LinkedIn ads agency and LinkedIn advertising agency work from one B2B specialist
A LinkedIn ads agency is worth hiring when your buyers have a job title you can name and a deal is worth thousands. MarketersMatch pairs you with a Paid Social Buyer who runs LinkedIn campaigns in your own Campaign Manager account for a fixed monthly fee, never a percentage of what you spend.
Match quiz
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The quiz below starts with LinkedIn selected. Four questions left, under a minute, no account needed.
No account, no calls. Ad accounts stay in your name.
The match
Fit
Suggested plan
Fee band per month
Typical start
Budget split across channels
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First 30 days of scope
Weeks 3 to 12, KPIs and the second and third best profiles unlock when you send your brief.
Your brief is confirmed. You receive a written proposal by email within two business days.
Second and third best profiles
Live board
The eight marketer profiles, ranked by how well they fit your answers.
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Scores update with your answers. Fit is calculated in your browser from your answers. Nothing is sent until you choose to send a brief.
The short answer for B2B buyers
LinkedIn is the most expensive click most B2B companies buy, and also the only network where you can target by job title, seniority, company size and named accounts at once. That combination rewards a specialist who reviews the audience and lead quality every week, and punishes accounts left on autopilot. Our Specialist plan is 1,900 USD per month for LinkedIn on its own. Your ad spend is paid straight to LinkedIn and is not marked up.
| What you get | MarketersMatch Specialist plan |
|---|---|
| Who runs the account | One matched Paid Social Buyer with B2B experience |
| Fee | 1,900 USD per month, 1,615 USD with annual prepay |
| Share of ad spend | None |
| Account ownership | Your Campaign Manager, your Insight Tag, your data |
| Reporting | Monthly, cost per qualified lead and pipeline, not impressions |
| Notice period | 30 days |
Where LinkedIn ad budgets usually disappear
- Audience expansion and LinkedIn Audience Network left switched on, so ads run outside the feed to people you never chose
- Job title targeting so broad that interns and job seekers fill the lead forms
- One campaign mixing cold prospects, retargeting and existing customers under the same bid
- Lead Gen Forms counted as success while nobody checks how many become meetings
- Creative that runs for months after frequency has burned out the audience
What your LinkedIn specialist does each month
- Builds audiences from job function, seniority, company size and matched account lists
- Separates prospecting, retargeting and account based campaigns so each has its own budget and goal
- Installs and checks the Insight Tag and conversion tracking before scaling spend
- Syncs Lead Gen Forms with your CRM and reviews lead quality with sales every week
- Tests document ads, single image, video and conversation formats against cost per qualified lead
- Reports pipeline and cost per meeting, not clicks and impressions
The full profile is on marketer profiles.
The first 90 days on your LinkedIn account
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Days 1 to 30
account audit, Insight Tag and CRM sync, audiences rebuilt by role and account list
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Days 31 to 60
offer and creative tests, bid strategy per campaign, weekly lead quality review
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Days 61 to 90
budget moved to the audiences that produce meetings, retargeting sequences, quarter report
How much does a LinkedIn ads agency cost
A LinkedIn ads agency usually charges in one of three ways: a percentage of ad spend, a fixed monthly retainer, or an hourly rate. Percentage models often sit between 10 and 20 percent of spend with a monthly minimum, so the fee grows every time the budget grows. A fixed fee, like our 1,900 USD Specialist plan, keeps the incentive on results instead of spend.
| Pricing model | How the fee moves | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Percentage of ad spend | Rises with every budget increase | An incentive to spend more, not to spend better |
| Fixed monthly retainer | Stays the same at any spend | Check what is in scope, such as creative and landing pages |
| Hourly | Rises with time logged | Hard to forecast, easy to underuse |
| MarketersMatch plan | Fixed, published on the pricing page | Ad spend separate, paid to LinkedIn directly |
What is the minimum budget for LinkedIn ads
LinkedIn Campaign Manager sets a minimum daily budget of 10 USD per campaign, but that is a floor, not a plan. Most B2B companies need at least 1,500 to 3,000 USD per month in ad spend to collect enough leads to judge an audience. Below that, a specialist spends most of the month waiting for data.
Who hires a LinkedIn advertising agency through us
B2B SaaS
Trials and demos from buyers with a defined role, often combined with account lists from sales. Our SaaS marketing agency page covers the full funnel.
Professional services
Consulting, legal, accounting and IT services firms that sell high value contracts to a small number of decision makers.
Fintech and B2B finance
Products sold to CFOs, controllers and finance teams, where ad copy needs a compliance review before launch. See fintech marketing agency for that setup.
LinkedIn ads agency vs a matched specialist vs doing it in house
| Typical LinkedIn ads agency | Matched specialist | In house hire | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Account manager plus junior buyer | One named senior specialist | Your employee |
| Fee structure | Often a share of spend | Fixed monthly fee | Salary and benefits |
| Speed to start | Two to six weeks | About five days | Two to four months to hire |
| Cover during absence | Yes | Yes, the plan is held by a team | No |
| Best for | Very large multi network programs | One channel that must produce pipeline | Companies with a full marketing team |
Where an agency wins: if you run LinkedIn, Google, Meta and events together on a seven figure budget, a full agency team can coordinate all of it under one contract. For most B2B companies, LinkedIn is one channel that needs one person who knows the account in detail.
Which plan usually fits
LinkedIn on its own fits Specialist at 1,900 USD per month, whatever your ad budget. If LinkedIn should work together with Google search or email nurture for the leads it brings in, Channel Team at 4,800 USD per month adds the second and third channel with a project lead.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual prepay, per month |
|---|---|---|
| SpecialistOne channel, one matched specialist | 1,900 USD | 1,615 USD |
| Channel TeamTwo to three specialists, up to three channels, project lead | 4,800 USD | 4,080 USD |
| Growth BenchFull team across all channels, fractional marketing lead, weekly reporting | 9,600 USD | 8,160 USD |
| EnterpriseMulti brand or multi market programs | from 18,000 USD | Custom |
Frequently asked questions
Yes, when one customer is worth several thousand dollars or more. Clicks cost more than on Google or Meta, so the maths only works when a closed deal pays for many leads. For low price products, search and email usually return more.
Plan on at least 1,500 to 3,000 USD per month in ad spend to test audiences properly, and more for account based programs with several personas. The fee to us stays the same at any spend.
No. The fee is fixed per plan and published. Raising your LinkedIn budget does not raise the fee.
Yes. The specialist works inside your own account with your Insight Tag, so audiences, history and lead data stay with your company if you ever leave.
Yes. The specialist uploads your target account list, builds matched audiences by role inside those accounts and reports engagement per account to sales.
Tracking and audience fixes show within the first two weeks. Lead quality usually needs four to eight weeks of data and sales feedback before it can be judged fairly.
Related: demand generation agency plans for multi channel pipeline, B2B marketing agency work across the funnel and lead generation agency plans built around booked meetings.
Check if one LinkedIn specialist is enough
Five questions name the profile, the scope and the monthly fee for your account.