How to increase your school admissions.
Soon after examinations are over, the real task for the school administration begins. With new admissions pouring in from all directions, it gets difficult to keep the process hassle-free and often leads to unwanted problems. On the school administrations end, it is highly important to be able to invest rightly, allocate resources, supervise admissions, generate optimum conversion and have a full-fledged positive promotion in terms of publicity. These factors make the legs of the table upon which an educational institution rests. If one leg happens to be injured, the table will undoubtedly have a shaky experience throughout their lifetime. Hence, with the aspect of balancing all of these components, it makes way for a proper plan, highly competent team and smooth functioning, exceptional module.
We are referring to Advanced School Management, like SPECTRUM, a product of Akshar School Solution and is touted to be one of the best-advanced technology for schools and colleges. With SPECTRUM, there is a lot of possibilities that opens up and assimilates all of the above-mentioned components, bringing them together for the best results. The use of this advanced technology in schools and colleges help make the transition of registration to information keeping and then keeping tabs on conversion easier than the manual process. To understand the picture clearly, let us elaborately discuss how we could increase school admissions and direct it to conversion. It is important to identify an issue and know the ways to direct it to a solution that would prove to benefit the institution and the aspiring students and parents.
Effective Marketing Strategies — In today’s technologically advanced environment it is important to know how to market your product to yield the maximized result. If an educational administration markets its brand in the right light and reaches the maximum number of people, it automatically comes into the notice of aspirants and works towards bringing positive results. With SPECTRUM, campaigning for your institution is highly effective as this advanced software directs valid information of your school to digital platforms like mobile devices, website advertisements, text messages, etc. The goal is to reach the maximum number of people and be considered as an eligible institution for admission.
Enquiry Generation — When your brand/organization comes into notice, inquiries begin to pour in from all platforms in huge numbers. This is where it gets tricky, for attending to every inquiry by officials is very difficult. This is when an advanced school management system like SPECTRUM comes into the picture. You provide the system with all the eligible questions and the relevant information, which redirects them to the concerned inquiries. Also, with proper resource allocation, you can place capable authoritative figures for face-to-face inquiry.
Create An Urgency — When aspirers visit schools and colleges, it is important to create a sense of urgency in their mind. There are several ways to do it, for example, a discount offer where the
institution would offer a discount to the first 50 or so applicants. Also, when they leave, SPECTRUM’s message center module would send legitimate messages to aspirers regarding the benefits they would enjoy if they were to take admission in your school before the vacancies fill up. This way, aspirers will stay on loop and hope to procure a position in your institute.
Process Control — Once your brand earns the notice and trust, registrations begin and it kick starts the admission process. Now, an admission process requires a lot of effort that would deal with all the inquiries, registrations, counseling sessions, daily reminders, etc to effectively convert it to actual conversion. SPECTRUM provides different modules that provide functions like online admission forms for collecting student information and storing the data it on the cloud service. It sends timely reminders to registered and unregistered aspirers about the daily activities and progress and also schedules an articulate timetable for counseling, face-to-face interviews, and comprehensive interactions, school tours, etc. This helps aspirers have a personal review of the institution.
Weekly Meetings/Counselling Sessions — Weekly meetings or counseling sessions play a major role in the admission process. With a team of eligible strategists who are capable of generating admission follow-up strategies, like placing questions that can be counter questioned with a solution to a problem, many complex aspects can be simplified and visitors can convert to applicants in no time.
Regular Inspection of Conversion — It is of great importance to keep tabs on the rate of conversion. With thousands of applications pouring in, the difficulty of keeping a solid track can be done with the help of an advanced school management system. For, it records every registration and keeps a tab on the number of visitors on the website to regular visitors and sends beneficial prospects, encouraging admission. With student information on its behest, it easily tracks the number of aspirers who convert from visitors to applicants.
Parental Requirements — If your educational institute were to adopt an advanced school management system like SPECTRUM, parents can be reassured of their role in the school and their child’s performance. For, this module helps keep parents, students and teachers stay updated about the progress and regress of the student and about day-to-day changes and events taking place in school. Also, worrying parents who are concerned about the safety of their child can heave a sigh of relief as SPECTRUM provides GPS tracking of the school bus which shall allow them to track their child’s location.
Words of wisdom are proved to be fruitful only if put to work. Hence, we would encourage you to discuss the prospects of your institute and the upcoming admissions with your team who would be partaking during the admission process. If you were to put to use the above-stated aspects, we can assure you to see a gradual rise in the admission numbers. Adapt the ideas, make necessary adjustments and bring forth the best face for applications to come your way, with the help of both traditional and digital help from our advanced school management system.
