This blog focuses on the alignment of your marketing resources in light of your current recruitment channels and the desired mix of student enrollment channels in the future. We will focus on the alignment of the geographic, as well as, the marketing channel mix for this analysis. For the purpose of this article and analysis, we are going to exclude other important enrollment criteria such as the ability to pay, English capabilities and academic level and preparedness.
- Audit your external brand perception, visibility and content
We suggest that you analyze your target recruitment by country to understand your current status within the market environment. Students and parents are anonymous "shoppers" on your website. Despite many other influencing factors such as peer groups, rankings, agents, etc, your web and social media presence -- both controlled by you and other information available about you -- is an important influencer for prospective students.