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    HIGHLEAD GROWTH · PAID

    Meta Ads management built around the offer, not the boosted post

    HighLead provides Meta Ads management for businesses whose best customers are not searching for them yet. We build the offer, develop the creative angles, set the audiences and retargeting, fix the tracking and manage the account week to week.

    Meta is an interruption. Nobody typed anything, so the ad has to earn attention and then give a reason to act. The offer and the creative are the largest levers in the account, which is why a boosted post rarely produces work worth having.

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    Meta Ads on a phone showing Facebook and Instagram ad creatives, reach, clicks and leads, a performance trend and leads generated, with retargeting audiences

    Where Meta budgets get wasted

    Meta budgets leak in a small number of predictable places. We check all of them before changing a budget.

    Boosting posts instead of running campaigns

    The boost button optimizes for engagement on a post, which is a different job from a campaign built to produce a lead.

    No offer behind the ad

    An ad that only says what the business does asks a stranger to care. An ad with a reason to act gives them something to respond to.

    Creative that never changes

    The same image and the same 3 lines run until the audience stops seeing them. Cost per lead climbs and the channel gets blamed for the creative.

    Lead forms nobody follows up

    An instant form is easy to submit and just as easy to forget submitting. Somebody contacted 2 days later has usually stopped thinking about it.

    Optimizing for clicks or likes

    Reach, clicks and engagement are diagnostics. When the campaign objective and the report are both built out of them, nothing points at contracted work.

    How HighLead runs Meta Ads

    The offer comes first

    Before any creative is made, we work out what the ad is offering and why somebody scrolling would stop for it. The offer does more work than the targeting.

    Creative and angles tested

    Several angles run against each other: the problem, the outcome, the objection, the proof. Winners get budget and tired creative is replaced before performance decays.

    Audiences and retargeting

    Cold audiences are built from geography, interests and behavior, then narrowed by what converts. Website visitors, video viewers and people who opened a form get retargeted with a different message.

    Lead form or landing page

    An instant form lowers friction and raises volume. A landing page qualifies harder. We choose by offer and ticket, then test the other against it.

    Pixel and Conversions API tracking

    The pixel is verified and the Conversions API is configured so conversions still report when browser tracking is blocked. Tracking is checked before spend goes up.

    Weekly optimization

    Creative, audiences, placements, budgets and forms are reviewed weekly, and budget moves toward the ad sets producing leads worth having.

    Reporting on leads and contracted work

    Leads land in the CRM with their campaign attached, so the report shows leads and contracted work by campaign, with cost per lead beside them.

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    Speed decides who wins the lead

    Somebody who filled in a Meta form was not looking for you a minute earlier, and the interest fades as fast as it arrived. Meta campaigns feed HighLead System directly.

    Instant Lead Response

    A form submission gets an answer while the person still remembers sending it.

    Lead Nurture

    Interested but not ready is normal on Meta. Those people get followed up automatically instead of written off as junk.

    Booking & Pipelines

    Every Meta lead gets a way to book and sits in 1 pipeline your team can see.

    Reporting & Tracking

    Leads arrive with their campaign and ad set attached, so you can see which creative produced which job.

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    Proof

    Both results below are published with the client's permission. Leads are tracked lead actions such as forms, calls and chats, not booked jobs.

    MG Construction & Decks logo

    Meta Ads · MG Construction & Decks, home services

    57% lower Meta cost per lead.

    Cost per lead fell from $80.05 in the strongest prior campaign to $34.11 in HighLead's winning campaign, which produced 40 leads from approximately $1,364 in winning-campaign spend. Based on available CRM attribution, 9 Meta-attributed contracted clients represented at least $225,000 in contracted project value over approximately 11 weeks.

    Stolbek logo

    Meta Ads · Stolbek, industrial equipment

    70% less Meta ad spend for the same 81 website leads.

    All figures are in Canadian dollars. Cost per lead fell from CA$138.41 to CA$41.30 across the same 81 website leads, for approximately CA$7,860 saved.

    What Meta Ads management costs

    Meta Ads management setup starts at $997, then $500 per month, with a 3-month minimum. The fee covers campaign strategy, account build, creative direction, ongoing optimization and reporting.

    Scoped separately where they are needed:

    • Ad spend. Meta bills it to you directly on your own ad account, so it never runs through HighLead.
    • Photo and video production.
    • Creative packages.
    • Landing pages.
    • Additional development.

    You always know what you are paying HighLead to do and what you are paying Meta to show.

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    Who Meta Ads works for

    Higher-ticket home projects

    Decks, remodels and replacements, where a homeowner can go from not thinking about it to asking for a quote.

    How we work with home services

    Aesthetics and wellness offers

    Where the result is visual, the decision is personal, and the offer persuades more than the targeting.

    Event and seasonal businesses

    Where demand arrives in a window, so the audience and the retargeting pool are built before the season.

    Industrial companies with a defined audience

    Where the buyer is identifiable by role, industry or region even though few people search the product by name.

    How we work with industrial companies

    Meta Ads is a good fit if…

    • Your best customers are not searching for what you sell yet.
    • You have an offer worth putting in front of a cold audience, or want help building one.
    • A single new customer is worth far more than a lead.
    • Somebody can respond to an inquiry in minutes, not days.
    • You want creative treated as part of the campaign, not an afterthought.
    • You want to know which ad produced which contracted job.

    A better starting point may be…

    • The offer is not clear enough yet to put in front of a cold audience. Strengthen the offer first, then build the campaign around it. HighLead Growth
    • People are already actively searching for exactly what you sell. Capturing that existing intent may be the stronger first move. Google Ads reaches that intent now, and SEO holds it
    • You already generate inquiries, but leads are getting lost after they respond. HighLead System
    • You want HighLead working across acquisition, systems, AI, automation, and operations together. HighLead Supercharge

    Paying for Meta leads and losing them in the inbox?

    HighLead System answers in minutes, follows up on the ones who are not ready yet and shows where each opportunity stands.

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    HIGHLEAD SUPERCHARGE

    When Meta is 1 part of a bigger problem

    Supercharge gives HighLead room to work across strategy, acquisition, CRM, analytics, AI, integrations and automation based on the priorities of the engagement.

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    Questions about Meta Ads management

    The budget is your decision. HighLead recommends a budget based on the market, audience, offer and economics rather than forcing every campaign into the same spend level.

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    Would Meta work for what you sell?

    Tell us what you sell, who buys it and what a new customer is worth. We will tell you what the offer would have to be and whether Meta is the right place to start.