Paid social · Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn

Ads that earn their budget.

We build paid social campaigns for established businesses in Sussex and across the UK. Creative that stops the scroll, campaign structure that keeps cost per lead falling as spend goes up, and a number you can hold us to every month.

Same offer, same audience, two campaign types
Traffic campaign£53.13
Native lead form£2.04
Cost per enquiry. The Timber Design Studio, Meta. Moving the offer off the website and into a native form is the single biggest lever on most accounts.
360Leads generated
£4.64Cost per lead
2.46%Click-through rate
3Years running

Timber Design Studio · Meta lead campaigns · June 2023 to July 2026. Real figures from one live account, not an agency average.

Why most of it fails

Paid social is easy to run and easy to waste.

Almost every underperforming account we take over has the same three problems. None of them are about the platform, and none of them are fixed by spending more.

They are fixed by choosing the right objective, separating buyers who want different things, and putting real budget behind the one creative that is actually working instead of spreading it thin across nine that are not.

01

The wrong objective

Sending paid traffic to a website when the goal is enquiries. On the Timber account the traffic campaign produced leads at £53.13. The same offer as a native lead form produced them at £2.04.

02

One campaign, two buyers

Different customers care about completely different things. Put them in one campaign and the message hedges between them, so it lands properly with neither.

03

Budget spread evenly

Nine creatives sharing a budget equally means the winner never gets the room to scale. On Timber, one single image ad produced 230 of the 360 leads at £1.97 each.

How we run it

Five moves, in this order.

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01

Take the friction out

We work out where the drop-off actually is before touching creative. Usually it is a step in the way: a landing page that did not need to exist, a form that asks for too much, a follow-up that takes two days.

02

Separate the buyers

Each type of customer gets their own campaign, budget and creative angle, so every message speaks to one person instead of hedging between two. It costs a little more to build and it pays for itself quickly.

03

Show the real thing

Stock imagery gets scrolled past. Your actual product, your actual work, your actual people. On the Timber account, swapping stock for rendered structural models lifted click-through to 2.46% with a technical audience.

04

Test one thing at a time

Structured rounds, each variant a single deliberate change, so we always know what moved the number. Nineteen variants ran against each other on Timber. Guesswork does not compound. Evidence does.

05

Scale the winner, refresh before fatigue

Budget consolidates behind proven creative rather than spreading evenly. Then new creative goes live before performance dips: frequency held at 2.27 across three years, which is what kept costs where they were.

Proof

One account, three years, every number checked.

Four of the nineteen variants that ran
Timber Design Studio ad: Smart design, built around youTimber Design Studio ad: Smart design variantTimber Design Studio ad: Timber design, built around youTimber Design Studio ad: Timber frame design
230Leads from one ad
£1.97Its cost per lead
Real ads from the account. Nineteen variants ran in structured rounds, each one a single deliberate change. One single image ad went on to produce almost two thirds of every enquiry.
The Timber Design Studio · Timber frame design, UK & Ireland

360Leads
£4.64Cost per lead
2.46%Click-through
£4.97CPM

Two decades of engineering pedigree and no predictable way to reach the people specifying timber frame projects. Enquiries came from word of mouth: good months, quiet months, no way to influence which came next.

Native lead forms cut cost per enquiry from £53.13 to £2.04
Self-builders and manufacturers split into separate campaigns
One image ad delivered 230 leads at £1.97
Frequency held at 2.27 across three years

Read the full case study

What you get

Everything the campaign needs. Nothing it does not.

No retainer padding, no reports nobody reads. The work is the campaign and the creative that feeds it.

Account audit and campaign strategy
Audience research and segmentation
Campaign build and structure
Ad creative: static, video and copy
Native lead forms and landing pages
Structured creative testing
Conversion tracking and pixel setup
Retargeting and exclusion audiences
Weekly optimisation
Plain-English monthly reporting
Meta adsLead generationCreative testingRetargetingLanding pagesConversion trackingAudience strategyAd creative
Are we a fit

Worth being honest about.

Paid social works brilliantly for some businesses and poorly for others. We would rather tell you which one you are on the first call than three months in.

Probably not for you if

  • You want results in the first fortnight.
  • You cannot follow up an enquiry within a day.
  • You want ads run without any creative changing.

A good fit if

  • You have something proven that sells when people find it.
  • You can handle more enquiries than you get now.
  • You want to know what every pound did.

Next step

Find out what your cost per lead could be.

One call. We look at what you are running now, tell you what we would change first, and you decide whether you want us to do it.