CRM connected

HubSpot is connected. Pipeline and revenue on this page are read from it, direct and influenced. Two things make it complete: deal amounts on every influenced deal and mapped lifecycle stages.

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Design mock · real Testimonial Hero data, 90 days to 21 Sep 2026 · CRM figures are Jul to Sepbenchmark.kiin.co/testimonial-hero

Your rank, against advertisers buying the same audience

15th of 34

15 of 34 · 34 advertisers running message ads to matched lists, Audience Network off

LinkedIn put 304 leads into HubSpot and touched $214k of pipeline in three months.Campaign Manager says you got zero.

Nothing runs through a lead form, so LinkedIn grades the account a failure. The CRM says 16 deals and pipeline at 4.1x spend.

Pipeline LinkedIn touched

$214k16 deals, Jul to Sep. 4.1x the $52.9k spent.

Revenue in window

$12k$137k closed across six months. The cycle is longer than 90 days.

Cost per CRM lead

$174304 leads with LinkedIn as the HubSpot source.

Leads LinkedIn can see

0No forms. The audit scored Conversion 0. That is a reporting finding.
$58,397Spend · 90 days
48Campaigns live
73.8kMessages sent · 48.9% opened
304CRM leads · 72 direct · 232 influenced
34Advertisers in your cohort

Kiin panel composite rank · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 01 · the panel and the buyer behind every number

Your cohort

34 advertisers running message ads to matched lists, Audience Network off

Objective · Website conversionAudience · Matched lists + retargetingFunction · MarketingAudience Network offPanel · Aug 2026

Website conversion, matched lists and retargeting, marketing, manager to CXO.

Matched on objective, audience kind, Audience Network. Relaxed: function and seniority (cell under 10).

Only 7 panel accounts have a CRM, so pipeline is an absolute and a ratio, not a rank.

Your buyer, from your results · confidence medium

Marketing and revenue leaders, Director to CXO, at B2B software companies of 200 to 5,000 people

Function · Marketing, RevenueSeniority · Director to CXO

CRM-led. No lead forms, so the index is directional.

Not a typed-in target audience: the people and companies that actually converted, from your CRM, your lead forms and your landing page clicks, in that order of trust.

This is inferred from your results, not something you told us. If your ICP is different, add it. It never changes the numbers.

Section 02 · you vs cohort median vs top 20%

LinkedIn's grade and the CRM disagree.

Message ads are 61% of spend and have no demographic pivot. The report says what share of spend it can read.

MetricBand = cohort p25 to p75 · square = youBetter than
Conversation open rateOpens ÷ sends
30%50%you 48.9%
Inband

get_benchmarks matched cell · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 03 · one bucket per campaign

The CRM is the business case. Campaign Manager cannot see it.

Working · $40,000 · 68%Weak · $10,000 · 17%Can't measure · $8,397 · 15%

Held campaigns are not in the fix list. 47 of 59 active campaigns sit in paused groups.

campaign metrics, 90 days · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 05 · from your results, not a list

The buyer is read from HubSpot, because nothing converts on LinkedIn.

No forms, so no attributions. The index is directional. Message ads, 61% of spend, have no demographic pivot.

Index = share of conversions ÷ share of delivery. Shares stay inside one dimension. LinkedIn pivots inflate absolute counts, so dollars are never summed across dimensions.

Lessons for this account
  • Do not invent an index from flat landing page CTR.
  • The CRM carries the profile until forms or site conversions exist.

buyer profile index · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 04 · settings that quietly cost money

47 of 59 campaigns marked active are held in paused groups.

Marked active59Campaign status ACTIVE
Actually serving12Group active, audience 300+, spend this week
Held47Active on paper, not serving
Cannot spend$1,240/day that cannot spendDaily budget on held campaigns

Serving means campaign active, parent group active, audience at least 300, and spend in the last 7 days. Only live items count toward the fix list.

campaign catalog × group × 7-day spend · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 06 · the no-CRM north star

Is the right audience seeing real people?

Funnel stage is read from the audience (website, engagement, or video retargeting is the middle), not from the objective.

TLA share of spend7%Top 20% of cohort: 40%+
TLA authors1Kiin rule: founder plus two customers
TLA engagement rate6.57%Benchmark 3 to 12%
Dwell time12.8sBenchmark 3 to 5s · strong
Demand gen share34%Recommended 50% at this budget
People reached · feed35.4kexcluding CTV · frequency 2 to 5
Format mix · share of spendMessage ads61%
Connected TV8%Video (feed)

Format mix · share of spend

Message ads61%
Connected TV8%
Video (feed)6%
Single image (TLA)5%
Other feed20%

Funnel · share of spend

Cold (TOFU)34%
Retargeting + capture66%

Text ads and connected TV are one line each. They are not in feed frequency or CPM.

creative stats, feed only · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 07 · eight checks, not a dashboard

7% of spend. The image cells work. The video cells don't.

Linked posts are judged on landing page CTR. Link-less posts are judged on engagement. Never total CTR, never CPC.

Eight checks, each against the panel

ObjectiveEngagementimage on engagement, video on video views
Link vs no link9 / 4linked judged on LP CTR · link-less on engagement
BiddingManualCPC · panel: CPM-bid −33% per click
Format35% video$1,464 at 0.06% LP CTR
Fatigue1.0ximage cell at one pass of 40k · swap at 48 days
Authors1Dustin Tysick · 10 unresolved
TargetingTitlesDirector+ · SaaS + Cyber · US + CA
Share of spend7%top quintile runs 40%+
Lessons for this account
  • When the account runs both image and video, its own paired result comes before the panel.
  • Audience Network off before any TLA number is judged.

Kiin Labs TLA benchmarks 2026 · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 08 · leads by type, never averaged

Demo, content, booking, and site visits each have their own band.

A lead gen form campaign is not judged on landing page clicks. A message ad to a URL is not judged on form opens.

Lead typeWhere it came fromSpendCountCost eachCohort medianRead
CRM lead · directHubSpot source = LinkedIn · Jul to Sep$52,91172$735$465*Fair
CRM lead · influencedCompany engaged before the lead was created232$174 blendedStrong
Site visitMessage ad button and text-link clicks$35,4651,441$24.61Engine
Site visitFeed ads · landing page clicks$18,423887$20.77$17Fair
Form leadLead gen forms$00$465Not used
BookingConversation ad to calendar$00Not used

Landing page URLs are not classified yet. The page says so instead of inventing a destination.

lead gen report and conversation ads · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 09 · completion by format

No lead gen forms. Everything goes to the site.

No lead gen forms in the window.

No lead gen forms in the window

Nothing on this account asks for a form. Capture is the site, or a form worth testing on the audience that already clicks.

lead gen forms · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 10 · direct vs influenced

304 CRM leads, 16 deals, $214k pipeline.

Campaign Manager says zero. The strict influence tool also said zero, because conversation ads have no company clicks.

What Campaign Manager says0Campaign Manager conversions. No forms, no events firing.
What HubSpot says304HubSpot leads with LinkedIn as source, Jul to Sep. 72 direct, 232 influenced. 16 deals, $214,318.
StageDirectInfluencedTotalCost eachCohort
Leads72232304$174$465*
Demos / meetings
Opportunities
Pipeline$214,318$3,307 / deal
Revenue$12,060$137k · 6 mo
InfluencedPre-deal, above the thresholdClicks dropped when message or video is over 30% of spend
ExposedImpressions only, pre-dealCounted, labelled
After the dealAds seen after creationNever counted
Two fixes in the CRM make this the business case
  • Deal amounts on influenced deals
  • Lifecycle stages so demos stop reading zero

Per-format influence is a labelled slot until the company-by-campaign join exists. Message ads have no company pivot.

Spend against CRM leads by month. The shape is the point.

Lessons for this account
  • The CRM is the headline. Campaign Manager is the secondary line.
  • The influence threshold is format-aware.

v_conversion_funnel and influenced deals · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 11 · companies, feed only

Who actually saw the ads.

Communities, VCs, and placeholder employers are tagged and kept off the buyer index.

CompanyIndustryImpr.ClicksNote
PavilionCommunity13,639Tagged, not a buyer

Company reach is LinkedIn's top-100-per-day pivot, so shares are a lower bound. Message ads have no company pivot.

company engagement · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 12 · the panel, after your own data

What advertisers like you do differently.

A finding is dropped if it asks for a bigger audience, if the cell is unknown, or if your own paired campaigns contradict it.

01 · n=127

They keep Audience Network off

Landing page CTR is 56% better when it is off.

you: on

02 · Kiin rule

They keep every live campaign feeding retargeting

Two video audiences are built and attached to nothing.

you: 2 orphaned

panel findings · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Section 13 · live campaigns only

Five moves.

Held and paused campaigns stay in the archive. Nothing here is applied without a preview.

1

Turn Audience Network off on the video views campaign

Preview, confirm, watch landing page CTR for 14 days.

$3,022 to $5,151per month, at cohort rates
Preview change
2

Pause the single-image demo forms

$4,946 for one demo vs $466 on message ads.

~8 demosper quarter at $466
Preview change
3

Attach the two orphan video audiences

1,646 and 4,109 people, built and unused.

+5,755people in the middle
Preview change
Phil IlicFounder, Kiin

On LinkedIn's numbers this looks like a failure. In HubSpot it is the best account in the batch. The job is to make the two agree.

Refreshes monthly · you get an email when your rank moves

live campaigns · 23 Jun to 21 Sep 2026 · USD · n=34 · Aug 2026 · moderate

Kiin Labs · Benchmark · Testimonial HeroKiin panel · k-anonymous · n≥10 · rank only at n≥25 · USD · not LinkedIn published benchmarks