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Creating Student
Buyer Personas
What are
Student Buyer
Personas?
Personas are fictional, generalized
representations of your ideal student.
They help you understand your student
(and prospective students) better, and
make it easier for you to tailor content
to the specific needs, behaviors, and
concerns of different groups.
What are
Negative
Personas?
Whereas a student person is a representation
of an ideal student, a negative, or
"exclusionary", persona is a representation of
who you don't want as a student.
How Can You
Use Personas?
At the most basic level, personas allow you to
personalize or target your marketing for
different segments of your audience.
For example, instead of sending the same
nurturing emails to everyone on your list, you
can segment by student persona and tailor
your messaging according to what you know
about those different student personas.
Creating Student
Buyer Personas
Student personas are created through
research, surveys, and interviews of your
target audience. That includes a mix of current
students, prospective students, and those
outside of your contact database who might
align with your target audience.
Methods for
Developing
Personas
Interview students (or parents) either in person
or ever the phone to discover what they like
about your institutions or programs.
Look through your database to uncover trends
about how certain contacts or students find
and consume your content.
When creating forms to use yon your
website, use form fields that capture
important persona information.
Take into consideration your admissions
team's feedback not the leads they are
interacting with most.
Olivia Chatham
Olivia is a marketing intern at SociallyIn and works
with the social media department. You can follow
her on twitter and instagram: @oliviachatham
About the Author

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