Paid Social Performance
Paid social that creates demand, not just awareness.
Impressions and reach are easy to buy. Arlieo connects paid social activity on Meta and LinkedIn to the commercial outcomes that actually matter, qualified interest, buying intent and measurable pipeline contribution.
What Paid Social Is Actually For
Paid social sits at the top of the funnel. The question is whether it is connecting to the bottom.
Paid social is a demand creation channel, not a demand capture channel. Buyers on LinkedIn or Meta are not usually actively searching for what you sell. They are being interrupted. That means the creative, the targeting and the objective all need to be calibrated for where in the buying journey the audience actually sits.For B2B product businesses, paid social is most powerful when it is used to build familiarity with the right decision-makers before they start actively searching, and to remarket to website visitors who have already shown commercial interest. LinkedIn Ads can reach by job title, seniority, industry and company size with a precision that search cannot match. Meta Ads can reach buyers at scale with lower CPCs and strong remarketing capabilities.What paid social is not good for is generating immediate high-intent leads in isolation. Businesses that expect paid social to perform like paid search are usually disappointed. Arlieo sets expectations accurately and builds paid social strategies that complement the wider channel mix rather than duplicate it.
What Paid Social Can Do for Your Business
Six ways paid social contributes to commercial growth when used correctly.
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Social Ads
Demand Creation for B2B Audiences
Social Ads reaching decision-makers by role, seniority, industry and company size before they start actively searching. Building familiarity with the right people at the right businesses.
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Remarketing
Remarketing to Warm Audiences
Website visitors who have viewed key pages but not converted are among the highest-value audiences available. Meta and LinkedIn remarketing keeps your business visible to people who have already shown commercial interest.
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eCommerce
eCommerce Prospecting and Retargeting
For product eCommerce businesses, Meta Ads offers powerful prospecting and product retargeting capabilities. Catalogue ads, dynamic product ads and abandoned basket retargeting reviewed for commercial efficiency.
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Creative
Creative Testing and Audience Refinement
Paid social performance is driven by creative relevance and audience precision as much as budget. Testing frameworks for creative, copy and audience segments are built into the management approach from the start.
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Funnel
Funnel Stage Alignment
Different objectives, different creative, different audiences for different stages. Awareness, consideration and conversion campaigns are structured and measured differently rather than treated as the same activity.
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Measurement
Attribution and Measurement
Paid social attribution is genuinely complex. Meta's reported results and GA4's reported results rarely agree. Arlieo sets up measurement frameworks that give a realistic view of paid social's commercial contribution rather than optimising for platform-reported metrics.
The Paid Social Approach
Strategy before spend. Measurement before scaling.
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Establish the commercial role for paid social
Is paid social being used to create demand, nurture existing interest, retarget warm audiences or all three? The channel mix, budget allocation and campaign objectives are set based on where paid social can add the most commercially relevant contribution.
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Audit existing accounts and creative
Meta Business Manager and LinkedIn Campaign Manager are reviewed for account structure, audience targeting logic, campaign objectives, creative performance and attribution setup. Problems are identified before new spend is committed.
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Build audience and targeting strategy
Prospecting audiences, lookalike audiences, remarketing lists and LinkedIn targeting parameters are built from a commercial brief, who is the buyer, what do they care about, and where are they in the decision process?
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Set up measurement correctly
Meta Pixel, Conversions API, LinkedIn Insight Tag and GA4 event tracking configured for accurate attribution. Reporting frameworks established before campaigns go live, not retrofitted afterwards.
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Manage, test and report
Ongoing management with a structured testing approach for creative and audience. Reporting connects paid social activity to commercial outcomes — enquiries, pipeline and where data allows, revenue — rather than platform vanity metrics.
Start with a Clear Picture
The £975 Multi-Channel Audit includes a review of your paid social activity.
If you are running Meta Ads or LinkedIn Ads without a clear view of what they are producing commercially, the Multi-Channel Audit covers paid social campaign structure, audience targeting, creative performance and attribution alongside your paid search, SEO, analytics and website UX.
£975
Multi Channel Audit. One fixed price.
Starts with a conversation. Fixed price. No automated tools.
- 01Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads account structure reviewed.incl.
- 02Audience targeting and campaign objectives assessed.incl.
- 03Attribution and measurement setup examined.incl.
- 04Paid social interaction with other channels considered.incl.
- 05Prioritised recommendations with commercial rationale.incl.
- One fixed price. No surprises.£975
Common Questions
What businesses usually ask about paid social.
Does paid social work for B2B businesses selling to other businesses?
Yes, but the expectations need to be calibrated correctly. LinkedIn is genuinely effective for reaching decision-makers by role and company profile, and Meta can work well for remarketing and demand creation at scale. What paid social does not do well in B2B is generate immediate high-intent enquiries in the way paid search can. It is most effective as part of a wider channel strategy rather than as a standalone lead generation channel.
Meta reports good results but we are not seeing them in our business. Why?
Meta’s attribution model is optimistic. It takes credit for conversions that happened within a reporting window regardless of whether the ad was actually the deciding factor. GA4 typically reports lower numbers because it uses a different attribution model. The reality is usually somewhere between the two. Arlieo sets up measurement frameworks that give a more honest picture of what paid social is actually contributing commercially.
Is LinkedIn Ads worth the higher cost per click?
For B2B businesses targeting specific roles, seniority levels or company types, LinkedIn’s targeting precision can justify a higher CPC if the commercial value of reaching those decision-makers is high enough. For businesses with a broad target audience or lower deal values, the economics often do not stack up. Arlieo will give an honest assessment based on your specific commercial situation rather than a recommendation to spend more on any platform.
How much budget do we need for paid social to work?
There is no universal minimum, but there are practical thresholds below which the platforms do not have enough data to optimise effectively. For Meta, meaningful testing generally requires enough budget to generate statistically useful results per ad set. For LinkedIn, CPCs are high enough that low budgets produce very limited reach. Arlieo will give realistic budget guidance based on your objectives and market before recommending any spend.
Is Your Paid Social Working?
Find out what your Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads are actually producing for your business.
Start with the £975 Multi-Channel Audit or have a straight-talking conversation about your current paid social setup.