Higher ed digital marketers to measure or die in 2019?
Got so much free time that you are frantically looking for things to add to your to-do list at work?
Wish another digital craze could pop up out of nowhere in the next few weeks, because there aren’t enough digital channels to keep you busy?
I didn’t think so 🙂
It’s 2019 and (too) busy is the new normal for higher ed digital professionals.
So, obviously, if your team doesn’t use measurement to decide what to keep or to stop doing, you’re all about to hit a wall – soon.
Why measurement can save your sanity at work
As astonishing as this might sound to communicators and marketers, in the frantic daily pace of requests, emergencies, shifting (or missing) priorities, numbers can become your best friends.
You do have to choose them carefully, though.
Not so they can make you look good (vanity of vanities…), but so they can guide you to sanity — and success, eventually.
Analytics can become your best friends.
And, yet, it’s so easy to let busy lure you into thinking you don’t have time to measure what truly matters to your institution.
Fortunately, the Higher Ed Analytics Conference is the best vaccine against the virality of wasted time, energy, budget and efforts plaguing higher ed digital teams.
All the reasons to attend the 2019 Higher Ed Analytics Conference
By inviting team members and stakeholders to watch sessions on best practices, new ideas but also back-to-basics presented at this conference every February, hundreds of your colleagues keep the measurement flame alive at their school – without breaking their budget.
The conference program promises, this year again, to get everybody excited and inspired with a variety of 10-min long sessions presented by some of the top thought leaders in the higher ed digital analytics community as well as a few great new voices.
While I will preview all the sessions at Preview Day (Jan 30, 2019) – as I always do for every Higher Ed Experts conference, I’ve already had a peek at the takeaways the speakers plan to share.
So, here’s a quick round-up of what your team will get to learn if you register (or are already registered) for the HEA19 Conference:
- How to optimize your online forms by tracking what field(s) make your students or donors abandon them
- How to optimize your prospective student journey by following smart optimization strategies developed by the for-profits
- How tracking site search could help you uncover users that convert
- How to segment and target web users in the market for higher education
- How your CRM can help you capture campaign data and attach it to student records
- How to get the full picture of conversions’ attribution
- How to measure when data is scarce with the case of podcast analytics
- How to drive content strategy with content measurement
- How to scale up the power of qualitative data on Instagram to optimize engagement
- How to measure video to inform your strategy
- How to tap into the power of the Google Search Console for your SEO and content marketing initiatives
Did I mention that attendees always rave about the Higher Ed Analytics Conference?
As the ONLY conference focused entirely on higher ed digital analytics, it is really one of a kind.
As a result, the conference usually sells out early. So, if you plan to focus on measurement in 2019, make sure to grab a seat for your team when you still can.
