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Enrollment
Marketing
Enrollment Marketing Services
SY 2021-22
Brittini Smith
Our Host
Janet Johnson
Our Speaker

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COVID DRIVES PRECIPITOUS DECLINES IN ENROLLMENTS
Our experience in
enrollment marketing
last year showed
especially high rates
of elementary and
drop out recovery
students schools
being hardest hit.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Especially during a pandemic, your enrollment marketing needs to be increasingly digital, and to
effectively tell your school's story to prospective parents, guardians and to students themselves
• We are in the fourth year of our enrollment marketing services – helping schools around the country with
their marketing
• Our team is comprised of digital marketers deeply experienced in charter school marketing – we can hit
the ground running for you
• We are so sure we can attract students we bear all the risk of our work and expenditures
– With our pure pay-for-performance option, if we don't add FTEs / ADAs / ADMs to your school, we
don't charge a thing for our services
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HIGHLY EXPERIENCED TEAM
• Deep digital marketing and education experience
• iQ Academies, Aventa Learning, K12.com, DreamBox Learning, Learning.com, NWEA
• Proven results – core team has worked together for more than six years
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TYPICAL ACTIVITIES IN OUR EFFORTS
Enrollment Strategy & Objectives
• Develop Brand Story Arcs
• Create Brand Strategy for Enrollment
Marketing
• Set up Digital Marketing Calendar for
Enrollment Season
• Create Advertising Strategy for
Enrollment Season
Project & Social Media
Management
• Weekly Team Meetings & Reports
• Social Media Strategy
• Regular Posts for Parental / Influencer
Engagement
• Paid Posts - Social Media Advertising
Website Updates
• Support New Calls to Action,
Enrollment Flow
• Create Content Weekly, Telling
Your School's Story
• Ensure Website is Plugin Ready
• Add Second- or Third- Language
Support
• Add Landing Pages to Capture Leads
The Ground Game
• Ensure regularly scheduled
opportunities for parents to connect
with school leaders
• Designing and delivering lawn signs,
brochures, and other physical
marketing materials to support
community activism
Email Marketing
• Email Strategy and Calendar
• Setup Email Services Platform (ESP)
– Branded Template & Email
• Boosts Current Student Families’
Word-of-Mouth Efforts
• Monthly Updates to Drive Awareness /
Ratings / Engagement
Directory Listings
• Get School Listed on School- and
Community-Centric Sites
• Parental Support - Ratings
Local Search Rankings
• Get School Listed in Google’s Local
Search Results Box
• Manage Star Ratings for School
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SAMPLE SCHOOL STORY ARC AND SOCIAL POST
A for Academics!
The state gave our district an A rating. Offering a methodology that works – our A-rated district
serves three communities equally. We offer unmatched education to [our community] students in
our traditional, rigorous, free public schools.
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These seats are made for learning. Our three schools
(elementary, middle school, high school) have an
average A rating!
Small class sizes, dedicated teachers and staff, and
an active student life await at [our charter school].
Come see for yourself how we strive every day to
meet our kids where they are. We have tours, open
houses and more. Visit us!

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WEBSITE REVAMPS – SECURITY, ENROLLMENT FLOW
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BEFORE… AFTER…

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SCHOOL MASCOT AND LOGO UPDATES
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PHYSICAL CREATIVE: SUPPORTS COMMUNITY BUILDING

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AD AND POST CREATIVE – FACEBOOK
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EXAMPLE TIMELINE – GET LAUNCHED QUICKLY
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HOWEVER… COVID! (IN-PERSON, HYBRID, ONLINE!)
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“Wait and See” Parents

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EXAMPLE
CALENDAR
SHARED WITH
WORKING TEAM
WEEKLY
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OHIO SCHOOL
SUCCESS: 3-MONTHS
METRICS
> 100 ENROLLMENTS
Google Analytics
• We reached 2,834 users over this three-month period
• After paid search (33.2%) the majority of visitors came from
social media (26%) and organic search (19.5%)
Paid Search
• We drove 41k impressions, 1,700+ clicks and 96
conversions (form fill on enrollment page)
• We achieved an above average conversion rate of 5.57%
(across all industries average conversion rates are between
2-4%)
Google My Business (GMB)
• The school profile appeared in 2,044 searches.
• In a single three-month period 1,014 people took actions
from GMB box, including 488 visited the school website, 391
called, and 135 requested directions
Facebook
• We increased Facebook followers from 0 to 115 — this is
impressive growth for a brand-new page starting from
scratch
• We achieved 1.5 million Facebook impressions and reached
625k unique users in their ZIP codes
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EXAMPLE SEARCH + “DISCOVERY” SUCCESS – 3 MONTHS
Of 2,044 people who found one of our
school’s website in Google Searches:
60% of the top 10 searches were
variations on the new school’s
brand – which was a big objective of
our engagement: get us on the first
page of Google!
40% of the top 10 searches were
variations on discovery searches –
“charter school near me” “charter
schools”…
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ARIZONA DISTRICT
SUCCESS: 3-MONTHS
METRICS
> 100 ENROLLMENTS
Google Analytics
• During a three-month period, we reached 8,216 users, of which
94% were new users
• During this period, we increased unique Enrollment page views
by 319% over the prior three-month period
• Website traffic from social media increased by 98% from 552 to
1,098
Paid Search
• We achieved 37.5k impressions and 3.18k clicks for an above
average CTR of 8.49% (across all industries average
conversion rates are between 2-4%)
Google My Business (GMB)
• In a three-month period the three school profiles appeared in a
combined total of 85,102 searches
• This led to 2,125 actions total including calls, website visits and
directions to the three campuses
Facebook
• We increased page followers 143% and reached an average of
2.5k users - an increase of 470% over the prior period
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DRIVING WEBSITE TRAFFIC – BOOSTING AWARENESS
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