Rize Increased Qualified Traffic 10% in One Month with Letterdrop

Rize helps independent colleges grow enrollment by building and managing affordable, career-oriented academic programs that leverage high-quality online courses taught by peer institutions.

Founded: 2015

Website: rize.education

Industry: Ed Tech Software

The Business Impact of Letterdrop for Rize

After 30 days of using Letterdrop, here are the results Jimmy drove for Rize:

• 3x content output without extra headcount
• Blog pieces ranking in days, not weeks → 5‑10 % lift in qualified traffic
• Noticeable uptick in engagement and followers on LinkedIn – translating to conversations with target colleges

The Challenges Rize Faced Before Letterdrop

Slow and Unreliable Content Turnaround

Jimmy Pawelski is the Growth Marketing Lead at Rize.

He and his team were initially aiming for one blog post a week — but gathering insights and pushing the blog through its due processes was manual and time consuming.

They sampled some free video-to-text solutions to try and speed up the process, but even after endless prompting, most of the outputs were unusable.

The whole content creation process became a challenge for the Rize team, making scaling good content difficult.

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Jimmy and his team knew the value of listening in on sales calls to help create targeted content, but the time spent trying to get insights from hours of calls was simply not sustainable.

"The other area in which we were facing challenges previously was a lot of time spent in analyzing content and insight themes from sales calls." — Jimmy Pawelski

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Low Buy-In for Social Selling

Jimmy and his team wanted to build relationships with potential buyers on LinkedIn through developing an internal social selling program.

However, constantly trying to get the company to engage on LinkedIn via Slack messages didn't get the engagement the team wanted since everyone was busy and messages often got ignored.

This meant Rize wasn't getting as much exposure as they wanted.

How Did Letterdrop Help Rize?

4-Minute, Data-Backed Thought Leadership

Letterdrop integrates with Gong and other call software, allowing Rize to:

• Pull important data (objections, questions, etc)
• Turn those insights into defensble LinkedIn and blog posts so that they can send these to clients

The turnaround for sales calls to insights is now less than a day for the Rize team thanks to this integration.

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Scaleable Social Selling and Contact-Level Insights

Jimmy no longer has to lose time begging his team to post and engage on LinkedIn.

With Letterdrop, he can draft posts quickly and request likes and comments from team accounts without any additional input required. This is done through LinkedIn APIs.

Letterdrop a also tags every LinkedIn engager with contact‑level data, sends warm‑lead alerts to Slack/CRM, and maps impressions to pipeline influence.

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