Irish Expert Achieves 80% Increase in Conversion Rates

Sangeetha Sethumadhavan

“With LeadSquared in place, we can track end-to-end student journeys. Automation enables us to constantly build rapport with the students and make data-driven decisions on marketing campaigns and product pitches. All of this is based on quality insights from custom reports.”

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Lead Leakage

80%

Increase in Conversions

100%

More Calls Connected

Improved

Counsellor Productivity

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0.1%

Lead Leakage

80%

Increase in Conversions

100%

More Calls Connected

Improved

Counsellor Productivity

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About Irish Expert 

Irish Expert is a pan India study abroad consultancy helping students achieve their goals to study abroad in their dream university. They offer complete overseas education guidance—from admission, visa processing to post-landing services. They represent over 50 countries, 1000 universities, and 100,000+ courses abroad. 

When Sangeetha joined the organization, she already had a hands-on experience with various CRMs. Their CEO was already looking to implement a CRM for overseas education—because in-house systems and manual processes were time-consuming and lacked analytical capabilities.  

Challenges

1. Manual processes and disconnected in-house systems

Before LeadSquared, the student database was maintained in Excel and manually uploaded to an in-house system. This meant a lot of effort, human resources, and time was consumed in bringing the data to a centralized location.

2. No clear visibility on counsellor performance

Because the records were maintained manually, the management lacked visibility on how leads moved down the funnel. Counsellor records and data was the only source of information for them.

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“We were using an in-house CRM to manage and update leads. The counsellors had to upload manual updates and we couldn’t keep track of the follow-ups, email conversations, or send bulk messages.” 

Irish Expert Achieves 80% Increase in Conversion Rates

3. Inability to track student journeys

Communication with students was maintained on different platforms, and there was no way to track the conversations between counsellors and students.

4. Slower inquiry-to-response time

All incoming inquiries were qualified and distributed manually, which meant a lot of time had passed before the initial contact was made with the student. And the counsellor had minimal context before making the first call.

5. Missed follow-ups

Due to the sheer volume of incoming inquiries, calls not connected, and no answers, counsellors had to track their follow-ups manually. This meant a few queries would go cold due to non-follow-ups.

LeadSquared Helps Cut-down Manual Work

After implementing LeadSquared, the team at Irish Expert, now has a central database of incoming student inquiries, automated inquiry distribution, and omnichannel communication. 

  • Multi-source lead capture ensures less than 0.1% lead leakage across channels like Facebook, offline activities like seminars & flyers, website forms, and Google Ads. 
  • Automated distribution means counsellor can get in touch with students faster: Distribution logic is based on location, country of interest, course of study, and more. 
  • Student activity tracking facilitates counsellors to have context-driven conversations.  It involves monitoring activities like page and course views, forms submissions, etc., to enable tailored conversations. 
  • Marketing campaigns ensure that all leads, including cold leads and prospective students, are nurtured through emails and SMS messages to maintain their awareness of the service offerings. 
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“It is important to constantly stay in touch with your database—update them regularly about your products and services. These personalized messages help you create that relationship with prospects and help in getting more conversions. Thanks to LeadSquared we could automate these personalized nurture campaigns.” 

Irish Expert Achieves 80% Increase in Conversion Rates
  • The team can set up multiple custom automation like follow-up reminders and call backs to help counsellors stay on top of student inquiries. This ensures zero missed follow-ups for the generated inquiries. 

LeadSquared Brings Order to the Chaos

With records and conversations being maintained offline, managers couldn’t track and extract quality insights that helped convert the student faster. 

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“Our offices are located pan-India and the teams connect remotely. The understanding how each team performed, tracking progress, and taking informed decisions was lacking without a CRM in place.” 

Irish Expert Achieves 80% Increase in Conversion Rates

After LeadSquared, all processes and updates are being maintained on the CRM, thus helping the team to understand the messaging, pitches, and conversations that works for them.  

  • Call recording in general helps improve efficacy of conversations. Maintaining them online empowers the team to train and guide counsellors on what works best for the student. 
  • Smart views allow counselors to prioritize leads by creating individualized views for various lead stages. This enables counselors to efficiently organize and manage their daily tasks and activities. 
  • With Click-to-call being implemented, each counsellor is now able to reach out to more students every day, increasing their per day call numbers.  
  • With the help of advanced analytics and reports the visibility across lead stages has improved. This helps the team optimally use marketing spends and justify its ROIs.  
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LeadSquared has made it easy for me to justify marketing ROIs based on advanced dashboards on leads generated, follow-ups, and conversions.” 

Irish Expert Achieves 80% Increase in Conversion Rates

How LeadSquared Helped Streamline Processes 

With LeadSquared in place, right from inquiry capture to follow-up, the process got more organized and streamlined. 

The counsellors now have smart views to prioritize inquiries and with automated distribution student response times have gotten faster. Marketing teams are now able to segment and nurture cold & prospective leads. The management too has gained end-to-end visibility into marketing spends, counsellor performance, and student progression. 

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