New School. Old School. Any School.

If you’re here, you’re curious about how our ad agency can help your higher education system raise your awareness to prospective students, retain current students, and repute to faculty, employers, alumni, and the community at large.

Let us introduce ourselves. We are H2M Brand Haus, a collective creative boutique made up of misfits in Fargo, ND.

Bring us your strange, your complex, and your mundane. H2M Brand Haus specializes in making things interesting. Sparking curiosity. Holding attention. Inspiring action.

We believe in honoring established brands and respecting guidelines, but we also push to find the edge of the sandbox and play in the gray, so to speak. That’s just one reason to roll the dice and give our Midwest brains a try. Here are a few more.

Higher Ed Case Studies

Leverage our higher education division that has extensive experience in higher education culture, language, and expectations for results.

Gain access to our agency’s higher education insights advisors, who are currently employed within colleges and working daily with issues and strategies that include student affairs, enrollment management, and marketing. We’re confident in our craft, but humble enough to say we don’t know everything. Partnering with those immersed in recruitment keeps us abreast on industry trends and helps navigate the political waters that come with the territory.

Our higher education experts help us accelerate the execution of strategies by shortening the time it takes to join you in the trenches.

In the past, we would bristle a bit when referred to as a “boutique agency.” Well, we now embrace that fact. We ARE a boutique agency when compared to larger groups across the country. Why the pivot? It’s based upon the following facts.

Boutique agencies consistently provide higher-quality branding, strategy, and creative.
Boutiques are more focused on the client, and our customer service is focused on meeting expectations.
We offer all the services a team needs to remain not only relevant — but important.
We can be very customizable based upon your needs.
We can change direction on a dime to fit client needs. We are nimble, we move fast, and we’re flexible.

(You can Google all this information. It’s true.)

BILLING BY PROJECT OR RETAINER – NEVER BY THE HOUR. Maybe being so close to Canada makes us extra polite, but we think it’s more important to take the time to build relationships than stare at a clock and calculate the bill. Neither party should have to worry about the bill, whether it took forever to clear that creative constipation or if a eureka moment transpired in the shower.

WE ARE VERY PROUD OF OUR HIGHER EDUCATION DIVISION SUCCESS. YET AVOIDING PURE SPECIALIZATION KEEPS US CURIOUS. Some advertising agencies focus on one or a couple industries or verticals. To many, that sounds like a good thing. We disagree. Not only does working for a variety of sectors make us great at cocktail parties and trivia nights, it also encourages continuous learning and diversity of thought. A massive pantry of disparate information allows us more ingredients to cook up fresh and unique ideas.

WE’RE SMALL BY DESIGN. Does this mean we’re going to get contracts that go through procurement? Probably not. What it does mean is that the team you talk to is the same team doing the work. It makes H2M Brand Haus more transparent, more efficient, more collaborative, and easier to utilize as a vendor resource.

We could pitch all day, but let’s let our portfolio do the talking.