Case Study
Growing a classroom icon digitally.
How Little Wolf Digital helped Nasco Education — America’s longest-running educational supplier — achieve a 1,000% Google Ads return on ad spend and 25% overall revenue growth through SEO, paid search, and data analytics.
Search Engine Optimization
Google Ads & PPCAmazon Advertising
Google Ads & PPCAmazon Advertising
Client
Nasco Education
Industry
Education Retail
HQ
Fort Atkinson, WI
Channel
Amazon · Web
Services
SEO · PPC · Analytics
About the Client
An 80-year classroom partner — ready to scale digitally.
Empowering teachers & students since 1941 · Part of School Specialty
Nasco Education has supplied America’s classrooms for over 80 years — art & crafts, STEM, science, agriculture, special education, and health sciences — with thousands of products on both nascoeducation.com and Amazon.
Despite a loyal educator customer base and deep product inventory, Nasco’s digital channels were underperforming relative to their catalog’s depth. Back-to-school cycles, district procurement windows, and Amazon’s algorithm all create layered complexity that demands both strategic and technical digital expertise.
Little Wolf Digital was engaged to build a unified growth strategy across organic search, paid advertising, and on-site performance — treating every channel as part of one interconnected system.
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Founded 1941
80+ years serving educators
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19 Categories
Thousands of SKUs
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K–12 Focus
Teachers, districts & families
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Dual Channel
Website & Amazon
The Challenge
Strong catalog. Untapped digital potential.
Despite eight decades of brand heritage, Nasco faced three interconnected growth barriers limiting digital performance across every channel.
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Search Visibility
Competitors outranked Nasco for high-value keywords despite inferior product depth — limiting new customer acquisition from non-brand searches.
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Conversion Gaps
Purchase funnel friction — navigation complexity, thin content, and weak trust signals — cost revenue on traffic already earned.
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Paid Ad Efficiency
Broad-match sprawl and no coherent bidding strategy meant ad spend leaked across low-intent queries — capping revenue growth.
Our Approach
Six workstreams. One unified system.
Parallel workstreams across SEO, paid advertising, and data analytics — each engineered to reinforce the others.
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Technical SEO
Full site audit, schema markup, crawl optimization, Core Web Vitals, and internal linking to build category authority.
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On-Site Performance
Product page optimization, navigation improvements, and A/B testing to turn existing traffic into buyers.
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Google Ads Restructure
Full account rebuild — tightly themed ad groups, Smart Bidding, and disciplined negative keyword management.
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Content & Keywords
Keyword research across educator buying intent and seasonal demand to capture non-brand organic traffic.
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Amazon Advertising
Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands aligned to bestselling SKUs — improving ACOS and share of voice.
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Data Analytics
Custom dashboards and cross-channel attribution giving Nasco clear line-of-sight from ad spend to revenue.
What We Achieved
Compounding results across every channel.
Each workstream reinforced the others — improved visibility drove more qualified traffic, and disciplined paid search made every ad dollar work harder.
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SEO & Organic Search
We rebuilt meta architecture, deployed structured data across product and category pages, and executed a systematic link acquisition strategy. Organic SERP features — star ratings, pricing, availability — began appearing for Nasco products, lifting click-through rates and compounding domain authority over time.
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Google Ads & Paid Search
We rebuilt the account from scratch with tightly themed ad groups, Smart Bidding calibrated to real conversion data, and audience bid adjustments for returning educator segments. Ad spend became a consistent, scalable revenue engine generating $10 for every $1 invested.
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On-Site Performance
Optimized product pages, improved navigation, and clearer trust signals converted a meaningfully higher share of the traffic SEO and paid search were already driving — without increasing spend.
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Amazon & Multi-Channel
Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands campaigns targeted Nasco’s highest-margin SKUs. Improved listing content and ACOS discipline ensured the Amazon channel complemented — rather than cannibalized — direct website revenue.
Campaign results
Results
All seven key performance metrics.
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Little Wolf Digital transformed how we think about our digital channels. The clarity they brought to our Google Ads account, combined with the SEO foundations they built, created compounding results we hadn’t seen before. We finally feel like we understand where our revenue is coming from — and where to invest next.
Digital Marketing Team, Nasco Education · nascoeducation.com
Services Delivered
What we delivered.
Search Engine Optimization
Technical SEO Audit
On-Page SEO
Link Building
Content Strategy
Schema Markup
Core Web Vitals
Google Ads & Amazon PPC
Google Ads Management
Campaign Restructure
Smart Bidding & ROAS
Amazon Advertising
Product Feed Management
Data Analytics
Analytics & Attribution
Reporting Dashboards
Performance Tracking
A/B Testing
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