Emerge Edu Student Recruiting

Background

 

Emerge Education provides higher education solutions to colleges and universities by growing revenues through student enrollment services. Their expert team members provide solutions and exceptional results by bringing decades of experience in each critical area of higher education and specializing in student acquisition and retention for higher education institutions.Emerge Education leverages Salesforce throughout the entire student lifecycle where they underwent different sales stages and workflows from establishing first contact to the document submission and enrollment and retention stages.

Challenge
Emerge’s team leverages several applications with Salesforce being their primary for prospects, leads, and applicants. A significant portion of their process was manual with little visibility into the status and workflows of their lifecycle. Additionally, there were neither executive views nor a predictable way of understanding the probability of final application and acceptance.

Outcomes

Risk mitigation through readiness certification for leads and applicants

Increased prospect-driven engagement through role-based dashboard views and data-driven insights

Approach
In phase-I, we adopted our proven framework for success: performing a Discovery and Strategy phase to fully understand Emerge’s business, marketing, and enrollment process in utilizing its existing Salesforce and technology platform, data analysis, and associated tool sets..

Solution
Discovery: Gap Identification Through Analysis
In order to identify the gaps in Emerge Edu’s student acquisition process we conducted an ecosystem review of internal and external stakeholders along with data capturing in the student acquisition process, Salesforce infrastructure, and technology architecture analysis.
Strategy: Statement of Strategic Understanding
After conducting a gap analysis, we focused our attention on the most pressing issues and began developing solutions based on those findings. We validated and prioritised the areas that need more attention and are the catalysts for the growth of Emerge Education, customer experience, and managing volume without compromising the quality which helped us to arrive at the Statement of Strategic Understanding.

Improved lead funnels & insights by restructuring Salesforce workflow process

Revised operations plan for higher efficiency and productivity

Seamless Emerge Education User/Lead Journey Flow