RSM

RSM

RSM

Industry

Education & Family

Market: UAE

Business benefit

How Gusto helped a math education icon launch in Dubai

About our challenge

Gusto led the market entry market research, digital marketing, and social media built from scratch to build awareness and trust in a new region.

About our client

The Russian School of Mathematics is a U.S.-based, award-winning after-school math program trusted by over 85,000 students across the USA and Canada. Ranked among the nation's best by Johns Hopkins CTY and featured in NPR and The Atlantic, RSM chose Gusto to lead its expansion into the UAE.

About our challenge

Gusto led the market entry — market research, digital marketing, and social media built from scratch — to build awareness and trust in a new region.

About our client

The Russian School of Mathematics is a U.S.-based, award-winning after-school math program trusted by over 85,000 students across the USA and Canada. Ranked among the nation's best by Johns Hopkins CTY and featured in NPR and The Atlantic, RSM chose Gusto to lead its expansion into the UAE.

What we did

Within the first two months of work, classes were over 80% full. Behind it: a launch event the city talked about, targeted paid ads, and steady work with local communities.

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Social Media

Social Media

Social Media

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Social Media

Our approach

For 25 years, RSM has used mathematics as a vehicle to develop children's intellect and character and that's exactly what its social media had to show. Our job wasn't to reinvent the brand, but to translate it for Dubai's multi-curriculum market, where parents navigate British, American, and IB systems. We built the channels from zero: content that explains the method instead of selling it, real classrooms and teachers, and the free evaluation as an easy first step.

The result

An identity strong enough that the book's visual language became inseparable from its argument. When you see the cover, you already know this isn't a book that softens the edges. That's the job of great design, to tell the truth before the words do.

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Ads

Ads

Ads

Client review

The team designed the most beautiful book cover and book website we could hope for. With wordplay, elegance and style.

Maria

Manager

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