The British International School of Houston is a premium private K-12 located in one of Houston's suburbs. Because of its location away from the center of wealth, Houston's heavy traffic, and it's location in a suburb away from main roads or highways, BIS Houston was known as one of Houston's best kept secrets but had reached a plateau in its growth. In addition, as a premium private school, BIS Houston also has 2 or 3 competitors that are located closer to the center of wealth within Houston that have comparable tuition rates (averaging $24,000/year per child).

The challenge with this client was to achieve a 30% + improvement on the ROAS compared to the previous 6-12 months. With limited content and no budget for new creatives.

Upon starting new management for any new brand, I find that after an audit there are several key changes that need to be made including structure, creative, and targeting. This was the case for SITM. They sell crazy fun socks but they were targeting crew socks, knee high socks etc. Along with restructuring their campaigns,

The client wanted to work with top portrait photographers for their new phone campaign. This was to position themselves as the top camera phone in the industry. They had very particular requirements on the chosen photographer so finding the right person was the first challenge. The second was managing the high profile talent and the client to achieve an outcome with the content that both parties were happy with. The timeline was extremely tight, particularly for such a high profile photographer with a busy schedule. Their target was to get high PR attention.

The budget included 3 other smaller but well known photographers who also created content around the same theme. We also had a gifting portion of the campaign where I sent the phones to small semi-professional photographers to create their own portraits. This was all to create buzz in the photography industry. This all had to be done beginning to end in about a month which is very tight.