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Enrolments, not impressions
We report on the number your board asks about. If a campaign produced eleven million impressions and forty enquiries, we will lead with the forty.
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A small agency that only does education
We work with universities, colleges, institutes and training providers, and we do not take work outside the sector — which is a commercial decision as much as a principled one.
Why only education
Because the calendar is the whole job
A generalist agency can run good ads for you. What it usually cannot do is tell you that your August budget is three weeks too late, that your course page is losing people at the fee table, or that the enquiry form your student system requires is the single biggest leak in the funnel.
Those things are not clever. They are just what you learn by working in one sector until its particular failure modes become obvious. We would rather know one industry properly than five approximately.
How we operate
Four things we will not bend on
Every agency has values on a page somewhere. These are the four that will actually change what it is like to work with us.
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Say the target out loud
Every plan carries a cost per enquiry we have agreed to in advance. It makes the monthly review a short conversation, including the months it goes badly.
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The people you meet do the work
The person in the pitch is the person in your ad account. We stay small specifically so that stays true, which does cap how many clients we can take.
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We will say when it is not marketing
Sometimes the problem is the course, the price, the campus or a three-day reply time on enquiries. Selling you a campaign instead would be the easy thing and the wrong one.
Early clients
What being early is worth
Clients who come in early get terms we will not be able to offer once the book fills up. Here is exactly what that means, and what we ask in return.
- Early-client rates, held for twenty-four months
- A paid pilot on one course or faculty instead of a full retainer
- A ninety-day exit clause, no argument
- One named contact, who does the work themselves
- The audit findings, yours to keep either way
- Permission to write the work up as a case study, with your approval on every word
- A reference call with one comparable institution, once results justify it
- Honest feedback, early, including when you are unhappy
Get in touch
Tell us which courses are not filling
One call, no deck. We will ask what your last intake looked like and tell you honestly whether we think we can move it.