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One intake window, and no room to be late
A provider with genuinely good outcomes, communicated badly, running a spiky enrollment calendar where a missed window means a missed cohort. Cost per enrollment had been creeping up while admissions struggled to follow up fast enough during the peak.
Working backwards from the deadline
Everything was planned from the intake date backwards: awareness far enough ahead that consideration had time to happen, decision-stage campaigns concentrated where they mattered, and creative produced before the peak rather than during it. Prospective students and parents research for weeks and compare several providers, so one touch was never going to be enough. Nurture across email and messaging ran the whole way through, with the programme outcomes stated plainly rather than implied.
The capacity constraint
The honest finding in cases like this is often that marketing is not the bottleneck. Admissions response time during the peak was, and no amount of additional spend would have fixed it — it would only have made the queue longer.
What we measured
- Cost per enrollment, not cost per enquiry
- Applications by week against the intake deadline
- Admissions response time during peak weeks
- Nurture-influenced enrollments, across the full research window
The fastest lever is usually paid. It is a much better lever when the follow-up behind it can keep up.
See how we run media buyingProject Information
Client
Composite, not a named client
Scope
Media Buying · Lifecycle & Retention
Category
Education & Training
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