Digital Marketing Boosts University Inquiries
**The Challenge:** Raise awareness, encourage qualified applications, and surpass last year's undergraduate enrollment figures.
**The Story:** A major state-funded university engaged us to oversee a paid digital marketing initiative aimed at converting prospective and unknown students into inquiries. In the fall of 2016, we launched a comprehensive campaign to gather student information through paid search landing pages, refine and segment this data, and adapt to the university's website redesign. The university's goals included specific objectives, for which we established KPIs to evaluate success.
**The Approach:** We began by developing personalized landing pages tailored to specific schools and search intentions, directing students to experiences that matched their queries. Campaigns were organized by school or area of interest, with advertisements customized according to the students' searches. The strategy involved various components.
**The Results:** The campaign achieved over 2,000 inquiries from both in-state and out-of-state students in targeted areas, reflecting a 126% increase in total requests compared to the previous year, and a 60% increase in out-of-state requests for information. Additionally, we observed enhanced engagement with video and display ads, along with improved outcomes from our remarketing efforts.