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LinkedIn Ads · Digital Marketing

Pipeline you can target.
Buyers you can name.

A LinkedIn Ads program built for pipeline, not reach — Sponsored Content, Lead Gen Forms, and ABM aimed at the exact titles who sign, measured to cost-per-SQL, and scaled only where the buyers are real.

/01Drag the budget · watch the funnel move
Live · projected daily performance
Cost / SQL $214
Impressions0
Clicks0
Leads0
Cost / Lead$0
Daily budget $400
Median cost / SQL cut37%
Avg. click-to-lead rate12.4%
Ad spend managed$31M
Avg. SQL-rate lift+58%
Trusted by revenue teams at
02 — Outcomes

Spend that booked meetings.

A ledger of named B2B accounts where the line that moved was pipeline, not impressions — cost per SQL, demos booked, marketing-qualified leads. 6 of 38 shown · ledger updates as accounts scale.

Cobalt Cloud
B2B SaaS · ABM
Uploaded the named-account list, layered Matched Audiences by seniority, retargeted site visitors into demo
−42%Cost per SQL
Mercer Legal
Prof. services · Lead forms
Native Lead Gen Forms on a gated counsel guide, partner-title targeting, weekly negative-company hygiene
+128%Demos booked
Atlas Data
Data infra · Document ads
Document ads delivering the benchmark report in-feed, sequenced into a thought-leader follow-up
4.6×Sourced pipeline
Forge HR
HR tech · Conversation ads
Conversation ads to People-Ops leaders, branching offers by company size, CRM-synced for routing
−31%Cost per lead
Vantage Fin
Fintech · Sponsored content
Single-image thought leadership at finance VPs, Insight Tag retargeting, offline-conversion import for MQLs
+93%MQLs, 90 days
Kepler AI
AI platform · Retargeting
Tiered retargeting off Insight Tag events, lookalike expansion from closed-won, message tested fortnightly
3.2×SQLs per quarter
03 — The targeting builder, live

You don't buy reach.
You buy the right room.

On LinkedIn the audience is the strategy — seniority, function, company size, industry. Tighten the facets below and watch the audience shrink, the cost climb, and the fit improve. Then toggle a Lead Gen Form to see the conversion lift native delivery buys you.

SeniorityManager+
AnyC-suite
Company size201–1,000
1–5010,000+
Daily budget$300
Job function
DeliveryLead Gen Form
Matched audience size
Fit score
Est. CPC
Est. CPM
Clicks / day
Leads / day
Spend / day
Cost / lead
Tighten seniority and the audience narrows, CPC rises — but every lead is closer to a real buyer. Lead Gen Forms convert higher than a landing page because the form is pre-filled in-feed.
04 — Anatomy of the account

Built like a buying committee,
not a billboard.

Pipeline hides in the structure — objectives by funnel stage, Matched Audiences uploaded and layered, Lead Gen Forms native to the feed, formats chosen for the message. This is the room we work in every day.

Campaign Manager · Cobalt Cloud
Objective Lead generation · Bid Max delivery · $640/day
Audience facetTypeFitCPCLeadsCost/SQL
ABM named accountsMatched9$9.4061$182
VP Marketing · 201–1kAttribute8$8.6048$214
Director IT · 1k+Attribute6$11.2027$340
Website retargetingInsight Tag8$7.1054$169
Students · internsExcludedexcluded
Lookalike · closed-wonPredictive7$9.9033$248
8–10 high fit · scale the budget
5–7 watch · test new offer + format
1–4 exclude or re-target
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05 — The growth program

Define the ICP.

Before a dollar moves, we name the buyer — titles, seniority, company size, industry — and pull the account list with Sales. Pipeline starts with knowing exactly who you're trying to reach, and who you're not.

/ Week 00 · ICP
TitlesVP / Director / Head of — Marketing & RevOps
Size201–1,000 employees · Series B–D SaaS
Accounts340 named accounts uploaded as a Matched Audience
ExcludeStudents, agencies, current customers, competitors

Build the structure.

Campaigns by funnel stage and audience. Lead Gen Forms wired native, the Insight Tag live, conversions and offline imports flowing back so LinkedIn optimises to SQLs — not form-fills that never close.

/ Week 01 · Plan
StructureABM · Cold ICP · Document · Conversation · Retarget
TrackingInsight Tag + Lead Gen Forms + offline conv. import
TargetsCost-per-SQL ≤ $240 · pipeline-coverage guardrail
ExcludesCustomers · competitors · seniority floor
OfferOne asset per stage · gated to the right title

Launch native.

Live with the Insight Tag verified, Lead Gen Forms mapped to the CRM, and creative that earns the click in-feed. Single image, document, and conversation formats — each matched to the message, not bolted on.

/ Week 02 · Launch
Insight Tag verified · events firing
Lead Gen Forms mapped to CRM fields
Single-image + document ads · 6 variants
Conversation ad · branching demo offer
Retargeting armed once Insight Tag pools fill

Optimise weekly.

Audience pruning by demographic report, budget shifts toward the segments that book demos, creative tests that actually conclude, form-field tuning. The relentless loop that separates a managed account from a parked one.

/ Weeks 03–06 · Optimise

Scale where it holds.

Only push budget where cost-per-SQL survives the extra spend. New segments, lookalikes off closed-won, new formats — each opened as an experiment with a kill switch, never a leap of faith.

/ Month 02+ · Scale
+ budget on low cost/SQL
Lookalike · closed-won
New industries · tested
Audience Network · reach
Thought-leader ads
Conversation · nurture
Seat expansion · ABM
Experiment + kill switch

Report in plain English.

A weekly number you actually understand — spend, leads, cost-per-SQL, what changed and why, what's next. No 40-tab dashboard nobody opens; the three lines that decide whether we did our job.

/ Ongoing · Report
This week$4,480 spend · 198 leads · $208 cost/SQL
ChangedCut IT segment · shifted 22% to ABM list
NextTest document ad on VP Marketing · new form
CadenceWeekly note · monthly pipeline review
06 — Why it compounds

A managed account learns the buyer.

Every cycle feeds the next: cleaner conversion signal trains delivery toward real SQLs, demographic pruning frees budget for the segments that book demos, retargeting pools deepen and lower cost-per-lead. Left on autopilot, an account burns reach. Worked, it compounds pipeline.

Managed by Stack Innovations — cost-per-SQL falls as signal + targeting compound
Autopilot — flat at best, drifting at worst
Representative of a typical 12-month managed engagement · indexed to month-one cost-per-SQL.
07 — Tools · honest kit

The kit, shown.

The platforms we actually log into every week to target, build, track, and route. No mystery tooling — just the kit that keeps the pipeline honest.

Campaigns
Campaign Manager
Tracking
Insight Tag
Capture
Lead Gen Forms
Prospecting
Sales Navigator
Targeting
Matched Audiences
Reach
Audience Network
Attribution
Dreamdata
CRM
HubSpot
Enrichment
Clearbit
Creative
Figma
Planning
Notion
Comms
Slack
Start the program

Pipeline you can forecast
by name. Yours.

Free targeting + funnel audit to start — we'll show you who you're actually reaching, where the spend is leaking, and what a managed LinkedIn program would return in SQLs, before you commit a dollar. A plan, not a pitch.

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