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How Geofencing Marketing/OTT Advertising Could Work For Universities

We execute marketing campaigns in Google Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn and other programmatic channels. But geofencing and ott advertising is what we lead with as an education marketing agency.

Our Geo fencing and addressable (household) geofencing technology can give advertisers and universities the competitive edge they’ve been looking for and that none of their competitors are using. See mobile location based advertising in action:

  • College Events
  • Competitor Universities
  • SAT/ACT Test Locations
  • Collegiate Sporting Events
  • Local In-Market Students

Book A Geofencing Marketing Demo With Our Team

In the marketing discovery calls, we discuss how geofencing can work for you, CPM & Pricing for geofencing marketing, The process of geofencing, how we partner with agencies as well as direct brands.

Many Ways To Use Geofencing Marketing

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Buildings

Use Geofencing To Target Buildings, Nearby Traffic & Even Yourself For Customer Loyalty Marketing

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Events

Tradeshows & Events

Use Geofencing To Target Convention Centers, Stadiums, Sporting Events & Trade Shows

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Neighborhood

Households

Use Our New Addressable Geofencing To Target Individual Households: 1,000 – 1,000,000 Addresses

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Retail

Competitors

Target competitor institutions and serve ads to prospective students who visit them

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10,000’s Of Marketing Leads & Student Applications…Across Many Institutions

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Results From Real Institution Campaigns

Enrollment marketing is judged on inquiries, applications and students who actually show up for a tour, not on impressions. Every figure below is a tracked result from a campaign our team ran for a college or university, and each links to the case study behind it.

87
prospective student leads in two weeks at a $6 to $9 cost per lead, through geofencing plus paid social
$250
graduate cost per lead, down from $1,100, with peak lead flow reaching 2,800 per month
30+
walk-in visits and campus tours inside a week and a half of the geofencing campaign going live

How Geofencing Advertising Works For Universities

  • A virtual geofence is traced around an event location where the advertiser wants to build an audience based on their visit to that particular location during a set, scheduled timeframe.
  • When people enter the geo-fenced location during the set timeframe, they will then become a part of an audience that can later be targeted following the event.
  • As the user visits various apps downloaded on their phone (Angry Birds, Weather Channel, Emoji Keyboard, Words With Friends) or browses the internet on the mobile browsers, they begin to see ads from said advertiser.
  • User can see those Ads for 1 day and up to 30 days after he/she has entered the geo fence.

Geo fencing marketing is the perfect solution for people that want to target a group of people attending a specific event and get more reach out of their ad spend rather than simply zip code targeting or city-wide targeting, be it New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Miami FL, or even Atlanta, GA.

Digital Solutions That Truly Attract Students To Your Institution

We pride ourselves on developing campaigns that truly translate into phone calls, leads, and potential students most likely to attend your academic institution. The digital channels that we focus on do matter….but the best part is we can track both online and offline traffic to your institution and your website, thus better understanding your true ROI.

Paying For Phone Calls (Not Just Clicks)

Our standard Google Ads and Microsoft Ads campaigns for academic institutions still perform well for clients. And we highly recommend any and all institutions leverage a proper Google Ads campaign. But we also can develop call-only campaigns (and text only campaigns) so you only pay for phone calls from actual searchers expressing an academic need or interest in your institution.

Increase Student Enrollment By Targeting Other Locations

Propellant Media’s latest technology in Geo-Fencing Technology targets prospective students who attended specified schools or events with the most precise temporal geo-targeting solution available. By building a custom polygon around the event center, we can begin serving Ads to the mobile devices of those users from the time they enter our geo fence for up to 30 days.

Ideal Locations Including:

  • Other Academic Institutions
  • School Tours
  • Malls, Movies, Libraries
  • Places Where Students Frequent In Your Town

We can even track those who saw your Ads and then came back to your school. Learn more about our Conversion Zone Tracking.

Solutions Custom Tailored To Your Academic Institution

Pay For Only Leads & Applications To Your Institution

Our ability to create custom tailored Google Ads campaigns for academic institutions is what we take pride in. We can also create call only campaigns so you’re only paying for phone calls, not just clicks to your website. And our call-only campaigns traditionally perform 40% better than our traditional Google Ads and Microsoft Ads campaigns.

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Geofence Key Locations

Utilize geofencing marketing to target key locations where your potential student population frequents including test prep centers, competitor schools, colleges, grad schools, corporations, and other areas where students are of interest.

Use Search Retargeting To Target Prospective Students

Our search retargeting technology utilizes search data from Bing, Yahoo, and other major websites with search bars and we track the search history of all of those individuals. If they performed similar school or academic related searches, we can target them utilizing those very same keywords.

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Use Paid Social To Generate Student Applications

With our sophisticated and custom tailored advertising solution, we can take your list of students and alumni, and serve Ads to them in an effort to increase school enrollment and giving and other school related matters. Learn more about our social advertising solutions.

Reporting For ALL Your Campaigns

This is an area we love to talk about. With 24/7 reporting and analytics, we can determine what’s effective and what’s not and turn ineffective campaigns into positive ROI campaigns for our clients. You will receive regular reports highlighting the most important functions of your campaigns and we will report on everything via one dashboard.

See How We Drive $10 Cost Per Student Leads For Academic Institutions

Education Case Studies

Use Cases of Geo Fencing

  • Customer Loyalty Program – By Geo Fencing your school, you can serve Ads to those individuals who already came to your location and want to continue reminding them about your school with content that will persuade them to attend your institution.
  • Competitor Locations – Consider your competitors and geo fence their locations.
  • Event Targeting – Have a major school fair in which you’re featuring your school? Our advanced Geo Fencing technology can target those event attendees and serve mobile ads to them on your behalf.
  • Close Vicinity Of Your Location– How about walker-bys and those who are walking close by your school. We can geo fence the block, center, or mall that you’re located in and even serve ads to those people for up to 30 days after they have left.

ABL… Always Be Learning

View Our Latest Higher Education Marketing Webinar

From our industry and product specific webinars to our Partner Academy Course available to our higher education clients, we take education seriously….not just in academia, but also in sharing best practices with marketing teams. Education only allows us to ask the right questions to uncover more ROI opportunities for brands. And we make it available to you.

Digital Execution Process For Academic Institutions

1

Digital Analysis

This forms the basis of your digital needs so our team can understand your ideal student profile, your institutional goals, any existing advertising and marketing you’re doing, and how we can develop a digital plan of action.

2

Creative Development

What will you say when you show up? That question matters more than anything. Here we take your messaging and build Ads around it.

3

Campaign Development

From demographic targeting, geographic, and behavioral targeting to campaign objectives, we will build a granular campaign to reach your target audience.

4

Analytics/Reporting

Now we can pull all our advertising into a clean reporting system that you can easily review and dissect.

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Optimizations

After running the campaign for 1 – 2 weeks, we start our optimization process with split testing ads, changing targeting parameters, and checking CPA goals.

24/7 Dashboard Analytics Reporting

Don’t wait a full month before you receive robust reporting. Get it 24/7. Tracking online conversions (form submissions and inquiries) is one thing. But measuring offline conversions is something that couldn’t be done before until now. We are able to track conversions both online, as well as offline conversions (i.e. those who came back to your campus, admissions office, or desired location).

If you are leveraging our location based technology to directly communicate and reach your desired audience, contact us on how we’d develop a granular campaign tailored to your institution and organizational goals. Learn more about our conversion zone tracking capabilities.

Sample Propellant Media geofencing marketing campaign performance report

Frequently Asked Questions About Education Marketing

Can you prove advertising drove a campus visit?

Yes, through conversion zone tracking. A fence around campus counts how many people served your ads later arrived in person. One local college tracked more than 30 walk-in visits and tours inside a week and a half of the campaign going live.

Can we target students at competitor schools and test centers?

Yes. Competitor campuses, SAT and ACT testing locations, college fairs, community colleges feeding your transfer pipeline and collegiate sporting events all work as fences, and that audience stays reachable for up to 30 days after they leave.

What does a student lead cost?

It depends heavily on the program and the level. As reference points from live campaigns, one nursing program generated 87 leads in two weeks at a $6 to $9 cost per lead, and one university’s undergraduate leads have run in the $10 to $20 range while its graduate cost per lead came down from $1,100 to $250. Graduate and professional programs almost always cost more per lead than undergraduate.

Does this work for graduate and professional programs?

Yes, and it is often where the sharpest gains are. Graduate recruitment usually leans on search, paid social and addressable targeting rather than campus fences, because the audience is working adults rather than students standing somewhere specific. One university client runs more than 25 graduate programs with us, each with its own strategy.

Can we reach parents as well as prospective students?

Yes, and for traditional undergraduate recruitment you usually should. Addressable geofencing reaches the household rather than the individual, which means the person paying the tuition bill sees the same message as the applicant. Parents and students also respond to different creative, so we typically run them as separate messages against the same household list.

How do you handle the rules around recruiting and student data?

Two things matter most. First, institutions receiving Title IV funding are subject to the federal incentive compensation ban, which prohibits paying anyone engaged in recruiting a commission or bonus tied to enrollment numbers. We bill media and management as a flat engagement, never per enrollment, which keeps the arrangement clean. Second, FERPA governs the education records of enrolled students, so we work from inquiry and prospect data and from lists your office has the right to use, rather than pulling from student record systems. We are happy to have that conversation with your compliance office directly.

Can we geofence college fairs and recruitment events?

Yes, and you do not need a table there. A fence around the venue during the event dates builds an audience of attendees whether or not your admissions team is inside, and the follow-up window running up to 30 days afterwards usually matters more than the day itself.

Do you work with community colleges and smaller institutions?

Yes, and the approach changes with scale. A community college or small private institution is usually better served by a tight local fence list, strong paid search on program keywords and disciplined retargeting than by broad programmatic. Larger universities have enough programs and geography to justify running each department as its own campaign.

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Geo fencing can be the key differentiator in your business targeting the audience that matters the most to your company.

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