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Paid Media & Performance for businesses that need better leads, trust and clarity.

Google, Meta and LinkedIn campaigns built around lead quality, tracking and practical conversion flow – every pound traced to a qualified outcome.

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The Practical Problems

What this service actually fixes.

If two or more of these sound familiar, paid media & performance is leaking – and the leak is usually structural, not effort.

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Spend up, quality flat

Budgets rise, lead quality does not, and nobody can explain why – because the account measures clicks, not qualified outcomes.

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Flat budgets, windowed buyers

Your buyers decide in specific windows – evenings, seasons, intake periods. Flat daily budgets buy attention when the decision is already made.

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Attribution stops at the form

No connection between campaign, CRM stage and closed deal – so the 'best' campaign is whichever fills the most forms with junk.

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Landing pages recycled from the website

Traffic sent to pages never designed for the campaign's promise. The ad writes a cheque the page cannot cash.

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Broad targeting, senior buyers

Impressions reach researchers and juniors; contracts are signed by people your targeting never isolated.

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Set-and-forget management

The account was structured once, in someone else's playbook, and has been coasting on autopilot ever since.

A click is a cost. A qualified lead is an outcome. Every account we run is architected – and reported – on the second, not the first.

What's Included

The work, in detail.

Three clusters, every item real. Scope is assembled from these at audit stage – built around your gap, not a package tier.

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Search & Shopping

Google Ads architecture

Campaign structures built around sector intent tiers – brand, category, competitor, urgency – each with its own economics.

Query sculpting & negatives

Continuous search-term hygiene so budget concentrates on buying intent, not curiosity.

Bid & budget stewardship

Bidding strategies matched to lead value, with budget weighted to your sector's buying windows.

Microsoft Ads where it pays

B2B sectors often buy cheaper on Bing – we test it with data, not opinion.

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Social & B2B

Meta lead generation

Creative-led prospecting and retargeting with lead quality controls – instant forms tuned to filter, not inflate.

LinkedIn ABM

Seniority-and-function targeting for B2B sectors: decision-makers isolated before a pound is spent.

Creative testing system

Structured message and format testing – hooks, proof, offers – documented so wins compound.

Remarketing architecture

Sequenced retargeting by funnel stage and page behaviour, capped so it persuades rather than stalks.

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Conversion & Measurement

Campaign-specific landing pages

Pages built for the campaign promise, with one job each – through our content and development teams.

Full-funnel tracking

Pixels, conversions APIs, CRM wiring and UTM discipline set up before spend – source to closed deal.

Qualified-lead definitions

'Qualified' agreed with sales before launch, so optimisation targets the right event.

Experiment & scaling framework

Weekly documented decisions: what we tested, what we learned, where the next pound goes.

The Full Deliverables List

Everything Paid Media & Performance can include. Nothing you have to remember to ask for.

See something missing? Raise it at audit – if your channel needs it, it goes into scope.

Account & structure auditTracking & pixel setupConversions API wiringQualified-lead definitionGoogle Search campaignsPerformance Max with guardrailsMicrosoft Ads testingMeta prospecting & retargetingLinkedIn ABM campaignsYouTube where sector-fitSearch-term hygieneNegative keyword systemBid strategy managementBudget window schedulingCreative testing frameworkAd copy & asset productionLanding page buildsA/B testing programmeRemarketing sequencingFrequency & fatigue controlUTM & naming disciplineCRM integrationStage-based reportingWeekly optimisation notesMonthly commercial reviewExperiment documentation
What We Usually Find

The four most common leaks in paid media & performance.

From audits across our six sectors – named honestly, because you might fix some of these without us.

One campaign, every intent

Brand, competitor and category queries mixed in one campaign – so the account cannot tell cheap loyalty from expensive acquisition.

Optimising to the form-fill

The platform is training itself on junk conversions because nobody defined a qualified event.

35–40% of budget on dead hours

Flat scheduling in sectors with strong browsing windows – a structural leak, not a tuning issue.

Retargeting without sequencing

One audience, one ad, forever – burning frequency on people who needed a different message weeks ago.

Our Approach

How paid media & performance gets done here.

Five stages, no improvisation – the sequence exists because skipping a stage always costs more than running it.

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Account & tracking audit

Structure, settings, search terms, creative history and tracking integrity – where the leak actually is.

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Definitions before spend

Qualified-lead definition agreed with sales; tracking wired to it; targets set against it.

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Rebuild or restructure

Campaign architecture around sector intent tiers and buying windows – not platform defaults.

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Creative & page fit

Ads and landing pages built as pairs – one promise, one page, one measurable job.

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Optimise on evidence

Weekly documented decisions; budget follows qualified outcomes; tests graduate or die.

The First 90 Days

What the sprint actually ships.

The full process →
Days 1–15

Foundation

  • Account + tracking audit delivered
  • Qualified-lead definition signed
  • Conversion tracking rebuilt
  • Quick structural fixes live
Days 16–45

Rebuild & launch

  • New campaign architecture live
  • Landing pages deployed
  • Creative testing system running
  • Budget windows implemented
Days 46–90

Scale on proof

  • Winning combinations scaled
  • CRM-stage reporting live
  • Cost per qualified lead trending
  • Sprint review against agreed criteria

Fixed scope, deliverables agreed before launch, and a retainer conversation only if the numbers earn it. That is how every engagement works.

Sector Judgment

How the six sectors change this work.

The 80% of paid media & performance is the same everywhere. This is the 20% that is not – one example per sector we serve.

Where This Is Heading

Automation is the 80%. Judgment is the bid.

Smart bidding, AI creative and automated campaign types have made average performance automatic – and identical. What the platforms cannot know is which lead your sales team can close, when your sector decides, and what proof persuades them. We feed the machines better definitions and better creative than your competitors do. That is the whole edge.

What We Track

Reported like it matters. Because it does.

Cost per qualified leadQualified rate by campaignCRM-stage progressionBudget window efficiencyCreative test win-rateSearch-term waste %Pipeline value by source

Weekly optimisation notes, monthly commercial review. You see what we see – including what did not work.

No public rate cards – scope follows context, and context comes from the audit. Commercials are discussed openly at audit stage.

This is for you if

Right fit

  • You need pipeline predictably and can act on leads fast
  • You will let us define 'qualified' with your sales team
  • You want decisions documented, not vibes
Probably not if

Wrong fit – honestly

  • You want cheap clicks and high volume regardless of quality
  • No one will answer the leads inside 48 hours – fix that first (we can help)
  • You need us to guarantee a CPA before seeing the account
Ways To Engage

Start small. Scale on evidence.

Model 01

90-Day Sprint

One channel, fixed scope, deliverables agreed upfront. How every Paid Media & Performance engagement starts.

Model 02

Earned Retainer

Offered only when the sprint hits the criteria agreed before launch. Never assumed, never auto-renewed.

Model 03

Audit Only

A clear written picture of what to fix in this channel – yours to keep, whoever fixes it.

Paid Media & Performance Questions

Asked before signing. Answered before asking.

If yours is not here, the audit call answers it directly – 30 minutes, no pitch.

Request Your Digital Marketing Audit →
What budget do we need?

Enough to buy statistically meaningful data in your sector's auction – which varies wildly. We reverse-engineer it from your target: qualified leads needed × realistic cost per qualified lead. That maths happens in the audit, honestly.

Google or Meta or LinkedIn – which first?

Whichever your buyer's intent lives on. High-intent search sectors start on Google; B2B seniority problems start on LinkedIn; visual, impulse or community-led buying starts on Meta. The audit answers this specifically.

Do you build the landing pages too?

Yes – campaign-specific pages through our content and development teams. Sending paid traffic to generic website pages is the most common leak we find.

Who owns the ad accounts?

You do. Always. Accounts, pixels, data – all in your properties, with our access removable in one click. Anything else is a hostage situation.

How fast do results show?

Paid is the fastest channel – structural fixes can move quality within weeks. The sprint exists so that speed gets proven against agreed criteria, not asserted.

Can you work alongside our in-house marketer?

Yes – commonly we run architecture, measurement and optimisation while your team owns brand and content. Clear lanes, weekly notes shared.

Next Step

Ask us to audit this channel.

Tell us where it hurts. A sector strategist reviews your submission, we talk for 30 minutes, and you get a written summary of the gaps – whether or not we work together.

  • Reviewed by a strategist who knows your sector
  • A written summary of gaps and next steps – yours to keep
  • The first fix we would make, named – with the reasoning

Request Your Digital Marketing Audit

A strategist replies within one working day.

No obligation, no pitch, no automated drip.

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