210 enquiries. 5 meetings. Then 59.
Your consultants shouldn’t spend their week figuring out who’s ready.
You probably recognize this.
Worth checking before you assume you need more enquiries.
A 2.4% rate on 210 enquiries is not a marketing failure.
A Dubai consultancy that helps students get into universities around the world. Deep knowledge of how each system works. Complex, personal, high-value work. 210 enquiries a month from ads, social and referrals.
Out of those 210 enquiries a month, 5 turned into a paid meeting. That is 2.4%.
The consultants were good and the service was in demand. But most of their week went to students years away from applying, or exploring with no plan to act. Meanwhile students with a clear timeline and the money ready got the same slow reply as everyone else. Some went elsewhere. Others were never followed up at all.
What we found: university applications take a long time. A student who asks today might not apply for eighteen months. Treat every enquiry the same and the team ends up permanently busy and permanently behind. Nobody asked about timing at the start, so nobody knew who was close. There was no sorting, so a student ready now and a student two years out took the same hour. And there was no follow-up, so anyone not ready either vanished or got chased whenever someone remembered them.
The same enquiry, two different paths.
Before
After
Three changes. Same 210 enquiries.
The fix sits in how enquiries are sorted at the door, not in how many arrive.
Right questions asked first
Target universities, when they plan to apply, where they are now and whether they are ready to start — all in the first exchange.
Ready now → booked and paid
Sent straight into a paid meeting instead of a free chat that might go nowhere.
Early → kept close
Useful follow-up that stays in front of them until the moment they are ready, with no consultant time spent.
Same 210 enquiries. Twelve times the meetings.
Do you need more enquiries?
No. 210 students a month were already putting their hand up. What was missing was a way to spot who was ready, get them booked, and stay in front of the rest.
That gap cost them 54 paid meetings every month. If enquiry volume really is your issue, we will say so and show you the numbers — but that is the second conversation, not the first.
Good. You may not need to replace them.
If your agency is generating enquiries, keep them. We fix what happens next: your agency generates the enquiry, LTC turns it into a booked, paid meeting. Access to the tools you already use, your current numbers, and whoever handles qualified enquiries today — we build and run the sorting system, your consultants only handle the conversations that actually need a person.
Does this sound like your consultancy?
Four of four and this is very likely worth a call.
- ✓ You receive students at very different stages
- ✓ Consultants spend too much time on early-stage enquiries
- ✓ Ready students aren’t identified quickly
- ✓ Long-term prospects aren’t followed up consistently
Double your booked meetings
in 90 days, or we work free.
We only take this on after the assessment, because we will not promise a number we cannot see a path to. If we miss it, we keep working at no management fee until we hit it.
Find out what your enquiry-to-meeting rate is costing you.
Twenty minutes with Bilal, not a rep. We map where enquiries are dying and put a number on what the gap is costing you.