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Studies in Overseas (SIO)

Students comparing four consultants at once — the site had to answer more and ask less.

Industry
Overseas Education
Services
3 delivered
Live site
studiesinoverseas.com
  • WordPress Build
  • Google PPC
  • Meta Lead Gen
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Studies in Overseas (SIO) — project screenshot

+64%

Verified leads per month

Phone-verified, not raw form fills

Under 15 min

Automated first response

Was next working day

5

Destination guides

Country pages with cost and process detail

-22%

Cost per verified lead

After campaign restructure

Overview

What Studies in Overseas (SIO) came to us with

Studies in Overseas advises students applying to universities abroad, a market where prospects contact several consultants in one evening and judge each on credibility. Their old presence gave no destination or process detail and no structured way to follow up, so leads leaked between the form and the first counselling call. We rebuilt the site around destinations and process, and paired it with Google and Meta campaigns feeding a proper lead flow.

The Problem

What was actually broken

The gaps in Studies in Overseas (SIO)'s setup before the project started — and what they were costing.

No credibility signals where they mattered

Studying abroad involves years and a large amount of family money. The old site made claims but showed no destination detail, no process explanation and no evidence of placements — while competitors did. Students shortlisted elsewhere.

Leads went cold before the first call

Enquiries arrived by email and were followed up whenever someone got to them, often the next working day. Students who had contacted four consultants that evening had already started conversations with two by then.

Campaigns bought volume, not students

Ads were judged on form fills, so budget flowed to cheap clicks from people browsing rather than applying. The counselling team spent its day on leads that were never going to convert.

Our Approach

How we worked through it

Each phase closed before the next one opened, so nothing was rebuilt twice.

  1. Defined what a real lead looks like

    Week 1-2

    With the counselling team we defined a qualified student: intended intake, destination preference, academic background and budget awareness. That definition became the campaign optimisation target instead of raw form volume.

  2. Built destination and process content

    Week 3-6

    Country guides covering universities, indicative costs, visa process and intakes, plus a plain explanation of how SIO's own process works from first counselling to departure. This is the content that gets a consultant shortlisted.

  3. Rebuilt the site around the student's path

    Week 7-10

    A UX-led WordPress build where a student picks a destination, reads the process, sees costs, then enquires — with forms capturing intake, destination and qualification so the counsellor opens the call already informed.

  4. Ran Google and Meta against the real target

    Week 11-12 + ongoing

    Google search for destination and intake queries, Meta lead-gen for earlier-stage students, both optimised toward verified leads. Automated acknowledgement and counselling scheduling went out within minutes of a submission.

The Solution

What we built and shipped

Destination guides that earn the shortlist

Universities, indicative costs, visa steps and intake calendars per country — the detail a student uses to judge whether a consultant knows the market.

A response that beats the competition to the call

Automated acknowledgement and scheduling within fifteen minutes, so SIO is the first real conversation of the four the student started.

Campaigns judged on verified leads

Optimisation targets phone-verified students with an intake and destination, which cut cost per verified lead by about 22% even as volume rose.

  • Higher verified lead volume
  • Better inquiry-to-enrollment rate
  • Automated responses
Technology

The stack behind the build

Every tool here was picked for a reason — speed, reporting, or one less manual step.

Website

WordPress

Destination and course content the SIO team updates each intake

Elementor

Landing pages per destination and campaign

PHP

Custom lead capture, routing and verification hooks

Campaigns

Google Ads

Destination and intake search intent

Meta Lead Ads

Earlier-stage students with in-platform forms

Google Tag Manager

Conversion and verified-lead event tracking

Follow-up & Measurement

WhatsApp API

Instant acknowledgement and counselling reminders

Google Analytics 4

Which destinations and pages produce verified leads

The Impact

What changed for Studies in Overseas (SIO)

The part that matters: what the business could do afterwards that it could not do before.

SIO reaches students first

Fifteen-minute automated response replaced next-day follow-up, which in a category where students contact several consultants at once is often the whole difference.

Counsellors talk to students who are actually applying

Optimising campaigns toward verified leads means the day is spent on applicants rather than on browsers, which lifted conversion from enquiry to counselling enrolment.

The site does the qualifying

Because destination costs and process are published, students who enquire have already accepted the realities — the counselling call starts at university shortlisting instead of at basics.

Before and after
MeasureBeforeAfter
First response timeNext working dayUnder 15 minutes, automated
Verified leads per monthBaseline+64%
Cost per verified leadBaseline-22%
Campaign optimisation targetRaw form fillsPhone-verified students
Speed changed everything. Students talk to whoever calls first, and now that is usually us.
Counselling HeadStudies in Overseas
FAQ

Questions people ask about this project

What did Omm Digital Solution do for Studies in Overseas?

Built a UX-led WordPress website with destination guides covering universities, costs, visa process and intakes, a clear explanation of the counselling process, and lead capture recording intake and destination — then ran Google PPC and Meta lead-gen optimised toward verified leads, with automated acknowledgement and scheduling.

Why optimise for verified leads instead of form submissions?

Form volume is easy to buy and mostly wastes counsellor time. Optimising toward students who verify by phone with a real intake and destination reduced the cost per usable lead by around 22% and made the counselling team's day productive.

How important is response time in study-abroad consulting?

It is close to decisive. Students typically contact several consultants in one sitting and engage seriously with the first one or two who respond. Moving from next-day to under fifteen minutes was the single highest-impact change in this project.

Can you run this for another education consultancy?

Yes. Destinations, intakes and campaign structure are built per consultancy, but the pattern — credibility content, instant response, campaigns optimised on verified leads — is the same one we deploy across education clients.

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