Inbound Enrollment Marketing is a methodology for student recruitment that focuses on creating educational content that pulls prospects toward your website where they can learn more about your institution on their own accord based on their interests and needs.
Inbound Enrollment Marketing is fundamentally different than direct, outbound marketing strategies. Inbound acts as a magnet that organically pulls in qualified website visitors, while outbound marketing tactics act more like a megaphone. Inbound also requires enrollment marketers to think about student recruitment in the context of a flywheel, as opposed to the traditional funnel.
Inbound Enrollment Marketing adds context to your content. Content Marketing adopts an “if you build it they will come” approach to content creation, but Inbound Enrollment Marketing suggests that your content strategy must be conversion-centric in order to efficiently nurture prospects through The Applicant Journey.
Student personas are fictional representations of your ideal student. They are just like real people, with real personalities, identities, life situations, goals, challenges, and media preferences.
Creating content like digital resource libraries, eBooks, guides, videos, checklists, financial aid calculators and more, will leverage your institution as a thought leader and validate your online presence as a true resource.
Inbound Enrollment Marketing provides a context for the content you are creating. It takes educational content and applies conversion-centric strategies and techniques in order to generate prospective applicants.
It’s essential that you create conversion-centric content that is relevant to each stage of the Enrollment Journey. Your goal as an enrollment marketer is to nurture prospects through the enrollment funnel as efficiently and effectively as possible.
As you learned in the above section on the changing marketing mix, today’s student recruitment strategy requires a diverse marketing channel portfolio. Inbound Enrollment Marketing is all about diversification! Inbound is about creating content that is relevant and appropriate for each channel: From social media, to email, to video, to direct mail, and more.
Marketing technology is the glue that holds Inbound Enrollment Marketing together — it’s what makes this strategy doable for busy enrollment teams. Inbound Enrollment Marketing requires having an inbound marketing platform — like HubSpot. The marketing automation tools that HubSpot offers enables you to leverage prospect behavior data related to content consumption — a method that improves engagement and generates positive applicant conversion results.
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