As we near the end of November, conference season has come to a close and our eyes and efforts turn to impending new year. In this month’s update, we bring you a NAFSA regional recap, along with the exciting announcement of the winners in our 13th annual Travel Video Contest. We will also introduce you to new International Student team members and our latest school partnership, Southern Indiana University. There’s a lot to do before 2018 wraps up, and this month’s newsletter is full of details on what we’re working on as the holidays approach. Please dive in, and we’ll see you in December!
Happy Recruiting!
The InternationalStudent.com Team
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November Edition - Issue #25
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The 2018 Travel Video Contest Winners
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Every year InternationalStudent.com spearheads our Travel Video Contest for students who have dreams of pursuing their international education. As a result, we receive submissions from all over the world that are heartfelt and truly inspiring. Suitably, we reserve our announcement of the winners to be revealed at the end of International Education Week, in order to close it out with a bang. Without further ado, we are pleased to announce that the 2018 winners are:
We’re already looking forward to this contest again next year, and hope to see a few of your international students as contestants!
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Help When Using Email Marketing in your Recruitment Strategy
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The NAFSA regional conferences have come to an end but that doesn’t mean access to our session presentations have as well. This year we attended and presented at ten of the eleven regionals on developing an email communications plan to recruit international students. Within our sessions, we covered topics including:
- Knowing your audience so you can tailor your message
- Creating a remarkable subject line to entice opens
- Using engaging and relevant content to move students through the admissions funnel
- Tracking and testing to ensure maximum delivery and results
If you could use help when it comes to your email marketing strategy, contact us about our email lead nurturing package add-on or our free guide to using email marketing in your recruitment strategy.
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 Phu Nguyen is an alumnus to the University of South Florida in Tampa, and Florida International University in Miami, with Bachelors of the Arts in both Communications and English Education. A freelance writer for over a decade, her portfolio includes working with Nokia, the Georgia Aquarium, and articles in major online publications such as The Huffington Post. After spending 10 years in Miami, she relocated to Jacksonville Beach. Phu joins us as International Student’s Content and Digital Marketing Specialist.
 Wini Puglielli is a graduate of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville with a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. She was born in Brazil and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 3 years old and this year officially became a United States citizen. Spending most of her youth in South Florida, she moved to Jacksonville in 2011. Wini has been in sales for the last 3 years of her career, and joins the team as Sales Executive for InternationalStudent.com. If you’re going to ICEF, make sure to meet Wini in Miami!
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In further news, we are excited to announce our new partnership with the University of Southern Indiana! They have a desire to recruit more international students to their school, and we look forward to sending them leads for new students. Welcome aboard!
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- ICEF North America, December 10-12, Miami Beach, FL
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