Marketing @ KlientBoost - The Performance Marketing Agency

Struggling to make your paid ads profitable? I can help.

I've generated $50M+ pipeline (& counting) for B2B Tech and SaaS companies through content marketing, paid search, and paid social demand generation and GTM strategies.

"We've never been able to make paid ads work for us." — common feedback from happy B2B clients.

Some of the leading minds in B2B follow my content for fresh LinkedIn and Google Ads growth recipes.

Right now, I'm leading marketing @ KlientBoost to add $250K MRR using the exact same strategies, principles, & processes we roll out for clients.

Here's how we can help you: 
- Done for you marketing—starts with a free marketing plan
- Fresh growth recipes to your inbox—klientboost.com/kitchen
- Follow me on LinkedIn to learn the latest winning B2B strategies

Got a burning question about B2B paid ads? My inbox is always open too.

LFGTM 🤘

Patrick Cumming

Two years ago, I'd drop a carousel on LinkedIn and get 300+ new ICP followers.

Last week, I posted what might be my most valuable carousel yet and got <50 followers.

LinkedIn is officially pay to play.

The bad news: Organic growth and lead gen just got harder.

The good news: You can stop chasing viral posts. Write for your audience knowing you'll promote it later.

Here's how I'm adapting my approach to the new age of LinkedIn "pay-to-play" social selling:

1. Create a list of the most common pain points your target audience is facing and add it to a spreadsheet.

2. For each pain point, summarize your POV on the problem and the solution you provide to solve that problem. Add these into new columns.

3. Aim for 7-10 common pain points. I call these category entry points. They're the problems your audience faces that move them from out-market to in-market.

4. Write 1-2 posts per pain point. This gives you 10-15 posts targeting your ICP with content that actually matters to them.

5. Publish 1 post per day over the next 2 weeks. Let them build organic engagement for 48-72 hours before promoting.

6. Before you hit publish, add a P.S. section at the end of each post with a short description of your main offer and a link to the offer page. Keep it simple and relevant to the pain point you just addressed.

7. Promote every post as a thought-leader ad. Now, you can push these posts to the exact audience you're trying to reach. Let your in-platform attribution data tell you what is and isn't working, not the organic algo.

I've been piloting this approach for ~30 days to a B2B SaaS audience and we're already seeing a lift in qualified inbound.

We're spending ~50% less to do it too.

If you're only relying on organic reach, you're leaving 90% of your ICP on the table.

The new play isn't groundbreaking, but it works.

It's what we should've been doing all along: understand your audience, write what they need to hear, and distribute it where they actually are.

And if you're serious about making LinkedIn a predictable revenue channel in 2025, you should be testing it.

Who's in?

Here's a fast and dirty way to estimate your optimal 2026 marketing budget, best suited to $1M-20M ARR B2Bs prioritizing demand capture and in-market audiences:

How to Calculate (and Sell) Your 2026 Marketing Budget

I was totally wrong about LinkedIn thought-leader ads.

For most of 2025, I told my followers to only promote organic posts that hit 100+ engagements.

It made sense. Until the algo changed and killed organic reach overnight.

Posts I knew my audience would usually love started getting <50 engagements.

I didn't trust the algorithm to tell me what's good anymore.

So I made a bet that felt risky: stop chasing engagement. Only write content solving marketing-related pain points for our priority ICP.

Marketing leaders at $10-100M ARR B2B SaaS companies.

I knew engagement would tank. I didn't care. I'd put paid behind everything anyway.

Here's what happened when I tested it last month:

Post with <50 organic engagements:
- 14s+ dwell time
- 4.6% CTR

Post with 100+ organic engagements:
- 12s dwell time
- 2.8% CTR

The post the algorithm ignored performed 64% better with paid spend.

This pattern repeated across multiple posts. The data was clear.

Organic engagement is a vanity metric. Paid performance is the only metric that matters because it tells you what your true ICP thinks of your content. That's all that matters.

Here's the new thought-leader ad flywheel I recommend for B2Bs who want more LinkedIn Ads pipeline:

1. Pull transcripts from every first-touch call of closed deals in the last 12 months

2. Identify the 5-7 pain points that come up repeatedly

3. Write thought-leader posts addressing each pain point using PAS or AIDA frameworks

4. Let posts sit for 48-72 hours, then add a soft CTA with a URL

5. Move every post to your thought-leader campaign regardless of organic performance

6. Analyze paid metrics only: dwell time, CTR, and inbound volume

7. Double down on what's working in paid, not what performed organically

We're already tracking a 60% increase in B2B SaaS SQLs vs the previous 2 months.

During November. One of the quietest months of the year.

The takeaway isn't that organic is dead. You can still win there.

But LinkedIn is aggressively moving to pay-to-play.

Stop optimizing for the algorithm. Start optimizing for your ICP.

Better to adopt this now before everyone else does and the law of shitty click throughs catches up.

Every new marketing trend is "the one"... Until it flops.

Work with an agency that doesn't believe in shiny objects—only incredibly well executed marketing.

Here's a no-BS framework to generate more SQLs with LinkedIn Ads, best suited to B2B SaaS companies tired of optimizing for a funnel that doesn't match how buyers actually buy:

The 4-Step Demand Gen Strategy To Increase SQLs

If I was a Head of Marketing at a $50M ARR B2B SaaS expanding into a new market, this is the exact 6-step paid ads play I'd run:

1. Use Ahrefs to analyze in-market category keyword volume in your new market. High volume means launch Google Ads first. Low volume means start with a LinkedIn demand generation play.

2. For Google Ads: Calculate budget by multiplying avg. CPC by clicks needed to hit your demo target using current demo form conversion rates from paid search.

3. For LinkedIn: Build your target segment and calculate budget to hit 80%+ reach and 10+ frequency over 90 days using cost per 1,000 member accounts reached benchmarks.

4. If budget is too tight, shrink your audience. Pick one job title or industry to saturate first. Add new segments incrementally as more budget opens up.

5. Start with creative that's already working in existing regions. Pain points rarely vary much by geography anyway. Scale what performs in the new market. Pause what worked elsewhere but fails here. Test 2-3 new creative angles per month.

6. If you're not seeing booked demos within 2 weeks, targeting is broken. Switch from native targeting to a company account list. Turn off audience expansion. Exclude any job titles who don't fill out demo forms based on historic data.

I ran this exact play for a 5-figure ACV B2B SaaS last year and pipeline was higher in Q4 than any other quarter that year.

That's pretty rare for most B2B companies that aren't in hyper-growth.

Expanding into new markets can feel daunting, but it's actually fairly straightforward when you approach it with data-driven performance marketing principles instead of guessing your way through it.

Who's testing this out in 2026?

—

P.S. Struggling to hit your paid ads pipeline targets? Have a KlientBoost - The Performance Marketing Agency Growth Strategist build your free marketing plan with proven new tactics like this one. It's fully personalized to your audience, industry, and goals.

Hit the link to request yours: https://lnkd.in/ediU_-Ru

Nobody really shares the brutal reality of day-to-day marketing on LinkedIn. 

I admit I'm part of the problem because I share as many wins as possible. It's good for business, okay?

But, reflecting on the last 12 months in this role, it wasn't always easy or pretty.

Here are the 5 biggest and scariest mistakes I made (typos not included). Hopefully there's a few lessons in there for you too:

1. Pulled $10K from Google Ads in April and tanked pipeline. Based on lift analysis, I estimate non-brand Google is driving ~50% more inbound than we can track. You have to validate attribution data with incrementality testing. Tracking alone isn't reliable.

2. Fumbled the KlientBoost Kitchen launch. I thought if content was world-class it would grow itself. Big mistake. As soon as I started promoting it regularly (thanks Kimberlee Meier), views and downloads went up 20X. Btw, don't be afraid to post links, it does work.

3. Didn't set any clear output goals. My logic was if we hire great people, output will sort itself out. The opposite happened. Nobody knew what to prioritise so we worked on 1,000 ideas but didn't ship enough in Q3. We're now aligned on output goals and are shipping more than ever.

4. Didn't act on research fast enough. We interviewed 182 marketing leaders in May and didn't synthesise it into content ideas until November. We're already seeing an increase in LinkedIn-sourced SQLs in Q4 since framing content around the findings. 

5. Could have pushed LinkedIn Ads ROI higher with segmentation. We went broad because most target industries have overlapping category entry points. But, we've realised it's SUPER important for prospects to feel like we get their biz and industry. Segmented campaigns are the best way to show them we do.

6. Spent $8K sponsoring a newsletter and FORGOT TO ADD THE UTM CODE. Seriously, who does that? It was super annoying because we had a HUGE incremental lift in SQLs but I couldn't attribute ANY of it directly back to the newsletter. That would have been EXTRA, important proof.

I'd be lying if I said it was always easy to shake off the mistakes. 

There were moments where it made me question if I was any good or what business I had posting about how to do marketing when I can't get it right day-to-day myself.

But, the truth is, the mistakes ARE part of the process. And, if you're trying to push boundaries, like we are, they're unavoidable.

Just gotta make sure you're always reflecting, learning, and adapting.

🤘

If I listened to what everybody says on LinkedIn, I'd have killed ads that generate the most pipeline.

Our best performing ads break every rule "experts" on here preach:

- Overused "If I was an [insert job title]" hooks
- Multiple em-dashes throughout the copy
- Direct sales CTAs to cold audiences

All things everybody says not to do.

Yet these ads drive more influenced pipeline and revenue than any other format we've tested.

(And only take 15 mins to write too by the way 😉)

The disconnect is real. LinkedIn's loudest voices optimise for engagement and vanity metrics. But engagement doesn't pay the bills. Revenue does.

Most advice you see is based on what performs well in the feed, not what actually converts prospects into customers. There's a massive difference.

This is why data-driven decisions matter more than popular opinion. Test what the crowd says doesn't work. Track it against pipeline, not likes or comments.

You'll be surprised how often the "wrong" approach is exactly what your B2B needs.

Stop letting the loud minority dictate your strategy. Let your pipeline data do the talking instead.

graphical user interface, text, application, email

The traditional funnel framework is broken.

TOFU, MOFU, BOFU assumes buyers move in a straight line.

They don't.

So I stopped forcing campaigns into funnel stages and started building around real buyer behaviour instead.

Now I run two campaign types that match how B2B buyers actually behave:

1. Demand generation campaigns target our entire target audience.

These campaigns have 2 goals:

- Attract in-market buyers in our audience
- Build recall with out-market prospects

Both goals can easily be achieved with the same ad providing it:

- Agitates a painful problem
- Highlights a desired outcome
- Shows a point of differentiation
- Positions your product as the solution

This will only work if you're hitting:

- 80%+ audience penetration
- 10+ frequency

And use strategic messaging backed by data.

That means talking about what your audience is needs to hear.

Not what you want to say.

2. Demand capture campaigns increase ad frequency for in-market buyers.

These campaigns exist to:

- Increase recall with in-market buyers
- Overcome objections
- Generate revenue

Here's how we build them:

Generic retargeting is out.

We only target high-intent behaviors:

- Service pages, pricing pages, offer pages.
- AI-driven intent signals from Dreamdata

Finally, we add strict audience filters to block poor-fit prospects from wasting budget.

We don't exclude active pipeline from targeting either.

We keep reinforcing why we're the right choice until the deal closes.

Because they're not won until they're won.

Funnel stages work great if buyers follow a script.

But they don't.

So we stopped marketing to a model and started marketing to reality.

P.S. I'm running a webinar tomorrow at 10 AM ET / 3 PM GMT walking through this new approach to LinkedIn Ads. Here's the link to sign up: https://lnkd.in/eVwT2E4E

Last year, a client and I hit a wall that made no sense.

We were running LinkedIn Ads to a high-value audience segment. We did everything by the book:

- Matched budget to audience size
- Consolidated campaigns
- Optimized for reach
- World-class creative
- Ran experiments to drive CPM down

But we couldn't push audience penetration past 60%.

That meant 40% of our target decision makers weren't seeing our ads.

It was driving me insane until I realized what was actually happening.

That 40% we couldn't reach weren't actually active on LinkedIn.

So I came to the next call with the fix: expand to Meta Ads.

But it wouldn't work with native targeting, so we needed a different playbook.

Here's what I recommended:

1. Use a 3rd party audience tool to get LinkedIn-level targeting precision on Meta Ads (we use Primer for this).

2. Take any wasted LinkedIn Ads budget and put into Meta Ads. CPMs are cheaper so you probably won't need additional budget.

3. Launch with the top 5 creative from your LinkedIn Ads campaigns. Those are the ads with the highest CTRs, dwell times, and CVRs to pipeline.

We're now recommending that same strategy to all of our clients who've plateaued on LinkedIn Ads.

The best part is you're not restricted to Meta Ads either.

You can take that same audience and target them on Google, Reddit, or YouTube, depending on where your audience is most active.

Next Wednesday, I'm running a 30-minute LinkedIn Live with Primer Co-Founder Keith Putnam-Delaney covering 7 new strategies like this to generate B2B pipeline from B2C channels.

Here's the link to sign up: https://lnkd.in/ebftE7nC

Customer interviews are overrated.

There, I said it.

Most marketers treat them like gospel. But here's what they actually tell you: why existing customers love your product.

That's useful. But it's not the data you need to 10X performance.

Because your customers aren't your prospects.

Your prospects are still in pain. They're still searching. They haven't bought yet.

And that's the mindset you need to understand if you want your ads to drive serious pipeline.

So where do you find it?

First sales call transcripts.

Not the second or third call. The FIRST one.

This is where prospects tell you exactly why they showed up and what they're hoping you'll solve.

Here's a workflow we use to mine that data:

1. Extract a call summary from every first sales call
2. Export the data to ChatGPT (or your fav AI tool)
3. Assess the top 5-7 pains, gains, and jobs to be done
4. Use their exact words to build ad content

We rolled this out for a new campaign targeting B2B SaaS marketing leaders.

We're already seeing a 40% lift in B2B SaaS SQLs vs the previous 2 months.

No extra budget. Just tighter messaging based on what prospects actually care about before they buy.

The best part? This is way more accessible than running 50 customer interviews.

You're already recording sales calls. The data is sitting there waiting for you to use it.

Start mining it today and watch your messaging shift from generic to impossible to ignore.

The biggest myth in marketing is that it takes time.

That's a cope for ineffective marketing.

I put this to the test last month to prove it doesn't take time to make marketing work.

Here's what I did:

- Pulled a list of cold B2B SaaS accounts from Clay
- Created thought-leader ads ONLY targeting them
- Each ad showed how to solve one of the 7 most common pain points SaaS marketing leaders come to us for
- Calculated budget needed to reach 80% audience penetration and 10 frequency in 30 days
- Hammered the cold accounts with highly relevant ads for 30 days

I just ran the analysis and the results were even better than I expected.

7 accounts booked high-intent calls and every single one became an SQL after qualification.

100% conversion rate to SQL.

50% lift in B2B SQLs vs September and October.

Cost/SQL was $925, which was ~40% lower than our typical LinkedIn Ads Cost/SQL.

The CPMs were WAY higher than I expected, so we didn't even hit the audience penetration and frequency goals I wanted. We finished on 60% audience penetration and 6 frequency.

Imagine what we could have done if we had.

The bottom line is that 5% of your audience is in-market and it's almost impossible for you to know who.

When you optimize for this fact and saturate your entire target audience with high frequency you WILL convert cold prospects to booked calls and demos within 30 days.

No nurturing required. No funnels required. No warming required.

Last year, a $1B+ B2B brought us in to run LinkedIn Ads to 200+ high-value target accounts.

We were optimising for clicks and conversions but no matter what we did, we couldn't reach more than 50% of our target accounts.

I pitched them something risky:

Stop optimising for clicks and conversions. Start optimising for reach.

This was considered bad practice on paid social. But, I had a hunch that the algo was prioritising distribution to the most active users. That meant 50% of our audience weren't seeing ads.

I also had a feeling the algo didn't understand the audience well enough to know who was most likely to click. If we ran this strategy we'd not only reach more accounts, but CTR would at least stay the same.

We ran a quick pilot A/B test and results were promising: 14% lower CPM meant we reached more accounts and no change in CTR.

We rolled out the strategy across the account.

3 months later and we'd reached 98% of those 200+ target accounts AND increased CTR from 0.5% to 2%+.

Even better results than we expected. No extra budget needed.

Here's why it worked:

1. We calculated budget using real CPM data so we knew we had enough to reach 80% of our audience with 10+ frequency every 90 days.

2. We promoted product-led content that tackled key pain points target decision makers faced that made them more likely to click.

3. Using the awareness objective set to optimise reach meant we could force the algorithm to push content to more accounts.

4. Because we understood our audience better than the algorithm we created content that increased CTR without needing to optimise for clicks and limit reach.

We're now using a similar process on our own account to reach 80%+ of our audience with 4%+ CTRs.

It wasn't just a one off win. 

It's a repeatable framework any B2B can apply to reach more accounts and generate more pipeline with LinkedIn Ads.

Next Wednesday at 10AM ET / 4PM CET, I'm teaching you the full playbook in a 1-hour LinkedIn live session with Dreamdata CMO Steffen Hedebrandt.

Sign up using the link in the comments 👇

I've shared a new LinkedIn Ads playbook every week in Q4 to help B2B SaaS companies hit their demo targets.

I'm 100% confident the playbooks work. But they'll still fail for many companies that try them.

Not because the steps are wrong. Because the creative is weak.

Here are 7 principles for creating strong ad creatives that drive more booked demos:

1. One message per ad. Don't cram every feature and benefit into one creative. 7 ads with 1 message > 1 ad with 7 messages.

2. Lead with the pain, finish with the gain. People are 10X more motivated to avoid pain than chase gain, so hook with the problem they're running from.

3. Always relate ads back to your product. That's how you build recall so prospects remember you when they're ready to buy.

4. Clear beats clever. If your ad takes more than 3 seconds to understand, it will fail. Leave no doubt about how you can help.

5. Call out the ICP in the hook. This makes sure users know the ad is for them. That gets more of the right eyes on your content.

6. Add a sales CTA at the end. If your content is valuable, prospects won't mind a soft sales message. This works even on cold audiences.

7. Write what your audience wants to hear, not what you want to say. For example, my audience cares about pipeline, so I write about pipeline.

Most companies blame the playbook when campaigns don't work.

But the playbook usually isn't broken. The creative is.

Fix the creative first. Then suddenly the playbooks start working like they're meant to.

I just finished analyzing our 2025 LinkedIn Ads performance.

We spent ~$190K to generate ~$2.5M ARR and ~13X ROAS.

In 2026, I think we can do even better. Here's how I'm restructuring the account based on what worked and what didn't.

Demand Generation

I'm cutting single image ads completely. The avg. CAC was $4.1K which is way too high.

We put the same spend into ungated document ads and got a $1K CAC. I'm pushing 40% of our 2026 budget into these.

Thought Leader Ads and CTV Ads had ~$1.7K CAC so I will put the remaining budget into those formats.

All 3 campaigns used content heavily focussed on showing prospects we could solve painful problems. We knew what pain points to address because we pulled them from 100s of sales call transcripts.

Do not guess this step.

Demand Capture

The same single image ads that didn't work for demand generation worked insanely well here. We had a $58 in-platform CAC.

I suspect you can get away with single images more when prospects are already bought-in.

Outcome-related content worked better here than case studies or testimonials. The ads simply showed prospects avg. ROI lift we get and the % of clients who hit their agreed goals with us.

I will push 60% of retargeting budget here.

Spotlight ads had a $40 in-platform CAC so we will continue to run these. You can get high audience penetration and frequency on these for very little budget, so I'll push 10% of budget here.

Video case studies had a $150 CAC, so I will put the remaining 30% of budget here.

2026 Experiments

I want to test more conversation ads variations in the demand capture layer. We booked a lot of calls from these in demand generation, but conversion rate to closed/won was pretty much non-existent.

I also tried multiple tactics for promoting webinars and nothing has really worked yet either. So, that's another problem I want to solve for.

We saw a very strong correlation between increased LinkedIn spend and increased pipeline numbers. We had the most pipeline in Q1 and Q3 when we spent the most on LinkedIn. And the least amount of pipeline in Q2 and Q4 when we spent the least.

Most B2Bs in the $10-100M range are terrified to run thought-leader ads, CTV, and ungated documents.

Which is exactly why these campaigns crush it.

CPMs are WAY lower for native formats that prospects actually enjoy consuming. You get premium inventory for a fraction of the price of expensive inventory that doesn't work.

If you're unsure how to evolve your LinkedIn Ads in 2026, this structure is your best starting point.

A few weeks ago I posted a LinkedIn Ads strategy to generate more qualified demos for B2B SaaS companies.

I was so confident in it, I launched it on our own account to prove it works.

After 30 days, the results are in:

- 1 closed deal
- 13 high-intent, qualified leads that booked calls with sales

More of those will turn to SQLs this month after they book follow-up calls (usually a 1-2 week lag).

And LinkedIn underreports actual influence. So that's low-balling it.

This strategy was not complicated. It took less than 2 hours total to set up.

If you want to emulate it, here's what you need to do:

1. Build an account list you can fully saturate with your budget

2. Create 7-10 thought-leader ads teaching prospects how to solve painful problems

3. Add a URL that sends in-market users to a demo or book a call page

4. Set campaign objective to awareness and optimize for reach with a 7 freq cap

5. After week 1, kill ads with low landing page CTR and create more posts similar to those with high CTR

It took me around 90 mins to write the posts and around 30 to set up the campaign.

But here's the big caveat.

This strategy will NOT work if the content quality is vague, low-relevance, and disconnected from the problem you solve.

This worked for us because I built the posts around pain points we discovered after interviewing nearly 200 ICP prospects and analyzing hundreds more sales calls.

You can emulate the settings, but if you skip that step, this strategy WILL fail.

But if you get it right, you might find you're back on track to hit those tough Q4 demo targets.

Who's testing this?

CPM is a vanity metric. Track cost per 1,000 member accounts reached if you want more pipeline.

CPM measures impressions. Not unique accounts. You could be hammering the same people over and over while missing new in-market buyers.

I've seen this play out in our LinkedIn Ads account:

Campaign A: $69 CPM, $102 cost per 1,000 accounts reached
Campaign B: $52 CPM, $250 cost per 1,000 accounts reached

Campaign A also had an 4X higher conversion rate to pipeline.

Lower CPM doesn't always mean better reach. It often means wasted frequency.

Here's how to check yours:

1. Go to columns
2. Select delivery
3. Scroll all the way right

CPM and cost per 1,000 member accounts sit next to each other.

4. Sort by lowest cost per 1,000 accounts
5. Cross-check conversion rates to pipeline

If your low cost per 1,000 accounts reached also have higher pipeline conversion rates, kill the "cheap CPM" ones and reallocate budget.

It's not gonna transform pipeline overnight.

But making small optimizations like that over the next 90 days will make it a whole lot healthier.

Breaking B2B

B2B/SaaS SEO for revenue not vanity.

Try the weekly podcast, newsletter or apply to work with us: https://www.breakingb2b.com/

Founder & Host

WEB CHOICE

Co-Owner (Exited) 

Digital Marketing Specialist

Mighty Marketing Group

Head Of Sales

Head of Digital

Digital Solutions Manager

Business Development Manager

Web Choice UK Ltd

Head of New Business Development / Sales for Web Choice UK. 
Key job roles include: 

- New Business Development (Inbound Marketing, Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Networking, Researched Cold Calling, Canvassing, Working incoming Leads)
- Nurturing leads from initial point of contact right through to successful conversion
- Building High-End Proposal Documents 
- Pitching to and winning contracts for Blue Chip Companies
- Personally Responsible for Winning Substantial Contracts
- Account Management for Key Clients
- Helping clients to add real value to their business with a Tailored, Fresh and Innovative approach
- Tailoring Long-Term and Effective Web and Marketing Strategies 
- Working closely with the Sales, Design and Development team and continuing to deliver World Class Web Development, eCommerce, App Development and Digital Marketing Solutions.

Sales & Marketing Manager

Part of the leading Sales Team at Web Choice UK.
This role involved working with clients on an International Level to provide Highly Professional Responsive Website Design, Website Development and Online Marketing Solutions.

Job roles included:

- Generating Leads and Sales
- Client Account Management
- Working with a range of Microsoft products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.) 
- Preparing proposals and pitches
- Working closely with the design and development team

Business Development Executive

B2B SEO & Web Design For Revenue Not Vanity | DM To Discuss | Host @ Business Growth Show (Top 10 B2B Marketing Podcast, Cognism)

Your website struggling to drive a steady flow of qualified demos/leads?
Tired of losing leads to competitors ranking higher on Google/AI?
Frustrated your current agency isn't delivering results?

WE CAN FIX THAT.

OUR GROWTH STRATEGIES:

→ SEO to get top of Google & LLMs, bringing revenue-focused traffic and leads
→ Start driving pipeline from AI and Google organic as fast as 90 days
→ Web design that builds trust and drives leads and sales

BREAKING B2B - B2B MARKETING & DEMAND GENERATION PODCAST

Grow your b2b/SaaS company without the BS. Weekly top 2.5% podcast with actionable marketing tips to grow your revenue: www.breakingb2b.com

STILL NOT CONVINCED?

→ See our work, client results & starting rates here: www.breakingb2b.com

BOOK A CALL:

💻: www.breakingb2b.com
📧: Connect & DM Me
✉️: sam@samdunning.org

CORE SERVICES:

→ B2B SEO strategy and execution
→ Content marketing
→ Digital marketing for SaaS

WHY BREAKING B2B?

→ We focus on revenue, not vanity metrics
→ Our strategies are data-driven and results-oriented
→ We have a proven track record with B2B and SaaS companies
→ Our podcast (Breaking B2B) gives you free, valuable insights into B2B marketing

About time your website became your best (24/7) salesperson?
Get in touch today, and let's start growing your business.

P.S.
Agencies: We offer white-label SEO to help you deliver results on time and within budget.

Sam Dunning

Breaking B2B hit $138k MRR in 21 months. Here’s my 7 bets to break $200k ASAP in 2026:

1. Improve time to value.

One thing I hate about the SEO industry is pointless month long technical audits to collect cash.

We’ve just shrunk our onboarding flow to start executing on a game-plan one week from sign up.

Then we work on audits / reviews if needed whilst making progress to drive pipeline.

I still wanna speed this up.

2. SEO/AEO.

Gotta keep practising what we preach.

Showing top when high intent prospects search on Google and LLMs looking for a SaaS SEO agency.

3. Niche influencer partnerships.

Working with founders who have our ICP (SaaS marketing leaders and founders) to run their SEO engine.

Right now working with Adam Robinson @ RB2B and Adam Holmgren @ Fibbler.

We all share the full roadmap ups and downs here in public.

The trust this builds is unbeaten.

Looking to bring another founder with a strong following in our ICP onboard.

4. YouTube and podcast. 

Hardly any b2b companies are nailing YT.

We share our full playbooks weekly on SaaS SEO & AI search.

With top notch production from Samu and team.

Not only are this vids evergreen and searchable but we cut them up to publish here.

More and more prospects now mention they’ve seen our videos on sales calls.

Also interviewing SaaS mktg leaders on the Breaking B2B podcast to share how they drive growth today.

5. Founder brand.

I try to do the opposite of most SEO agencies. 

Memes.
Music videos.
SEO man skits.
Ask the public series.
Share our full SEO playbooks.

And a tonne more.

Get attention first then link back to our offer.

6. LinkedIn ads.

Making top organic posts thought leader ads and serving them to site traffic from all above activity.

Also targeting cold ICP.

Shout-out to George for running this engine for us. 

7. Deliver 5% extra.

We’re working to systematise an at least weekly value-add on top of our usual monthly works for every client.

Could be a loom video with CRO ideas, some free web dev, blog reccos or anything else to help drive growth.

My theory is this keep churn down and increases word of mouth recommendations.

Recently been blessed with folks mentioning we are recommended in Exit Five and other communities and wanna keep that building.

Cheers to an epic 2026!

Founder @ Breaking B2B | B2B SEO For Revenue Not Vanity | SaaS & B2B Teams Hire Us To Scale Organic Pipeline From Google & AI Search | DM To Discuss | Host @ Breaking B2B (Top 2.5% B2B Marketing Podcast)

RB2B and dozens more SaaS orgs drive signups & demos fast as 30 days with this simple SEO/AEO play: 

List out every competitor you have.

Make a dedicated page for each variation of:

competitor 1 vs competitor 2 vs you
competitor alternatives
competitor pricing
competitor reviews
 
Leverage customer research to share:

Why you
Where you’re a good fit
Where you’re not
Show product in action
Leverage customer results
A fair comparison of others

Why?

These pages are super low difficulty.

They rank FAST.

Plus the listicle articles get cited on AI overviews and ChatGPT.

Helping you control the narrative for your org.

Just like this example for Leadfeeder alternatives for Adam Robinson of RB2B.

Nobody searches this for fun.

They do it because they’re annoyed with their current vendors pricing, support, lack of features or they are comparing software to invest in.

Often low traffic keywords…

But super high sales intent to get those all important organic demos and signups flowing.

Watch and copy our full 34-minute SEO strategy for RB2B: https://lnkd.in/eiZfaXXq

Apply to work with us: https://lnkd.in/e7XuM6au

Flew 1000+ miles to Budapest
(8 solid videos is the goal)

Met our YT producer Samu today.

Recorded some solid SaaS SEO video breakdowns at cool landmarks.

Went to a rooftop spa.

Had some great food.

Saw some great sights.

Now onto some podcast eps.

Blessed to be able to grow Breaking B2B and enjoy the process and partnerships. 

Great weekend!

No alternative text description for this image

If I was a CMO needing more demos by Q1 2026…I’d ignore all AI search tool hype and run this exact SEO & AEO play to scale inbound in 90 days:

1. Define your money keywords.

Map out every way a dream client could search for your solution when ready to speak to sales now.

At a high level in SaaS that’s:

“best X software/tools/platform”
“X for industry”
“competitor alternatives/pricing/reviews”
“competitor a vs competitor b”

And a variety of others.

We use Ahrefs to help here.

Ignore the top funnel traffic trap.

Prioritise lower search volume and low difficulty at the bottom of the sales funnel.

This is gonna rank and drive leads fast when done right.

2. Build & upgrade your money pages. 

Search your dream keywords on Google & LLMs and see what kind of content shows up or gets cited.

Is it a listicle article, landing page, jobs to be done article, or something else.

See if you have pages ranking page 1 but not top for a quick win with a refresh.

3. Blow ‘em out the water. 

Once you’ve researched what top-ranking pages are doing, figure out how to blow them out of the water. 

Leverage unique research, sales call Qs, plenty of social proof and feature ypur product as the painkiller and solution.

4. Most technical is a waste of time.

(Until you get to having 1000s of pages).

Sort any massive technical issues, but don’t obsess over technical SEO. Get your focus keyword in URL, meta data, H1 and sort some internal links. Not a tonne more needed. 

And you of course want quick loading times.

5. Earn that rep.

Build quality backlinks & brand mentions for $0. 

Get featured in podcasts and articles, and make sure they link back to your website. 

Earn top 3 placements & brand mentions from “Best X software” listicles for your category.

This gives you an insane boost in LLMs and the backlink helps classic organic search.

6. Speed is your advantage.

Quality matters, but speed is a competitive advantage. This is your superpower over the slow moving giants in your niche. 

7. Craft pages to convert. 

Design and UX backed by customer researched copy to resonate with ICPs makes a big difference. 

8. Great SEO is knowing good b2b marketing.

Leverage sales calls, CS calls, and customer research to make your content as relevant as possible to dream clients jobs to be done.

9. Keep improving. 

Publish fast, and revisit your content 3 months later to make improvements. 

10. It's part of the b2b ecosystem. 

Keep improving all your marketing efforts: YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit etc. all improvements in brand awareness will lead to more successful SEO. Ecosystem thinking is the b2b winner. 

___

This takes learnings from running SEO for RB2B's Adam Robinson and dozens more B2B SaaS orgs.

Watch the full 34-minute video: https://lnkd.in/eev-8S3r

Tag a marketer who should peek this.

Fibbler just broke $500k ARR. Next stop $1.5M+ ARR in 2026. Adam engaged Breaking B2B to fire-up their SEO/AEO inbound engine. Here's our exact strategy for December:

THE GAME-PLAN.

Drive sign-ups quick as humanly possible from dream clients searching for linkedin revenue attribution tools, comparing vendors, frustrated with their current vendor or struggling with a problem Fibbler solve.
 
We are focusing on bottom funnel articles and high-DR link building. The pages we’re recommending target high-value competitors or category terms where Fibbler should be mentioned.

NET NEW CONTENT.

We'll craft net new listicle based articles for:

- dreamdata alternatives (70 searches/mo)
- factorsai alternatives (10 searches/mo)
- linkedin marketing tools (600 searches/mo)
- linkedin ads [analytics] tools (10 searches/mo)

All long form 2-2.5k+ words.

Listicles are SUPER powerful to show up in AI overviews, ChatGPT and google organic.

Most are low difficulty and can drive pipeline within 90 days.

Plus they help you control the narrative and are solid assets for your website (and AI search results).

We position Fibbler as #1 backed by why customers choose them, where they are a good fit, where they aren't,  show the product in action, leverage social proof + clear CTA. Then a fair comparison on other vendors.

LINK BUILDING.

DA50+ links earnt from niche relevant sites and external listicles going back to our homepage and our own listicle articles.

linkedin ads attribution tools x1
linkedin revenue attribution tools x2
linkedin ads attribution x1
fibbler x3

WANNA SCALE ORGANIC PIPELINE FOR YOUR B2B/SAAS?

Visit the Breaking B2B site to check our results, pricing and book a call.

Watch my 34-minute free AEO video course below 👇

I’m spending $6.5k on 48hrs in Budapest this Sunday…all in to fuel the media engine for Breaking B2B. Here’s why: 

THE THINKING.

I am all in on attention first from ICPs then linking back to our offer.

Most b2b and SaaS marketing is boring. 

Especially SEO.

After 21 months building this company in my home office…

It’s time to get out, meet more partners and customers and ramp up our mktg engine.

This will give us a tonne of footage plus we get to experience good sights and times in Hungary.

Originally planned around $3k 

But:

Flights
Hotels 
Transport 
Videographer (Ben) 
YouTube production (Samu)

And food, drinks & sights add up.

I’d much rather invest in these evergreen assets than chuck more in ads.

THE PLAN.

Fuel our media engine for the next 2 months.

AKA Breaking B2B YouTube and podcast.

Record 8 different videos in different spots.

4x solo episodes around what works today in SaaS SEO/AEO to drive pipeline.

3x live interviews with b2b marketers and founders. 

1X vlog of the whole journey and to see if we can fit it all in plus have fun at the same time and see Budapest.

All of which are sales assets to build awareness and proof we can deliver. 

Plus we can chop up for posts here.

WANNA FOLLOW ALONG?

Follow Breaking B2B YouTube and podcast over the next couple months too see the good, bad and ugly!

Where should we go next? 👇

Proud founder moment: Breaking B2B is actively getting recommended in Exit Five as a solid SaaS SEO/AEO agency 🙂

Check our results, pricing or book a call: https://lnkd.in/eT_F8zZB

graphical user interface, text, application

RIP LinkedIn organic 2026....This DEADLY TRIO feels unfair for driving highly qualified pipeline. SEO, YouTube and TL ads. Copy our exact playbook driving MRR growth at Breaking B2B:

The trust you build when these 3 work together feels unmatched. All before prospects jump on a call with your team.

1. SEO/AEO.

Work out what dream clients search when:

- needing your solution now
- frustrated with incumbent
- wanting to solve problems
- evaluating vendors

Prioritise high sales-intent and low difficulty.

Craft best in class articles, landing pages and product listicles depending on what ranks well for the search term.

Leverage customer research and social proof to make each a sales page for your solution.

Secure rankings in google and LLM visibility by earning backlinks and brand mentions on other sites talking about your niche/products.

e.g. we rank well for 'saas seo agency' 'b2b saas seo agency' 'best saas seo agencies' etc

This gets you mindshare and help you collect demand from high-sales intent buyers across Google organic and LLMs. 

2. YouTube.

Massively mis-used and neglected by B2B/SaaS orgs.

Work out your money keywords then craft solid videos for each that share the full strategy and show real proof of results of your product as the painkiller.

We share our full playbooks weekly on SaaS SEO & AI search.

As well as interviewing marketing leaders.

All with a YT first approach.

Vids are evergreen and searchable and we cut them up to cross-promote on here.

You can embed relevant vids onto landing pages, articles etc (can give an SEO boost).

Many folks we have come inbound mention seeing us on YT.

3. LINKEDIN TL ADS.

This needs someone from your org who's posting organically with a following of your ICP.

This piece of the puzzle links all the above together.

Organic posts sharing:

- how to's
- your pov
- why your org
- edutainement
- playbooks and guides
- proof you can deliver 

Adding a CTA l*nk into the post then running them as thought leader ads to ICPs from the traffic you get from the above channels.

AND.

Running these to other clients/customers/partners posting about your org.

This keeps you top of mind and drives trust with existing pipeline and colder prospects.

___

I've just finished recording my best SaaS marketing strategies for 2026 (there's some weird ones in there we're seeing work).

Backed by working with RB2B, Adam Robinson and dozens more fast growth tech companies to fuel organic pipeline.

Wanna watch it?

Comment "SaaS" below 

and I'll send over as soon as its ready.

No gates, you'll get the video to watch right away.

Marketing leader: "Should we start with technical SEO or content?"
Me: "Neither. Forget SEO for a second."

Start with customer research. 

So many SEOs are optimizing before they know why.

Most of us in B2B SaaS are selling high ACV products/services.
Meaning you need to resonate with your ICP before anything else.
Nobody is waking up searching and spending $50,100,150k+

Start with:

- who is the dream client
- what are their expensive problems + JTBD
- how do they describe your solution
- what competitors do they normally evaluate
- why do they choose you over others
- what are your main differentiators
- a bunch more around the who/what/why/FAQs
- grab as much subject matter expertise as you can

Then once you have the research we typically jump into:

- Start where there's money AKA updates/refreshes with existing BOFU pages already on the site (article/landing page updates to rank fast)

- Pipeline focused new new content calendar (starting with fast ranking BOFU pages with lower difficulty e.g. competitor content or niche landing pages and BEST X SOFTWARE listicles etc)

- Light tech review (or heavy if its a 1000+ page site)

- Month 1 page + content creations/linkbuilding/external brand mention execution

___

Grab my 90 days to revenue SEO playbook and video: https://lnkd.in/et7yce7s

CMO: “I ain't waiting 12 months. How long til SEO/AEO drives pipeline”
Me: “It depends. Just kidding…most clients see demos in 90 days. Here’s how…”

Drive revenue from EXISTING bottom funnel content.

Start with the highest commercial value pages most likely to drive leads that are closest to top 3 organic spots (ahrefs > keyword opportunities > filter to commercial intent)

Look at competitor pages ranking top 3 organic right now for your money keywords, note down gaps on the page topic you can double down on that will make your page more helpful, trustworthy, useful and convincing to dream clients.

Update meta title w/ hook. Here’s one we use: SaaS SEO Agency [Crush 2026 MRR Goals]

Embed a YouTube video breakdown on the topic.

Add POV insights from expert on your team.

Weave in product screenshots/demo/GIFs examples.

Add relevant customer quotes, testimonials, reviews.

Add FAQs that address real harsh customer Qs and objections from sales & CS calls.

Add internal links from other relevant pages on the topic to and from the page.

Many of these pages updates can rank top of google organic and get AI visibility as quick as 1-2 months with the right approach.

Then once that's nailed...

Craft a net new MONEY keyword matrix.

Get with your sales and CS team.

Fire up a google sheet with 4 columns

- Our core offers
- Industries we serve best
- Competitors
- ICPs jobs to be done

Then you can build out long-tail niche keywords with solid buying intent behind them.

"best X software"
"X for [industry]"
"[competitor] alternatives/pricing/reviews"
"[competitor ] vs [competitor] vs [you]
"how to [crisp and expensive problem for ICP]"

Prioritise the low difficulty, high sales-intent ones to craft best in class pages for:

"[competitor] alternatives/pricing/reviews"
"[competitor ] vs [competitor] vs [you]

These can start driving demos and sign-ups 90 days from being published on both google organic and LLMs.

___

I just recorded an ultimate guide to drive pipeline in 90 days w/ SEO & AEO.

Grab the 34-minute video course & playbook below 👇

In 139 seconds you'll learn the fastest way to scale your AEO/SEO authority. This strategy took Breaking B2B from 0 DR to driving pipeline in 90 days from launch on a new domain:

Step 1. 

Grab an SME from your team does a lot of press, podcast interviews, media coverages etc.

Step 2.

Longin to ahrefs or similar tool. Cut and paste their linkedin profile url. Hit backlinks tab. Filter to higher DR sites and find the niche relevant ones.

Step 3.

Make a list of the sites that only linked to your SMEs linkedin page.

Step 4.

Find out who wrote the article/page then connect on LinkedIn and send them a tailored loom video asking to add a backlink to one of your money keyword pages and mention your brand and category.

Step 5. 

Get an SEO win (solid backlink) and AI search win (brand mention)

Step 6. 

Repeat for all past media and future ones.

___

I recorded a 34 minute breakdown of the SEO/AEO strategy we're running for Adam Robinson & RB2B to scale sign-ups and revenue so you can copy it.

Watch or listen below 👇

CMO: We can’t share pricing. Board won’t approve.
Me: ChatGPT shares it regardless. Wanna control the narrative or risk 3rd parties sharing false info?

LLMs have put an end to hiding information on your website to force leads at all costs.

It’s long overdue in B2B/SaaS.

Share information buyers care about seeing on your website.

Or when your dream clients search for your company pricing or compare you against a bunch of competitors...

Your pricing could be shared by a disgruntled Reddit user along with a write-up to follow or from an out of date source.

The better way?

Share:

- Pricing
- Use cases
- Integrations
- Case studies 
- Industries you serve 

And beyond.

Leverage customer research to dive deep + share what your prospects could be searching for pain points, goals, jobs to get done and much more around the topic.

The more niche and specific the better.

Trust.
Visibility.
Qualified inbounds.

___

PS. grab my 90 days to revenue SEO/AEO video & playbook (1,811 b2b marketing legends did already) 👇

My editor spent 56hrs producing my ultimate AEO/SEO video guide for CMOs. RIP bullsh*t AI search advice not driving pipeline (data from working on RB2B, Proposify, EventsAir and dozens more SaaS SEO strats):

Who it’s for.

Marketing leaders tired of all the noise around AI search seeking evidence from what works today to drive organic pipeline.

What you’ll learn.

Spoiler: AEO is great bottom funnel SEO with some small brand additions that many were sleeping on historically. 

I’ll break everything down step by step so you can start doing it today.

What it’ll cost.

Zero. Everything will be shared just like my recent video breaking down our full strategy for Adam Robinsons SaaS, RB2B (check out the Breaking B2B YouTube or audio podcast)

Why trust me.

I literally ran this playbook for our company Breaking B2B and we were invisible on ChatGPT 4 months back.

It’s the exact strategy we are running today for dozens of B2B SaaS orgs to build mindshare and inbound pipe from search.

___

Wanna see it first?

It goes live mid-week.

Comment “PIPELINE SEO”

and I’ll ping you a link to unlock it first.

The new way to do SEO.
(AI and classic organic)

Work out your money keyword.

Example here for B2B SaaS "best [category] software"

Understand what type of page you need to craft.

Usually a listicle based article for this type of keyword.

Leverage customer research in your content:

Why you.
Where you exceed.
Where you aren't a fit.
Plenty of social proof.
Show the product.
Clear CTAs.

Simple technical SEO:

Money keyword in URL, H1, meta data.
Internal links to and from relevant pages.
Clean UX, fixed CTA side bar for articles.

Earn brand mentions and placements:

Get featured top 3 placements in articles comparing your software:

This is huge for AI overviews mentions.
Mentions in ChatGPT.
Plus backlinks for classic Google organic.

Rinse and repeat for every way a dream client can search when:

Needing your solution today.
Wanting to solve a problem.
Frustrated with incumbent.
Comparing vendors.

This drives mindshare, demos and sign-ups for B2B SaaS.

___

Recent win here for RB2B and Adam Robinson.

Grab 90 days to revenue SEO playbook: https://lnkd.in/et7yce7s

Book a call with us: https://lnkd.in/eCqF7VCP

RB2B is $6.6M ARR and 3 FTEs. 168 days ago we started SEO/AEO for Adam Robinsons SaaS. Before: most customers from founder brand. Now: 201% growth in organic sign-up page hits and consistent LLM & Google mentions for MONEY keywords. Full results and November plan breakdown below:

THE PLAYBOOK.

Scale organic sign-ups fast as humanly possible.

Nail every way ICPs search on google and LLMs when needing visitor identification software, comparing vendors, looking to move away from incumbent or struggling with a problem RB2B fix.

Craft best in class pages positioning RB2B as the painkiller + solution showing their time to value with plenty of proof.

Scale authority with  backlinks and external listicle placements for ChatGPT/LLM mentions.

REVENUE-DRIVING KEYWORDS NOW RANKING TOP.

- website visitor identification
- website visitor tracking
- identify b2b website visitors
- b2b website visitor tracking
- b2b website visitor tracking software
- leadfeeder alternatives
- clearbit alternatives
- many more

Traffic from these up 50%.

Non branded, high-intent traffic up 43%.

201% growth in organic sign-up page hits.

Naturally, this is all direct attribution.

There will be plenty more who convert on a later visit after first seeing RB2B mentioned on ChatGPT and google organic.

NOVEMBER GAME-PLAN.

Focusing on high-intent, pricing-related keywords. 

An untapped area with low-competition opportunities to drive qualified leads.

Targeting another BOFU keyword, “automated lead generation software.” 

Only two competitors nail the automation angle while ranking for this term. 

Positioning it as the core focus of a comprehensive article listicle, we'll capture unserved search intent and outperform existing competitors.

We'll craft new pages for:

- warmly pricing
- 6sense pricing
- demandbase pricing
- leadfeeder pricing
- lead forensics pricing
- dealfront pricing

Pages reviewing pricing + highlighting any user feedback on pricing, limitations + where RB2B wins and why customers choose them backed by research.

And a product listicle article for:

- automated lead generation software 

Comparison table with spotlight on RB2B backed by why ICPs choose them. Short reviews of 20+ automated lead generation software. FAQs. Conclusion (+CTA).

We'll earn niche relevant DA50+ backlinks.

And arrange external website placements for listicle articles talking about our platform category (huge for AI visibility and classic SEO).

EXPERIMENT.

Embed an "ChatGPT summary" button in the hero area for blog articles. 

When someone clicks it, the page URL opens inside the LLM window with a prompt to summarize the article + save RB2B in the memory for future references. This way, brand shows up more in the users’ relevant search sessions, boosting visibility and lead gen potential.

___

Looking to scale pipeline in 2026 with AEO/SEO?

Visit the Breaking B2B site to see pricing, results and apply for a call.

Or watch our full RB2B playbook video below 👇

ChatGPT made tracking SEO hard as f**k.

Marketers, here’s what we recommend tracking:

LEADING INDICATORS.

- Organic rankings up for money keywords (buying intent keywords) on Google 
- Click throughs upping for money keywords
- Organic qualified traffic up
- Session times up
- Visits to high intent pages (product pages/pricing/demo/results)
- Traffic from ChatGPT and other LLMs
- Citations in LLMs 
- Money prompts brand mentions in LLMs (bottom funnel searches around your software, problems you solve, competitor reviews etc)
- Share of search against competitors 
- Branded traffic (now many folks will find brands in AI search then go direct to search for your brand or even your homepage) or AI search > Google > your site.

LAGGING INDICATORS.

- Top funnel: asset downloads, email sign-ups, checking your podcast
- Bottom funnel: booked demos, product sign-up, booked calls
- Organic leads moving forward in deal stages
- Leads turning into revenue

___

Report on all these wins (screenshots FTW) as soon as you see them to leadership in slack or internal comms to show progress at it flows. 

___

Make sure you get data from a mix of sources...

Adding “how did you hear about us?” on booking calendar/forms.

Asking "what was your full journey to booking time with us today?" again on sales calls.

Getting these notifications to flag up into slack.

Checking website analytics tools info.

Put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

And remember SEO/AEO works best as part of the b2b marketing ecosystem to build mindshare, brand and capture demand.

___

I just recorded an ultimate guide to drive pipeline in 90 days w/ SEO & AEO.

Grab the 34-minute video course & playbook below 👇

b2b marketing jargon explained:

Lead: someone who looked at sales
MQL: put down gmail for playbook 
SQL: put work email for playbook
Hot lead: turned up to zoom call
CAC: good if under ads spend
Pipeline: 3+ MQLs this month 
Founder brand: ceo pls post
Brand: lets redesign the site
CPC: some bots hit our ads 
PR: post the funding round
Paid media: 99% of budget
Outbound: buy ai SDRs 
Inbound: need please
ACV: whale paid once 
ICP: buyer with pulse 
Quota: pipe dream 
SEO: dead innit?
AEO: alive? 

Any to add? 👇

Organic demos in 6 weeks.
(SaaS SEO shouldn't take 12 months)

- We doubled down on what their ICP cared about
- Focused on high sales intent keywords/prompts
- Crafted articles and listicles using our research
- Showed how their product was the solution
- Built authority w/ mentions and backlinks

And as a results started driving inbounds in 6 weeks from ChatGPT and Google organic.

I'll drop the full video case study below 👇

RB2B is $6.6M ARR and 3 FTEs. 168 days ago Adam told Breaking B2B to arm the cannons on SEO/AEO...Here's the full results so far 👇 

THE PLAYBOOK.

Scale organic sign-ups fast as humanly possible.

Nail every way ICPs search on google and LLMs when needing visitor identification software, comparing vendors, looking to move away from incumbent or struggling with a problem RB2B fix.

Craft best in class pages positioning RB2B as the painkiller + solution showing their time to value with plenty of proof.

Scale authority with backlinks and external listicle placements for ChatGPT/LLM mentions.

REVENUE-DRIVING KEYWORDS NOW RANKING TOP.

- website visitor identification
- website visitor tracking
- identify b2b website visitors
- b2b website visitor tracking
- b2b website visitor tracking software
- leadfeeder alternatives
- clearbit alternatives
- many more

Traffic from these up 50%.

Non branded, high-intent traffic up 43%.

201% growth in organic sign-up page hits.

Naturally, this is all direct attribution.

There will be plenty more who convert on a later visit after first seeing RB2B mentioned on ChatGPT and google organic.

WANT THE STRATEGY FOR YOUR B2B/SAAS?

I recorded a 34-minute breakdown video covering everything you need to craft a pipeline focused SEO/AEO strategy and execute.

Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/eiZfaXXq

A CMO's 5 golden rules to driving pipeline from SEO & AEO in 2026:

1. The 95/5 rule.

Nail exactly what the 5% of your market search for when in buying mode for your solution, weighing up competitors or struggling with a problem you solve.

2. Get the quick wins.

Look what bottom funnel content you already on your site have that could use a refresh to rank to of google or gain LLM visibility (ahrefs > low hanging fruit keywords). Start here for fast organic pipeline.

3. Build an epic moat.

Ensure you have dedicated pages on your site for:

- Product
- Pricing
- Features
- Use cases
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Case studies
- Technical docs
- Best X software articles
- Industries & ICPs you serve

Each addressing all the pain points, goals, why you, jobs to be done your ICP can be searching for.

With plenty of relevant social proof and positioning your solution as the painkiller. 

4. Control the narrative.

You don't want an angry reddit user publishing about your pricing because you hide it on your website.

Brand mentions + your category are big for LLM visibility. 

Features on external listicles talking about your software, podcast appearances, review sites and more are all great for this (outside of point 3 work on your own site).

5. Have the right mindset.

Realise SEO is gonna be less and less about traffic and more about being the brand of choice in answer engines and on google organic when dream clients need your solution or have issues you solve.

___

I just recorded an ultimate guide to drive pipeline in 90 days w/ SEO & AEO.

Grab the 34-minute video course & playbook below 👇

taplio

The Battle

Patrick Cumming

Sam Dunning

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance ScorePatrick Cumming's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreSam Dunning's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

taplio

The Battle

Patrick Cumming

Sam Dunning

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Performance Score.css-goub6s{font-size:var(--chakra-fontSizes-md);font-weight:500;color:var(--chakra-colors-gray-600);display:block;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-1);}Patrick Cumming's LinkedIn Performance

Performance ScoreSam Dunning's LinkedIn Performance

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?

Performance ScorePatrick Cumming's LinkedIn Performance