The centre down the road isn't better. It's just easier to find.

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MARKETING FOR ECE

Sandbox is a marketing agency built for Early Learning Centres like yours.

Here's the opportunity: most Early Learning Centres don't market at all.

Which means the ones that do are the ones local families find first, tour first, and enrol with first. We work with early learning and childcare centres across New Zealand, and nothing else.
Because it's all we do, we already know why the under-2s room is the hardest one to fill, and what a parent is really looking for when they're searching on their phone at 9pm.

Brand, website, search, ads, socials — all of it handled, so being found isn't one more thing on your list.

Get Found & Chosen

Show up when local families search,
Give them a reason to book a tour.

Strategy

Before anything else, we look at where your enquiries come from now, who else is in your catchment, and which rooms actually need filling. Then we build the plan around that, not around a template.

Websites & SEO

Your website is the first tour a family takes. We build fast, simple sites that answer what parents actually ask: hours, fees, ratios, waitlists. Then we handle the SEO so it shows up when someone searches childcare in your suburb.

Advertising

Google and Meta ads that reach parents during the few weeks they're actually looking. We target your catchment, not the whole country, so the budget goes to families who could realistically walk through your door.

Branding

Your logo, your colours, your signage and the words on your walls should all be saying the same thing. We make your centre look and sound like the place it already is, so parents still remember it after five other tours.

Video Content

Parents want to see the rooms, meet the kaiako and get a feel for the place before they commit. We film centre tours, team intros and day-in-the-life clips at your centre. Real educators, real tamariki, no stock footage.

Social

Most centres run their socials in the ten minutes between pickup and paperwork. We take it off you: posts, reels, replies and local ads. Your page ends up looking as good as your centre already does.

Early Learning Centres we work with

Independent centres and small groups across New Zealand.
REVIEWS

What centre owners say

The Vines
Jacob and his team have been amazing to work with over the past few years.  Sandbox has helped us to market our business and worked closely with us to help monitor and increase our local online and social media presence.  

We highly recommend Jacob and his team.
The Vines
Review 2
The Sandbox team are experts in their field. They’ve been looking after our digital / social media marketing for a few years now and they do an awesome job.

I love the visibility of results we can get from their online reports.
Kidsco
CEO, Vermillion
Review 3
Recently have made the move to Sandbox and we love how on call, and supportive they are.

Jacob and Dani work tirelessly to get what needs to be done and we love that!
Tiny Voices
CEO, Vermillion

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