From 2.1× to 3.4× blended return on the same monthly spend
Illustrative scenario
Cost per qualified lead fell while sales-accepted volume roughly doubled, without increasing spend.
Illustrative scenario — directional numbers · not a named client. A UK B2B software company, described by category rather than named.
The challenge
The team was paying about £90 a lead and closing 2% of them. Cost per lead looked healthy on every dashboard, which is precisely why nobody had questioned it — the expensive problem was sitting one stage further down, in a sales team working a queue that was mostly noise.
The strategy
We agreed what "qualified" meant with the sales team before touching a campaign, then optimized the whole path toward it: profile-first targeting, message-matched landing pages per segment, enrichment and scoring before anything reached a rep, and spend tuned toward the sources producing pipeline rather than form-fills. Leads that did not qualify were nurtured rather than dumped into the queue.
The results
2×
sales-accepted lead volume
0%
increase in media budget
2%
close rate at the start, the real problem
Our cost per lead had never looked better and our pipeline had never looked worse. Those two facts were the same fact.
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