Justin Rowe

Founder/CMO @ Impactable - B2B LinkedIn Ads Agency | Acquired in 2021 | 2x Acquisitions in 2024 | Making things up as I go

From Restaurant Hustle to LinkedIn Agency Founder → Acquired → Now Scaling the #1 LinkedIn Ads Agency

I went from serving tables to serving over 1,000 clients in 30+ countries - and building an agency that was acquired in an all-cash buyout.

Starting in the restaurant industry, I had a hunger for something more (pun intended). I turned to LinkedIn to document my journey and connect with people. That content led to job offers, investor conversations, and even a deal to co-launch a restaurant franchise.

I saw the power of LinkedIn firsthand and started helping others. That side hustle turned into Linknlearn, a global lead gen agency built entirely through Upwork and LinkedIn outreach. I became the #1 ranked LinkedIn expert on Upwork, launched a $500 website, and scaled the agency internationally.

In 2021, we were acquired. We pivoted to LinkedIn Ads, launched new tech tools, and Impactable was born.

Today, I lead Impactable — a LinkedIn-Centric B2B Marketing Agency and creators of DemandSense, our proprietary LinkedIn Ads platform. We’ve been recognized by LinkedIn, invited to speak at their Indie Agency Summit, and continue working toward deeper partnerships with their team.

💡 What I’m Focused On Now

👉 Helping B2B brands scale with LinkedIn + Google + Programmatic full-funnel campaigns
👉 Working with clients spending $5K–$200K/month in ad budget to scale high-value pipelines
👉 Building smarter offers, audiences, and funnels through our 90-Day Validation Sprints
👉 Empowering internal marketers with DemandSense: ad scheduling, audience testing, and signal tracking for LinkedIn Ads

🧰 Resources (Free & Paid)

🎯 Free Strategy Resources & Templates
→ linktr.ee/justin_rowe

🛠 LinkedIn Ads Toolset (DemandSense)
→ https://impactable.com/dgp-linkedin-ads-tools/


🎥 LinkedIn Ads + B2B Demand Gen on YouTube
→ https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCATGD6P27kWXDVuaAZeZBuQ/videos

📈 LinkedIn Ads Agency (Done-for-You)
→ https://impactable.com/

💬 Want to Collaborate?

→ Send me a DM if you want to:

Test your audience + offer fit on LinkedIn

Migrate from Google to multichannel demand gen

Build a scalable paid strategy with a trusted partner

Chief Executive Officer

Impactable is a Linkedin Ads Agency that specializes in Linkedin Marketing for B2B companies. We were acquired in 2021 by a data-heavy investor and made a strong pivot into Linkedin advertising. Impactable now manages over 150+ B2B brands with Linkedin advertising being our core focus. 

Other capabilities include website visitor identification, automated Linkedin lead generation, and a few saas tools we are working on.

Impactable is officially a  LinkedIn Marketing Partner for Signals Partner!
Really proud of our team and shout out to our awesome rep Mark Ayesh 🫡 

What is CAPI you might ask and why does it matter?

Super short version:
- better conversion data funneled back to LinkedIn 
-better in platform data to make decisions
-better results and more insights on conversion by demographics etc

CAPI (Conversion API) is basically the process of taking offline conversion (things you can't easily track by page load or Google Tag Manager (which most marketers hate). 

Things like webinar attendees
In person attendees
Sales accepted lead
Closed won deals
Kajabi signups

Especially things that don't happen digitally or happen on websites other than your website...CAPI could help pipe that data back to LinkedIn. 

And then LinkedIn basically will then cross-reference each person uploaded to see if any impressions were served to know if there was any influence and if so how much. 

So...I guess it's getting pretty series with this relationship. 

Come a long way from when my original startup received a cease and desist letter from LinkedIn 😂 (story for another day if you don't know this one). 

Questions about LinkedIn conversion tracking?
Drop a comment 👇

Website Linkedin Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
LinkedIn Ads Demo Video: https://lnkd.in/gudY92cC
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable Youtube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T

CMO @ Impactable | B2B LinkedIn Ads Partners | ABM + Signals | Obsessed with Account and People Signals.

Impactable becomes LinkedIn CAPI certified partners

I started in restaurants - LinkedIn helped me become a part-owner of a small 4-shop franchise.  That's where I started to learn about marketing. 

Yea...I know..you likely didn't know that about me.

My first experience in marketing was trying to leverage LinkedIn organic, Facebook, and local partnerships to get real humans to come to our physical shop. 

Not exactly the same as B2B marketing lol but it's not so different. 

1. Gain visibility and start with small ponds
Good news is that in the organic game..there are not usually 100+ restaurants trying to dominate the local LinkedIn scene in their city..so it was actually easy for me to stand out and get attention for our new sandwich shop in town. 

This actually led to real revenue and a partnership opportunity. 

2. LinkedIn lead gen - simple but effective. 

A. Created sales navigator list of HR leaders, operation leaders, event leaders at orgs, and company owners, and just sent daily connection requests and links to our menu and pricing...and this led to a big catering business. 

3. Email marketing - we started a little newsletter. 

I know that sounds crazy because we were just like a little sandwich shop so what's the newsletter even about??

I honestly barely remember, but I know we got emails of our customers who signed up for the app or DoorDash, and I'd send a monthly newsletter basically sharing local news, fundraising we were putting on, new sandwiches or shakes on the menu, and maybe an offer/deal. 

Honestly, I was mostly just trying to cover more surface area (top of funnel, I guess 😂 ) to get more humans to get a craving for our sandwiches, soups, and shakes. 

That's how it started...and this sparked my love and curiousity around marketing which later became a side hustle that became an agency that led to an acquisition. 

And yes, that's me before kids, grey hair, and facial hair apparently.

Spending 30 hours to vibe code something that saves you $50/mo is not genius… u just suck at math

Today CJ Craig hits her one-year mark at Impactable.

In 12 months she’s completely revamped our initial 100-day client journey, helped us move into a real mid-market offering, and straight-up elevated client success across the board.

The result isn’t just prettier docs. 

The team feels more proud of their work. 

We’re doing better, deeper work with fewer clients and higher revenue per client and she was a great force in that direction for us. 

She's also been a great champion of our team and moral booster as we navigate the ups and downs of startup/agency journey (which is not easy). 

CJ, thank you for the leadership, the details, and for making us choose quality over quantity. 

Proud to have you on the team. 

Here’s to year two.

Pro LinkedIn hack to 10x visibility
Comment "This is utter nonsense" on 20 posts daily

Do this and tell me your profile views, engagement, and organic reach of your actual posts doesn't 5-10x.

PSA: Don't actually do this 😂 

But there is a valuable point here...the things that "work" to get vanity metrics. you track can 100% be gamed....but how much actual valuable growth would really come from this...none I'd guess. 

And yet marketing leaders chase all sorts of "hacks" like this every week. 

Things that help show a bump in "metrics" while doing nothing for the actual business. 

Some examples:
-running top of funnel lead gen forms to a cold audience with a fluffy lead magnet that your intern made...great to show "leads" but don't waste sales time with those

-making posts on LinkedIn about how you hate AI or how you got a bad DM...great for impressions on LInkedIn but likely no use or relevance to what you actually sell

-Cutting out LInkedIn ads spend because it's hard to prove and doubling down on Google ads because it's showing all the conversions

-spending 50 hours learning and creating V1 stuff in AI or claude code just so you can make cool posts and talk down to the peons who have a life all the while we all know whatever you launched won't actually still be in real production use to clients 90-days from now

If I could give other marketers a few pieces of advice that they for sure did not ask for and would likely not ask me for 😂 

1. Almost all successful engagements I've had with clients and even massive orgs is to start by amplifying what's already working before worrying about anything new

2. Understand the foundations first: what you actually do that's different, unique, craved, and defensible....and targeting should stem from there

3. Always secure warm 1st party audiences and warm digital audience before prioritizing cold accounts

4. Never start with cold native channel targeting before tapping into existing in-market demand if it exists (paid search)

5. Always anchor scaling paid search spend with healthy retargeting frameworks to atually get the most out of competitive paid search traffic

6. Organic and paid ads should not be 2 separate strategies...paid should amplify organic

7. Use paid retargeting to funnel prospects into owned communities for more efficient long term plays

8. Build a personal brand on Linkedin or 1 core channel you choose and take it seriously

9. Pretend it's your money and you have to prove that what you're doing is working...but more importantly that there isn't an even better use of that budget even if it is "working"

10. Be humble and keep a student mentality...we are all just experimenting honestly

LinkedIn Ads + ABM: Here's how I'm advising orgs prove impact and focus on account engagement and movement vs clicks and leads -  the playbook 👇 

Short version:
Things really changed in 2025 - you can now see the EXACT companies clicking on and even just being exposed to your LinkedIn ads and can see that data by list upload or campaign which opens up huge options. 

I walk through how i'd structure reports for leadership and where and what data you can pull to show account movement and even structure campaigns a bit to give more meaningful insights like showing multiple buyer personals lighting up for top accounts and how this moves from marketing to sales. 

I'm curious how else marketing leaders are showing value and connecting the dots. 

Let me know in the comments - I need more ideas.

Way too many marketing leaders are struggling to prove ROI or even forward motion of ABM programs and especially have struggled to tie proper credit b

Open article: B2B LinkedIn Ads + ABM in 2026: Marketer's Field Guide to Proving Impact by Justin Rowe • 4 min read

B2B LinkedIn Ads + ABM in 2026: Marketer's Field Guide to Proving Impact

If someone visits your website today, what story are they going to see over the next 90 days?

Most companies don’t think that far.

At the DemandShift Summit, I talked about how middle-of-funnel content is where trust is won or lost.

Someone clicked. They showed intent. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭.

Now you have a window.

If you could shape their opinion with 15 carefully chosen pieces of thought leadership over three months, what would you show them?

That’s how I approach retargeting.

Not as a generic reminder campaign.
But as a curated content engine that reinforces authority, expertise, and point of view.

When you control the frequency and the message, you can influence the buying decision long before the sales call.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#DemandGeneration #B2BMarketing #ThoughtLeadership #PaidMedia #Impactable

If you automate the relationship, don’t be surprised when it feels transactional.

The irony of modern marketing is that we’re obsessed with scale, but trust doesn’t scale the same way.

In my conversation with Gabe Larsen, he talked about being intentional with how he shows up. 

He posts consistently, engages directly, and personally responds to comments instead of delegating or automating that layer.

Could it be automated? Sure. A lot of people do.

But when the expert removes themselves from the interaction, the tone shifts and the connection becomes functional instead of relational.

Buyers today are more skeptical than ever and they’re choosing based on who they believe.

And belief is built in real exchanges, not optimized workflows.

Automation should enhance relationships.
It shouldn’t replace them.

Need help building/running a thought leader LinkedIn motion ? - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#B2BMarketing #RelationshipMarketing #ThoughtLeadership #TrustBasedSelling #Impactable

Founder/CEO @ Impactable | B2B LinkedIn Ads Partners | Paid Ads + Demand Gen + B2B Audience Experts

You might already be the most visible expert in your network.

That was something I shared at the DemandShift Summit that surprised a few people.

Your feed is unique. And so is everyone else’s.

If you’re intimidated by the biggest creators on LinkedIn, here’s the reality. 

Most of your network isn’t following them. 
𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦.

If you show up a few times a week with thoughtful content, you may become the most consistent voice they see.

That proximity matters.

People don’t always follow the most famous expert.
They follow the one who feels relatable.

And that might already be you.

#LinkedInGrowth #ThoughtLeadership #B2BMarketing #PersonalBrand #BuildInPublic

Every one is obsessed or worried about attribution and proving ROI but many arn't taking basic steps to show/prove LinkedIn Ads

Here's the short version
1. With data/privacy shifting, ad pixels like LInkedIn insight tag is missing information and not passing back valuable conversion events back into the platform. 

2. This means that you'll often be flying blind with platform data and not able to see what's really working or not working from a campaign group or ad set level. 

3. This also leads to lack of insights around what audience demographics are working. 

When you have proper conversion data, you'll see things like:
-What company size are we doing better/worse with
-What industries are we doing better/worse with
-What countries are winning in vs need to stop spend

These are the kinds of insights that actually guide us to where to spend money or stop spend and where we need to double down and create more focused messaging for high-impact segments. 

Conversion tracking and attribution is something everyone seems to want to do a little better at so this should be helpful.

How server-side conversion events fix match rates, survive ad blockers, and protect privacy The LinkedIn Insight tag is great, but modern browsers and

Open article: Privacy-first tracking for LinkedIn Ads (Why CAPI Matters) by Justin Rowe • 3 min read

Privacy-first tracking for LinkedIn Ads (Why CAPI Matters)

Tons of people are making BANK ($$ for you non-cool kids) via LinkedIn DMs and they don't care if that twists your little undies or makes you FEEL some type of way. 

I get it, it's cool to show a bad email or DM where someone got the name or position wrong or double tapped a send....

Screen shot, name and shame post..get your little endorphin hit from all the "yea this is so terrible" "AI is the worst" comments - ah you've done great. 

Except...what if many of these "spammers" are actually crushing it. 
Actually getting demos booked on basically autopilot 
Actually could care less if a few messages don't hit

And spoiler alert...they are still crushing it...it does still work..and you're feelings/opinions on the matter (and your posts) don't change anything...other than making you a visible opponent of a basic tactic that works for thousands and thousands of orgs

I think the real danger comes from the collective "agreement" that seems to happen. 

Others who read your post feel it proves their own. personal bias and so they believe it...

But you know it and I know it..it's your opinion..no facts, not data, and not really based in reality. 

Yes, I agree spamming is bad and bad personalization is bad, but direct messaging still works. 

This is just my humble perspective from a founder that build a LInkedIn lead gen agency that was acquired and was running automation from 200+ executive profiles when I sold it...still worked then and still works today. 

Main changes though I'd suggest to make it work
1. Start with warm - profile visitors, company page followers, website visitors, active pipeline deals, highly engaged accounts from ads

2. Don't pitch slap - connect, introduce, and add value - add value from messages (share resources) and then share value via posts and newsletter long term

3. Be human and treat this more like a networking event vs door to door sales

4. Get serious about a real thought leadership motion with organic + paid on LinkedIn - that makes any outreach 10x more powerful by playing the long game.

Your posts and newsletters should be so good people are feeding their AI Agents with YOUR content.

Already people are singing up for newsletters just to be ingested by their AI agents so they can accumulate their trusted brain of knowledge to talk to.

Information is becoming cheaper, faster , and easier….. but a strong POV and TRUSTED expertise will be more rare than ever.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

AI tools are incredible for learners. 
They’re not replacements for operators.

ChatGPT and other models are phenomenal for people like me who want to understand the space, test ideas, and get smarter fast.

They lower the barrier to entry.

But they don’t remove the need for someone to architect the system, manage the risk, and make it work inside a real company.

AI is accelerating builders.
It’s not eliminating the need for expertise.

The companies that win won’t just use AI.
They’ll know how to operationalize it.

Website Linkedin Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
LinkedIn Ads Demo Video: https://lnkd.in/gudY92cC
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable Youtube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T

#ArtificialIntelligence #B2BMarketing #FutureOfWork #AIOperations #Impactable

Warm audiences are the most underutilized asset in B2B marketing.

At the DemandShift Summit, I challenged something I see all the time.

Teams pour the majority of their budget into cold campaigns while ignoring the people who have already raised their hand.

💻️ You already have website visitors.
👥 You already have company page visitors.
🪪 You already have engaged prospects, email subscribers, and pipeline sitting in your CRM.

And chances are, you already have content that’s working.

There are specific posts that consistently generate inbound interest. They spark DMs, attract ICP-fit comments, and move conversations forward. 

Those aren’t vanity metrics. They’re signals.

Instead of creating something entirely new for paid, amplify what’s already proven and show it to the people who are already warm.

If you want help turning your warm audiences into real revenue, that’s exactly what we build at Impactable.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#B2BMarketing #DemandGeneration #LinkedInAds #PaidMedia #Impactable

The hardest part of AI isn’t building it. It’s controlling it.

Gabe Larsen told me about a Fortune 100 COO who said they won’t allow random builders plugging agents into core systems.

Why?

Because once you start connecting AI to CRM data, billing systems, and proprietary information, the stakes change.

We’re even seeing this internally.

We’ve talked about building assistants that let clients query their LinkedIn ad data, contracts, and performance history.

Sounds powerful.

But then you ask the real questions.
𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴?
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥?
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘉’𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢?

That’s when this stops being a fun AI experiment and starts becoming infrastructure.

The winners won’t just build agents.
They’ll build secure systems around them.

#ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseAI #AIGovernance #SaaS #Impactable

If your organic and paid strategies look nothing alike, that’s a problem.

That was one of the biggest shifts I talked about at the DemandShift Summit.

I see this all the time. 

Companies treat organic like a checkbox and paid like a completely separate, high-stakes experiment. 

That’s a red flag.

If you don’t have enough confidence in your organic content to put paid spend behind it, something’s off. 

Either the content isn’t strong enough, or you’re not listening to what’s actually resonating.

Paid shouldn’t start from scratch. 
It should amplify what’s already working organically.

Organic and paid aren’t separate strategies. 
They’re supposed to work together.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

#B2BMarketing #DemandGeneration #PaidMedia #ContentStrategy #Impactable

B2B Marketers - If every Google or LinkedIn algo update crushes your strategy...you're just a trend chaser and have WEAK STRATEGY. 

OMG LinkedIn pod usage isn't working anymore!
OMG I'm not just getting free likes on LInkedIn for any random crap I throw out there!

OMG Google is dead and now all that matters is AI/LLM visibility

OMG Google doesn't care about my AI generated blogs ranking our own brand as #1 any more...

OMG now we have to start using Reddit ASAP it's the only thing LLMs care about

OMG now we have to start publishing on youtube cause it's NOW the biggest thing LLMs care about

Every new update crashes your plans and sets you back. 
Every new update sends you back to the drawing board starting over
Every new update has you chasing the next trend

Meanwhile those who have been prioritizing producing quality content that humans actually find valuable and then ensuring distribution...benefit from every update. 

Every new update seems to penalize short term trend chasing and reward their hard work

They've been publishing valuable blogs that arn't overly promotional or self promotional and new updates just help them be stronger

They've been distributing content on LinkedIn for years before the LLM algo made LInkedIn more and more indexed

They've been leaning into youtube for a while as a bingable content hub and now getting rewarded by top indexing now for LLMs. 

They didn't just throw all their chips at Reddit because it was cool with LLMs for a few weeks. 

I know it's crazy out there but let's take a step back as marketers and realize that chasing all these trends like chickens with no heads is NOT A STRATEGY. 

That's it my friends..that's the message  - think long term human strategy and use the common sense.

Website LinkedIn Ads Agency: https://lnkd.in/guEafPKk
B2B Strategies and Guides: https://lnkd.in/gB-WQ82f
Impactable YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/emYVDn_T
Thought Leadership Done For you Motion - https://lnkd.in/gEn-5TuR

Question: What WON'T you Automate?....that's the real question right? Because what if it's all able to be handled by AI...the question then becomes what to keep right?

I mean really I think that might be a novel thought for many. 
We are so obsessed with what can we use AI/Automation, I don't think enough have stopped to think what they refuse to automate. 

I mean think about it - AI could indeed automate the following things...so what do you keep or ship to AI?

-Reading your emails, checking past threads for context, and drafting replies (human to review and send)

-Auto-download all meeting transcripts into central database along with your emails so you can truly own and talk to your own data...then start thinking about what automated reporting and flows to sit on that

-Remember your wifes email, pull in her web history for perfect gift ideas, order the gift and write the card, order the flowers and chocolate and schedule the delivery, create image collage from images in google drive and create signed poster showing your love, then send series of text flows expressing your love in the 2 weeks leading up to the day

-Substitute yourself for AI robot who will talk to your kids, listen to their boring stories, help them learn to read, write, and teach about right and wrong

-Scrape and store all your blogs, all your newsletters, all your Linkedin posts and youtube videos and auto-ingest all newly pubplished materials to act as a living content and knowledge storage of your expertise able to be searched or used to great thought leadership pieces from your actual experience in your actual tone and using your actual words/phrases

Ok so you get the point..there are cute innocent things AI can do, and then there are "relationship management" type things you could do with AI and I know having clients and having a partner are different things...but can you really automate any relationship?

I think there are human things that we can indeed automate...but the sheer act of automating them really does remove the human level which makes any relationship building 100% fake - just something to think about in this AI world of crazyness.

Andrei Zinkevich

Co-founder @Fullfunnel.io| ABM & full-funnel marketing for B2B tech companies with high ACV and long sales cycle

We transform B2B Tech and Service-based companies from siloed sales and marketing to full-funnel account-based marketing and demand generation. 

We help your team develop an ABM strategy, launch pilot programs, operationalize and scale the programs without ramping up budget or depending on external agencies.

Here is how.

1. ABM STRATEGY.

We go together through a 3-week initial strategy sprint that includes: 

- Deep assessment of current marketing and sales processes
- Challenges both teams face and the root reasons behind them
- Revenue and channel analysis to identify focus markets and ICP for the ABM campaigns
- Custom ABM strategy development including detailed:
- Marketing and sales alignment with ICP, strategy and playbooks

2. LAUNCH PILOT ABM PROGRAM.

Within a single quarter, we’ll work with a pilot team to implement a minimal viable full-funnel program, without pausing existing processes. The pilot team usually consists of one marketer and one sales development rep.  

When we hit the target KPIs, we move to the operationalization and scaling stage.

3.DEVELOPING FULL-FUNNEL ABM FUNCTION.

At this stage we combine ABM with demand generation function to create a holistic model that creates awareness, generates demand and activates accounts that are already engaged across the full funnel.

SPRINTS INCLUDE:

-> Account-Based Marketing

-> LinkedIn demand generation and social selling

-> GTM strategy

-> Sales enablement

-> Demand generation and accounts warm-up

Why Work With FullFunnel.io?

1. 30+ years of niche experience

We were and still are “in the trenches”, know the lowdown of these businesses, so you’ll get access to 30+ years of our combined experience and knowledge.

2. Knowledge transfer.

Your team gets consistent support and training, including step-by-step playbooks, templates, marketing and sales dashboards, tech stack, and process maps.

3. Revenue alignment.

We align marketing and sales teams around revenue, ideal customer profile, target accounts and lead scoring criteria which helps to consistently hit your revenue quota and operate as one Revenue Operations team.

OUR CASE STUDIES INCLUDE

- $300k from a pilot ABM campaign with a software development company

- 9 qualified sales opportunities and 3 new contracts, 10x ACV from an account-based demand generation campaign with AdTech development company

- 7 sales-qualified opportunities from a pilot ABM campaign in the Nordics region with a cloud solutions vendor

- 76% response rate, 36% accounts engaged, 5 opportunities from a pilot ABM campaign

Co-founder

At Fullfunnel.io we are growing B2B companies with long and complex sales cycles since 2006.

We were and still are “in trenches”, know the lowdown of these businesses, and bring to the table our 30+ years of combined experience and knowledge. 

I live and breathe B2B marketing since 2006. 

Before launching Fullfunnel.io, I spent 8 years in the enterprise segment working for Kimberly Clark and Biosphere Corporation.

What makes Fullfunnel.io different?

1. Ins and outs of selling to enterprise

Coming from the mid-market and enterprise world, I know all the ins and outs of selling to these segments: the research and evaluation processes, decision-making procedures inside the buying committee and the approval workflows. 

We’ve been there, done that, and know how to generate opportunities with these segments and influence the decision-making processes.

2. Niche experience

While we could help many B2B business, since 2007 we focus exclusively on two verticals: high-value B2B tech (enterprise SaaS, blockchain technology, hardware) and service-based companies (software development, consulting, cybersecurity, DevOps as a service, etc). 

We were and still are “in the trenches”, know the lowdown of these businesses, so you’ll get access to 30+ years of our combined experience and knowledge. 

3. Knowledge transfer and in-house operations

We believe that the real growth can only be driven in-house. You need to have people who are in the trenches every day, talking to customers, experiencing the sales hurdles, refining the messages and positioning.

We join your team as external marketing advisors, provide consistent support and training including step-by-step playbooks, templates, marketing and sales dashboards, tech stack and process maps.

As a result, you get an evergreen in-house growth engine.

My favorite way to explain B2B marketing for long sales cycles is by showing demand generation from the buyer perspective:

I. I WANT TO LEARN.

Individual buyers are exploring topics, upskilling themselves, and discovering best practices and industry trends. They're not actively looking for solutions yet—they're in learning mode.

At this stage, buyers might:

- Discover good content from a brand and start following them
- Share good content with colleagues
- Consume educational materials like podcasts, webinars, or articles
- Build awareness of different approaches and vendors

This is the foundation stage where you get noticed, build trust, and awareness before a specific business need emerges.

II. WE WANT A SOLUTION.

The buying group has agreed on the top-priority challenge and the consequences of not solving it now. They start looking for different solutions.

The vendor that was able to clearly articulate that their solution (not a product) is the best fit for this type of challenge, wins an opportunity to be considered during the next round.

Here is an example.

Our enterprise pipeline declined in 2025 by 27%. Despite multiple attempts and efforts, neither marketing nor sales knows how to fix it. We need a solution.

At this point, Champions might consider multiple solutions:

- Invest in sales training
- Hire SDRs and AEs with a proven track record of selling to enterprise
- Launch an account-based marketing program
- Invest in outreach scripts...

The list is endless.

III. WE WANT A SOLUTION LIKE YOURS.

After evaluating multiple solutions by fit, resources and budget, the buying group makes a decision to select one of them. At this point, they start looking at different vendors and book discovery calls to learn more.

Example: We want to start an account-based marketing program.

Alternatives:

- Buy an ABM platform and launch a program based on the playbooks provided by that vendor
- Hire an ABM agency
- Buy an ABM course or workshop
- Hire an experienced consulting company

Guess what you should do as a vendor?

IV. WE WANT YOUR SOLUTION.

After selecting the best-fit solution, the buying committee presents it to stakeholders to get consensus and support for the vendor evaluation.

This is where you start seeing high-intent signals and generate opportunities.

Example: We want to hire you as our consultant partner to implement a pilot ABM program. What is the scope, budget, and resources needed?

You need to invest in fully personalized buyer enablement.

V. WE ARE READY TO BUY FROM YOU.

The buying committee has approved the budget and the resources, you're moving to the procurement and POC phase.

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These stages represent a typical buyer journey. The first three stages could take 9-12 months and often define if you're getting into the consideration set. 

Most B2B companies ignore it and try to capture the demand from in-market accounts, and this is the exact reason why the pipeline dries up.

Co-founder @Fullfunnel.io| ABM & full-funnel marketing for B2B SaaS with long sales cycles | Author

Account-based content strategy shouldn't be complex. Here is the breakdown:  
( sign up for deep dive here: https://lnkd.in/dec4k53c).

1: MANY.

We target the entire ICP cluster, accepting the fact that most of them are not in the market now and there is no buying intent.

- Daily LinkedIn thought leadership: ABM, Full-Funnel Marketing, B2B demand generation.
- Weekly email newsletter
- Weekly live podcast
- Quarterly step-by-step webinars
- Annual Full-Funnel Summit

1:FEW.

The level of intent is medium, and these accounts could become a future pipeline. The goal is to generate demand and get into the consideration set.

- Cluster + Jobs-To-Be-Done Specific content (e.g. How to successfully replicate your pilot ABM program with the regional teams).

- Detailed industry case studies with our clients: video interviews + content summary, where we review specific ABM programs in detail.

1:1.

We want to accelerate the sales cycle and influence the purchase decisions of the accounts with the high intent:

- Fully personalized business cases and solutions for a specific account
- Arguments for multiple stakeholders (e.g. how sales will benefit from ABM, etc).

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We'll share the deep dive at our virtual Full-Funnel Summit. 
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There are 2 companies that dared to challenge the absurdity of B2B marketing with video content: Cognism feat. Todd Clouser (The Worst Marketer in The World) and Dapper - the demand agency feat. Tycho Luijten and Steven van Marle (see one of my favorite videos they created).

Two companies stood out because they were not afraid to:

- innovate
- differentiate
- challenge the status quo

Ask any B2B sales team about their challenges, and in most cases you'll hear:

Our target accounts don't know us.

Most B2B companies are invisible to their buyers.

Not because they lack budget. Not because their product is bad.

Because they sound exactly like everyone else. They play safe.

Same gated whitepaper "10 trends in our market in 2026". Same pictures from the conference. Same narrative according to the "tone of voice".

B2B shouldn't stay for Boring to Boring. 

Even if you are not going to produce video content, you can stand out with:

- Insights and data (e.g. Kerry Cunningham doing a constant research for 6sense)

- Infographics explaining complex B2B marketing (we and Pierre Herubel took that pass)

- Actionable templates (cudos to Jen Allen-Knuth , Nate Nasralla, Rob Kaminski)

It's just a choice.

I've invited Tycho to our Full-Funnel Summit to stress-test his framework in an enterprise B2B.

Join us to learn:

* How to become the first brand your buyer thinks of — even with a 2-person content team, zero video capability, and a CEO who wants you to "go broad"
* The actual process, resources, and costs behind viral B2B content — and how to prove ROI when your CFO calls brand "a nice-to-have"
* How to make "niche famous" work in enterprise with 18-month sales cycles and 500 target accounts

Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dec4k53c

No B2B buyer ever said:

"Hey, I'm interested in being your MQL. 

Please, send me your automated email nurturing cadence and transfer my email and phone number to your Sales Rep.  I'd love to spend a few hours on a qualification call and then hang out with your Account Executive."

B2B buyers don't engage with marketing content, sign up for webinars or field events, because they are READY to buy.

They engage because the topic resonated with them, and they'd like to learn more.

We have a fundamental problem here.

Because of siloed sales and marketing, marketers are under the pressure to generate leads.

Nobody even questions the LEAD definition.

Hence, marketing collects any engament (sign-ups, downloads, email link clicks) and handovers it to sales. If, eventually, sales generate an opportunity, this opportunity is presented as marketing-influenced.

But in the most cases, it ends up with blaming each other at the next board meeting.

Stop thinking about conversions at each touchpoint. 

Start doing this: 

1. UNDERSTAND YOUR BUYERS.

- What do my best customers have in common? 
- What triggers their research? What attracts their attention? 
- Where do they learn? Hang out? Whom do they follow?
- What are their jobs-to-be-done and their daily challenges?
- What questions do they ask? 
- Which evaluation criteria do they use? 
- What do they value the most? 

2. BE PRESENT IN THE CHANNELS WHERE YOUR BUYERS ARE.

Clicks and downloads doesn't matter. Account awareness and nurturing matters.

Stop:

1. Dropping links to your website in every social post.
2. Create mediocre articles based on high-volume keywords
3. Producing low-quality PDFs to collect MQLs and transfer them to sales

Start:

Create top-notch content optimized for native consumption in the channel.

3. CONNECT AND ENGAGE WITH YOUR BUYERS.

In complex B2B the relationship is what drives the revenue aside from a strong brand and content.

Enable your marketing and sales to be active on target social platforms and communities to connect and engage with the target buyers, not pitching them.

4. DISTRIBUTE CONTENT.

Creating great content without making sure your target audience consumes it is a waste of time.

Develop a content distribution workflow through:

- Own assets: newsletter, social profiles, etc.
- Sharing in communities
- Paid and 1-1 distribution to target accounts

5. CAPTURE THE DEMAND.

Sales-ready buyers will reach out to you. Here's what to do with the rest:

- Remove friction from the buying process
- Do a progressive profiling to personalize further nurturing and activation.
- Add target accounts that hit an engagement threshold to ABM playbooks
- Deveop personalized warm-up and activation activities to generate sales opps

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"LEADS" are the consequence of brand awareness, demand generation, joint marketing and sales nurturing, customer advocacy, and great product.

We'll dive deeper at our Full-funnel summit. 

Sign up for FREE here: https://lnkd.in/dnw37WvF

Here is a 6A framework we use to orchestrate ABM playbooks:

Pre-requisites:

- Cross-functional ABM team (ABM lead, SME, BDR, content + revops)
- Confirmed responsibilities and time commitment
- Defined program goals (new logo, expansion, acceleration)
- Confirmed success criteria + program KPIs with leadership
- Selected cluster or vertical
- Cluster win/loss deal analysis

6 playbook pillars.

1. ACCOUNT QUALIFICATION: https://lnkd.in/diePETma

- Firmo and technographics
- Qualification criteria / signals
- Disqualification criteria
- Tier segmentation
- Buying committee structure

2. ACCOUNT SEGMENTATION: https://lnkd.in/dkYBZN7X

Segment all accounts by Tiers, Vendor Awareness, Relationship and Product-Need Evidence signals.

1. Cluster ICP accounts (Not aware of us & product need is unknown).
2. Future Pipeline accounts (Aware of us & product need is unknown).
3. Active Focus accounts (Aware of us and the product need is known).

4. ACCOUNT RESEARCH.

Define information you absolutely must know about an account to create a personalized offer:

- Strategic initiatives and priorities
- Challenges
- Jobs-to-be-done & KPis of target buyer persona
- Other account enrichment information

Split it into desk and 1-1 research.

4. ACCOUNT AWARENESS: https://lnkd.in/esXKq2xc

Define core activities and content to create awareness among buying committee members.

5. ACCOUNT DEVELOPMENT & NURTURING: https://lnkd.in/dFhrbBN6

Define key activities to engage buying committee members and build a relationship with them.

6. ACCOUNT ACTIVATION: 

Personalize your offer and define bridge activities to book discovery meetings.

The last 3 pillars (awareness, nurturing and activation) incorporate time-based and signal-based playbooks to enable continuous nurturing for 12-18 months.
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I see a lot of ABM advice on LinkedIn:

- Buy an enrichment software (e.g.  Clay or Zoominfo)
- Run an automated account research
- Set up personalized outbound cadences
- Run LinkedIn ads to the same accounts

Technically, you can call it ABM, and no doubt it might work for low ACV product . But it works because the risk to purchase and try the product is miserable.

The problem though is that this playbook cracks like peanuts in the enterprise world and long sales cycles. 

According to HockeyStack, it takes 417 touchpoints and 5,493 impressions to generate >$100k deals. 

Important nuance: value-added touchpoints, not only "here is how we can help you -> book a demo".

Most ABM playbooks account for maybe 5-10% of necessary touchpoints. If you want to land enterprise deals, be ready to roll up your sleeves and do the necessary work.

P.S. This Friday we'll publish on our Substack a practical example of creating a playbook for one of our accounts. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dSje9cKc

LinkedIn and organic reach are down. Our pipeline quality is up 20x. Here’s what's happening and what works today:

- In Q3 2025, organic reach hit its lowest point ever (down 65% from peak feat Will McTighe)
- Company pages falling from 7% to just 2% visibility in feeds (feat. Iternum Digital)
- Typical reach for content published from personal profiles is: 167 views for people with <1k followers and 5372 views for people with 50k-100k followers.

All of these means one simple fact:

Publish on the company’s page and wait for clicks is not working anymore.

My best guess:

LinkedIn is fighting with AI slop and low-quality content by trying to increase relevancy.

90% of LinkedIn feed is AI-generated content and selling-first posts. The signal-to-noise ratio has never been worse.

We’ve experienced this ourselves at FullFunnel.io. Our LinkedIn reach dropped 5-7x compared to two years ago. But our pipeline quality improved 20x over the same period.

Why?

Again, my best guess is because we never tried to chase the reach and always focused on jobs-to-be-done of our target buyers.

We ran an analysis with Vladimir Blagojević to find what works today. 

Here are 6 content formats that cut through the noise and generate awareness today.

1. Entertainment-first video (feat. Tycho Luijten).

Why it works: 

Humor is massively underused on LinkedIn. People are on social media to laugh or to learn. If you only do the second, you’re competing with thousands of identical videos. Add entertainment, and you break the pattern entirely.

2. Infographics (feat. Pierre Herubel).

Why it works: 

Infographics have the highest dwell time, save rates and profile click-through rate. Basically, what LinkedIn wants.

3. Carousels (feat. Sara Stella Lattanzio).

Why it works:

Same reasons as for infographics, with the difference that in carousels you can add more text and visual examples + provide step-by-step playbooks.

4. Proprietary research.

Why it works:

Any piece of content can be created in seconds. What can’t be created by AI is the data nobody else has. Your proprietary data.

When you publish research from real interviews or client data, your research becomes cited and shared on social, communities, newsletters, and sales decks.

I'll share the links to our favorite examples below.

5. Practical templates (feat. Jen Allen-Knuth and Nate Nasralla).

Why it works:

Templates are immediately applicable. Buyers don’t just read them, they save them, use them, and share them with colleagues. You deliver value upfront.

6. “How leading companies do it” case studies (feat. Elric Legloire).

Everybody is interested in how leading companies became “leading” :) 

What do they do differently? 
How do they do it? 
What processes and tools do they use? 
How do they structure their teams?
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The entire breakdown with visuals, ideation process and how to make the necessary shifts is here: 

https://lnkd.in/eY4r-bU9

The 7th virtual Full-Funnel Summit (March 24-26) is live — get your free ticket: https://lnkd.in/dec4k53c. Here is the format and agenda:

→ 15 live keynotes (virtual, you can attend from anywhere)
→ Live Q&A and chat with the speakers. 
→ No vendor pitches. 
→ Recordings locked for registered attendees only.

Three tracks.

DAY 1: ABM TRACK: Why your ABM isn't generating pipeline (and what actually works in 2026)

With Leanne Chescoe, Davis Potter, Steve Armenti, Lauren Goodell, me and Vladimir Blagojević.

DAY 2: CMO TRACK: How to run marketing when leadership wants results yesterday and sales complaining about marketing leads.

With Tim Rutten, Ashley Lewin, Matt Heinz, Ashley Faus.

DAY 3: GTM TRACK: Getting attention, creating awereness and generating deman in the AI era.

With Shlomo Genchin, Tycho Luijten, Sara Stella Lattanzio, Diandra Escobar, Justin Rowe, Thibaut Souyris.

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7 years ago we started this summit because we couldn't find a B2B marketing event that was honest about what actually works in complex, long-cycle enterprise sales.

Not the new shiny AI automation. Not the new narrative about generating meetings on autopilot.

But how to solve the real challenges every B2B marketing team faces today:

→ How to drive pipeline when your sales cycle is 12-18 months and leadership wants results this quarter 

→ How to prove marketing's contribution to revenue when early influence disappears in your CRM and last-touch attribution gets all the credit 

→ How to run ABM with a lean team and a limited budget 

→ How to get the attention of buyers who ignore cold outreach, unsubscribe from nurture sequences, and do 70% of their research before ever talking to sales
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We keep it free because we believe this content should be accessible to every B2B marketing and sales team, not just the ones with a $5K event budget.

All we ask in return:

if this looks valuable to you, help us spread the word.

→ Grab your free ticket: https://lnkd.in/dec4k53c 

→ Tag one colleague in marketing, sales or RevOps who's dealing with any of the challenges above

See you at the summit.

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