Fractional LinkedIn Ads lead retainer

A senior LinkedIn Ads owner, without the full time hire

One person owns the audiences, the offers, the bids and the lead quality conversation with sales, on a monthly retainer. LinkedIn Ads only, with nothing else diluting the attention. We work with your team, never with your clients. Flat monthly fee, never a percentage of ad spend, and your media budget stays on your own billing.

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White label, no client calls From BDT 70,000 per month Flat fee, never a percent of spend
At a glance
  • ModelFractional, monthly
  • Entry retainerBDT 70,000 / mo
  • Scope10 to 28 hrs / mo
  • ChannelLinkedIn Ads only
  • Fee basisFlat, not percent of spend
  • Client facingNo, your team fronts it

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Packages

Four ways to engage a fractional LinkedIn Ads lead

Priced per month, per account, in addition to your media budget. Agencies running this white label under their own name pay the same rate and resell at their own margin.

New relationship? Start with the Account Audit and 90 Day Plan. No minimum term, and the fee counts in full toward your first month if you move to a retainer inside 30 days.
Account Audit and 90 Day Plan
BDT 75,000one time
approx USD 625 · approx 20 focused hours over 2 weeks · no minimum term
  • Campaign, audience and frequency audit
  • Insight Tag, conversion and CRM handoff check
  • Audience and offer plan for the next 90 days
  • One handover session with your team, 90 minutes
  • Fee credited in full against the first month if you move to a retainer inside 30 days
Scope it on WhatsApp
LinkedIn Ads Advisory
BDT 70,000/ month
approx USD 585 · approx 10 hours per month · minimum 3 months
  • Weekly 45 minute session with your team
  • Account reviewed, changes specified for your team to make
  • Audience and offer direction kept current
  • Up to 4 briefs reviewed
  • Monthly report
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Recommended tier Fractional LinkedIn Ads Lead
BDT 1,20,000/ month
approx USD 1,000 · approx 18 hours per month · minimum 3 months
  • Everything in Advisory
  • Audit, tracking check and 90 day plan included in month one
  • Hands in the account, not only reviewing it
  • Matched audience and ABM list work
  • Up to 6 briefs written for your writer or designer
  • Monthly lead quality review with the sales team
  • Client ready report your team presents as its own
Scope it on WhatsApp
Embedded LinkedIn Ads Director
BDT 1,80,000/ month
approx USD 1,500 · approx 28 hours per month · minimum 6 months
  • Everything in Fractional LinkedIn Ads Lead
  • Up to 3 accounts, or 2 accounts plus your agency's own marketing
  • Two internal sessions per week
  • Hiring scorecard and interviews for your paid social hires
  • Team training, 2 hours per month
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Working time and minimum term, side by side

Logo and mark, concepts and source filesfrom $30
Brand identity: logo, card, letterhead, social kit, guidelinesfrom $299
Brochure or company profilefrom $150
Large brochure or catalogue productionfrom $750
Packaging, label, signage and billboard artworkfrom $199
Social posts, flyers and coverspriced per set
Every retainer includes the weekly working session and a monthly report written for your team to present, with the minimum term stated on the card. On the lead tier the audit and the 90 day plan run inside month one rather than being billed again. The 3 month term exists so both sides get a clean exit at the month 3 report, with the account, the audiences and the documents left in your hands.
Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered here, the SEO Lead, the Inbound Head, the Paid Media Lead and the single channel pages, because it is one person's calendar. The scope above is only honest if that calendar is not oversold, so a fourth account gets a start date rather than a promise.

Fees quoted in BDT and exclude media budget, USD figures are indicative and settled at the invoice date rate Scope it on WhatsApp See every service on our pricing page

Honest proof

Where the method comes from

The operating rhythm here, one owner on the channel, a written plan, weekly accountability, a monthly report and a standing lead quality conversation with sales, is the one used in house at Brain Station 23, where inbound pipeline grew by a multiple of 43 over the period measured. That is an internal result from an in house role, shown as proof of method rather than as a promise of your numbers.

// retainer standard vs in house track record (not a client outcome)

$ cmbd scope --show standard,in-house

▲ retainer standard · WHAT YOU GET

Audit and planinside 21 days
Working sessionweekly, 45 minutes
Reportingmonthly, LinkedIn only
Fee basisflat, not percent of spend
Client callsnone, you front them
Active retainerscapped at 3 in total

▲ in house at Brain Station 23 · FOUNDER, INBOUND

Inbound pipeline43x (in house)
Approachone owner on the channel
Led byfounder, in house
Typeinbound, not outbound

// note: in house result · shared as method proof, not a client outcome

No client outcome is claimed on this page, because a LinkedIn account's results belong to the offer and the sales team as much as to the media buying. What carries over is the rhythm: one owner on the channel, a written plan, weekly accountability, and a monthly report that says plainly when the spend is not buying meetings.

The complete guide

The fractional LinkedIn Ads lead role, explained

The problem it solves, what the retainer owns and the working time each piece takes, how the first 90 days run, how white label works, and who it fits.

LinkedIn is the one channel where a click costs several times what the same buyer costs on Google search, because you are paying to interrupt someone rather than to answer a question they typed. That price is defensible when the account is measured on cost per qualified meeting. It is indefensible when the account is measured on cost per lead, which is the number most LinkedIn accounts are quietly optimised toward.

The form fills went up and sales stopped calling them

The usual pattern is a Lead Gen Form campaign that looks efficient in Campaign Manager and dies in the CRM. Prefilled forms take the friction out, so volume arrives, the cost per lead chart points down, and nobody notices how many of the names are students, job seekers and people who tapped the form to make the ad go away.

Meanwhile the sales team stops working the list, which is the only honest signal in the account, and nobody has asked them for it. This retainer gives the channel one owner who reads the account backwards from what sales actually called, sets audiences and offers against that read, and says out loud when the spend is not buying meetings.

The fee is flat, never a percentage of ad spend. Percentage pricing pays the manager to spend more of your money, which is the wrong incentive on the exact decision you are hiring someone to make, and on LinkedIn that decision is often to spend less in fewer places. Ad spend is paid by you, direct to the platform, on your own billing. Client money is never held here.

What your fractional LinkedIn lead owns

  • Account and audience audit. Campaign structure, audience overlap, frequency, placements, what was spent against what actually converted. 12 to 16 hours, once at the start.
  • Conversion tracking, Insight Tag and CRM handoff check, so leads land where sales works them and the source survives the trip. 5 to 7 hours, once at the start.
  • Audience build. Matched audiences, company lists, website retargeting and ABM segments kept above the delivery floor. 3 to 4 hours per month.
  • Campaign and bid decisions across Sponsored Content, Lead Gen Forms and Message Ads, including which of them to stop running. 3 to 4 hours per month.
  • Content and offer briefs for your writer or designer, with the audience, the angle and the offer specified. 1 to 1.5 hours per brief.
  • Sales handoff and lead quality review with the client team, name by name on the disputed ones. 2 hours per month.
  • Weekly working session with your internal team, decisions made, next week assigned. 45 minutes per week.
  • Monthly report. Spend, cost per qualified meeting, what to cut, what to scale, written so your team can present it. 3 to 4 hours per month.

The hours shown are per unit of work, not a monthly total. A brief takes the same time whether you buy four or eight of them, and your package hours decide how many of each piece runs in a given month. The retainer is bought as scope, not as a timesheet.

The surfaces covered are Sponsored Content, Lead Gen Forms and Message Ads inside LinkedIn Campaign Manager. Google, Meta, TikTok, programmatic and affiliate are not covered on this page, and neither is LinkedIn treated as an outbound tool through connection requests and manual InMail, which is a different job with different people.

What actually happens after you sign

Days 0 to 21 · Diagnose

Access to Campaign Manager, the Insight Tag, analytics and the CRM on day one. Tracking is verified before anything is judged, because most LinkedIn arguments turn out to be a handoff problem between the form and the CRM. Ends with the audit and the 90 day plan.

Days 21 to 60 · Fix and ship

Wasted spend cut first, usually audiences too broad to be a segment and too small to deliver. Structure rebuilt around a demand gen offer for cold traffic, frequency capped, briefs to your team, and the first sales conversation about which names were worth calling.

Days 60 to 90 · Read and repoint

First honest read on cost per qualified meeting rather than cost per form fill. Budget moved toward audiences that produced conversations, cut from the ones that produced downloads, and the next quarter planned. The month 3 report is the one to judge the retainer on.

LinkedIn learns slowly at B2B budgets, so the first six weeks buy information more than they buy meetings. The audiences worth keeping are usually clear by week eight, and the ones quietly wasting money are usually clear inside the first fortnight.

How white label works in practice

Your agency stays the face of the account. We do not attend your client calls, pitches or quarterly reviews, and we do not contact your clients unless you ask for it in writing. Audiences, briefs, bid and budget decisions and the written report come to your team, and your team presents them as its own.

Before a client call you get the report, the numbers and the talking points a day ahead, plus a 20 minute prep session when the account is complex. On the Fractional LinkedIn Ads Lead and Embedded tiers the monthly report is formatted for your team to present unchanged. The Advisory report is written for internal use.

That boundary is also why the same person can hold the budget call without ever sitting between you and your client. Agencies running this under their own name pay the same rate and resell at their own margin.

Who this is built for, and who it is not

  • Agencies with a B2B client on LinkedIn and no senior person who wants to own that account, where the work falls to whoever has capacity that week.
  • B2B teams spending roughly USD 3,000 to 40,000 a month on LinkedIn, with a deal size large enough to carry a cost per meeting that will look uncomfortable next to Google.
  • Teams selling to a defined account list, where the target companies are known by name and matched audiences are worth building properly.
  • Teams whose sales function will give a read on lead quality every month, because without that read this channel is being flown on instruments that lie.

Below roughly USD 3,000 a month, LinkedIn usually cannot buy enough data to optimise. At that budget a campaign takes weeks to gather enough conversions to tell one audience from another, and by then the offer has moved. The honest answer there is the Advisory tier, or a different channel entirely, and that is what you will hear on the call rather than after three months of invoices.

It is a poor fit if you want a guaranteed cost per lead, a percentage of spend arrangement, creative produced here, or LinkedIn treated as an outbound tool through connection requests and manual InMail.

LinkedIn is one of several channels you run?If the harder question is how budget splits between LinkedIn, Google and Meta rather than what happens inside one account, the wider retainer holds every paid channel under one owner and one blended number, from BDT 1,00,000 a month. Add organic search to that and the Fractional Inbound Head covers both sides from BDT 1,10,000 a month.

What will not be promised

Never promised

  • A guaranteed cost per lead, a guaranteed meeting volume, or a promise that LinkedIn will beat your Google cost per click, because it will not.
  • A percentage of ad spend arrangement, ever, and no holding of your media budget.
  • Presence on your client calls, or contact with your clients unless you ask for it in writing.
  • Creative production, scraped or bought contact lists loaded as matched audiences, or tactics that put an ad account at risk.

Committed every month

  • The scope in your package, held on the calendar.
  • The weekly working session with your team.
  • The monthly report, written for your team to present.
  • Being told early when the channel is not earning its budget, including when that means recommending you cut this retainer.

How to start

Start with a scoping call of about thirty minutes. Bring the Campaign Manager account, the current offer, the deal size and what your sales team says about the leads they already received. You leave with a package recommendation and a rough first 90 days, whether or not you sign. If the honest answer is that your budget or your deal size does not yet justify LinkedIn, that is what you will hear.

If the read matters more than the ownership right now, the Account Audit and 90 Day Plan is the no commitment way in, and its fee counts in full toward your first month if you move to a retainer inside 30 days. If organic search is the real gap, the Fractional SEO Lead retainer covers that side, and you can browse every service on the services page.

Want the calendar checked?Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered here, so start dates are real rather than a waitlist.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The questions agencies and B2B teams ask before they hand a LinkedIn Ads account to one owner.

Q. What is a fractional LinkedIn Ads lead?

A senior paid social specialist who owns your LinkedIn Ads account on a part time monthly retainer instead of a full time salary. One person sets the audiences, writes the offer briefs, makes the bid and budget calls, and answers for what sales does with the leads.

Q. Why is LinkedIn so much more expensive than Google?

Because you are paying for targeting, not for intent. A Google searcher told you what they wanted; a LinkedIn member was scrolling. The click costs several times a comparable search click, so cost per click is a poor way to judge the account. The number that matters is cost per qualified meeting, and a channel with an expensive click can still be a sane source of meetings when the deal size carries it.

Q. Should we use Lead Gen Forms or send traffic to a landing page?

Both, for different jobs. Lead Gen Forms prefill from the member's profile, so they trade quality for volume: form fills arrive cheaply and a real share of them are people who tapped without reading. A landing page adds friction, and friction filters. The usual split is forms for a demand gen offer where volume feeds retargeting, and a page for anything sales is expected to call within the hour. Which way the account leans is settled by the monthly review, where the list goes back to the sales team and gets marked worth a call, wrong role, wrong company or not real, because the platform cannot see what happened on the phone.

Q. Is ABM list targeting better than job title targeting?

They answer different questions. A company list built from your own target accounts and uploaded as a matched audience decides which firms are worth reaching. Job function and seniority decide who inside those firms sees the ad. Titles on their own are broad and self reported, so a title only audience buys a lot of people who will never sign anything. The stronger build is your account list crossed with function and seniority, with a separate audience for the rest of the market.

Q. Why push a demand gen offer instead of a demo request?

Because a cold audience has not asked for anything. A demo request in front of people who have never heard of you buys a thin trickle of form fills at a high cost, and most of it is curiosity. An offer useful on its own, a benchmark, a teardown, a session with a named practitioner, earns the click at a sane cost and builds a retargeting pool of people who engaged. The demo ask then runs to that warm pool, where it works.

Q. Our audience is small. Is that a problem?

It is the first thing checked. LinkedIn will not deliver to a matched audience that sits below its own floor of a few hundred matched members, and Sponsored Content needs an audience in the tens of thousands to pace a real budget without showing the same person the same ad over and over. Small audiences are workable with a frequency cap and a rotating creative set. They are not workable at all when the budget assumes a size the audience does not have, and where the list is genuinely small the honest answer is a lower LinkedIn budget plus a different channel for reach.

Q. Do you charge a percentage of ad spend?

No. The fee is flat and published above. Percentage pricing rewards the manager for spending more of your money, which corrupts the exact recommendation you are paying for, and on LinkedIn the right recommendation is often to spend less.

Q. Who pays for the ads?

You do, directly to LinkedIn on your own billing. Your media budget is separate from the retainer fee and never passes through us.

Q. Will you join our client calls?

No. Client calls, pitches and quarterly reviews are run by your team. You get the report, the numbers and the talking points a day before the call, plus a 20 minute prep session when the account is complex.

Q. We need Google and Meta too. What then?

Then this page is the wrong one. The Fractional Paid Media Lead retainer holds every paid channel under one owner with one blended number, from BDT 1,00,000 a month, and the Fractional Inbound Head adds organic search to that from BDT 1,10,000 a month. Same weekly rhythm, same reporting, same flat fee basis.

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