SMS for Higher Education
Graduate Your Communications to Texting.
Students always seem to be glued to their phones, but they rarely respond to your emails. Not surprisingly, text messages are almost five times more likely to be read than email. This is why more universities are turning to texting as their key channel for connecting with their students. Trumpia goes beyond simple mass text announcements and offers industry-leading automation and engagement tools that will help universities communicate through the entire college experience - from the application process and student engagement to job placement and alumni follow-up and fundraising.
HIGHER EDUCATION BROCHURE
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Communicating effectively with your students is crucial for any school, but often students receive so many messages that they become victim to message fatigue. Our unique smart targeting solution allows you to intelligently segment specific groups of students in order to send them timely and relevant messages. Need to send a reminder text to all of your sophomore engineering majors to sign up for summer internships? Using dynamic targets you can easily reach your desired audience, and avoid sending irrelevant messages to the rest of your student body.
With landline texting, faculty, administrators, and counselors can exchange text messages with students directly from a web-based inbox. This allows them to have multiple threaded text conversations with students without having to use their personal phone number. As an added bonus, students will appreciate not having to set up appointments in order to get their simple questions answered.
While text messaging is certainly the most effective form of communication, we offer you a complete omni-channel solution to communicate with your staff and students. With email, SMS, social media, and voice notifications you can be sure that your messages get through to your students and staff via the channel they prefer.
Solicit donations from alumni by running text-to-donate campaigns using mobile keywords, allowing you to keep their contact information up-to-date and generate more contributions. Reach out to specific groups of alumni based off of their interests or past involvement in your programs. For example, if an alumni indicates that they were a former university athlete, you can let them know when games and fundraisers are scheduled for your athletic teams. When you send out text-to-donate messages, you can use click through tracking to see who clicked your link and made a donation. For those who have not yet made a contribution, you can send out a reminder text, increasing the likelihood of a donation.
Our software can take on repetitive chores for you, like gathering more information about prospective students. Set a condition, and when it’s met, our software automatically carries out a preset action. Our platform has unique response-based automation that can branch according to the responder’s choice, allowing you to answer frequently asked questions like deadlines or academic calendar information automatically. Plus our powerful API and Zapier integrations can make sure your systems are enabled to send SMS messages to students and staff seamlessly.
Keep Your Campus Community Safe
During a crisis, we offer a powerful and convenient Yes/No question feature that allows students and staff to indicate whether they are safe or not. Your administration can then follow up with those who indicate they are in danger. For example, your administration would send an alert to students and staff, and ask if they’re on campus:
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1. For those who reply “No”, they would automatically be told to stay away from campus, and be sent updates. If they reply “Yes”, they would instantly be asked where they are on campus.
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2. Based on their response, they would be sent a list of the buildings in that area and asked which one they’re in.
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3. Based on that answer, they would be sent the specific building’s evacuation route.
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4. Replies would also be updated in our system instantly, so evacuation personnel can get a good idea where and roughly how many people are in each building.
The Trumpia Lifecycle Advantage
1.Create a mobile keyword for prospective students and advertise online, in print, and at college fairs to generate interest in your school.
2.Collect demographic information about your prospective students as well as their interests and prospective major.
3.Send registration and deadline information to students to foster engagement and secure more applications.
4.Send relevant scholarships to prospective and current students based on their background and major.
5.Answer questions from prospective and current students by engaging in two-way landline texting from one inbox.
6.Solicit feedback from current students and alumni quickly and easily using SMS surveys.
7.Secure more donations from alumni by sending them relevant fundraising opportunities based on their academic major or campus involvement.
Beyond Mass Texting: Integrated Communications
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Automation