Athena Career Academy

Before partnering with Neon Goldfish, Athena had a traditional brochure website. It displayed all the healthcare programs they offered but didn’t have a way to collect information from visitors if they weren’t ready to attend classes in the near future. Now they have multiple conversion opportunities displayed throughout the website. Which means conversion rates have increased and more leads are being collected and entered into the platform on a consistent basis.

We established a goal of increasing website traffic and quickly noticed an opportunity to do so through the Athena blog. We designed a content marketing strategy that connected directly with their potential students. We began publishing new blog posts on a weekly basis, and quickly saw an increase in the overall traffic. After the first year of consistent blogging, the Athena blog saw an increase of nearly 6x in blog traffic. The new visitors were not just reading the blog posts, the traffic to the homepage also experienced an increase of over 278%.

Athena wanted a way to connect with the new visitors they were getting to the website prior to visiting the school. We created multiple automated workflows to help nurture potential students through the buying cycle. Each workflow was designed to fit where the potential student is in the buyers’ journey. Then once they reach the bottom of the funnel, they are passed off to the admissions staff to schedule a school visit. The workflows have helped admissions staff gain insight on how the lead has interacted prior to scheduling a school visit.

The overall goal of increasing traffic has led to a boost in leads and enrolled students for Athena.