Case study · Growth

From provincial, to international.

Ontario Education Online had never run a digital marketing program. Seven months after launching its first one with Marked, a provincial course provider was selling to students worldwide.

+548%REVENUE
YEAR OVER YEAR
CLIENT
Ontario Education Online
INDUSTRY
Education · Online learning
SERVICES
Digital marketing · Web builds · AI optimization
TIMELINE
Since Jan 2026
Scroll to the brief
/ 01 · The brief

What OEO needed.

A trusted Ontario course provider with no digital marketing to speak of, selling a product anyone in the world could buy. We set four objectives.

/ 01

Launch Digital Marketing

No campaigns, no tracking, no creative library. All three had to be built from scratch.

/ 02

Scale from Provincial to International

Reach students well outside Ontario while keeping the credibility the institution trades on at home.

/ 03

AI Optimization

Put AI into bidding, budget pacing and reporting so efficiency holds as spend grows.

/ 04

Increase Revenue

Turn traffic into enrolments, then reinvest the return so each quarter builds on the last.

/ 02 · The results

Seven months in.

REVENUE
+548%
Jan to Jul 2026 vs. 2025, all markets
ORDERS
+618%
Course enrolments, Jan to Jul 2026 vs. 2025
SESSIONS
+1.4K%
Sitewide traffic, year over year
QUALIFIED LEADS
+713%
Marketing-qualified, year over year
/ 03 · Revenue

Revenue up 548% in seven months.

The first campaigns went live in January, the course pages were rebuilt through the spring, and AI optimization went on top of both. By July, monthly revenue was running at 6.5 times its pre-engagement baseline.

Online revenue, indexed. Engagement start = 100JUL 2025 TO JUL 2026
200400600ENGAGEMENT BEGINSINDEX 100+548%JUL '25JAN '26JUL '26
/ 04 · Traffic

Sessions up 1,400% YoY.

Paid search and social opened the new markets. Organic and email keep compounding them. International traffic went from 4% of sessions to the majority inside seven months.

Sessions by market
INTERNATIONAL57%
CANADA43%
INTERNATIONAL SHARE AT ENGAGEMENT START: 4%
Sessions by channel, share of total
PAID SEARCH38% · NEW CHANNEL
PAID SOCIAL24% · NEW CHANNEL
ORGANIC21% · +310% YOY
EMAIL & SMS10% · +540% YOY
DIRECT7% · +96% YOY
/ 05 · The stack

14 platforms. One system.

All of it wired together, so a dollar of media, a page build and an email report into the same view of growth.

Shopify
DTC commerce
Google Ads
Search & PMax
Meta Ads
Paid social
K
Klaviyo
Email & SMS
Google Analytics
Behavioral analytics
Google Tag Manager
Tag management
HubSpot
CRM & automation
Claude
LLM copilots
Semrush
Search intelligence
Hotjar
Behavior insights
Airtable
Ops database
n8n
Self-hosted automation
GitHub
Version control
VS
Visual Studio Code
Code editor
/ 06 · Shipped

26 page builds in seven months.

Every course launch, market and campaign got its own page, designed, shipped and instrumented by the same team.

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Homepage 2.0
CORE SITE
Enrol-first course page
TEMPLATE
Program finder
TOOL
Course catalogue
TEMPLATE
Summer school LP
CAMPAIGN
International students hub
MARKET
Student stories hub
CONTENT
+19
More pages
BEFORE / AFTER · COURSE PAGE REBUILD
BeforeAfter
DRAG TO COMPARE: LEGACY COURSE PAGE VS. REBUILT ENROL-FIRST TEMPLATE
/ 07 · How it ran

Diagnose. Engineer. Compound.

A system that keeps compounding rather than a campaign that ends. Three phases, and the third one is still running.

01

Diagnose

Q1 2026

A full-funnel audit across analytics, tracking, market sizing and keywords. It showed us where the demand already was, and what the site couldn't yet convert.

/TRACKING & ANALYTICS REBUILT
/MARKET + KEYWORD SIZING
/CONVERSION AUDIT
02

Engineer

Q2 2026

The brand's first paid media program went live, the course pages were rebuilt around enrolment, and AI went into bidding, budgets and reporting.

/FIRST PAID CAMPAIGNS LIVE
/COURSE PAGES REBUILT TO ENROL
/AI BIDDING + REPORTING WIRED
03

Compound

Q3 2026 →

We test weekly across pages, media and email, add markets each quarter, and put every win back into media.

/WEEKLY TEST CADENCE
/NEW MARKETS QUARTERLY
/WINS REINVESTED INTO MEDIA
Marked doesn't run campaigns for us, they run a system. Every quarter has built on the last, and international enrolment is now our biggest driver.
[CLIENT NAME] · DIRECTOR, ONTARIO EDUCATION ONLINE