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Lead gen for colleges, universities, and enrollment marketing teams.

Enrollment marketing teams driving student recruitment, continuing education programs building B2B partnerships, and edtech companies selling to academic institutions.

AI enrollment automation for higher education — SMS lead generation

The pipeline problems that keep coming up.

01

Admissions teams are overwhelmed and follow-up is inconsistent

A prospective student fills out an inquiry form in October. By January they have heard from three competing schools twice a week. Your admissions team sent one email in November. Enrollment is won by whoever follows up best, not who has the best program.

02

Corporate partnership and continuing education outreach is manual

Universities selling executive education, corporate training, and certificate programs to HR and L&D teams have no systematic outreach process. The sales motion relies entirely on relationship-dependent business development.

03

Edtech vendor sales cycles involve multiple administrators

Selling an LMS, student success platform, or campus technology solution requires navigating CIO, Provost, Registrar, and department heads simultaneously. Most edtech vendors lose deals when one stakeholder thread goes quiet.

04

Geographic and program-specific personalization is missing

A university recruiting nationally needs outreach that references the prospect’s state, their intended major, and their enrollment timeline. Generic messages from a 50,000-student university feel impersonal and get ignored.

The modules that matter most.

Prospect inquiry follow-up automation

Automated multi-touch sequences triggered the moment a prospective student or corporate partner submits an inquiry. Email, SMS, and targeted follow-up across a 30 to 90-day enrollment cycle. No inquiry falls through the cracks. Contact data is pulled from your connected Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, or existing CRM — no separate data vendor required.

Program-specific enrollment microsites

Generate a program landing page for each degree, certificate, or corporate training offering in 90 seconds. A/B test messaging by audience segment. Inquiry forms sync directly to your CRM or student information system.

Corporate partnership and L&D outreach

Build and run outreach sequences targeting HR directors and L&D managers at companies in your target industries. Personalized by industry, company size, and the workforce development challenges relevant to each audience.

SMS enrollment campaign automation

TCPA-compliant SMS sequences for open house invitations, application deadline reminders, and financial aid follow-up. SMS drives the highest response rates in enrollment marketing and the platform handles all compliance automatically.

What good looks like.

98%
SMS open rate for enrollment outreach
30–90 days
Typical enrollment follow-up cycle
90 sec
Program microsite to live
2–4×
Inquiry-to-application conversion improvement

What the platform tracks for Higher Education teams.

LeadGen AI · Higher Education Enrollment
Inquiry signalsSMS 98% open
Inquiries in Pipeline
1,840
This enrollment cycle
Inquiry Response Time
4 min
AI-automated
Inquiry→Application
18.4%
↑ 4.2pts YoY
Enrolled (30d)
84
↑ 23% vs prior yr
Program enrollment pipeline
PROGRAMINQUIRIESCVRENROLLED
MBA – Evening48022.4%108
MS Data Science34019.8%67
Graduate Education28017.1%48
Healthcare Admin MHA22016.4%36
Executive Leadership18014.2%26
Enrollment signal sources
Web inquiry form38% of pipeline
SMS campaign click29% of pipeline
LinkedIn ad lead18% of pipeline
Event/webinar reg11% of pipeline
Referral network4% of pipeline
Enrollment · SMS & Follow-Up Analytics
98% SMS open rate
SMS Sent
4,840
This cycle
Open Rate
98%
SMS channel
Follow-up sequence performance
SMS Day 1 (instant)98% opened
Email Day 244% opened
SMS Day 591% opened
Email Day 838% opened
Call Day 14 (setter)24% answered
Conversion by lead source
SMS-first touchpoint24.2% enroll
Email-first14.8% enroll
LinkedIn ad11.4% enroll

How a regional university grew graduate program enrollment 34% in one cycle.

A mid-sized university with 12 graduate programs was losing prospective students to better-resourced competitors who followed up faster and more consistently. Automated inquiry sequences meant every prospective student received personalized follow-up within the hour regardless of when they submitted. Program-specific microsites with A/B-tested messaging by undergraduate major improved inquiry-to-application conversion by 34% in the fall enrollment cycle.

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