The Interactive Campus Map: An Essential Online Recruiting Tool

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The Interactive Campus Map: An Essential Online Recruiting Tool Kyle James [email protected] twitter.com/kylejame s Michael Fienen [email protected] twitter.com/fienen

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We firmly believe that an interactive campus map is an essential online recruiting tool for every college or university. Recent data suggests that 84% of prospective students found a campus visit as a credible source in the college decision process. Another study showed that 77% of prospective students found a campus visit request form on a website to have a lot of value. This data shows the importance of your campus to a student’s final decision making process. Having an interactive campus map opens up the top of your recruitment funnel and is an essential tool for online recruitment. This presentation will dive deeply into the stats, ROI and the story of why this is an essential online recruitment tool. It could easily be argued that it is the most important feature on a college website.

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The Interactive Campus Map: An Essential Online Recruiting Tool

Kyle [email protected]

twitter.com/kylejames

Michael [email protected]

twitter.com/fienen

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Who Are We

• Experienced - 15+ years of Higher Education and Web Experience and years of web development on the side

• Thought Leaders - Founder and writing staff members at .eduGuru, an award winning higher education marketing and development blog

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Virtual Tour• Creating a virtual experience without

actually being there

• Picture, video, audio

Interactive Map vs Virtual Tour

Interactive Map• Interacting with a user

• Providing a means to give input and

get results

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So an interactive map is always a virtual tour, but a virtual tour isn’t always an

interactive map.

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Who has a map ?

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Map Audiences

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It’s All About Recruitment!

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• USA Today - instructs prospective students to take virtual tours as the #1 step before actually visiting a college.

• Open up the top of your recruitment funnel with a virtual tour of your campus

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/2008-08-13-control-costs-of-college-visits_N.htm

It’s All About Recruitment!

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Prospective Student Decision Process

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Lots of Choices

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How to Narrow the List?

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Visit Campuses!

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You Can’t Visit Every School

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It’s Just Too Expensive and Takes Too Much Time

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Most Important Web Features

Data from Noel-Levitz 2010 E-Expectations– www.noellevitz.com

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Most Used Social Media Resources

Data from Noel-Levitz 2010 E-Expectations– www.noellevitz.com

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Credible Sources in Decision Process

Data from Hobsons, 2010 - www.hobsons.com

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• Looking at 48 institutions…• 69% had virtual tours• 41% included a map• Only one was trying out mobile

Other Research

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• A tour is “singlehandedly the most important element” of a college website. --Ron Reis, Co-founder YOUniversity

• Students will “get frustrated very quickly if they can’t get the 10,000-foot view.”--Chris Carson, President CampusTours

How Important is a Virtual Tour?

*Quote from - http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1122

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• Interactive Tours• Course Catalogs• Common App• Net Price Calculator• Event Calendar• Online Videos• Blogs

An Interactive Tour is Part of a Suite of Killer Web Apps

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Building A Business Case

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Establishing ROI

If we can work backwards from the value of a student we can establish the value of

an Interactive Campus Map.

*All numbers are created as examples

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Let’s Do Some Math

• Average Years = 3• Cost Per Year = $20,000• Average Yearly Discount = $10,000

• Student Value = 3 * ($20,000 - $10,000)• So a Student is worth

$30,000!

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Let’s Do Some Math

• Student Value = $30,000• Conversion Rate in Applicant = 20%

• App Value = $30,000 * .2• So an Applicant is worth

$6,000!

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Value Of Campus Tour

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Let’s Do Some Math

• Application Value = $6,000• Conversion Rate of Visits to Applicant = 20%

• Value of Visit = $6,000 * .2• So Each Student Visit is Worth

$1,200!

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Drive More Campus Visitors

Interactive Campus Map

Visit Campus

Application

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Let’s Do Some Math

• Visit Value = $1,200• Conversion of Map to Visit = 5%

• Value of a Map View = $1,200 * .05• So Each Map View is Worth

$60!

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Do You Think 1,000 People Would View Your

Map In A Month?

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Then Having A Map Is Worth $60,000!

Per Month!

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ROI Spreadsheet

http://bit.ly/map-roi

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Things Not To Do

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• Use Flash – it’s inaccessible and creates an maintenance nightmare

• Only images – Include more content than just a map with some photo galleries. Tours need context.

• Ignore updates – Keep building information and imagery fresh. You virtual tour needs the power to entice real visits.

Things Not To Do With A Map

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Where Do I Start?

http://www.uky.edu/CampusGuide/

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Too Many Options

http://map.emory.edu/

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Slow Load Times

http://www.campustours.com/prodfeatures/suffolk/

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Confuse UsersTotally Different Direction

http://www.virtualtour.potsdam.edu/index.php

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Tips - Creating A Great Virtual Map

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1. Make It Interesting

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USC Upstate Map

http://uscupstate.edu/map/

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2. Make It Real

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Belmont University Map

http://belmont.edu/interactivemap/

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3. Make It Easy

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Anderson University Map

http://www.andersonuniversity.edu/interactivemap.aspx

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4. Make It Yours

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University of Missouri Map

http://admissions.missouri.edu/visit/virtual-tours.php

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Future Of The Web

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Rise of the Social Web

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Always on the Mobile Web

• The future of a tour is self guided tours that people can take with their phone as they walk around your campus

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Questions?

• Kyle [email protected]/kylejames

• Michael [email protected]/fienen