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Education Advertising

Ad Spend Traced to Inquiries

Education advertising for schools and training programs, timed to application deadlines and measured to the inquiries and tours each campaign produces. I make no promises about enrollment, only about what I can trace.

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Education Advertising: Three Quotible social posts built from customer testimonials

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UFC
Caesars
Churchill Downs
Neighborly
Supercuts
City of Las Vegas
SDMI
Switch
Silverton
Panda Express
TAO
Ellie Mental Health
Dollar Loan Center
.Vegas Domains
HFC
Lithion Battery

Why School Ad Spend Goes Untraced

Spend with no line to enrollment

A school usually buys ads in bursts: a search campaign before an open house, a social campaign before a deadline, a print piece for a fair. Each burst reports clicks and form fills. The report ends before the tour, and the tour ends before the application, so the admissions team cannot say which burst filled a seat.

The result is spend that continues because stopping feels riskier than continuing. The owner has no number that says what a campaign produced, only a number that says how many people saw it.

GIOSTAR brand hub, a system I built

How I Plan Education Campaigns

Backward from each deadline

I plan each campaign backward from the application deadline and the start date it serves. A program that starts in one term needs its campaign running weeks before the deadline, and a campaign that runs after the deadline only produces inquiries that cannot enroll in time. Each campaign gets a start date, an end date and a tracked path to the application.

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  • A campaign calendar built from each intake and deadline
  • A tracked link or number on every ad, so each inquiry carries its source
  • A landing page for each program, not a general school page
  • A request path that books a tour or starts an application
  • A review of inquiry quality each week during the campaign

Enrollment Season Campaign Calendar

Timing each campaign to the term

Different programs need different timing. A short certificate that starts in six weeks needs a campaign that runs in the two weeks before that start, while a degree program with a long decision needs one that begins months earlier. The table shows how each campaign type lines up with the enrollment calendar.
Campaign typeWhen it runsWhat it tracks
Search for a named programAhead of each intake deadlineInquiries and tours by program
Open house promotionTwo to four weeks before the eventEvent registrations and attendance
Retargeting for visitorsAfter a program page visit, for a set windowReturn visits and tour bookings
Social campaign for an audienceDuring the active enrollment periodInquiries from the post or ad
Print or fair follow-upIn the weeks after the eventInquiries that name the event

Inquiry Quality Review for Schools

Checking inquiries before the budget moves

An inquiry is not an enrollment. I read the inquiries each week during a campaign and sort them by fit: the program they asked about, whether they meet the entry requirements, and whether they reached a tour. A campaign that brings many inquiries from people who cannot enroll is a campaign to change, not one to celebrate.

The review sends the admissions team a short list each week, with the search terms, the ad groups and the audiences that produced the poor fits, so the change can be made the same week.

GIOSTAR homepage, a website I built

Advertising Rules for Schools

Claims and audiences need care

Schools advertise under rules that marketing has to respect. Claims about accreditation, licensing, outcomes and placement have to be true and supportable, and the school's leadership and counsel decide which claims it may make. Ad platforms also review education and training ads and restrict some programs and claims, so each campaign is checked against the current policy before it runs.

Student records are protected under FERPA, and children under 13 are covered by COPPA. Ads do not target enrolled students or minors, and no student record goes into an ad audience. These are marketing considerations, and whether a claim or an audience is lawful is the school's counsel's call.

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Platforms That Fit Program Ads

Where each ad type lives

Search ads reach people who already want a program. Social ads reach people who may not know the school yet, and they need a clearer offer and a stronger reason to click. Maps and listing ads reach families who are nearby and ready to visit. I choose the channel from the decision the family is making, not from the channel the vendor prefers.

WebVegas homepage, a website I built
  • Search ads for named programs and intake deadlines
  • Social ads for open houses and information sessions
  • Maps and listing ads for campus visits
  • Retargeting limited to adults who visited a program page
  • Email to inquiries who asked for more information

Closest Education Ad Work I Have

No school campaign claimed

I do not have a school or training program campaign to show you, and I will not claim one. The closest work in the portfolio is brand and content work for other clients, and the closest web design work is my own WebVegas brand, which is not a school. What I bring to an education campaign is the method: a dated calendar, tracked inquiries and a weekly quality review.

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Builds I Can Show You

Work I built, live where you can check it

Every build below is real and every link goes to the live work. Two of the five are full websites I built and still run. The other three are brand and content work, two of them for sites that are in build now, and each card says which.
Three Quotible social posts built from customer testimonials

Social content system

Quotible: a testimonial-led social series

For Quotible I built a social content system that turns real customer testimonials into on-brand posts and carousels.

Portfolio Examples

More of the work

The rest of the range, with what each one was and a link wherever the work is live.
GIOSTAR services page at giostarwellness.com, a website I built for a Henderson clinic

Website build · Henderson

GIOSTAR: the clinic website, booking and lead tracking

See the live site

WebVegas homepage at webvegas.io with its four-step booking form

Website build · Las Vegas

WebVegas: a Las Vegas web design brand and its booking funnel

See the live site

Desert Inn Oasis logo lockup with a palm and serif lettering

Brand mark · Event venue

Desert Inn Oasis: the refined mark and the plan for the new site

Site in build

Mili Pharma horizontal logo lockup with the butterfly mark

Brand identity · Pharma

Mili Pharma: the butterfly mark and the lockups

Site in build

Reviews From Google

What clients wrote on Google

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    Kristen S. · Google

  • ★★★★★
    Justin joined our team a few months before opening to replace a marketing agency that wasn’t performing. He stepped up fast. Within weeks he launched a fully redesigned website with new brand guidelines, built and delivered our marketing plan and AI strategy, and helped implement our system architecture so we could open on time. Since then, he’s made several critical enhancements to the site that helped us generate revenue in our first month. His engagement was supposed to end at opening, but he became such an integral part of our leadership team that we kept him on to help evolve our marketing and tech strategy as we grow. He’s easy to work with, pushes back when it matters, and moves easily between strategy, delivery, and operations depending on what’s needed. If you’re looking for a deeply experienced, knowledgeable, and dedicated marketing, AI, or technology consultant, I highly recommend Justin Harris AI Consulting.

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    Working with Justin is always a pleasure. He is professional, trustworthy, and consistently delivers outstanding results. As a longtime Las Vegas local, he has an exceptional knowledge of the territory and truly understands the market. I highly recommend his services to anyone who is serious about growing their business!

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    From what I've seen, Justin knows the AI automation space better than most people I've come across in Las Vegas. He's the kind of person who actually understands the technical side and can explain it without making you feel lost. Good guy, good reputation.

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    After going back and forth on whether to bring in outside help, we reached out to Justin for some AI consulting advice on where our service business could actually use automation. He was straightforward about what made sense and what didn't. Ended up being a useful conversation. Las Vegas has no shortage of people claiming to be experts, and he's one of the few who could back it up.

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    Known Justin for a few years now and the guy actually knows his stuff when it comes to AI automation. Friends in the Las Vegas service business space keep asking me who to call and I always point them his way.

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    Known Justin for a many years and the guy actually knows what he's talking about when it comes to AI and automation. Not the type to just throw buzzwords around. Based in Las Vegas and well connected in the space. …

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    Known Justin for a few years now. Guy knows the AI space better than most people I've come across, especially here in Las Vegas where there's no shortage of people claiming to be experts. He actually understands how AI automation works at a practical level, not just the theory. The kind of person who gives you a straight answer with kindness and patience

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    Knew Justin before he started building AI systems for businesses, and watching what he's put together is genuinely impressive. He built out an AI automation setup for my website in Las Vegas and it changed how we handle leads completely. The guy actually runs this stuff himself, so he knows what works.

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Related Education Pages

Where ads and pages meet

Ads send families to pages, so the campaign and the site are planned together. These pages cover the parts of the path that sit beside advertising.

Education Ad Readout

The monthly campaign report

Every line can be checked against the inquiry log and the enrollment records. I report on tours booked and applications started by campaign, not on impressions.

GIOSTAR brand hub, a system I built
  • Inquiries by campaign, program and channel
  • Inquiry quality by fit, with the reasons for poor fits
  • Tours booked and held, by campaign
  • Applications started, by program and source
  • Campaigns paused or changed, and the reason
  • One recommendation for the next intake, with the reason

How Education Advertising Runs

Plan, launch, review, adjust

  1. Step 01

    Map the intake calendar

    I list each program's intake dates, deadlines and open houses, then build the campaign calendar backward from them.

  2. Step 02

    Set up the tracking first

    Tracked links, call numbers and the source field go in before any ad runs, so each inquiry carries its origin.

  3. Step 03

    Launch after policy checks

    Each ad is checked against the platform policy and the school's claim list before it goes live.

  4. Step 04

    Review inquiry fit weekly

    Each week I sort the inquiries by fit and send the admissions team the changes the poor fits point to.

  5. Step 05

    Close the season with a readout

    At the end of the campaign I send the full readout, from inquiry to enrollment, and the recommendation for the next season.

What Moves an Education Ad Quote

Scope, not a price list

I quote a fixed price for a written scope after I have looked at your programs, your intake calendar and your inquiry path. A school running two campaigns a year is a different job from one running a campaign for each intake across several campuses. These are the factors that move the number, so you can judge any quote, mine included.

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  • How many programs and intake dates each year
  • How many channels and campaigns run in each season
  • Ad creative the school can supply, and how much I need to produce
  • Connections to the inquiry system or the enrollment record
  • Reporting depth, from a monthly readout to a full inquiry funnel

Education Advertising Questions

Answers before you hire me

Straight answers to what owners ask me before they hire me. If yours is not here, ask it on a call.

Who Does the Education Advertising Work

One person from plan to readout

I am Justin Harris. I have built websites and run digital marketing for Las Vegas businesses for fourteen years, and I still do the work myself. When you hire me, you talk to the person who plans the calendar, checks the ads and reads the inquiries. There is no hand-off to a junior team in the middle.

You own the domain, the hosting and every login, and your team can pause a campaign or change an intake date without calling me.

GIOSTAR homepage, a website I built

Free Education Ad Review

A written read of the inquiry path

Send me your intake calendar, your current ads and a recent inquiry log, and I will reply with the tracking gaps I would close first.