Focus areas for international student consultancy – How can we best help you?
Risk
Effective Code of Practice understanding and implementation
Documentation design and implementation – Auditing Code of Practice, Sales manuals
Conduct a 2 day Code of Practice audit – review the suggestions and implement strategies for your next EER to help move to/ or maintain category 1 status for International students
International Student Marketing
Collateral, EDM strategies, online Agent services porthole, in market events/promotions tailored for the right product and international market
Is it accessible? Right languages?
Understanding your product – Key USPs and getting the message right
Enquiry Management
A look into effective enquiry management. From quick turn around times, weekly numbers, trends, comparisons, effective CRMs and ultimately improving your international student conversions levels. Outsourcing ideas?
Lost students that enquired – a look into why they took the time to enrol but never made it to day 1
International Sales Growth and Self Assessment
Look at potential barriers to successful recruitment?
Products and Location(multi campus locations) analysis
Competitor analysis
Specific country analysis – determine market needs and whether you are equipped to deliver on these
Onshore student feeder strategies
Student retention (staircasing) analysis and strategies. Are you losing students from under your nose?
Conversion tactics, scholarships or market incentives. A look at what could work
Agents and Institutional tie ups worldwide are they working the way you want them to?
Twinning models
Effective Reporting
Sales reporting tactics
Pipeline reporting
Forecasting techniques
Sales team tactics – culture, sales and product training
Other Key Areas
Effective Product development – what is the latest market trends?
Key lessons learnt over the years and management plans that could be helpful and save you money
What makes an effective Vocational College – to achieve high EBITA
Effective employment of students – strategies that were implemented including yearly nationwide student Job Fairs. The difference between these and Employment expos and why they worked