Education Showcase

Are your marketing initiatives struggling to make an impact? Are you failing to attract your target audience? Are you finding it hard to differentiate yourself from your ‘competitors’?

Unfortunately, in our case-hardened experience, we’ve learned that it is not always enough to attract students simply by citing qualities such as high academic standards and good facilities – because competitors are probably saying it too.

Instead, we work with our clients to identify what else makes them great. We look at what they offer students, parents and staff that others don’t. And how they can use their marketing output to make them stand out from the crowd and engage with their target audience. This could be through the use of viral campaigns, Facebook, websites and mobile phone applications – or simply a prospectus that is more vibrant and captivating than the competition. And if they, or you, really don’t know where to start, we’ll cost-up a marketing strategy.

We invite you to take a look at the examples within these pages, and consider what our expertise and creative approach could do for your establishment.

We look forward to your call.

Key marketing materials for your sector:

– Prospectus

– Website

– Course Directory and booklets, in printed or electronic form

– Student Union or social events newsletter or magazine, in printed or electronic form

– Some institutions may also wish to have a yearbook

Other tools to consider:

– Viral marketing

– Mobile phone applications

– Utilising online social networks

– Online and print advertising

– Promotional items such as USB sticks

– Outdoor media, such as billboards or bus advertising

“ I am really pleased with the work you have done... I was impressed with the initial designs and your flexibility to adapt to meet the customers needs. I look forward to working with you again on future projects.”

Ann Balfour, Local Marketing Manager, Pfizer

We can make all the difference

Priory School asked us to design and print their

2007-2008 Yearbook. They were so impressed

that they asked us to do it again the

following year!

We have an excellent reputation amongst our clients for producing top-quality printed materials that fulfil their briefs to the letter.

For each new challenge, we work closely with our client to establish the right look and feel, relevant to their brand. This collaboration, combined with our creativity and expertise, means that the finished design invariably exceeds all expectations.

However, with the best will in the world, a great design won’t ‘wow’ your target audience without great photography. Commissioned photography often makes all the difference in demonstrating the attributes and qualities of your establishment. Just ask St. Edmund Campion Catholic School and Rydens Sixth Form College.

Printed materials

“ Gingernut Creative were instrumental in the success of our new prospectus... the final prospectus was of an excellent quality and something the school is very proud of.”

Gary Smart, Senior Personnel Manager, St. Edmund Campion Catholic School

We work closely with specialist photographers

to ensure that students are depicted as

engaged and enthused.

“ We have moved away from the designer we used to use as the service Gingernut Creative is so good.”

Claire Chappell. Marketing & Publicity Manager, East Sussex Community Health Service

Rydens Sixth Form College asked us to modernise their branding, to better reflect and attract their desired target audience. We then created a new brand and an impressive new prospectus.

RydensSIXTH FORM COLLEGE

With the majority of students having both access to the web and aspirations about owning the latest technology, using online tools is, in our eyes, the way forward in terms of marketing within your sector.

Websites are now more than just a means of educating your target audience about your establishment. They can contain up-to-the-minute news, downloads of your prospectus, forums, online application forms, a way to send in homework and much, much more. An excellent interactive website has the ability to engage and make your budget work harder than many an advertising campaign.

In addition, many of our clients are now looking to reduce both their carbon footprint and print costs by putting their printed materials online or on a USB stick, as PDF downloads or by using ‘Page Turning’ technology.

Online technologyCourse brochure concept for The Sixth Form College Solihull, that utilises ‘Page Turning’ technology

Mobile phone application and website concepts for The Sixth Form College Solihull.

If you want to make the news and create a buzz, then a mobile phone application is the way to go! And it would be money well spent, as it is an excellent tool for interaction and information sharing between staff, students, parents and potential applicants. Features could include a campus map, college directory, contact section and pages with useful information, including open days and the like.

Because we appreciate that budgets are tight in the current financial climate, we offer our clients the option of supporting their publication through advertising.

This means that we invite, on their behalf, relevant businesses or organisations to advertise within the publication that they wish to produce. We appreciate that this may not be appropriate for every client, or every piece of marketing, but it has proved useful, if not vital, for many of them.

We have many years of expertise in this area, with a dedicated sales team that has worked on procuring advertising for the likes of Connexions, Council Sports Directories, School Prospectuses and Yearbooks, and the prestigious Edgbaston Priory Club.

Funded publications

Connexions Leeds Year 11 Filofax

Edgbaston Priory Club Annual Report Most commonly, marketing

endeavours are part-funded by advertising, although on occasion it has provided the full budget. However, securing this is entirely dependent on the level of interest from potential advertisers.

A Gingernut Creative publication, for Year

11 students in Brent.

Connexions Coventry Year 11 Diary

“ …the team at Gingernut Creative worked so hard on both design and advertising to keep costs down whilst still producing a superb product.”

Julie O’Hare MCIPR, Leveret Communications, on behalf of Edgbaston Priory Club

We’re waiting for your call!

Whether you are looking to commission one item, a suite of marketing materials, or simply need some good advice, we would love to meet you to talk through your aspirations. In addition, our passionate and experienced team pride themselves on being just one phone call away to answer any of your questions. This includes our dedicated Account Managers, Sales Team and – most importantly – the most creative Graphic Designers in the West Midlands!

To get in touch: Telephone: 0121 779 1999 Email: enquiries@gingernut-creative.comTo see what we’ve been up to, and for the latest examples of our work, check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/gingernutcreativeYou can also follow our Tweets: twitter.com/gingernutcre8

“ The team’s ability to produce brilliant concepts, together with their friendly and approachable manner, is outstanding. They always come up with something exceptional.” Joy Boyes, PR and Campaigns Officer, Dudley Primary Care Trust

A selection of our best work

from other sectors.