Are you using Google Analytics to enhance your admissions marketing? If not, you should be; it helps makes sure that your website is offering what your visitors are looking for.
Google Analytics is a free tool that with a little assistance from your IT Webmaster allows you to evaluate your webpage. Dive in with experts Tonya Roth from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and Melissa Perez from the University of Wisconsin-Stout to learn how you can leverage Google Analytics to reevaluate web request forms, improve website layouts, and enhance reporting for marketing campaigns.
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1. Hobsons Connect and
Google Analytics
Data-driven communication
strategies
Tonya Roth, Director of Admissions, UW-Superior
Melissa Perez, Marketing Coordinator, UW-Stout
#hobsonsuw
2. 2
Stats
University of Wisconsin-Stout University of Wisconsin-Superior
Menomonie, Wisconsin Superior, Wisconsin
9,300 students 2,800 students
44 undergrad degrees, 23 graduate progs 30 undergrad degrees, 8 graduate progs
Polytechnic University Public, Liberal Arts
Connect, Marketing Solutions Connect, Marketing Solutions
3. 3
What is the problem?
• Underutilized web request form (as
benchmarked by other institutions, since July 1,
2012)
– 900 – UW-Superior
– 676 – UW-Stout
– 1,296 – UW-River Falls
– How we took Google Analytics data to make changes
5. 5
Analytics to evaluate webpage
• Used to rearrange information on webpage
– Paying for college
– Info request page
– Completing info request form
– Top 5 business transactions (criteria, majors, visit,
scholarships, application process)
6. 6
• Up to date data will be added prior to
presentation
Visitor Flow
7. 7
• Audience (visits)
• New vs returning
• Average visit duration
• Bounce
• Mobile
• Country
• City (advertising)
• Sources (all traffic)
• Social (Overview)
Google Analytics for the Admissions User
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• Audience (visits)
• New vs returning
• Average visit duration
• Bounce
• Mobile
• Country
• City (advertising)
• Sources (all traffic)
• Social (Overview)
Google Analytics for the Admissions User
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• UW-Superior
– Not a one time thing – EVALUATE
– Not be afraid to try new things
– Set goals for where to go (key search terms)
• UW-Stout
– Data influences decision makers
– Blogs rule – but they have to be relevant/updated
– Ask questions when you see discrepancies
– #hobsonsuw
What we’ve learned