We plan and run LinkedIn advertising for Australian B2B businesses across Sponsored Content, Lead Gen Forms and account based targeting, with the measurement in place to show what reached the pipeline.
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Enrolment acquisition rebuilt around intent, with creative matched to each stage of the decision.
Overlapping campaigns consolidated so each location had a clear role, with budget moved behind the enquiries that actually converted.
LinkedIn’s targeting is built on professional data that members maintain themselves: job title, seniority, employer, industry and skills. That accuracy is what the platform charges a premium for, and the premium is substantial. In Australia a LinkedIn click commonly costs several times what the same audience costs on Meta or Google Search.
It also changes how the channel should be judged. Cost per lead flatters cheaper platforms and penalises this one. A LinkedIn enquiry that reaches a sales conversation is frequently worth several times a cheaper enquiry from elsewhere, and programs that appear expensive on a cost per lead report often prove to be the most profitable once opportunities are tracked.
The same arithmetic makes mistakes costly. Loose targeting, an untested proposition or a page that demands too much of a first time visitor all carry a higher penalty here than on any other platform. We spend the opening weeks narrowing the audience and proving the offer before committing budget at volume.
See What We DoLinkedIn managed as a pipeline channel. What we build is determined by the length of your sales cycle, the size of the buying group and what a new client is worth to you.
Audience definition, offer design and budget mapped to your commercial targets before anything is built, including how much goes to reaching new accounts versus converting the ones already engaged.
Single image, video, carousel and document ads written for a business audience that is sceptical by default, produced in sufficient volume for testing to be meaningful.
Native LinkedIn forms and dedicated landing pages tested against each other, since the cheaper lead and the better lead are frequently different people.
Matched audiences built from your target account list, your CRM and site behaviour, so spend concentrates on the companies your sales team actually wants to talk to.
Ads running from the profiles of your founders and subject experts, which consistently earn more attention than the same message from a company page.
The Insight Tag, offline conversion import and a reporting view that follows a lead through to opportunity and revenue.
Most LinkedIn reporting stops at the form. We connect the ad account to your CRM, so the campaigns producing opportunities can be told apart from the ones producing volume, and budget follows that evidence.
The strategist who scopes the account runs it. Click prices on LinkedIn leave very little room to learn on the account, so this is not work we delegate to a junior.
LinkedIn does not suit every business, particularly where the deal value cannot carry the click price. That assessment happens during scoping, before any budget is committed.
LinkedIn rarely closes a deal on its own. It sits alongside search, retargeting and email in the same team, so the demand it creates is captured by the channels best placed to convert it.
Before we touch a budget, we work through the six things that decide whether a LinkedIn account can perform. At LinkedIn click prices, most of the available gain sits in this list, not in additional spend.
Whether the targeting describes a buying role or a broad demographic. Broad seniority and function filters look sensible and quietly spend most of the budget on people who will never buy. Audience Expansion left switched on does the same thing.
What the ad actually asks for. Asking a cold audience for a demo is among the most expensive mistakes an account can make at LinkedIn prices. Replacing it with a genuinely useful offer changes the economics before a single bid is adjusted.
Whether a lead is followed into the CRM and back out again. Without offline conversion import, LinkedIn optimises towards form fills, which are a poor proxy for revenue.
Too many campaigns sharing too little budget costs more here than on other platforms. Consolidating so each campaign gathers meaningful data typically costs nothing to implement.
B2B audiences are small, so frequency climbs quickly and creative wears out faster than most teams expect. We check how many concepts have run and how quickly cost per result drifts once they do.
The arithmetic that determines whether the channel is viable at all. Where the average deal cannot absorb the cost of acquiring it on LinkedIn, we recommend redirecting the budget.
The scope of a standard monthly engagement. Heavier creative production, landing page builds and CRM integration work are scoped separately so you can see what each one costs.
Three formats doing three different jobs. Most B2B programs need more than one, and the order you introduce them decides how expensive the learning is.
The primary format, carrying most of the reach and most of the testing. Everything from a single image to a long form document sits here, in the feed, where your buyer already spends time. It is where targeting and messaging get proven before you commit to more expensive placements.
Native forms that prefill from the member profile, so conversion rates are usually far higher than sending traffic to a landing page. The trade off is lead quality, so the form fields and the speed of follow up carry more weight than the ad itself.
Delivered into the LinkedIn inbox. Expensive per send and unforgiving of a weak offer. Effective against a specific, well defined list where the proposition genuinely warrants a senior executive’s time. It is not a volume format.
LinkedIn creates demand among people who were not actively looking. The channels that capture that demand should be working from the same plan, or you pay to create interest that a competitor converts.
Capture the branded and category searches your LinkedIn campaigns create, before someone else does.

Own the research a buying group does between the first ad and the first conversation.

Nurture the leads LinkedIn produces through a sales cycle that is measured in months, not days.

What happens, and when. With B2B sales cycles, the first quarter is spent establishing who responds and to what. Revenue follows once the pipeline has had time to mature.
We audit the account, fix the Insight Tag and conversion setup, agree the target account definition and connect the CRM so leads can be followed past the form.
A deliberately narrow audience and two or three propositions go live against each other. The objective in month one is a defensible answer on who responds and to what.
Budget moves behind the audience and offer that worked, account based lists are layered in, and creative production moves to a regular cycle before fatigue sets in.
Offline conversions feed back from the CRM, reporting shifts from leads to opportunities, and the plan extends into search, retargeting and email where each earns its place.
LinkedIn optimises towards whichever conversion you give it, and for most accounts that is a form submission. In the underperforming B2B accounts we audit, no one can say which campaign produced an opportunity, so budget continues to flow to whichever ad collects the cheapest email address.
We close that loop first. Leads pass into the CRM with the campaign attached, stage changes are sent back to LinkedIn as offline conversions, and reporting follows the revenue. Once that loop is closed, the expensive channel frequently proves to be the profitable one.
LinkedIn Campaign Manager reports on the platform’s own terms. Our reporting begins with your commercial numbers: what was spent, how many qualified conversations it produced, what a meeting cost and how much pipeline is attributable.
You get a live dashboard you can open at any time and a monthly report a senior strategist walks you through, written for a board or a managing director.
LinkedIn earns its price where the deal value justifies it. These are the categories where that arithmetic works most consistently.
Defined buying groups, long evaluation cycles and a deal value that comfortably carries the click price. It is the category the platform was built for.
Legal, accounting, consulting and advisory, where a single new client can be worth years of revenue and credibility does most of the selling.
Tightly regulated categories where targeting precision matters more than reach, and where compliance shapes what the creative can say.
Narrow audiences, technical buyers and long lead times, where account based targeting consistently outperforms broad demographic filters.
Course, program and enrolment marketing, where the decision involves several people and the timing is seasonal.
Two sided markets where the same platform reaches both the client and the candidate, with very different offers for each.
SOUP is a LinkedIn agency partner. The status is granted to agencies that meet LinkedIn’s standards for platform capability and client performance, and it gives our team direct access to LinkedIn support and to product releases ahead of general availability.

The questions Australian B2B businesses ask us most often about advertising on LinkedIn, including what it costs, why it costs that much, and what to expect from an agency.
A LinkedIn ads agency plans, builds and manages paid advertising on LinkedIn to generate qualified leads and pipeline for a business.
That covers audience and account targeting, offer and campaign design, ad creative, Lead Gen Forms and landing pages, daily budget management, conversion tracking and reporting. On LinkedIn it should also cover the CRM connection, because a lead that is never followed past the form cannot tell you whether the channel worked.
A good agency is accountable for pipeline and revenue.
LinkedIn carries the highest click prices of the major ad platforms, often by a wide margin. You are paying for the ability to reach a job title, a seniority level and a named employer using data the member keeps current themselves.
You pay LinkedIn directly for media spend and your agency separately for management. The platform minimum is low, around ten dollars a day per campaign, though that sits well below a working budget.
The figures that matter are the cost of a qualified conversation and the value of a closed deal. We model both against your average deal value before recommending a budget.
Our paid social management starts from $2,500 per month. The exact fee depends on the size of the account, media spend, how many campaigns and audiences are running, and how much creative production, landing page and CRM work is involved.
You can view our social media packages and pricing for the full tiers.
Before recommending a scope we will assess whether LinkedIn makes commercial sense for your business at all. For some deal values it does not, and we will say so during scoping.
Start from your deal value. If a closed deal is worth thirty thousand dollars and one in five qualified conversations closes, you can afford a great deal more per lead than a business selling a two thousand dollar product.
In practice, most Australian B2B programs need enough monthly spend to produce a meaningful number of qualified conversations. A handful provides no reliable read on what is working.
The more common mistake is spreading a modest budget across many campaigns and audiences, so none of them ever produces enough data to judge.
Leads can arrive in the first week. Establishing whether they are good leads takes considerably longer.
The first month is about proving the audience and the offer against a deliberately narrow target. From there we widen, layer in account based lists and move budget behind what worked.
Because B2B sales cycles run for months, judge the channel on a full quarter at minimum, and on pipeline. A lead generated in month one may not become revenue until month six.
Because of who you are reaching and how few of them there are. A campaign aimed at chief financial officers at Australian companies with more than two hundred staff is bidding for a very small, very valuable audience, and every other B2B advertiser wants the same people.
The premium is only worth paying when the deal value can absorb it. That is the first thing we check.
It also means errors are costlier. Loose targeting or a weak proposition that Meta would absorb will exhaust a LinkedIn budget quickly.
Google Ads captures demand that already exists. Someone searches for a solution and you appear. LinkedIn creates demand by reaching people who fit your buyer profile before they have started looking.
For most B2B businesses the two are complementary. LinkedIn builds awareness inside the accounts you want, and Google Ads is there when those buyers start searching.
Running them as one program, with shared audience and conversion data, is what stops you paying twice to reach the same buying group.
They convert at a much higher rate, because the form prefills from the member’s profile and nobody leaves the platform.
The trade off is intent. A form that takes two taps collects people who were mildly curious as well as people who are ready, so lead quality is usually lower and the follow up has to work harder.
We test both. In accounts where sales capacity is the constraint, a landing page that asks for slightly more effort often produces better economics even at a worse conversion rate.
Thought Leader Ads let you promote a post from an individual’s profile, usually a founder or a subject expert, in place of the company page.
They consistently outperform the identical message from a brand account, because people on LinkedIn engage with people. For considered B2B purchases where credibility is doing most of the selling, they are among the most effective formats available.
They require a person genuinely willing to put their name to a point of view. Ghost written corporate copy under a founder’s photograph is obvious to the audience.
Yes, provided the target is narrow and the expectation of volume is realistic.
A small budget aimed at a tightly defined list of target accounts can work well, because you are not trying to buy reach, you are trying to be visible to a few hundred specific people. A small budget spread across a broad audience will produce nothing usable.
If the budget is small and the deal value is also modest, we will normally recommend a different channel first and return to LinkedIn once the economics support it.
Rarely. It works for high value considered purchases where the buyer’s profession is what qualifies them. Executive education, financial advice, premium property and recruitment are the usual exceptions.
For most consumer categories the click price cannot be justified when the same person can be reached far more cheaply elsewhere.
If you are weighing it up, the question to answer first is whether job title genuinely predicts who buys from you.
You do.
We work inside your own LinkedIn Campaign Manager account, your Insight Tag and your CRM wherever possible. You keep full administrative access to the campaigns, audiences, creative and conversion history throughout.
If you ever stop working with SOUP, all of it stays with you.
We do not think a business should stay with an agency because it is locked in.
LinkedIn engagements typically start with an initial three month period, which is the minimum needed to fix tracking, prove an offer and see the first opportunities move through the pipeline. After that they continue on a rolling monthly basis.
Given B2B sales cycles, we agree upfront what success looks like at ninety days, so the measure suits the stage the pipeline is actually at.
A monthly performance report covering spend, leads, qualified conversations, opportunities and attributable pipeline, alongside a live dashboard you can open at any time.
You also get creative and audience level reporting, so you can see which message and which segment are carrying the account rather than only which campaign.
Every report ends with what changed, what we learned and what we are doing next, and a senior strategist walks you through it.
Yes. SOUP is based in Sydney, but we run LinkedIn campaigns for businesses across Australia and internationally.
Our clients operate across markets including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle and regional Australia. LinkedIn is managed remotely by design, and the platform lets us target by location precisely, so what matters is how well we understand your category rather than how close we are to your office.
For businesses selling into several states or countries, we structure campaigns and reporting by market so you can see where the pipeline is actually coming from.
Yes, and in most cases we will improve what exists instead of starting again.
We begin with an audit of campaign structure, audience definitions, exclusions, creative history, the Insight Tag, conversion setup and spend. An established account also carries audience and conversion history worth keeping.
Where tracking has never been connected to the CRM, or the account has been through several agencies, a cleaner rebuild can be faster. We will tell you which situation you are in before any work starts.
Tell us what you are trying to grow. A senior strategist will look at your account and come back with an honest read on the opportunity, whether or not we end up working together.
Start The ConversationTell us what you are trying to grow. We will give you an honest read on whether LinkedIn is the right channel for your business, what it would take, and what results are realistic.
Tell us what you need from your marketing. We’ll take a closer look at your business and get in touch to discuss how we can help.
One of our strategists will review your enquiry and get back to you within one business day.