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Google AdsFor sales-led B2B SaaS

Google Ads that bid for pipeline, not form fills.

When your buyers finally search, we make sure Google turns that intent into qualified pipeline. Tight search, honest economics, and bidding trained on your CRM, not on whoever fills in a form.

Free, 30 minutes. Leave with a waste check of your Google account and your first three fixes.

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Behind the ad
Bidding toSales-qualified opportunities
Conversion valueFrom your CRM, by stage
Match typesExact + phrase, mined weekly
Illustrative example
Trusted by B2B SaaS teams
Sova Assessment
Lead Forensics
Giga Energy
Huq Industries
Credit Logic
Thrive Health
Miicare
Fibbler
MarketerHire
Lumi AI
1,700+Demos booked for clients
$23M+Pipeline influenced
9×Deals in pipeline for Giga Energy, from LinkedIn + Google
The problem

Most B2B Google accounts are very good at the wrong thing.

Google's bidding is excellent at finding more of whatever you tell it to count. In most B2B accounts, that's form fills.

What Google optimises to by default

The cheapest conversion it can find.

  • Every form fill counted the same
  • Broad match spending on loose searches
  • Performance Max chasing cheap leads
  • Brand search getting all the credit
What sales-led SaaS actually needs

Searches that become pipeline.

  • Bidding trained on SQLs and opportunities from your CRM.
  • Tight, high-intent keywords, mined every week.
  • Automation only where there's enough data to steer it.
  • Credit shared with the channels that created the demand.
The fastest fix in most accounts isn't a new campaign. It's telling Google what a good lead is.
Honest economics

Search volume is a ceiling, not a dial.

In a niche B2B category, only so many people search for what you sell each month. Google can capture that demand very well. It can't create more of it.

Once your brand, high-intent and competitor searches are covered, extra budget buys looser traffic at a higher cost per qualified lead. We'll tell you where that point is for your market, and put the rest of the budget where it creates demand.

Cost per qualified lead as Google spend rises CAPTURING REAL INTENT BUYING LOOSER TRAFFIC Intent ceiling Monthly Google spend → Cost per SQL →
Illustrative · the ceiling is different in every market
How we run Google Ads

Five campaign jobs. One budget, one goal.

A typical starting structure for a sales-led SaaS account. We size each part to your search volume, not to a template.

01

Brand protection

Own your name before competitors do. Cheap, high-converting, and the place LinkedIn-created demand shows up.

10 to 15%
02

High-intent search

Category, problem and solution terms people use when they're ready to buy. Exact and phrase match, mined weekly.

40 to 50%
03

Competitors & alternatives

"[Competitor] alternative" searches sent to honest comparison pages, judged on cost per SQL, not CPC.

15 to 20%
04

Remarketing & account lists

YouTube, Demand Gen and Customer Match on site visitors and target accounts, many of them sent by LinkedIn.

15 to 20%
05

Performance Max, with guardrails

Only once offline conversions are flowing, with brand excluded and negatives in place. Otherwise it buys cheap leads.

0 to 10%

Share of Google budget · typical starting point, adjusted to your market

Negative keywordsSearch terms reviewed weekly for the first 3 months. Free, jobs, salary, tutorial and open-source searches blocked from day one.
Landing pagesComparison, alternative and demo pages matched to the search, because the click is only half the job.
Microsoft AdsUsually cheaper, often ignored, and increasingly where Copilot answers come from.
BIDDING TO PIPELINEOffline conversions · enhanced conversions for leads

Teach Google what a good lead is worth.

We send your CRM stages back to Google with a value on each one. Bidding stops chasing form fills and starts chasing the searches that turn into opportunities.

Form fillCounted, low valueWhat most accounts bid on
MQLQualified by marketingSmall value
SQLAccepted by salesBigger value
OpportunityReal pipelineBiggest signal
Closed wonRevenueValue = your ACV
Not enough conversions for smart bidding?

Google's lead-gen guidance asks for about 15 conversions in 30 days before value-based bidding settles, and learning can take up to six weeks at low volume. Most B2B accounts don't have that many opportunities. So we bid on the deepest stage with enough volume, consolidate campaigns, and move down the ladder as data builds.

Source: Google Ads Help, Performance Max best practices for lead gen
Google + LinkedInOne system

Google captures the demand LinkedIn creates.

Most of your buyers aren't searching yet. LinkedIn reaches them by job title and company months before they do. When they're ready, they search your name, and Google catches them.

Run by two agencies, branded search takes all the credit and the channel that created the demand looks like a cost. We run both, so the budget follows what's actually working.

  • One account list across both channels
  • LinkedIn engagers fed into Google remarketing and Customer Match
  • Branded search volume tracked against LinkedIn reach
  • One report, against pipeline in your CRM
See how we run LinkedIn Ads →
LinkedIn AdsReach the buying committee by title and company
Months of familiarityThought Leader Ads, video, retargeting
They search your nameBrand and high-intent search grow
Google Ads captures itBidding to SQLs, not form fills
What the market data says

Search is getting dearer. Precision matters more.

Published B2B benchmarks from independent datasets, so you know what you're walking into.

Non-brand search · CPC+29%

Rise in non-brand B2B search CPC in a year, from $4.13 to $5.34.

Click-through rate fell from 5.47% to 4.04% over the same period. Loose keywords cost more every quarter.

Dreamdata · Aug 2024 to Jul 2025
Journey length281 days

From first LinkedIn impression to revenue, on average.

The search that converts is the last step of a long journey, which is why last-click reporting misleads.

Dreamdata · 2026, 3.5M journeys
Return on ad spend67%

Google Search ROAS in B2B, against 121% for LinkedIn.

Not a reason to skip Google, a reason to run it tightly and alongside the channel that feeds it.

Dreamdata · 2026 benchmarks
Already running Google Ads?

What we check first.

The issues we find in almost every B2B Google account we take over, roughly in order of how much money they're costing.

01 · Tracking
  • Which conversions Google bids on
  • Enhanced conversions
  • CRM stages sent back
02 · Waste
  • Search terms that never became pipeline
  • Missing negatives
  • Display and partner leakage
03 · Structure
  • Brand cannibalisation
  • Match types
  • Performance Max overlap
04 · Measurement
  • Cost per SQL by campaign
  • Credit vs LinkedIn
  • Landing page conversion
ClientsLinkedIn + Google, run together

Pipeline from search and social.

Over the course of 7 months, they've 9x'd the number of deals in the pipeline directly from LinkedIn and Google. I'd highly recommend them to anyone needing help with B2B ads.
Sam BurnsHead of Marketing, Giga Energy
We launched LinkedIn, Google, and Meta together and are now exploring GTM outbound with them as well. They really know their stuff and are super proactive; it genuinely feels like they're part of the team.
Kirsty DaweCMO, Lead Forensics
PricingOne flat monthly fee

Start with Google. Add LinkedIn when you're ready.

Media spend is paid directly to the advertising platforms and is separate from Kiin's management fee.

Google

Google Ads

Google Ads strategy and management, sized to your search volume.

From$2,500/mo
From about £1,900 / mo
  • Search: brand, high-intent and competitor
  • Remarketing, YouTube and Customer Match
  • CRM conversions fed back into bidding
  • Negative keyword and search term reviews
  • Reporting against pipeline
Google + LinkedIn

Google + LinkedIn

Full management across LinkedIn and Google Ads, as one system.

$4,500/mo
About £3,350 / mo
  • Everything in Google Ads
  • LinkedIn Ads: Thought Leader Ads, ABM and Conversation Ads
  • CRM conversions fed back into bidding
All four channels

Full Paid Media

LinkedIn, Google, Reddit and Meta, as one system.

$5,500/mo
About £4,150 / mo
  • LinkedIn
  • Google
  • Meta
  • Reddit
Book a call →

Not sure which mix you need? We'll recommend one on the call, with your Google account in front of us.

Add-on

Outbound

End-to-end outbound management, including the tooling stack.

From $4,000/mo
About £3,100 / mo
Add-on

RevOps

A separately scoped engagement, based on what the business needs.

Ask us on the call
Recommended starting point

Start with a 3-month pilot.

  • 3-month initial engagement
  • Google media budget sized to your search volume
  • Adding LinkedIn? At least £4,000 a month in LinkedIn media
  • Enough time and spend to establish real audience, creative and conversion data

Media spend is separate from Kiin's fee and paid directly to Google, LinkedIn and the other platforms.

No setup feeNo mark-up on ad spendYou own the accounts, creative and data
FAQ

Questions buyers ask first.

How much should we spend on Google Ads?

It depends on how many people search for what you sell. We size the budget to cover your brand, high-intent and competitor searches properly, then tell you honestly where extra spend stops paying. In niche categories that can be a few thousand a month; the rest of the budget usually works harder on LinkedIn.

Should we run Google or LinkedIn?

For sales-led B2B SaaS, usually both. LinkedIn creates demand among buyers who aren't searching yet; Google captures it when they do. If your category already has strong search demand you aren't capturing, start with Google. If almost nobody searches for it, start with LinkedIn.

Do you use Performance Max?

Only with guardrails: offline conversions flowing from your CRM, brand excluded, negatives in place and enough volume to learn from. Without those, it tends to optimise toward the cheapest leads it can find.

Should we bid on competitor names?

Usually yes, sent to honest comparison or alternatives pages and judged on cost per SQL rather than CPC. They're often expensive per click and good per opportunity.

How do you measure results?

Against your CRM: cost per SQL and per opportunity by campaign, not form fills. We send CRM stages back to Google so its bidding learns from the same numbers we report on.

How long until we see results?

Tracking and waste fixes often show up in the first month. Smart bidding needs time to learn on new conversion goals, typically several weeks, and longer at low volume.

Do you run Microsoft Ads and YouTube too?

Yes. Microsoft Ads is often cheaper and increasingly feeds Copilot answers. YouTube and Demand Gen work best on remarketing and account lists rather than cold audiences.

Can you work with our in-house team?

Yes. Most clients have one. We slot in as the paid media specialists and work to your brand, content and sales processes.

Free30 minutes · no pitch deck · yours to keep

Book a call. Leave knowing where your Google budget leaks.

01

Your waste check

The search terms, campaigns and conversion goals spending money that never turns into pipeline.

Became pipelineWasted
ILLUSTRATIVESHARE OF GOOGLE SPEND
02

Your search ceiling

How much real intent exists in your market, and the pipeline range a Google budget can realistically buy.

03

Your first three fixes

The changes that would move your numbers most, ranked by how much spend each one touches.

Most agenciesReport Google's own conversion numbers
GoogleOptimises to the cheapest form fill it can find
KiinBids and reports against pipeline in your CRM
Book a call →

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