Quarterly Impact Report

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1 March to 28 July 2026  /  DemandSense verified  /  prepared by Impactable

EMS 47/100, Reach$18,406 verified spend 18 leads, 6 qualified47.6% penetration on the converting pool $4,080 monthly waste out$2,500 the only new ask
The thesis

Expand now, but earn it in this order: cut the waste, activate what we already own, then Meta.

Every lead in the account came from touching 47.6% of one 7,700 person pool at 7.5x frequency. The offer converts at $170.76 and the audience is right. More LinkedIn budget buys repetition, not reach: penetration falls from 58% on small pools to 10% on large ones, and 179,524 people have never been reached at all.

Meta is the answer, and it ranks third. Two moves cost nothing and come first: 20,000 newsletter subscribers and 1,325 identified companies have never been uploaded, and conversion tracking has never fired. Presenting Meta after those two is the difference between a recommendation and an upsell.

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Scorecard

Ecosystem maturity
47
of 100, stage Reach
Crossed out of Ramp this quarter
Verified spend
$18,406
LinkedIn $14,474, Google $3,933
DemandSense matches console to the cent
Leads
18
6 resolve to a real brand
CPL $170.76 on the lead campaign
Penetration
27.8%
weighted, all pools
179,524 never reached
BOF spend
$0
no campaign exists
Two stage system, three stage job
02

What is working, what is not

Working

Targeting reaches the right people

70.3% of impressions land on Director and above, and all five recorded conversions sit in the 51 to 200 employee band, squarely inside ICP. June to July, enterprise went from 18 of the top 30 engaged accounts to zero.

Working

Google outperforms LinkedIn on every visible metric

13.77% CTR against 2.79%. $1.51 CPC against $4.81. The only channel with recorded conversions. The earlier recommendation to cut it is withdrawn.

Not working

Nothing closes

Convert scores 7.8 of 20. BOF conversion and sales activation both at zero depth. People reached seven times are still offered a PDF, and named accounts like ICP Brand 108 sit unworked.

Not working

Three quarters of Google spend bought the wrong intent

$2,929 of $3,933 went to affiliate and influencer keywords, searched by people wanting to become an Amazon affiliate. 91% of spend sits in ad groups now paused.

Unresolved

Conversions cannot be reconciled

Campaign Manager says 5, DemandSense 0, Google 2. Revenue is not visible yet: deal stage is blank on 417 of 418 HubSpot records, though the ad-influenced companies behind them are. Never quote one figure without naming the source.

Ready

Meta is an earned unlock

A validated campaign with unexposed pockets. 28,117 named ICP people LinkedIn structurally cannot serve. Approved 31 July, plan with the Meta lead.

03

Next 90, in brief

Fourteen moves. Full detail with owners and budgets on the Next 90 tab.

PhaseMovesBudget effect
PrerequisitesUpload the warm pools. Fix conversion tracking.$0
Now, weeks 1 to 43 cuts, 2 scales. Affiliate keywords, three CUT campaigns, enterprise case studies out. Google brand and the LGF size split in.-$4,080/mo
Next, weeks 5 to 12Meta extension, BOF audit offer, Google restructure, VP+ and Marketing on aware accounts, playbook variants.+$2,500/mo
Test, months 4 to 6ICP Brand 100 case study, wellness category playbook, programmatic, AI assistant ads.gated

The account deliberately underspends at week 4 while waste comes out and tracking is fixed. The only new ask inside 90 days is $2,500.