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Philippe Taza CEO
Higher Education Marketing
ptaza@higher-education-marketing.com
How to Generate More International Direct Inquiries from your Online Presence
• Define your international student recruitment strategy
• Establish your website’s current international inquiry generation activity
• Expand your SEO
• Develop website content
• The international student is mobile
• PPC advertising
• Social media
• Priorities and recommendations
Today’s Presentation
http://wenr.wes.org/2014/10/bridging-the-digital-divide-segmenting-and-recruiting-international-millennial-students/
WES 2014 Report
• What international markets do you want to target
• What languages do you need to support
• Which personas are you targeting
• What marketing channels are best to reach that persona
• What are your goals
Define Your International Strategy
International Student Recruitment Channels
Define your Goals with this Checklist
http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/international-student-flow-viz.aspx
Where do International Students Come From?
Where do International Students Come From?
http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/international-student-flow-viz.aspx
Filter Only International Traffic
International Traffic By Country
Track International Inquiries and Applications with Goals
Measure International Conversions by Country
Understand you International Traffic by Channel
• Identify new international keywords• Use the correct information architecture• Use international targeting
in Webmaster tools • Translate and optimize
Start with SEO
• Enter keywords that describe your school and programs
• Select the location (s) you are interested in targeting
• Select the language (s) you are planning to target
• Use search volume as an indicator of popularity
Keyword Research
Keyword Research
https://www.google.com/webmasters/
<link rel=”alternate” href=”http://ca.example.com” hreflang=”en-ca” /> English in Canada<link rel=”alternate” href=”http://it.example.com/” hreflang=”it-it” /> Italian in Italy<link rel=”alternate” href=”http://mx.example.com/” hreflang=”es-mx” /> Spanish in Mexico
International Targeting - Language
https://www.google.com/webmasters/
Set in Webmaster Tools 1 profile and Country Target per Subdomain:
http://ca.example.com/ Target Canadahttp://it.example.com/ Target Italyhttp://mx.example.com/ Target Mexico
International Targeting - Country
For country specific data:http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780789747884/supplements/9780789747884_appC.pdf
Plan for search globally, target locally
Monitor your SEO Results Year over Year
http://zorpia.club/tag/content-marketing-strategy/
Why Invest in Content Marketing?
Plan your Content with this Checklist
http://landing.higher-education-marketing.com/content-marketing-assessment
Develop Multi-language Content
http://international.humber.ca/study-in-canada/country/brazil.html
Develop Content for Target Countries
Make Multi-language Advisors Available
Use Online Chat to Talk with Prospects
Offer Skype Sessions
http://www.albertcollege.ca/Japan.aspx
Use Video Testimonials to engage prospects
https://www.youtube.com/user/FulfordAcademy
Use Video Testimonials to engage prospects
Use a Video Contest to Generate Inquiries
http://contest.greystonecollege.com/
http://www.stgiles-international.com/virtual-tours/st-giles-vancouver/vancouver-classroom2/index.html
Use Virtual Tours
• Adapts to students communication lifestyle
• Enables faster communications across geographic boundaries
• Cost effectiveness communications
• Often in local language
• Enables virtual communities
http://www.aieaworld.org/assets/docs/Issue_Briefs/social_media_recruitment_issue_brief2013march.pdf
Why Social Media in International Recruitment?
http://www.nacacnet.org/events/ExecutiveVirtualForums/Documents/Social%20Media%20and%20International%20Student%20Recruitment.pdf
Social Media Platform Use by Int. Students
Social Media Baseline
http://offers.hubspot.com/thank-you/social-media-benchmarks-report
Organize Social Media Campaigns Off your Site
Promote your Content
Measure Social Media Inquiries
Use International Student Ambassadors
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
Mobilegeddon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSS8v8eH9GA
Why Mobile Marketing? Google Education Search Analysis
• 31% mobile traffic
• 25% of website goals
Why Mobile?
What’s your Mobile Traffic like by Country?
• Fast and measurable results
• Control of the budget and schedule
• Targeting is tightly focused by
keywords
• You pay only for the clicks
• Get to Google Page 1 immediately
Use Paid Search to Generate Inquiries
What is Pay per Click (PPC)?
The 4 Elements of PPC Lead Generation
The PPC Ad
The Landing Page The Inquiry
The Keyword
Anatomy of a PPC ad
Words of wisdom
Set your Country Targeting in Google AdWords
Set you Languages in Google AdWords
• Be smart about setting your account’s time zone.
• Target your ads when they are the most effective.
Use Day Parts in Google Analytics
Use Responsive Landing Pages
Aligning Your Keywords, Ads and Landing Pages
Variation Original
Run A/B Tests
Optimizing Conversions with A/B Testing
• Identify Benchmarks, set new Goals
• Invest in SEO
• Develop content aimed at international students
• Get mobile NOW!
• Integrate social media and online communications
• Use international PPC lead gen campaigns
• Follow up with your leads!
Priorities and Recommendations
• I’m easy to reach at:
Philippe Taza
Tel: 514-312-3968 ext:104
ptaza@higher-education-marketing.comwww.higher-education-marketing.comhttps://twitter.com/PhilippeTaza
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