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    Paid MediaOverviewLinkedInGoogleMetaBook a call

    Paid Media · The flagship channel

    Your LinkedIn Ads should fill pipeline. Not drain budget.

    Most B2B teams are tired of paying $10 to 16 a click with nothing to show for it. LinkedIn is our sharpest channel because we run it the way the platform does not advertise: a real funnel, microsegmented audiences and thought-leader creative that reads as trust, not an ad.

    $5.79avg CPC
    3 to 12%CTR on Thought Leader Ads
    2xpipeline in 60 days
    Book a call Back to Paid Media
    Cold50-60% of budget

    Awareness and engagement

    Video, Thought Leader, Document

    WarmRetarget stage one

    Education and consideration

    Video, Single Image, Document

    HotLowest spend, highest intent

    Demo, call, consultation

    Single Image, Conversation

    Why budgets leak

    The three ways LinkedIn quietly eats your budget.

    None of these are accidents. They are what happens when you run the account the way the platform recommends. We do the opposite.

    You pay $10 to 16 a click, with nothing to show

    Single image ads run cold to a broad audience burn budget fast. The clicks arrive, the pipeline does not, and the cost per lead keeps climbing.

    You broadcast to the 300K audiences LinkedIn recommends

    The platform nudges you toward huge audiences because huge audiences spend. You end up paying to reach people who will never buy.

    You boost posts and call it a strategy

    Boosting is not a funnel. With no cold, warm and hot stages and no retargeting, every pound starts from zero and none of it compounds.

    The system

    One audience, warmed across three stages.

    We do not run one campaign and hope. We run a funnel where each stage feeds the next, so the spend compounds instead of restarting from zero.

    Cold

    50 to 60% of the budget goes here. The job is awareness and engagement: get the right people watching, reading and learning who you are, so they are no longer strangers when the ask comes.

    Warm

    We retarget everyone who engaged at the cold stage and educate them further. Consideration, not conversion: this is where the audience moves from aware to interested.

    Hot

    The lowest spend and the highest intent. We only ask for the demo, call or consultation once the audience is warm, so the conversion stage is cheap because the work happened upstream.

    Cold50-60% of budget

    Awareness and engagement

    Video, Thought Leader, Document

    WarmRetarget stage one

    Education and consideration

    Video, Single Image, Document

    HotLowest spend, highest intent

    Demo, call, consultation

    Single Image, Conversation

    Targeting

    We don't target audiences. We target your next customers.

    The difference between a leaking account and a compounding one is almost always who you are paying to reach. We are ruthless about that.

    ABM lists, not recommended audiences

    We build microsegments of 20 to 80K from your own best-fit accounts, instead of the 300K+ audiences LinkedIn pushes. Every impression is spent on a buyer you actually want.

    Retargeting ladders that feed each other

    Video viewers feed document engagers, document engagers feed form openers. Each stage warms the audience for the next, so the bottom of the funnel is cheap because the top did the work.

    Exclusions that protect the spend

    We cut the wrong roles, oversized companies, direct competitors and current customers out of every campaign. You stop paying to reach people who can never become pipeline.

    Creative

    Not all formats are created equal.

    We rank every format by what it actually returns, then weight the budget toward the ones that win. Thought Leader Ads sit at the top for a reason.

    S

    Thought Leader Ads

    The best format on the platform. A real person as the face, so it reads as trust, not an ad.

    $1 to 3 CPC · 3 to 12% CTR
    A

    Single Image Ads

    The workhorse. Every account needs these running for lead gen.

    $10 to 16 CPC · 10 to 15% form rate
    B

    Video Ads

    Top of funnel king. Cheap reach that feeds every retargeting stage.

    $0.10 to 0.35 per view
    C

    Conversation Ads

    Bottom of funnel retargeting only. Powerful, but never cold.

    $23 to 58 CPC

    Creative discipline. Hook-first copy that earns the scroll in the first line. A maximum of four creatives per campaign, so the algorithm can actually learn. A monthly refresh, so nothing fatigues into wasted spend.

    Bidding

    We bid manually, so the platform spends your money like we would.

    Automated bidding optimises for what LinkedIn wants, which is spend. We bid manually for cost control, then read the landing CTR on every creative and act on it. Kill what is not working, optimise what is borderline, scale what is winning. It is a system that consistently reduces your CPCs over time, which is how the average lands at $5.79 against a $15.32 platform norm.

    Landing CTR Under 0.45%
    New creative
    Landing CTR 0.45 to 1%
    Optimise and scale
    Landing CTR Over 1%
    Scale and automate

    The benchmarks

    We publish what most agencies hide.

    These are the numbers that decide whether a LinkedIn account compounds or leaks. Here is what each format actually returns, so you can hold any agency, including us, to them.

    Thought Leader Ads

    Engagement3 to 12% CTR
    Cost$1 to 3 CPC

    The best format on the platform.

    Single Image Ads

    Engagement0.45% CTR
    Cost$10 to 16 CPC

    10 to 15% form completion rate.

    Video Ads

    Engagement25% view rate
    Cost$0.20 to 0.30 per view

    Cheap reach that feeds retargeting.

    The rest of the system

    LinkedIn creates the demand. Two channels finish the job.

    Capture the intent on Google

    Once LinkedIn has created the demand, be the answer the moment a buyer finally searches. Search and Performance Max, optimised to pipeline, not clicks.

    See Google Ads

    Retarget and remind on Meta

    Stay in front of every buyer LinkedIn warmed up, at a fraction of the CPM, until they are ready to act. The cheap reach that keeps the funnel full.

    See Meta Ads

    What could $5.79 a click do for your pipeline?

    Book a 15-minute call. We will look at your current LinkedIn spend and show you where the budget is leaking and where the pipeline actually is.

    Book a call