Fan Chen
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Project Case

Pre-Master Education Service

A 0-to-1 education service built through content trust, campaign conversion, community operations, and service delivery.

Role

Content acquisition / Campaign design / Community operations / Service delivery

Stage

From demand validation to structured operations

Key Outcome

Used public content, admissions campaigns, and community delivery to validate paid consulting demand and build a repeatable service workflow.

01

Background

Pre-Master started from a clear education-consulting problem: students needed practical information on school selection, portfolio preparation, written materials, interviews, and application timelines before they could trust a paid service.

02

Problem

For an early education service, trust is the real first product. Users rarely convert only because a service exists; they need to see credible knowledge, a clear offer, and a delivery process that feels dependable.

03

Approach

I helped connect the front and back ends of the service: writing platform content, supporting admissions posts and campaign offers, designing service tiers, operating communities, coordinating tutors, and turning repeated questions into clearer delivery workflows.

04

Key Evidence

Paid consulting

150+

Validated that users were willing to pay for application guidance, tutoring, and decision support once trust and service scope were clear.

Community users served

1000+

Community operations turned one-off inquiries into a larger service pool for Q&A, follow-up, and repeated user feedback.

Article reach

2.6w+

A school-recommendation article became a high-reach trust asset, showing that practical application information could attract users before direct conversion.

Campaign offer

3 tiers

The admissions activity packaged services into scanning, VIP tutoring, and mock interview products, with group discounts supporting referral-style acquisition.

Education service growth loop

The core value was not a single channel, but the loop from public knowledge to campaign conversion, delivery, and feedback.

Content trust

Zhihu articles and education posts

Answer real application questions first, so users can judge expertise before entering a paid conversation.

Conversion page

WeChat admissions post and group offer

Make the service scope, price ladder, and action path explicit enough for users to decide or refer friends.

Service delivery

Tutoring, mock interview, and community support

Break consulting into deliverable modules so the team can coordinate work and users know what they will receive.

Feedback iteration

Comments, questions, and consultation records

Use repeated confusion as input for the next content topic, service explanation, and operational script.

05

Decision Logic

Education consulting sells trust before it sells service

High-intent users need evidence that the team understands their questions. Public content works as a trust layer before paid conversion.

Discounts should reduce friction, not weaken value

The group-discount activity made the decision easier and encouraged peer sharing, while the tiered package still kept service value visible.

A service business becomes scalable when questions become modules

Repeated user questions can be converted into content, templates, tutoring modules, and community answers instead of staying as one-off labor.

06

Outcome

The project validated paid demand, supported a large user community, and connected content acquisition with service delivery. It also trained my ability to design a user journey across trust-building, conversion, operations, and post-service feedback.

07

Reflection

This project made me realize that 0-to-1 work is less about making something look complete at the beginning, and more about turning uncertainty into a loop: answer what users ask, package what they need, deliver what was promised, then use the next round of feedback to make the system clearer.