Leslie Venetz

Outbound sales strategies, processes & skill sets for 15-50M SaaS & service orgs that need revenue-generating pipeline | Keynote Speaker | Top Sales Voice ✨#EarnTheRight to your buyer's time & attention ✨

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As a corporate sales trainer and sales-led GTM consultant, I am dedicated to transforming the way your team engages with prospects. Say goodbye to one-sided conversations and hello to meaningful interactions that drive results. 

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💡 Why Choose The Sales-Led GTM Agency? 💡

🚀 Extensive C-Suite Enterprise Selling Experience: With 15 years spent in C-suite enterprise selling, I have opened doors and penetrated the biggest logos, including AT&T, KraftHeinz, Walmart, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan, Verizon, and Target. I understand the intricacies of navigating high-level negotiations and building fruitful partnerships.

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Go from 0.02% to 30% reply rates by stopping one habit: 
Treating every signal like permission to pitch.


The signals they used did not change. 

Their sales messaging did.


Most reps get a notification, a job change, a webinar attendance, a pricing page visit, and they send the same outreach. 

Different trigger, same email. 

That mismatch is what kills trust before you ever earn the meeting.


I use a framework called POV to fix this. 

It sorts every signal into one of three buckets based on where the buyer actually is, not where you want them to be.

Join me for a live convo on how to decode signals here: https://bit.ly/3OKgMFy



📌 POV SIGNAL FRAMEWORK:

P is for Problem Unaware. 

A new job title, a funding announcement, a leadership change. 

These signals tell you something has shifted in their world, not that they are ready to talk to a vendor. 


O is for Option Aware. 

Your prospect downloaded a white paper or attended a webinar. 

They know a problem exists but they are still figuring out what solving it even looks like (or even if it’s worth solving). 

This is where most reps blow it by jumping straight to a pitch. 

Instead, keep educating and become a trusted resource while you have their attention.


V is for Vendor Aware. 

Pricing page visits, direct product questions, competitor comparisons. 
Now they are evaluating options to move from the status quo. 

Your job is to remove friction and provide answers that make it easier to buy from you.



The wrong message at the wrong moment does not just underperform. 

It actively destroys trust you already worked hard to build.


📌 I am going deeper on this with Mixmax AI on March 18th. 

Join Heath Barnett 🤙 & Melissa Gaglione ⭐️ and me  LIVE to learn how to decode your signals and use them to build and close pipeline: https://bit.ly/3OKgMFy

Leslie Venetz 

USA Today Bestselling Author | Keynote & SKO Speaker | Sales Strategist for Orgs That Outbound ✨ #EarnTheRight ✨ 2026 Goals: Read More Books & Pet More Dogs

Open article: Live Webinar: the difference between market signals and engagement signals for sales by bit.ly

Live Webinar: the difference between market signals and engagement signals for sales

Justin Rowe

Founder/CMO @ Impactable - B2B LinkedIn Ads Agency | Acquired in 2021 | 2x Acquisitions in 2024 | Making things up as I go

From Restaurant Hustle to LinkedIn Agency Founder → Acquired → Now Scaling the #1 LinkedIn Ads Agency

I went from serving tables to serving over 1,000 clients in 30+ countries - and building an agency that was acquired in an all-cash buyout.

Starting in the restaurant industry, I had a hunger for something more (pun intended). I turned to LinkedIn to document my journey and connect with people. That content led to job offers, investor conversations, and even a deal to co-launch a restaurant franchise.

I saw the power of LinkedIn firsthand and started helping others. That side hustle turned into Linknlearn, a global lead gen agency built entirely through Upwork and LinkedIn outreach. I became the #1 ranked LinkedIn expert on Upwork, launched a $500 website, and scaled the agency internationally.

In 2021, we were acquired. We pivoted to LinkedIn Ads, launched new tech tools, and Impactable was born.

Today, I lead Impactable — a LinkedIn-Centric B2B Marketing Agency and creators of DemandSense, our proprietary LinkedIn Ads platform. We’ve been recognized by LinkedIn, invited to speak at their Indie Agency Summit, and continue working toward deeper partnerships with their team.

💡 What I’m Focused On Now

👉 Helping B2B brands scale with LinkedIn + Google + Programmatic full-funnel campaigns
👉 Working with clients spending $5K–$200K/month in ad budget to scale high-value pipelines
👉 Building smarter offers, audiences, and funnels through our 90-Day Validation Sprints
👉 Empowering internal marketers with DemandSense: ad scheduling, audience testing, and signal tracking for LinkedIn Ads

🧰 Resources (Free & Paid)

🎯 Free Strategy Resources & Templates
→ linktr.ee/justin_rowe

🛠 LinkedIn Ads Toolset (DemandSense)
→ https://impactable.com/dgp-linkedin-ads-tools/


🎥 LinkedIn Ads + B2B Demand Gen on YouTube
→ https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCATGD6P27kWXDVuaAZeZBuQ/videos

📈 LinkedIn Ads Agency (Done-for-You)
→ https://impactable.com/

💬 Want to Collaborate?

→ Send me a DM if you want to:

Test your audience + offer fit on LinkedIn

Migrate from Google to multichannel demand gen

Build a scalable paid strategy with a trusted partner

Chief Executive Officer

Impactable is a Linkedin Ads Agency that specializes in Linkedin Marketing for B2B companies. We were acquired in 2021 by a data-heavy investor and made a strong pivot into Linkedin advertising. Impactable now manages over 150+ B2B brands with Linkedin advertising being our core focus. 

Other capabilities include website visitor identification, automated Linkedin lead generation, and a few saas tools we are working on.

When anyone asks me to prove I'm good at marketing...
I just send them a photo of my wife. 

I must have stumbled onto some marketing genius that I didn't even know I had to pull that one off. 

I'm sure the comments will say this is AI 😂

CMO @ Impactable | B2B LinkedIn Ads Partners | ABM + Signals | Obsessed with Account and People Signals.

I finally crossed over to the Claude side.
Is it worth the hype?

I've been a ChatGPT loyalist for over a year. It's been my brainstorming partner, my copy machine, my late night "help me think through this" tool.

But I kept hearing people rave about Claude. So I finally gave it a real test. 
Not a toy prompt. 
Real work across our agency.

Here are my top 5 use cases so far.

1. Building LinkedIn audience profiles from a client's website. I copy-paste a client's website and company page into Claude with a targeting prompt I built. 

It gives me back distinct audience segments with exact LinkedIn filters, job titles, company sizes, and even prioritization on which to launch first. 

Work that used to take hours now takes minutes.

2. Competitive research in one shot. 
I feed it 5 to 10 competitor URLs and get back a structured breakdown of positioning, pricing, messaging, and a full SWOT analysis. 

I still validate everything, but the heavy lifting is done before I even open a spreadsheet.

3. Summarizing client call transcripts. 

This is the one that sold me. I drop in a 40-minute call transcript and get a clean summary with key takeaways, action items, and even draft strategy notes. 

The writing actually sounds like a person wrote it, which was my biggest frustration with other tools.

You can connect google drive, google calendar, and gmail all to claude so it just automatically has access to pull in emails, transcripts, look at calendars...and act like a chief of staff or personal assistant. 

4. Ad copy variations for testing. I start with one strong concept from our team and use Claude to generate 10 to 15 variations for A/B testing. 

The structured prompt keeps everything on-brand and the output needs way less editing than what I was getting before.

5. Repurposing long-form content. I feed it a webinar transcript or podcast and get back a blog outline, social posts, pull quotes, and email copy. 

One recording turns into a full week of content.

The tool matters less than people think. 

What actually matters is the quality of what you feed it. 

A lazy prompt gets you generic output no matter which AI you use.

But if you bring your own expertise, your own frameworks, and real inputs like transcripts and data, the output is genuinely useful.

That's the difference between using AI as a shortcut and using it as a multiplier.

Check out the Live event (or register to see recording) - Claude 101 + 5 B2B Marketing Use Cases - https://lnkd.in/g2szqRXP


Additional Resources:
Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

Most B2B teams are running LinkedIn Ads wrong.
Not because the targeting is bad.
Not because the creative is weak.

Because they're treating LinkedIn like a standalone channel - instead of the account-level engine that protects and multiplies the ROI of Google, SEO, and every other dollar they already spend.

Here's what I mean:

Take a company spending $30K/mo on Google Ads.
→ 5,000 clicks, 2% conversion, 10 deals, $3K CAC.
Now add $10K in LinkedIn retargeting on just the top 20% warmest traffic.
→ Warmed conversion rate jumps to 6%.
→ 22 deals instead of 10.
→ CAC drops to $1,818.
→ Incremental return: 36x.

That's not a LinkedIn experiment.

 That's a CFO-friendly math problem.
On March 26, I'm breaking this down live at the Full-Funnel Summit - with real demos, real numbers, and the exact signal-scoring framework we use at Impactable to move accounts from Aware → Engaged → MQL.

3 live walkthroughs. 
Not just a slides-only talk.
I'm logging into Campaign Manager on stage.

If you want to see:
→ How to use Company Hub to surface named accounts moving through your funnel
→ How to de-anonymize Google traffic and push it into LinkedIn for MOF nurture
→ The 30-day BOF window that turns engaged accounts into pipeline
This is the session.

Sound fun? Join me - https://lnkd.in/gCFHrTqr

Daily Chat GPt user for 1 Year + FINALLY switch to Claude
Does it live up to the hype? Practical B2B use cases?

I posted about switching to Claude last week. 192 reactions. 161 comments.

The most common response was some version of "I know I should learn this but I have not had time to figure out what actually works."

So I am doing a live session this Thursday.

30 minutes. Screen-share. 
No slides.
I am walking through Claude from scratch and showing 5 things you can use it for this week.

Here is what I will cover:

1. Generating a full strategy overview for any company from just their website URL
2. Running a competitive analysis that shows you the real white space in your market

3. Auditing Google Ads performance and getting a formatted report with insights in minutes

4. Doing the same for LinkedIn Ads (and showing what the native platform hides from you)

5. Building and segmenting your target audience using LinkedIn filters, technographic data, hiring signals, and paid search intent

Even if you have never opened Claude, you will walk away knowing how to use it.

This Thursday, March 19 at 1:30 PM ET.

Link to register is in the comments.

What use case are you most curious about? 

Drop it below and I will make sure to go deep on it.

Get Started with Claude: 5 B2B Marketing Use Cases in 30 Minutes

I started in restaurants - LinkedIn helped me become a part-owner of a small 4-shop franchise.  That's where I started to learn about marketing. 

Yea...I know..you likely didn't know that about me.

My first experience in marketing was trying to leverage LinkedIn organic, Facebook, and local partnerships to get real humans to come to our physical shop. 

Not exactly the same as B2B marketing lol but it's not so different. 

1. Gain visibility and start with small ponds
Good news is that in the organic game..there are not usually 100+ restaurants trying to dominate the local LinkedIn scene in their city..so it was actually easy for me to stand out and get attention for our new sandwich shop in town. 

This actually led to real revenue and a partnership opportunity. 

2. LinkedIn lead gen - simple but effective. 

A. Created sales navigator list of HR leaders, operation leaders, event leaders at orgs, and company owners, and just sent daily connection requests and links to our menu and pricing...and this led to a big catering business. 

3. Email marketing - we started a little newsletter. 

I know that sounds crazy because we were just like a little sandwich shop so what's the newsletter even about??

I honestly barely remember, but I know we got emails of our customers who signed up for the app or DoorDash, and I'd send a monthly newsletter basically sharing local news, fundraising we were putting on, new sandwiches or shakes on the menu, and maybe an offer/deal. 

Honestly, I was mostly just trying to cover more surface area (top of funnel, I guess 😂 ) to get more humans to get a craving for our sandwiches, soups, and shakes. 

That's how it started...and this sparked my love and curiousity around marketing which later became a side hustle that became an agency that led to an acquisition. 

And yes, that's me before kids, grey hair, and facial hair apparently.

I wrote up a full getting-started guide for Claude.
Not the "here are 47 AI tools you need" kind. 

More like "here's exactly what to do in the first 5 minutes and one use case you can try today."

I broke down how Projects work (this is the real unlock for marketers), how to connect Google Drive and Gmail so Claude has access to your files automatically, and what Skills are and why they matter.

Then I walked through one full use case: how to generate a strategy overview for any company from just their website URL. 

 included the exact prompt.

 Takes about 3 minutes and gives you a structured breakdown of who the company is, what they sell, who they sell to, and how they position themselves.

I use this every time we onboard a new client at our agency. What used to be a couple hours of research is now a starting point I can refine from the first call.

The full walkthrough is in my latest newsletter.

And if you want to see this plus 4 more use cases live with screen-share, I'm doing a 30-minute session this Thursday at 1:30 PM ET.

 I'll cover competitive analysis, Google Ads auditing, LinkedIn Ads auditing, and how to build and segment your target audience using LinkedIn filters, technographic data, and hiring signals.

What's the first thing you'd use Claude for if you had 10 minutes to try it?

Getting started in 5 minutes and generating a strategy overview for any company from just their website URL. I posted about switching to Claude last w

Open article: Claude for B2B Marketers: A Quick Start Guide (Plus a Use Case You Can Steal) by Justin Rowe • 5 min read

Claude for B2B Marketers: A Quick Start Guide (Plus a Use Case You Can Steal)

Spending 30 hours to vibe code something that saves you $50/mo is not genius… u just suck at math

Treat LinkedIn like a networking event.

That mental shift changes everything.

At the DemandShift Summit, I shared something I think people miss about LinkedIn growth.

Posting content is only half the equation.
The other half is what happens after.

Imagine you give a short talk at a networking event and someone walks up and says:

“𝘏𝘦𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘟,𝘠,𝘡 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

You wouldn’t say “Thanks 🙏” and walk away.

You’d engage them, ask a question, and continue the conversation.

LinkedIn works the same way.

When someone comments on your post, treat it like a real interaction. 

Expand the idea, ask their perspective, and actually add something to the discussion.

Two things happen when you do this:
➡️ You build real relationships
➡️ The algorithm amplifies the interaction

Posting creates visibility but it's real conversation that creates momentum.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#LinkedInGrowth #PersonalBrand #ThoughtLeadership #B2BMarketing #RelationshipMarketing

Today CJ Craig hits her one-year mark at Impactable.

In 12 months she’s completely revamped our initial 100-day client journey, helped us move into a real mid-market offering, and straight-up elevated client success across the board.

The result isn’t just prettier docs. 

The team feels more proud of their work. 

We’re doing better, deeper work with fewer clients and higher revenue per client and she was a great force in that direction for us. 

She's also been a great champion of our team and moral booster as we navigate the ups and downs of startup/agency journey (which is not easy). 

CJ, thank you for the leadership, the details, and for making us choose quality over quantity. 

Proud to have you on the team. 

Here’s to year two.

Pro LinkedIn hack to 10x visibility
Comment "This is utter nonsense" on 20 posts daily

Do this and tell me your profile views, engagement, and organic reach of your actual posts doesn't 5-10x.

PSA: Don't actually do this 😂 

But there is a valuable point here...the things that "work" to get vanity metrics. you track can 100% be gamed....but how much actual valuable growth would really come from this...none I'd guess. 

And yet marketing leaders chase all sorts of "hacks" like this every week. 

Things that help show a bump in "metrics" while doing nothing for the actual business. 

Some examples:
-running top of funnel lead gen forms to a cold audience with a fluffy lead magnet that your intern made...great to show "leads" but don't waste sales time with those

-making posts on LinkedIn about how you hate AI or how you got a bad DM...great for impressions on LInkedIn but likely no use or relevance to what you actually sell

-Cutting out LInkedIn ads spend because it's hard to prove and doubling down on Google ads because it's showing all the conversions

-spending 50 hours learning and creating V1 stuff in AI or claude code just so you can make cool posts and talk down to the peons who have a life all the while we all know whatever you launched won't actually still be in real production use to clients 90-days from now

If I could give other marketers a few pieces of advice that they for sure did not ask for and would likely not ask me for 😂 

1. Almost all successful engagements I've had with clients and even massive orgs is to start by amplifying what's already working before worrying about anything new

2. Understand the foundations first: what you actually do that's different, unique, craved, and defensible....and targeting should stem from there

3. Always secure warm 1st party audiences and warm digital audience before prioritizing cold accounts

4. Never start with cold native channel targeting before tapping into existing in-market demand if it exists (paid search)

5. Always anchor scaling paid search spend with healthy retargeting frameworks to atually get the most out of competitive paid search traffic

6. Organic and paid ads should not be 2 separate strategies...paid should amplify organic

7. Use paid retargeting to funnel prospects into owned communities for more efficient long term plays

8. Build a personal brand on Linkedin or 1 core channel you choose and take it seriously

9. Pretend it's your money and you have to prove that what you're doing is working...but more importantly that there isn't an even better use of that budget even if it is "working"

10. Be humble and keep a student mentality...we are all just experimenting honestly

Content rarely works the way people expect it to.

Ryan Williams shared a great example of this when we talked about ZenMaid’s podcast.

When they launched it, they weren’t expecting it to go viral.
They focused on consistency instead.

Two episodes per week, one long-form conversation and one shorter format.

Fast forward to today and they’ve crossed 100 episodes and more than 100,000 downloads.

But the most interesting part isn’t the downloads.

It’s what happens next.

Listeners join their Facebook group, subscribe to their newsletter, and start product trials.

Ryan estimates around 300 trials have been attributed to either the host or the podcast.

That’s what a real content engine looks like.

Not one viral moment, but a steady stream of people discovering you and entering the funnel over time.

#DemandGeneration #PodcastMarketing #ContentStrategy #B2BMarketing #AudienceGrowth

If someone visits your website today, what story are they going to see over the next 90 days?

Most companies don’t think that far.

At the DemandShift Summit, I talked about how middle-of-funnel content is where trust is won or lost.

Someone clicked. They showed intent. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭.

Now you have a window.

If you could shape their opinion with 15 carefully chosen pieces of thought leadership over three months, what would you show them?

That’s how I approach retargeting.

Not as a generic reminder campaign.
But as a curated content engine that reinforces authority, expertise, and point of view.

When you control the frequency and the message, you can influence the buying decision long before the sales call.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#DemandGeneration #B2BMarketing #ThoughtLeadership #PaidMedia #Impactable

You might already be the most visible expert in your network.

That was something I shared at the DemandShift Summit that surprised a few people.

Your feed is unique. And so is everyone else’s.

If you’re intimidated by the biggest creators on LinkedIn, here’s the reality. 

Most of your network isn’t following them. 
𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦.

If you show up a few times a week with thoughtful content, you may become the most consistent voice they see.

That proximity matters.

People don’t always follow the most famous expert.
They follow the one who feels relatable.

And that might already be you.

#LinkedInGrowth #ThoughtLeadership #B2BMarketing #PersonalBrand #BuildInPublic

Every one is obsessed or worried about attribution and proving ROI but many arn't taking basic steps to show/prove LinkedIn Ads

Here's the short version
1. With data/privacy shifting, ad pixels like LInkedIn insight tag is missing information and not passing back valuable conversion events back into the platform. 

2. This means that you'll often be flying blind with platform data and not able to see what's really working or not working from a campaign group or ad set level. 

3. This also leads to lack of insights around what audience demographics are working. 

When you have proper conversion data, you'll see things like:
-What company size are we doing better/worse with
-What industries are we doing better/worse with
-What countries are winning in vs need to stop spend

These are the kinds of insights that actually guide us to where to spend money or stop spend and where we need to double down and create more focused messaging for high-impact segments. 

Conversion tracking and attribution is something everyone seems to want to do a little better at so this should be helpful.

How server-side conversion events fix match rates, survive ad blockers, and protect privacy The LinkedIn Insight tag is great, but modern browsers and

Open article: Privacy-first tracking for LinkedIn Ads (Why CAPI Matters) by Justin Rowe • 3 min read

Privacy-first tracking for LinkedIn Ads (Why CAPI Matters)

One of my favorite LinkedIn ad hacks starts with organic.

Here’s the play.

First, post something organically and let it run its normal lifecycle. 

Let the algorithm do its thing and see how people actually respond.

Then after about five or six days, go back and edit the post.

Add a CTA.

Add a link.

Add whatever action you want people to take next.

Then sponsor it as a Thought Leader Ad.

Now you’re not starting from scratch. 

You’re scaling a post that already has engagement, social proof, and a message you know resonates.

Most people treat organic and paid like separate strategies.

The better approach is to let organic validate the idea first, then use paid to amplify it.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#LinkedInAds #DemandGeneration #PaidSocial #B2BMarketing #ThoughtLeadership

Stop complaining about LinkedIn cold pitch DMs.... that's not the issue
Issue is you're building a network of cold selling bots....

The cold pitch-slapping DMs from your new 1st connections is what everyone loves to complain about. 

But where is the accountability and common sense to understand why it's happening and what you can do about it.  

1. 95% of cold pitches come from your new 1st connections
2. YOU ACCEPTED THESE REQUESTS - that's on you...you have any rules about who you accept?  You should...

But but but...Justin...I should be able to accept all the requests I want and just not get pitched.

Yes....but it's kind of like saying you should be able to leave your car unlocked in the bad part of town and not get robbed. 

You're right of course...but what does that actually change? 

The world is still the way the world is and you can either be a complaining victim...or take some small logical steps to protect yourself right?

So here's the rules that fix this
1. Only accept requests from those who you believe will be mutually beneficial
2. Build your own network or be built into everyone elses

-The more powerful thought is this...if you only accept connection requests as your form of growth..you are just being built into a ton of other peoples network for their purposes vs building your own...take control!

3. Send 10-15 targeted connection requests strategically daily

4. 1 intro message, no sales pitch, give value and intro

5. Post valuable content to nurture and educate

6. Don't be afraid to network a bit and mix it up in the comments and on the feed and yes even in the DMs. 

7. Complain less on LinkedIn and post more valuable content. 

And of course, if your CEO asks...it's AI powered of course and you used claude code to do it on auto-pilot.

Your posts and newsletters should be so good people are feeding their AI Agents with YOUR content.

Already people are singing up for newsletters just to be ingested by their AI agents so they can accumulate their trusted brain of knowledge to talk to.

Information is becoming cheaper, faster , and easier….. but a strong POV and TRUSTED expertise will be more rare than ever.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

Marketing Leaders: Here's what Executives actually care about when reporting on LinkedIn Ads for ABM

They don't care about your CPM.
Or your click-through rate. 
Or how many impressions you served last month.

Here's what they actually care about:
1. How many target accounts know we exist?
2. How many are showing real engagement?
3. How many are warm enough to hand to sales?
4. How many turned into pipeline?

That's it. Four numbers are typically more powerful than so many other things. 

 Account movement is the whole story.

I wrote about this recently in my newsletter but it keeps coming up in every client conversation so I want to hammer it home here too.

The old way of reporting LinkedIn was painful. 
You'd show up to a QBR with CPCs and lead form fills and hope nobody asked "so what did we actually get from this?"

 Now LinkedIn shows you which exact companies saw and clicked your ads. That changes the whole reporting conversation.

Here's the simple framework we use at Impactable:
A. ABM Roster: total accounts in your program
B. Aware: accounts with brand exposure (served impressions)
C. Engaged: accounts showing signal activity (30+ impressions, 3+ clicks, video views, company page visits)
D. Warm: accounts in an active bottom of funnel window with multiple personas lighting up
E. MQLs: marketing qualified leads generated

When you can walk into a leadership meeting and say "we started with 500 target accounts, 300 are now aware, 120 are engaged, 40 are warm, and 10 converted to MQL" that is a fundamentally different conversation than showing a CPM report.

The key insight that changed things for us: you do not need a form fill to show progress.

You need accounts lighting up. 

When leadership sees a heatmap of their target accounts with multiple personas engaging, the conversation shifts from "is marketing doing anything" to "how do we hand these off to sales."

LinkedIn Company Hub is where most of this data lives. 

You can filter accounts by impression thresholds and click activity, see which personas are engaging at each account, and export those lists directly to your CRM. 

DemandSense takes it further with breakdowns by industry, company size, and job title so you can have real conversations about exactly who you're reaching and where they are in the funnel.

On March 26, I'm breaking this exact framework down live at the Full-Funnel Summit with real demos inside Campaign Manager and DemandSense. 

Three live walkthroughs showing how to pull these numbers, build the one-slide executive scorecard, and surface the named accounts that get sales and leadership actually excited.

If you've ever struggled to prove LinkedIn is working before the pipeline shows up, this session is for you.

Link to register here: https://lnkd.in/ga3vaThx

Warm audiences are the most underutilized asset in B2B marketing.

At the DemandShift Summit, I challenged something I see all the time.

Teams pour the majority of their budget into cold campaigns while ignoring the people who have already raised their hand.

💻️ You already have website visitors.
👥 You already have company page visitors.
🪪 You already have engaged prospects, email subscribers, and pipeline sitting in your CRM.

And chances are, you already have content that’s working.

There are specific posts that consistently generate inbound interest. They spark DMs, attract ICP-fit comments, and move conversations forward. 

Those aren’t vanity metrics. They’re signals.

Instead of creating something entirely new for paid, amplify what’s already proven and show it to the people who are already warm.

If you want help turning your warm audiences into real revenue, that’s exactly what we build at Impactable.

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277 of the "cool kids" are learning Claude 101 basics + 5 Practical b2b use cases today link below to register 👇 

If you know anything about me, you know I'm more of a practical and tactical guy vs just trying to do things overly complicated that appear technically impressive but not overly useful to the average person. 

And in this quick 30-min recorded session I'm not claiming to be a master of Claude or to have 27 agents run your business. 

1. I'll show you how to just get started from nothing...like day 1 Claude stuff
2. You'll walk away at least understanding what the hype is all about and some cool practical ideas of how you could use it. 
3. You'll understand how projects work and how the connectors work and what the Claude skills are and why you should care. 
4. You'll see why "prompt engineering" might not really be a thing any more and into the future
5. Why I switched from ChatGPT to Claude (and likely why you should too). 

It's no fluff, no BS, no slides...just a super basic overview that's super helpful to anyone who's just getting started with Claude or curious to and for my marketing friends who are looking to steal some cool AI workflows I use in my agency. 

Sign up! Even if you can't make it live you'll get access to the recording and I'll follow up with exact prompts and skills I use : )

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