About JF Growth Partners
Our Story
At JFGP, we are passionate about building long-term relationships on a foundation that starts with your most important business goals and marketing results. Driving inquiries is easy however, we are more interested in driving your revenue and increasing your profitability.
We are performance driven with a long history of success. We love what we do and aspire to help our partners achieve their goals. Our knowledge extends beyond just advertising; we analyze and work to improve all aspects of your strategic marketing plan and sales performance.
What separates us from the rest is we understand education marketing better than most. Our hand-picked team has nearly 100 years of experience in education marketing, admissions, and overall campus operations, having worked with over 300 colleges and universities on their unique challenges.
We are a boutique marketing partner limiting our client base to a select group allowing the principles of JFGP to work directly with the clients leveraging our direct experience, never handing them over to an account rep.
Our Founder
Joe Fortunato has worked in the private, post-secondary education industry since 1992. With a primary focus on marketing and admissions leadership, he served as the National Director of Admissions for a private career school group consisting of over 50 campuses with an on-line operation servicing over 20,000 students. He also served as Vice President of Admissions for another group, where he accomplished a significant, positive turnaround in student enrollment, and improved admissions and marketing performance. Joe also served as the Executive Campus Director of a private career college offering programs in healthcare and trades where he learned all aspects campus operations. He has extensive experience and proven success in streamlining admissions processes, rebuilding marketing platforms, reversing negative trends, building successful teams, developing, and implementing turnaround plans and assisting organizations to grow. Joe has been able to teach his admissions and marketing systems across the country as a featured keynote speaker at dozens of career education industry events as well as being hired as a paid corporate consultant working for many school groups. In total, Joe has worked in over a 140-campuses during his career.
In addition to being the CEO of JFGP, Joe also serves as Partner and Senior Vice President of Admissions & Marketing for a private career college group consisting of 6 unique brands servicing thousands of students annually.
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What Can We Do for You?
With over 100 years of combined experience in marketing and operation in Post-secondary education our team can help give you the edge you need to achieve your Growth Goals.
Marketing Experts
Our team will help develop, execute, and monitor marketing programs across a variety of channels. Our work includes researching the market, analyzing trends to help define the organization’s marketing strategy, and providing advice as to how to best reach the target market and your goals. In addition, as a premier marketing partner, we thoroughly understand how advantageous it is to diversify paid search platforms in your full funnel digital marketing strategy. We work to incorporate both the paid social and paid search platforms to achieve a well-rounded digital marketing strategy.
Enrollment Experts
We understand the enrollment process in a way that few marketing companies that only drive inquiries can. Our group has extensive experience that goes beyond the inquiry. We have proven success in driving enrollments by reversing negative trends, building, and training successful teams, developing, and executing turnaround plans that assists your organization to grow.
Education Operational Experts
Our operations specialists understand the importance of increasing the efficiency of your organization, we do this by understanding and managing the workflow throughout all departments. Our goal is to optimize daily activities and performance of the business across the board by strategizing with your team to drive quality process improvements.
Need Advice?
Call JF Growth Partners today to schedule a consultation. We will be happy to learn about your growth goals and discuss how we can help you attain your goals.
Testimonials
“Joe is an exceptional leader with the ability to cultivate and develop talent to meet business needs! He has the unique ability to lead a team to tremendous successes in the most challenging of situations with the poise and quiet calm that one would expect from a seasoned veteran. Joe understands the business and is able to effectively implement marketing strategies and admissions training to make adjustments where they are needed to quickly realize improved results. He is confident in his decisions and this confidence is a quality that people respond to in the most positive of ways. I have watched Joe come in and quickly take over a team that was struggling to perform and through his leadership and commitment to success the team has improved by leaps and bounds in all key business metrics. Joe is an extremely valuable asset to any organization in need of a solid marketing and admissions consultant. The only thing better than the quality of his work is the quality of his character: I take great pleasure in recommending Joe for any consultative position. ”
-Antonio daRosa
Managing Partner at Azimuth Educational Consultants