. Students add it, and tell what their interests are. This adds the student to the institution’s CRM, and we can then push personalized content (events, academic information, key dates, etc) to the student; via email, our portal, and/or through Facebook.