Creating a Strong Market Presence
New Offerings
Helped crystalise on two new departments and positioning strategy
Commercial Excellence
- Introduced a CRM system for robust lead tracking, along with team training.
- Created and trained specialized teams for the admission season.
- Established visibility of the admissions process for leadership to enable close tracking and quick decision-making.
- Set up a war room to maintain admission numbers during a challenging year for engineering colleges.
- Developed programs to increase visibility among school children and their parents.
Impact
- During a period of declining BTech/Engineering admissions, Saintgits increased high-quality applications by 30% year-on-year.
- Applications for other Saintgits colleges also grew by 30–40%.
- Applications from students scoring over 90% in +2 rose from 3–4 per year to 94 within two admission seasons (2.5 years of association).
- Campaigns successfully reduced lead acquisition costs to one-fifth of published industry standards year-on-year.
- Consistent social media communication strengthened connections between current students, prospective students, and parents.
- Built a platform for existing students to attract juniors, leveraging their influence as key opinion makers.
Brand and Marketing Strategy
- Sharpened audience segmentation and positioning through in-depth discovery.
- Created a comprehensive brand identity program.
- Expanded the audience mix for undergraduate studies.
- Established a strong online presence and engaged the community around key programs, events, and innovations.
- Consolidated social media into a limited number of official pages, replacing scattered communication.
- Initiated end-to-end digital campaign plans with strategies tailored to different times of the year.
- Advised on a comprehensive online and offline marketing program.
- Strengthened the in-house marketing team and improved the information generation model for year-round support.