Micro Targeting in Education

Micro-targeting in education

How we used micro-targeting to deliver leads using facebook

OBJECTIVE

• To acquire high quality leads for an IT certification training program. Company based in India providing training to overseas students
• Brand wanted to get qualified leads for its Cisco certification program to improve revenues, class occupancy levels at a low cost per lead target

CHALLENGE

• Brand was suffering from both low quality, low volume of leads
• Cost of lead acquisition very high; Saturation achieved on google adwords

OUR SOLUTION

• Precise targeting
  • Use a combination of SEM, interest based targeting and used our SegmentPro methodology to get the optimal volume of leads at a low cost/lead
  • SegmentPro used to show ads to overseas IT professionals micro-targeting those who are “based in Middle East and have designations of: Network Engineers, Network Technicians, Network Architects & Systems Engineers”
• Right marketing communication
  • Our consumer research with existing and potential customers revealed various insights. Primarily, that the experience of the faculty, availability of practice questions and the ability of ask questions 24/7 were desired product attributes.
  • Our design team & creative team wrote copy and created landing pages with the right communication
• Optimization
  • Various variants of landing pages (different theme, copy, design elements) were used to get to the optimal top #3 designs
  • Several ad-copies and designs were used and monitored to pick the best performing ones

RESULTS

• Improved the # of leads 4x over the previous month. Leads were of high quality (quality defined by whether leads registered for a subject related webinar or not).
• Leads from SegmentPro the best quality leads at the lowest cost compared with SEM or interest-based targeting using facebook.