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Making Individualization the New Standard with Capture Dynamic Pages and 1:1 Texting
We’ve spent the last few weeks making a case: that personalization, as most institutions practice it, has a ceiling, and that the students you’re trying to reach can tell the difference between outreach built for a group and outreach built for them. And while the subject is timely and discussion-worthy in and of itself, it was leading up to this announcement: Today, we’re introducing two products…
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Solving the Personalization Problem
Numerous seminars, think pieces, and articles have made “personalization” one of the buzziest buzzwords in higher ed’s post-pandemic era, and the ensuing progress in recent cycles has been swift and undeniable. While teams across the spectrum have embraced audience segmentation and tailored communications, according to students, most colleges still don’t hold the right playbook for garnering…
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What Students Expect Before You Even Know Their Name
It’s late November, and you get a new application, but there’s no prior record for this prospect. They didn’t inquire or register for any events, and they’ve never engaged via email. They must have found you late in their search, right? They didn’t. Unbeknownst to you, they’ve been browsing your website off-and-on for weeks now. They viewed nursing program pages, read outcome data, and compared tuition costs. Every visit left a trail of signals that…
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We Analyzed 700+ Higher Ed Recruitment Emails. Here’s What Students Actually Read.
I’ve been writing marketing emails for over a decade now, and I don’t think it ever gets easier. Between tech changes, privacy updates, AI slop, and everything in between, standing out in the noise means consistently adapting. So that’s what we do here at Capture: we keep analyzing our own work to see what’s still…
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Higher Ed Email Subject Lines That Actually Get Opened
Most colleges we meet with lately are complaining about the same thing: a tired playbook that quite literally results in them sending the exact same emails as their biggest competitors. And listen, I’m all for playbooks. If something works, do it. But if you and all of your competitors are sending the same emails, with the same subject…
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The Anti-Melt Campaigns Working Right Now (And the Numbers to Prove It)
A look inside four anti-melt campaigns Capture partners are running this summer — and what the live performance data tells us about reaching deposited students between May and August. Summer melt isn’t a mystery anymore. We know roughly when it happens (late May through mid-August), we know who’s at risk (deposited students who go quiet),…
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The Netflix Effect in Higher Ed: Why Students Expect Personalization Earlier than Ever in Recruitment
The person I am is very different than the person Netflix thinks I am. And I think that’s worth noting. Netflix doesn’t care that I’m a thirty-something mom who loves yoga and baking. To Netflix, I’m just someone who watches Rom-Coms and crime documentaries. It doesn’t know me. It knows my behavior. And it uses…
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What Is the Dark Funnel in College Admissions?
There’s a version of your enrollment funnel you can see: inquiry forms submitted, emails opened, campus visit registrations, application starts. You track it, report on it, act on it, and optimize around it. This is how teams have operated…well, forever really. But what happens when you’re only making decisions and actions around what you can…
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5 Ways to Use Behavioral Intelligence to Improve Spring Travel
“Our counselors are on campus too much. They need to get out and travel.” That’s one of the most common concerns I’ve heard from VPs and Directors of Enrollment over the past few months. It’s a symptom of a the bigger problem: Counselors are often bogged down with administrative tasks, emails from prospects and their families, and routine follow-ups, leaving little time or energy for…