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Technology & International Student Recruitment: Digital Marketing 101

You are reading an excerpt from our e-book "88 Ways to Recruit International Students" (Click here to read the entire book)

At our core we at Intead are a technology company dedicated to helping universities harness digital solutions for their recruitment and retention needs. Let’s be honest here, we love technology. We have been digital marketers for well over a decade now. And we’d love to encourage our readers (and clients) to better utilize options available today. Digital media offers powerful tools for optimizing your marketing over time based on trackable user behavior. Digital marketers can test and modify their messages to appeal to the right student and their parents. Tracking web traffic from the first unrecognized visit by a prospective student to the final step of enrollment can lead to cost reductions, efficiency gains and result in yield improvements.

 

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So MOOCs Are Not That Hot After All? Hmmm.

MOOCs are THE hot topic, aren't they? Universities are debating how to respond. We hear amazing numbers of students enrolled.

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Topics: Insights

Beyond Our Borders International Student Recruiting: College Fairs

You are reading an excerpt from our e-book "88 Ways to Recruit International Students" (Click here to read the entire book)

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The Disappearing Full-Pay Student

University pricing is a complex undertaking for university administrators, students and parents alike. With the increasing reliance on grants and other discounts to draw students, the full-tuition paying student is practically an endangered species.

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Topics: Insights

International Student Recruiting: Overseas Recruiting Offices

You are reading an excerpt from our e-book "88 Ways to Recruit International Students" (Click here to read the entire book) 

41. Overseas recruiting offices

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International students are searching. Will you pop up?

How does your school do when international students start typing queries into a search engine?

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Topics: Insights

International Alumni Relations - The Four Pillars of Engagement

 The Four Pillars of Engagement

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Beyond Our Borders International Student Recruiting: Alumni Ambassadors

You are reading an excerpt from our e-book "88 Ways to Recruit International Students" (Click here to read the entire book) 

 

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Where marketers shift their spending

Increasing the effectiveness of marketing spending is a constant challenge for all marketing departments. Your team is constantly evaluating how to make your limited marketing budget work to your advantage as marketing channels continue to shift.

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Topics: Insights

3 Steps to align international student recruitment and marketing

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. 
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