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Higher Education Marketing Education and News
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Search Influence Shares Higher Education SEO Insights at UPCEA MEMS 2024
Director of Sales & Marketing Paula French, Digital Advertising Manager Jeanne Lobman, and Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott represented Search Influence at the 33rd Annual UPCEA Marketing, Enrollment Management, and Student Success (MEMS) Conference in Philadelphia. The Search Influence team made a splash at our third appearance at the higher …
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Learn About Key Higher Education Marketing Metrics From Paula French’s UPCEA Blog
Search Influence’s Director of Sales and Marketing Paula French recently wrote a guest blog post for UPCEA titled “How Higher Education Marketing Metrics Help You Boost Enrollment.” While this is Paula’s first guest blog post for UPCEA, she is a regular speaker at UPCEA conferences and our joint webinars. As …
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Track and Report the Right Higher Ed Marketing Analytics to Improve Your Strategy
Key Insights Many institutions don’t track crucial metrics like cost per inquiry (CPI) and cost per enrolled student, missing opportunities to optimize their marketing efforts and better allocate resources. Higher education institutions need precise tracking and insights to enhance their marketing strategies, effectively engage prospective students, and drive enrollment. Institutions …
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What’s Included in Higher Education Cost Per Inquiry (CPI) for Marketing?
Properly calculating CPI is vital for higher education institutions to gauge the effectiveness of their marketing efforts and avoid inefficiencies. To gain a complete picture of their marketing costs and CPI, institutions must consider all related expenses, including media spend and staff salaries. Implementing advanced tools like CRM systems can …
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Higher Ed Marketing Insights From Paula French’s Article for University Business
Search Influence’s Director of Sales and Marketing Paula French recently wrote an article for University Business sharing expert insights for higher education marketers. This article, titled “How to boost adult learner enrollment by tracking the right costs,” discusses the importance of establishing a metric-driven approach to efficiently attract the modern …
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Not Tracking Cost Per Inquiry? Expect Budget Waste
Key Insights Tracking and optimizing CPI is crucial for higher education marketers to ensure budget efficiency and maximize return on investment. Failing to track CPI can make it difficult for higher ed marketers to correlate marketing success with enrollment, justify budget allocations, and optimize campaigns. Tracking CPI empowers higher ed …
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How to Measure Paid Advertising Success in Higher Education—and Why an Agency Can Help
Key Insights Tracking, reporting, and analyzing are three pillars of a successful higher education advertising strategy. From click-through rate to cost per inquiry, several metrics temperature check your paid ad campaign performance. Search Influence and UPCEA collaborated to establish the first industry-wide cost per inquiry benchmark to help higher education …
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Gain Recruitment SEO Insights From Will Scott’s Recent UPCEA Blog Post
Search Influence Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott recently wrote a guest blog post for our higher education marketing partners at UPCEA. The blog post, titled “Drive Success: Using Recruitment SEO to Fill Higher Education Seats,” takes an in-depth look at how higher learning institutions can utilize recruitment SEO to adapt …
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Will Scott Talks Higher Education Schema in Seer Interactive Guest Blog
In a June guest blog for B-Corp certified digital marketing agency Seer Interactive, Search Influence Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott breaks down a fundamental, yet often overlooked, higher education SEO tactic: schema markup. Schema markup for higher education websites is a form of microdata added to a website’s HTML to …
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2024 Higher Education Marketing Benchmarks: Get Past Your Blindspot
Key Insights A shifting higher education playing field is causing universities to reevaluate their results and the costs associated with them. Despite increased competition and an evolving modern learner, higher education marketing departments can still reach their enrollment goals by tracking the right metrics to inform future strategies. New Search …
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