Case Studies

Stenberg College is a medium-sized private college in British Columbia, offering programs in healthcare, nursing and education. Google Ads is a key marketing tool to recruit students. HEM Education Marketing Solutions plays a vital role in ensuring the ads are effective and generate more - and better - leads.

“We can always count on HEM, thanks to their expertise in marketing, their experience in education and their knowledge of the Canadian market,” says Les Merson, Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations at Stenberg. 

Despite investing heavily in digital marketing campaigns to support student recruitment, McGill University School of Continuing Studies had difficulty properly evaluating the success of its efforts.

HEM helped McGill by running new ad campaigns and implementing an eCommerce tracking model that enabled them to measure the applicants, registrations, and revenue their campaigns were driving through their e- commerce platform.

The Canadian Association of Public Schools – International (CAPS-i) is a non-profit association committed to advocacy and promotion of international education programs in Canadian public schools that comprises 124 publicly funded Canadian school districts. As one of the first ports of call for education agents/consultants and families around the globe looking to send students to public schools in Canada, CAPS-i relies heavily on its online presence. However, that digital presence struggled in 2018.

With a long history of collaboration, HEM helped CAPS-i improve its online visibility, particularly by creating a mobile-friendly site and performing an effective and timely site diagnosis that led to SEO optimization to regain lost traffic.

Randolph-Macon Academy (R-MA) is a co-ed private military school founded in 1892 located in Front Royal, Virginia, that serves day and boarding students in grades 6-8 (Middle School) and grades 9-12 (Upper School) with focus on university-prep curriculum and Air Force JRTOC for leadership development.

HEM helped Randolph-Macon Academy to increase its enrollment lead generation, position the school as an attractive choice for academic achievers and position R-MA's value proposition as an academically-focused private school option for parents and students seeking an educational setting with a stronger academic foundation than that offered in public schools

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) is an international non-profit organization of business schools that provides products and services to academic institutions and prospective graduate management education students. The organization owns the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), a standardized assessment that is widely used by graduate business administration programs (e.g. MBA, Master of Accountancy, Master of Finance, Master of Science in Business/Management, etc.) to measure quantitative, verbal, analytical and integrated reasoning skills in applicants.

The WU Executive Academy, the business school of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) brings more than 100 years of experience and an excellent reputation to the field of executive education. Thus it belongs to the leading business universities worldwide. The executive education portfolio of the WU Executive Academy includes MBA programs, Master of Laws programs, Professional Master programs, BBA programs, university certificate programs, and compact continuing education programs,and custom programs. In recent years, the WU Executive Academy has become one of the leading providers in Europe.

Western University of Health Sciences is a private, non-profit graduate school for health professionals, located in downtown Pomona, California.
  
HEM helped Western University of Health Sciences more effectively track registrations across various institutional websites and subdomains by implementing customized cross-domain tracking.

Established in 1979, Trebas Institute is recognized by industry for the exceptional quality of its training programs in audio engineering, event management, entertainment management, and film & television production. 
 
HEM helped Trebas combat declining ROI on Pay-per-Click campaigns by completely overhauling their keyword list, landing pages, and analytics tracking.

Located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Sherman College is a long-established leader in the education of Doctors of Chiropractic. 
 
HEM helped Sherman College gain a competitive edge by auditing and optimizing their website lead generation mechanisms, and improving on-page SEO to boost visibility and organic traffic.

Canadian Tourism College (CTC) is Canada’s leader in high-end hospitality and tourism career training. CTC has campuses in Vancouver and Surrey, and is British Columbia’s first accredited tourism college.

HEM helped CTC move into the top three Google search results position for 76 priority keywords, leading to increased organic website traffic and substantially improved lead generation

Founded in 1972, John Cabot University is an independent, four-year liberal arts university offering undergraduate degrees and study abroad programs to English-speaking students from all over the world.

HEM helped John Cabot University increase website traffic and student applications by optimizing their site for SEO, and implementing a personalized, multi-channel content marketing strategy.

CultureWorks is an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) school which offers courses directly on the campuses of various partner institutions in order to prepare international students for Canadian colleges and universities. 
 
HEM helped CultureWorks to develop a customized digital marketing strategy, streamline its campaign tracking, and automate its follow-up processes to achieve one year of overall increased traffic across all digital channels.