EdTech

How Outco connected nine marketing platforms to gain full ad control and improve ROAS

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Company overview

Outco is a coaching and skill-sharpening service helping software engineers advance their careers. 

Industry

EdTech

Headquartered

United States

Context

Outco helps software engineers get sharper — at interviews, at problem-solving, at the technical skills that open doors. The business needed to grow, which meant marketing needed to work. But Outco's marketing operation was being held back by three compounding problems: a tech stack that wasn't fit for purpose, a data tagging and reporting structure that didn't exist in any meaningful form, and a lead routing process that couldn't reliably get the right prospects in front of the right salespeople.

Campaigns were running without the infrastructure to measure them properly or act on what they found. RevX came in to build a scalable marketing operations system from the ground up — connecting the platforms, building the data architecture, and establishing the lead strategy that would turn campaign spend into measurable return. 

The challenge

Outco's go-to-market challenges weren't isolated — they were systemic. The technology, the data, and the strategy were all misaligned, and each problem fed the others. Without the right infrastructure, no strategy could perform. Without the right strategy, no infrastructure could deliver results. 

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A technology stack that didn't match the business's needs

The tools Outco was using hadn't been assembled with integration or scalability in mind. HubSpot, Google Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora, WordPress, GA, GTM, Zapier, and Reply.io existed as separate operational islands — each doing something, none of them working together. Without a connected stack, data didn't flow between systems, attribution was incomplete, and the marketing team was managing multiple tools without the unified view that would have made their work coherent and efficient. 

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No data tagging or reporting structure to measure campaign performance

Without a proper data tagging framework, there was no reliable way to understand what the campaigns running across those channels were actually producing. Data existed in fragments — some in HubSpot, some in ad platforms, some in GA — but without a consistent tagging structure tying it all together, the team couldn't measure channel-level performance, assess ROAS, or make optimization decisions with any confidence. Running paid campaigns without that visibility is expensive guesswork. 

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Lead segmentation and routing that left the right leads with the wrong people

Leads arriving from different channels and at different stages of interest were not being segmented or routed with any consistency. Without a structured lead routing strategy, the match between incoming prospect and sales follow-up was essentially random — some leads getting the right attention, others landing with someone who wasn't positioned to convert them. That mismatch was costing Outco conversion rate performance it had already paid to generate.



Our solution

RevX built Outco's marketing operations infrastructure from the ground up — starting with the systems integration that would make the stack functional as a whole, then layering in the data tagging structure and lead routing logic that would make it measurable and actionable. 

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A scalable, customized Marketing Operations system built across nine platforms

RevX designed and implemented a full Marketing Operations system that connected Zapier, Reply.io, GA, GTM, HubSpot, Google Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora, and WordPress into a coherent, integrated environment. Each platform was configured to work with the others — data flowing between systems, campaign activity reflected in HubSpot, and the full channel mix visible from a single reporting layer. The stack went from a collection of disconnected tools to a coordinated infrastructure. 

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A proper data tagging and reporting structure

RevX built a consistent data tagging framework across the entire stack, ensuring that campaign activity from every channel was captured accurately and associated with the right contacts and conversions in HubSpot. Reporting dashboards were built on top of that clean, structured data — giving the team complete control over how ad performance was measured and clear visibility into ROAS across every channel they were running. 

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Lead segmentation and routing strategy matched to the right salespeople
RevX built a lead segmentation and routing strategy that matched incoming leads to the appropriate salesperson based on defined criteria — ensuring that the right prospect reached the right person at the right moment. That routing logic removed the randomness that had been affecting conversion rates and replaced it with a structured, repeatable process that improved both the speed and the quality of sales follow-up. 

The impact

The fully connected stack, structured data tagging, and intelligent lead routing transformed how Outco's marketing operation performed — producing measurable improvements in ad control, ROAS, and the efficiency of the sales handoff. 

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Complete control over ads and an increased return on ad spend

With proper data tagging in place and every ad platform connected to a unified reporting structure, Outco gained full visibility into how its campaigns were performing across Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Quora. That visibility translated directly into better optimization decisions — and into an improved return on ad spend that reflected the difference between running campaigns with data and running them without it. 

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A fully integrated nine-platform stack operating as one system

The nine platforms that had been operating independently were now connected and communicating. Data moved between systems automatically. Campaign activity was visible in HubSpot. Attribution was traceable across channels. The operational overhead of managing a fragmented stack was replaced by a coordinated infrastructure that amplified the value of every platform within it rather than limiting each to what it could do in isolation. 

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Leads routed to the right salespeople, conversion rates improved

The segmentation and routing strategy ensured that incoming leads were matched to the salespeople best positioned to convert them — based on the lead's source, stage, and profile. The improvement in lead-to-conversion rate wasn't a function of better campaigns alone; it was a function of better follow-through. Getting the right lead to the right person at the right time is where marketing investment either pays off or quietly leaks away, and the new routing logic closed that leak. 

Stats

The new PPC setup helped the company achieve top ranks in high intent keywords and re-target existing customers, yielding a notable increase in revenue. 
2x
revenue within the first 6 months

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