Online education and EdTech companies · Education
Turn the demo class into a paid enrolment before the parent or learner tries a rival.
For example, a parent in Hubballi watches a free Class 9 maths lesson on YouTube on Sunday evening, fills a form for the demo, and gets a call from a counsellor on Tuesday. By then two other apps have already phoned. The family pays the one that sounded like it understood the board, the school and the child's weak chapter.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
In one paragraph
EdTech marketing means being the online course, test-prep programme or learning app that a student, parent or working professional finds and trusts before paying. EdTech sales turns a demo booking into an enrolment. GullySales records every enquiry by source and course, and sets up the follow-up for the learner who attended a demo class and then went quiet.
Running Meta and Google Ads for the whole catalogue brings forms, not enrolments. The form goes to a counsellor who is also chasing last week's forms, and the demo no-shows are never called again. Paid traffic is only as good as the first call, the demo class and the follow-up after it.
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How buyers decide
How online education and EdTech companies are chosen.
For school-age courses and exam preparation, the parent holds the wallet and the student holds the veto. The parent searches by board and class, checks who teaches, asks other parents on school WhatsApp groups, and books a demo. The student's reaction to the demo class often decides it.
A working professional is one person comparing a course against YouTube, a rival bootcamp and their own free time. They look for the syllabus, the schedule, who the instructors are, whether classes are recorded and what the refund terms say. Fee instalments and EMI options matter at the last step.
Corporate learning is bought by an HR or L&D head with a budget approved for the year. They ask for a pilot batch, a sample session and references from other companies before going to a purchase committee.
The problem
What usually goes wrong for online education and EdTech companies.
What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.
“Our forms are filled but nobody enrols”
Leads from Meta and Google Ads reach a counsellor who calls late or once, and the learner has already booked a demo elsewhere.
“Half the demo class bookings do not show up”
Nobody reminds the learner on WhatsApp the evening before, and nobody calls the no-show to rebook.
“We cannot say which course or campaign brought a paid student”
Enquiries sit in a spreadsheet by name, with no course, source or counsellor against them, so the next month's ad budget is a guess.
“Our reviews are on the app store, not where parents look”
A parent searching for the programme finds a thin Google listing, a refund complaint on a forum and no recent student reviews.
“Our brand searches show a competitor first”
People typing our course name to compare fees land on an aggregator page or a rival's ad before they reach us.
“Counsellors push the fee, parents feel pressured”
A hard close on the first call produces a refund request or a public complaint, which costs more than the lost sale.
What we do
What we do for online education and EdTech companies.
Everything included for online education and EdTech companies, and the result each part is there to produce.
Course pages built around the buyer's questions
One page per course or exam, with the syllabus, class timings, recording policy, instructor profiles and a plain fee and instalment section.
Result: The decision to book a demo can be made at night, without waiting for a callback.
A demo-to-enrolment follow-up routine
A defined path for the booking, the reminder, the demo, the call after it and the quote, with a named counsellor at each step.
Result: The call after a demo comes from someone who knows what was taught in it.
Counsellor call and WhatsApp scripts
Opening questions, answers to the fee and refund questions, and a rule for what a counsellor never promises about marks, ranks or jobs.
Result: Every counsellor gives the same honest answer on fees and refunds.
Enquiry record by course and source
Every form, call, WhatsApp message and campus visit logged against a course, a source and a counsellor in one record.
Result: You can see which campaign produced a paid student, not just a form.
Search and social campaigns by course
Google search campaigns for exam and course terms and Meta campaigns for parents, each landing on its own course page with a demo form.
Result: Spend reaches the batches that have seats open.
Review and referral setup
A Google Business Profile, a review ask after a good class, and a referral path for parents and alumni, all within each platform's rules.
Result: Recent, real reviews are there when two platforms are being compared.
Report against your enrolment baseline
Enquiries, demo attendance, enrolments and counsellor reply time reported by course against the baseline recorded at the start.
Result: Each course head sees their own numbers.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries by course and source
- Demo bookings and demo attendance
- Counsellor first-reply time
- Demo-to-enrolment conversion by course
- Reasons given for not enrolling
- Referral enrolments by source person
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Every service, written for online education and EdTech companies
Each has its own page: what it involves for online education and EdTech companies, what you get, and what it is measured on.
- SEOBe the course page a learner finds when they search for the skill or the exam.
- Local SEOShow up on Maps for the learning centre, and be honest about the classes that are online.
- Google AdsPay only for the searches that lead to a demo class, and stop paying for free-course hunters.
- Reputation managementAnswer the refund complaint in public, and fix the call that caused it.
- Content marketingAnswer the doubts a learner has before paying, in a lesson they can watch or read.
- Social media marketingPost where your learner already watches, and ask them for one thing: a demo booking.
- WhatsApp marketingRemind the learner about tonight's demo class on the app they already open.
- Referral marketingLet one happy learner bring in a colleague, and record who sent whom.
- Follow-up systemsCall the learner who attended the demo class, not just the one who filled the form.
- Buyer journeyKnow where the parent or learner stands at each step, and what they need to see next.
Worth a page and a campaign of their own
Demo class and free trial booking · A page for each course, with syllabus, schedule and instructor · Fee, instalment and EMI explanation · Exam-specific batches for aspirants · Parent counselling calls for school-age courses · Working-professional weekend and recorded-class batches · Corporate training pilots for HR and L&D heads · Alumni and student referral programme · Scholarship test enquiry handling
Priority campaigns
Campaigns for what online education and EdTech companies most want to sell.
Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.
Exam batch launch campaign
A page, a search campaign and a WhatsApp reminder path built around the start of a new JEE, NEET or banking batch, with a scholarship test as the entry point.
Result: Aspirants who search for the exam reach a batch page with an open seat.
Demo class attendance campaign
Reminders, a joining link that works on a phone and a call to every no-show, so a booked demo becomes an attended one.
Result: More booked learners actually sit the demo class.
Working-professional weekend batch campaign
LinkedIn and search campaigns for a course taught on weekends, with the schedule, recording policy and fee instalments on the first screen.
Result: A busy professional sees at once whether the course fits their week.
Parent trust campaign for K-12 tutoring
Instructor introductions, a sample lesson and a parent counselling call, with school-board names used for matching, not as claims of affiliation.
Result: A parent meets the teacher before paying.
Corporate training pilot campaign
A sample session and a one-page outline aimed at HR and L&D heads of companies in a city or industrial area.
Result: An L&D head can take a pilot to a purchase committee.
Beyond search
Where we reach buyers of online education and EdTech companies, beyond Google.
Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.
Search and YouTube
Learners search for a course or a chapter and watch a free lesson before they enquire. A strong lesson on YouTube leads to a demo page.
Parents' WhatsApp groups and school networks
For K-12 courses, a parent's choice is shaped by what other parents say. Referral and sample-class material is built to be forwarded.
Alumni and student ambassadors
Past learners recommend a course to colleagues and juniors, and each referral is recorded against the person who sent it.
Colleges, coaching centres and teachers
Professors, school teachers and placement cell heads recommend courses to students. A short guide for them is easier to pass on than a brochure.
Employers and HR heads
Corporate training is sold to HR and L&D heads through direct outreach, LinkedIn and a sample session.
Who it is for
This is written for these online education and EdTech companies.
- Test-prep and exam coaching platforms (JEE, NEET, UPSC, banking, CA)
- K-12 live tutoring and doubt-solving apps
- Upskilling and job-oriented course providers
- Coding and data bootcamps
- Spoken English and language-learning apps
- Corporate training and L&D providers
- Skill and vocational course platforms
- Learning management system and school software vendors
- Hybrid providers with both online batches and a learning centre
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the work runs for online education and EdTech companies
- 1
Audit the funnel
We trace last quarter's paid students back through the demo, the counsellor call and the original source, and see where learners dropped out.
- 2
Fix the first reply
A named owner and a routine for every form, call and WhatsApp message, including evenings and Sundays, when learners are free.
- 3
Build the course pages
One page per course or exam, with the questions a parent or professional asks written in plain words.
- 4
Bring enquiries in
Search, YouTube, Meta and referral channels set up by course, each landing on its own page and recorded by source.
- 5
Follow up and retain
Demo reminders, quote follow-up, reactivation of lapsed learners and a review ask after a good class.
Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Engagement options
Ways to work with us.
Pick the size of commitment that fits. Every option starts with your brief and a conversation.
Option 1
The conversation on its own
A call after you send your brief. It says honestly whether you need outside help, and many fixes are ones your own team can make.
Option 2
One fix, scoped
Start with the fix that matters most, such as reply time or follow-up. The fee is in writing before anything starts.
Option 3
An ongoing programme
We run the work, report against the baseline, and you renew on the numbers. The term and the reporting are agreed in writing first.
Option 4
Guidance for your own team or agency
We plan, brief and check the work of your in-house team or current agency, instead of replacing them.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions online education and EdTech companies ask before they call.
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Why do we get many enquiries but few paid students?
Can you advertise our placement or result figures?
Do you work with apps that have no physical centre?
Can you set up reminders for demo classes on WhatsApp?
Do you handle marketing aimed at children?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
Part of Education. See the other industries in the sector.
Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.