Fractional paid media lead retainer

One owner for every paid channel, and one number to answer for

Google Ads, Meta Ads and LinkedIn Ads held by one senior person who decides where the next unit of budget goes and answers for one blended cost per lead, not for three dashboards that each look fine on their own. 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 1,00,000 per month Flat fee, never a percent of spend
At a glance
  • ModelFractional, monthly
  • Entry retainerBDT 1,00,000 / mo
  • Scope12 to 34 hrs / mo
  • ChannelsGoogle, Meta, LinkedIn
  • Fee basisFlat, not percent of spend
  • Client facingNo, your team fronts it

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Packages

Four ways to engage a fractional paid media lead

Priced per month, per brand, 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 Paid Media Audit and Channel Plan. No minimum term, and the fee counts in full toward your first month if you move to a retainer inside 30 days.
Paid Media Audit and Channel Plan
BDT 1,10,000one time
approx USD 915 · approx 28 focused hours over 3 weeks · no minimum term
  • Every live ad account audited in one document
  • Tracking and attribution check, with a fix list
  • Platform reported conversions reconciled against the CRM
  • Channel plan and budget split for the next quarter
  • One handover session with your team, 90 minutes
  • Fee credited in full against the first month if you start a retainer inside 30 days
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Paid Media Advisory
BDT 1,00,000/ month
approx USD 835 · approx 12 hours per month · minimum 3 months
  • Weekly 45 minute session with your internal team
  • Channel plan and budget split kept current
  • Every account reviewed, changes specified for your team to make
  • Up to 5 creative or landing page briefs reviewed
  • Monthly blended report
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Recommended tier Fractional Paid Media Lead
BDT 1,50,000/ month
approx USD 1,250 · approx 22 hours per month · minimum 3 months
  • Everything in Advisory
  • Audit, tracking check and channel plan included in month one
  • Hands in every account, not only reviewing them
  • Up to 8 creative and landing page briefs written
  • Budget moved between platforms during the month, not only at month end
  • Client ready report your team presents as its own
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Embedded Paid Media Director
BDT 2,40,000/ month
approx USD 2,000 · approx 34 hours per month · minimum 6 months
  • Everything in Fractional Paid Media Lead
  • Up to 3 brands, or 1 brand plus your agency's own marketing
  • Two internal sessions per week
  • LinkedIn Ads added where the audience justifies it
  • Hiring scorecard and interviews for your paid 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

// LinkedIn Ads is held on the Lead tier too where it is already running and the audience justifies it. It is listed on the Director tier because that is where it gets added to a plan that did not have it. Organic search is not part of this retainer at any tier.

Narrower and wider retainers, priced on their own pages

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
Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered here, the SEO Lead, the Inbound Head, this one and the single channel retainers. It is one person's calendar. The scope above is only honest if it is not oversold, so a fourth account gets a start date rather than a promise. That cap is the reason the weekly session actually happens every week.

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 on this page, one owner across every channel, a written plan, weekly accountability and a single blended monthly report, 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 in house result from an in house role, not an agency client outcome, and it is 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, one blended number
Fee basisflat, not percent of spend
Media budgetyours, paid direct
Client callsnone, you front them
Active retainerscapped at 3 in total

▲ in house at Brain Station 23 · FOUNDER, INBOUND

Inbound pipeline43x (in house)
Approachevery channel, one owner
Led byfounder, in house
Typeinbound, not outbound

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

What carries over is the rhythm rather than the number: one owner across every platform, a written plan, weekly accountability, and a monthly report that says plainly which platform is not paying its way.

The complete guide

The fractional paid media 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.

A team running two or three ad platforms usually has two or three managers. Each one logs into a single account and reports what that account says, and each report is defensible on its own. Add the conversions together and the total is larger than anything the CRM ever recorded, because every platform counts what it can see and none of them know about the other two.

Three platforms, three reports, and no one deciding the split

The double counting is not dishonesty, it is attribution windows. Meta claims a conversion from an ad it served seven days ago, Google claims the click that closed the session, and the CRM holds one record with one source field. Last click reporting hands the credit to whichever platform touched the visit last, which is usually search on a brand term. Assisted reporting hands credit to everything that was ever in the path, which flatters whatever runs highest in the funnel. Both readings are true and neither one tells you where the money should go.

This is why cutting the channel with the worst reported cost per lead is so often the wrong move. That channel is frequently the one creating the demand that search then harvests. Pause it and brand search volume falls a few weeks later, the blended number gets worse, and every individual dashboard still looks fine because each platform is now taking credit for a smaller pool of demand it did not create.

Pacing is the quieter leak. Platforms do not spend evenly. A Meta campaign underdelivers for ten days and then catches up in the last week against worse inventory. A Google budget caps out on the two days that actually convert. A LinkedIn campaign stops on a rejected creative and nobody notices for a fortnight. None of that shows in a monthly average, and all of it changes what the month actually cost.

And one landing page problem reads as three platform problems. When the form breaks on mobile, or the offer stops matching the traffic, all three accounts report a rising cost per lead in the same week. Three managers each rebuild their own campaigns, and none of them opens the page all three were sending to.

This retainer puts one owner above all of it. Your fractional lead holds every live account, sets the budget split, and reports one blended cost per lead built from what the CRM recorded, not from three dashboards added together.

Incrementality, in plain language, is the question of how many of these leads you would have got anyway. It is asked here through deliberate pacing changes, geographic holdouts where volume allows one, and a brand versus non brand split, and the answer is given as a judgement with its reasoning attached. A formal incrementality test with a control group is not included in this retainer and is not claimed.

What a fractional paid media lead owns

  • Cross channel audit covering every live account, structure, wasted spend, audience and keyword overlap between platforms, and what each account is actually being asked to do. 16 to 20 hours, once at the start.
  • Conversion tracking and attribution check across platforms, pixel and tag firing, deduplication, form and call tracking, and a reconciliation of platform reported conversions against CRM records. 6 to 8 hours, once at the start.
  • Quarterly channel plan and budget split, written, with one blended target every platform is held to. 5 to 7 hours per quarter.
  • Google Ads work. Search term and negative work, bid and budget decisions, Performance Max asset direction, brand and non brand kept separate in reporting. 4 to 6 hours per month.
  • Meta Ads work. Campaign and audience structure, creative testing plan, pacing against the blended target rather than against last month's Meta number. 4 to 6 hours per month.
  • LinkedIn Ads work where it runs, targeting discipline, document and lead form direction, and an honest read on whether the audience justifies the cost. 3 to 4 hours per month, where it runs.
  • Creative and landing page briefs for your designer and writer, with the angle, the offer and the page the traffic lands on all specified together. 1 to 1.5 hours per brief.
  • Weekly working session with your internal team, decisions made, pacing checked, next week assigned. 45 to 60 minutes per week.
  • Monthly blended report. One cost per lead across platforms plus the per platform breakdown behind it, what to cut, what to scale, written so your team can present it. 4 to 5 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, and work beyond the agreed scope is quoted in writing before it starts.

Platforms covered are Google Ads including Search, Performance Max, Demand Gen and YouTube, Meta Ads across Facebook and Instagram, and LinkedIn Ads where the audience justifies it. TikTok, programmatic and affiliate are not covered, and are not quietly subcontracted either. Organic search is not part of this retainer at any tier.

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, since half the job here is moving budget away from a platform or handing it back. Ad spend is paid by you, direct to each platform, on your own billing. Client money is never held here.

What actually happens after you sign

Days 0 to 21 · Diagnose

Access to every ad account, the analytics property and the CRM on day one. Tracking and deduplication are verified before any account is judged, because most cross channel arguments turn out to be a tracking problem in a strategy costume. Ends with the audit, the channel plan and one blended target.

Days 21 to 60 · Fix and ship

Wasted spend cut first, since that pays for the retainer first. Campaign structure rebuilt where needed, negatives and audiences cleaned, pacing brought under control, and the first brief batch handed to your designer and writer.

Days 60 to 90 · Read and repoint

First honest read on blended cost per lead. Budget moved toward what worked and cut from what did not, across platforms rather than inside one, and the next quarter plan handed over. The month 3 report is the one to judge the retainer on.

Paid channels move inside days, which is why 90 days is enough to judge this retainer. What takes longer is trust in the blended number, because it usually reads worse than the three platform reports it replaces. That gap is the point, and it is explained in the month 1 report rather than smoothed over.

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. Direction, briefs, 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 Paid Media 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 budget authority across every platform 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 running two or three ad platforms for a client with a different person on each, whose reports have never been reconciled to one number.
  • In house teams where paid media is split across a freelancer, an agency and someone internal, and the budget split is decided by whoever asks loudest.
  • Teams spending roughly between USD 3,000 and USD 60,000 a month across platforms, on at least two platforms. Below that range the Paid Media Advisory tier is the honest choice, because the spend cannot carry a full retainer.
  • Founders running the accounts themselves at night, who have become the bottleneck on every platform at once.

If you buy a single platform, this is the wrong page. One account does not need a blended report, it needs a specialist inside that account, and the single channel retainers start at BDT 70,000 a month: Fractional Google Ads Lead, Fractional Meta Ads Lead, Fractional LinkedIn Ads Lead.

It is also a poor fit if you want a guaranteed cost per lead, a percentage of spend arrangement, ad creative produced in house here, or TikTok, programmatic and affiliate covered. Those three channels are not covered. Direction and briefs are provided, while video and static production stay with your designer. Organic search sits on its own page.

Want organic search owned by the same person?If the budget question is not only which ad platform, but also whether the next unit of money should go to a campaign or to a page you rank for, that decision sits one step up the ladder. The Fractional Inbound Head retainer holds paid and organic search together, one owner and the same blended report, from BDT 1,10,000 a month.

What will not be promised

Never promised

  • A guaranteed cost per lead or a guaranteed lead volume, because the offer, the budget, the sales follow up and the auction are not all ours to control.
  • A percentage of ad spend arrangement, ever, and no holding of your media budget.
  • A claim that a blended number proves incrementality. It is a better number than three dashboards added together, and it is still a judgement.
  • Presence on your client calls, or contact with your clients unless you ask for it in writing.
  • Creative production, or tactics that put an ad account at risk of suspension.

Committed every month

  • The scope in your package, held on the calendar.
  • A channel plan and budget split that stays current.
  • The weekly working session with your team.
  • The blended report, and being told early when a platform is not earning its budget, including when that means handing spend back or cutting our own scope.

How to start

Start with a scoping call of about thirty minutes. Bring the ad accounts, the current spend by platform, whoever is running each one, and the number you are actually trying to move. You leave with a package recommendation and a rough first 90 days, whether or not you sign. If the honest answer is that one platform is all you need, or that your spend does not yet justify a retainer, that is what you will hear.

If the plan matters more than the ownership right now, the Paid Media Audit and Channel 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. You can also 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 every ad platform to one owner.

Q. What is a fractional paid media lead?

A senior paid media owner on a part time retainer instead of a full time hire. One person holds Google, Meta and LinkedIn together, sets the budget split between them, and answers for one blended cost per lead rather than for one platform's dashboard.

Q. Why one owner instead of one specialist per platform?

Because the expensive decisions sit between the platforms, not inside them. Which platform gets the next unit of budget, whether a rising cost per lead is a campaign problem or a landing page problem, and whether the channel with the worst last click number is the one creating the demand. A specialist optimises their own account well and has no mandate to answer any of that.

Q. How much does a fractional paid media lead cost?

The Fractional Paid Media Lead package is BDT 1,50,000 per month, approx USD 1,250, for approx 22 hours of work with a 3 month minimum. Lighter and deeper tiers run from BDT 1,00,000 to BDT 2,40,000 per month depending on scope. Every fee is flat and excludes your media budget. See the packages above.

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, and a large part of this job is moving budget off a platform or handing it back, which percentage pricing punishes.

Q. Who pays for the ads?

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

Q. Our platform conversions do not match our CRM. Which number gets reported?

The CRM number, with the platform totals shown underneath it so the gap is visible rather than hidden. Platform totals will always be higher, because each one counts conversions inside its own attribution window without knowing about the others. The first month's report explains your specific gap, which is usually the most useful page in it.

Q. We only run Google Ads. Should we buy this?

No. A single account does not need a blended report. Take the Fractional Google Ads Lead retainer instead, from BDT 70,000 a month, with the same weekly rhythm and the same reporting discipline. The same applies if Meta or LinkedIn is the only platform you run.

Q. Which platforms are covered?

Google Ads including Search, Performance Max, Demand Gen and YouTube, Meta Ads across Facebook and Instagram, and LinkedIn Ads where the audience justifies it. TikTok, programmatic and affiliate are not covered, and are not quietly subcontracted either.

Q. Do you produce the ad creative?

No. The angle, the offer, the hook, the testing plan and the page the traffic lands on are specified in a brief. Your designer or video editor produces it, or a specialist team is introduced for the job so you are not paying a lead's rate for production work.

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. How small can the media budget be?

The retainers suit media budgets roughly between USD 3,000 and USD 60,000 a month across at least two platforms. Below that range the Paid Media Advisory tier is the honest choice, because the spend cannot carry a full retainer.

Q. How many clients are taken at a time?

Availability is capped at three active retainers in total, counted across every fractional retainer offered here, the SEO Lead, the Inbound Head, this one and the single channel retainers. When the calendar is full, new work gets a start date rather than a waitlist that never moves.

Q. Can we start with the audit and decide later?

Yes, and most teams should. The one time Paid Media Audit and Channel Plan is priced above and credited in full against your first retainer month if you start one inside 30 days.

Q. What if it is not working after 3 months?

Stop. The minimum term is 3 months on Paid Media Advisory and Fractional Paid Media Lead, and 6 months on Embedded Paid Media Director, so both sides get a clean exit at the month 3 report, with the accounts, the documents and the plan left in your hands.

Q. What about organic search?

Not in this retainer. If you want paid and organic held by the same owner with one report across both, that is the Fractional Inbound Head page, from BDT 1,10,000 a month.

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