Five years’ worth of data now reveal which trades are the most searched in each state. This means that if your institution offers a skills-based education, you should be focusing your new student enrollment efforts on where your potential new students live and offer them what they’re looking for!Read More

The stock market is in shambles, prices of many consumer goods continue to rise, interest rates are skyrocketing, and home prices are collapsing. According to a recent article published in Bloomberg, economists now place a 70% chance of an economic recession hitting this year.Read More

Hiring a contact center to generate education leads to boost enrollment at your higher education facility can be a daunting task. You may be considering the differences in pricing, differences in the locations (US vs near-shore vs off-shore) and the differences in lead quality the contact center has promised you.Read More

Lead generation, and the conversion of those leads, is the lifeblood of nearly every business. Of course, the better the quality of leads you have, the better your conversions and ROI. But if you don’t know how to precisely measure the following conversion metrics, your efforts could be falling flat, leaving you spending far more...Read More

Spring enrollment is just around the corner. By now, your institution, whether you’re a trade school, tech academy, vocational school, career college or bootcamp, should be nearing the point where all of your available upcoming “slots” are filled.Read More

In the 1996 cult classic, “Swingers,” starring Vince Vaughan and Jon Favreau, the question of when to first contact a “qualified lead” is raised in a rather hilarious way.Read More

According to the most current 2022 term-enrollment estimates from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC), overall student enrollment at colleges and universities continues to drop. Total postsecondary enrollment fell to 16.2 million students in the spring, representing a student body decline of 685,000, or 4.1%, over the previous year.Read More

When you think of the words “call center,” images of rows of people stacked into a tiny room, cold calling hundreds of numbers from the phone book may come to mind. Worse, you may think of an overseas warehouse full of computers, generating robocalls and robo-texts to random numbers, hoping for a response, any response.Read More

It’s a simple fact. Adult learners enroll in career colleges, vocational schools, trade schools, tech academies and bootcamps for one reason: they want to either further their current careers or begin new ones. For decades now, career schools have provided adult learners with this exact pathway. However, times are changing, and so are the students....Read More

The number of students enrolling at traditional four-year colleges and universities have been in decline for over a decade. From the spring semester of 2011 to the spring semester of this year, there has been a reduction of over 3.3 million students in the college/university system. This represents an astonishing 17% drop in enrollment.[1] More...Read More