Digital & Integrated Marketing Projects

1. Marketing Automation Programs

Student audience welcome program:

A welcome email engagement program, targeting global prospect international students.

Split into 5 scenarios:

  1. Current postgraduate students - focusing employability contents
  2. Undergraduate students pursuing a career - focusing employability contents
  3. Undergraduate students pursuing postgraduate degree - focusing 'how to apply' guides
  4. High school students - focusing on course guides & application guides
  5. 'null' profile students, i.e. missing study level data - general contents with encouragement of filling in their profile

B2B email campaign program:

A B2B email marketing program with multi-steps, targeting global HE professionals.

Split into 5 scenarios:

  1. Initial engagement
  2. Engagement to non-clickers & clicked but not convented audiences
  3. Non-clickers of step 2
  4. Final reminder to all non-clickers

Subscription engagement program

An email marketing engagement program targeting website registrants.

Divided into 2 channels:

  1. New registrants without active subscription - 1 welcome email, following with another engagement program
  2. Registrants with active subscription - 5 engagement emails to showcase subscription details & contents

2. Integrated Marketing Projects

Social-Email Campaign for THE's Resource Centre

Initiated this resource centre, to showcase THE's ranking & consultancy report for B2B lead generation. 

Users visited the resource hub page would touch a registration wall, which leads to a follow-up email driving traffic to THE's news & solutions.

Collaborated with product & engineering team to build this hub.

THE Resource Hub

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Follow-up email

Partnership campaign with UWS' consultancy report

Led marketing campaigns of this project, featured among UK higher education sector.

3 email marketing campaigns sent to THE's UK sustainable research academia & uni leaders for report launch & a masterclass. LinkedIn posts also published on THE page.

Follow-up email sent to all live audiences & THE's UK contacts to drive traffic to THE's sustainability solutions.

Generated 300+ report downloads, 250+ masterclass registrations & 130+ live audiences.

Email invite

Follow-up email

Partnership campaign for a Chinese educational association

Led marketing campaigns of this project, featured among Asia & China higher education sector.

Monitored marketing activities in both China & global markets, created Chinese & English landing page, LinkedIn & WeChat posts, targeted email campaigns to Asian audiences. 

3. Database Management & Marketing System Planning

THE Student WeChat x website UMS integration MVP

Since THE Student & WeChat subscription accounts both serve a content marketing model, the creation of a THE Student WeChat was initiated after I joined THE. 

The screenshots shows

  1. An initiative MVP (minimum visible product) plan for the first 6 months of THE Student WeChat
  2. Integration plan 1 & 2 between THE Student & WeChat platform, for driving Chinese audiences towards THE Student site & converting into a registration user:
    1. Mini-program approach, Chinese audiences engage a mini-site on WeChat, and transfer data to THE's UMS (AWS bucket);
    2. Webform approach, Chinese audiences engage a 3rd party form which talks to THE's UMS (AWS bucket).

1. An initiative MVP plan for THE Student WeChat

2.1 Integration plan 1 - mini-program approach

2.2 Integram plan 2 - webform approach

THE Lead Generation, Integration & Welcome Journey Map

A map of THE's lead/contact generation & 3rd platform integration map, including potential welcome journey to be created (number 1-6). 

  1. Event engagement journeys - vary with each physical/online event (Built & running)
  2. User registration & subscription journey (B2B path built & running)
  3. Salesforce journey for sales engagement & development (outsourced to internal Sales Development Representative)
  4. Student audience journey (Built & running)
  5. Rankings data contacts journey (Not built)
  6. Contact form completion journey (Built for resource centre)

THE Events & B2B Lead Generation & Nurturing Program

A lead generation & nurturing program for THE B2B leads. 

Lead generated from email marketing campaigns, social media (organic & paid) campaigns, solution page forms, then pushed into a marketing orchestra platform (Acoustic), following with automated programs for lead nurturing.

This approach has been widely built and used for B2B solutions, event sponsorship, consultancy services & ranking growth. Internal stakeholders & marketers were trained with this approach, best practices & operational guides. 

4. Marketing campaign reporting - lead gen funnel

Lead Gen Funnel Reporting

A funnel-shaped reporting of a marketing campaign for a university growth campaign. 

Targeted audiences were splitted into 4 main groups, and sent different email engagement campaigns, following with a resent.

5. Product engagement map

International Student Engagement Points Map

An engagement map of THE Student's contents & services, based on an international student experience journey. 

6. Social Media Works

THE Student WeChat

WeChat ID: TimesHE_Student

As a platform connecting global prospective international students, I took an initiative to build a THE Student WeChat to attract Chinese students. 

Since mid 2021, 378 articles were created and posted, based on THE's rankings & student articles. While THE's student articles were written in English from a western point of view, I did extra research and localisation & translation works to build Chinese articles. 

An original Chinese-language guide covering 4 major overseas study countries were created to attract Chinese students, and were used for a benefit of following THE Student's WeChat Account.

With purely organic content marketing throughout the past 4 years, over 4.5k followers were generated. 

Home page
Table of contents, by THE's rankings
Table of contents of student guides, by oversea study destinations
THE Student overseas study guide 2022

THE Student Weibo

Weibo Name: 泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名

While I worked at Times Higher Education, I have been co-managing THE's Weibo account with my colleagues in Singapore. 

In October 2021, THE were invited by Weibo's team to participate in Weibo's Overseas Study Season campaign. I launched a co-marketing campaign to promote THE Student's brand via both Weibo & WeChat. 

Given Weibo is a Twitter/X-like platform which does not support rich-text contents, the articles were converted to long images for Weibo platform - which also applies to Little RedNotes (小红书).

'Best University Led by Women' for the International Women's Day
'Study in the UK' Guide for Weibo Overseas Study Season
'Study in Australia' Guide for Weibo Overseas Study Season