Online enrolments paired with a CRM (customer relationship management) are some of the most powerful tools your training organisation can use to capture and engage new learners. The process of capturing, marketing and enrolling new learners can be made much easier and advantageous for your business by taking enrolments online while collecting information for compliance and useful CRM data.
Let’s go through how simple yet effective the process can be.
When prospective learners visit your website, they’ll basically either be guided to enquire or enrol, or they’ll get lost, give up and leave (and probably go to another training provider’s website). Your website is the key place where your future learners make the match of choosing you for their training needs, or decide you're not the right fit. Capturing prospective learners by showing them you’re the training provider they’re looking for is integral.
When it comes to keeping people on your site, engagement, relevance, reputation and trust need to be considered. You can achieve these things through including learner testimonials, success stories, optimising your SEO and more. We’ve also got some key tips on the technical side of how to leverage your website here.
Aside from adding these elements, your website should be designed to guide a prospective learner to enquire or enrol. Essentially, it shouldn’t take 10 steps to find the course listings. Take a look at this example from Expression Australia’s website. Expression Australia isn’t solely a training business, but it’s still easy to find where to go if you want training and the course list page is clearly laid out. Course lists are typically accessed by website users after clicking on a navigation option such as ‘Courses’. Course listings can be chosen from a range of layouts and themes.
Clicking into a course on the course list page will take you to the course details. A course details page provides a website visitor with an outline of the course, qualification or program. Course details can typically include a summary, target audience, content, units to be covered, RPL option, study pathway, and more.
All upcoming course instances will sit underneath the course details, so that prospective learners can enrol from the same page in a few steps.
When the prospective learner decides to enquire or enrol, it's important you have AVETMISS-compliant forms up your sleeve. Your enquiry and enrolment forms should be designed to collect the information you need to remain compliant while also collecting useful CRM data for your business.
Using your CRM
Your Student Management System’s CRM will allow you to:
If you’re looking for a more advanced CRM, HubSpot is a world-class system to try out (plus, it integrates with aXcelerate).
Using your online enrolments and CRM, you’ll be able to have the information you need to effectively communicate with newly-enrolled learners. Your training organisation will be able to analyse CRM data to see how effective acquisition and retention efforts have been, monitor overall churn, and more – leading to more informed strategies and business growth.
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