Digital Marketing

How Semantic Optimisation helped this Private University 12x its sales to $240k/ MONTH.

Caleb Sim, CEO, GENIA

We all want more leads and sales in our business.

More sales don’t just mean more money. It means less stress and increased happiness.

It means more control in your business and life, more freedom in every decision.

Life sucks if you don’t know where your next sale is coming from, or worse, where your next lead is coming from.

You cannot think about scaling because you’re stuck in survival mode.

You cannot focus on providing quality service because you’re worried about sales.

Auston was in that place.

After studying SEO on their own, engaging marketing agencies and burning thousands of dollars trying to crack the lead code, they had 6 people, SIX, contacting them through their website for their engineering degrees monthly.

That’s about one lead every five days.

As bad as it sounds, it’s still better than many of you guys, with not even a single lead coming from your website.

Auston’s big problem

Auston is competing in a space that is extremely, extremely competitive.

Their products are expensive – $20k degree programmes.

Degree programmes are a huge commitment for any buyer – 16 months course
– Twice Weekly
– Assignments
– Exams

This is the toughest thing under the sun to sell.

If selling mission impossible isn’t difficult enough, they’re fighting against public and private universities with massive budgets to splurge on all forms of marketing, including SEO.

Even though they offer a better education than their competitors, they were not growing as they should.

Beating the competition

Knowing the giants that we’re up against, we had to be very strategic and choose the right battles.

There’s no point in going for keywords that we have no realistic chance of getting on the first page.

Using our proprietary Semantic Gap Analysis, we identified keywords where the competition was lacking in either their content or their backlinks.

Based on the data gathered from the analysis, we produced better content than what was available to Google and acquired links that search engines trusted.

Reaping the rewards

https://auston.edu.sg became the domain that Google trusted, the domain that Google displays when people search for anything related to engineering degrees.

916 monthly users became 1150, 6 leads became 36, a 6x increase, all in just four months.

The story doesn’t end there.

1150 monthly users became 2300, and 36 leads became 72, which is a 12x increase from when we started. All these happened in just 9 months

According to Michael, the owner of the school, they convert 1 out of 6 leads, or 12 out of the 72 leads they receive monthly.

12 x $20,000 = $240,000.

That’s $240,000 in monthly sales from their website.

Auston may have 99 problems but traffic, leads and sales aren’t one of them.

If you’re tired of wondering where the next sale is coming from and are ready to scale your business, book a call here: https://calendly.com/calebsimm/growth-strategy

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