Your ads arerunning. Arethey working?
EKN supports UK in-house teams with paid social campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok. Connect audience planning, creative, lead capture, measurement and sales follow-up around an agreed brief.
Selected work and campaign experience.
Explore the client work and journeys behind EKN: campaigns, conversion, measurement and follow-up. Each project needs its brief, delivery scope and available evidence.
If your paid social ads are not working, start with the symptom.
Choose the issue closest to your brief. Explore what EKN reviews across targeting, creative, the enquiry journey, measurement and follow-up.
You're paying for clicks that are unlikely to convert.
Every pound spent on the wrong audience, weak creative or the wrong campaign objective is difficult to recover. The issue is not always the budget. It is usually where the budget is being sent.
Audience targeting is too broad or too cold.
Campaigns are optimising for attention instead of enquiries.
The page or offer is not strong enough after the click.
You cannot tell which ads are creating real enquiries.
A basic pixel is not enough if the important actions happen through calls, forms, emails, WhatsApp, CRM stages or offline follow-up. Without reliable tracking, paid social decisions become guesswork.
Leads are counted differently across platforms and GA4.
Phone calls, forms or CRM outcomes are missing from reports.
Campaigns are scaled before the data is trusted.
Your ad creates interest, but the page loses the enquiry.
Paid social traffic needs a landing page that continues the same promise from the advert. If the message changes, proof is missing, the form is too heavy or the CTA is unclear, people leave.
The advert and landing page are saying different things.
The next step is not obvious enough on mobile.
Trust, proof or speed is causing drop-off after the click.
Boosting posts is not the same as a paid social strategy.
Boosting a post can create visibility, but it rarely gives you a controlled lead-generation system. Proper paid social needs a campaign goal, audience plan, creative testing route and conversion journey.
Spend is being pushed behind posts instead of campaigns.
There is no testing plan for audience, offer or creative.
No one knows what should happen after the click.
Where are your paid social campaigns stuck right now?
Pick the bottleneck that is stopping your paid social campaigns from turning attention into enquiries.
I need more leads. My pipeline is too thin.
You have a good service but not enough enquiries. You need paid social campaigns that consistently put your business in front of the right local or B2B audience.
Book a free strategy call →I'm spending on Meta but the phone isn't ringing.
You have tried running ads but the results do not justify the cost. The issue is usually targeting, creative fatigue, offer clarity or what the landing page does after the click.
Fix your Meta ads →Traffic is arriving but visitors aren't converting.
You are getting paid social clicks but not enough form fills, calls or bookings. Spending more will not fix that until the landing page, offer and trust signals are improved.
Start with CRO →Leads come in but go cold before anyone follows up.
The problem may not be lead generation. It may be what happens after someone enquires. Faster CRM follow-up, reminders and nurture can stop good paid social leads going cold.
Fix your follow-up →Choose the right paid social platform for your customers.
Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok all work differently. EKN helps you choose the platform that matches your audience, offer, budget and conversion goal.
Meta ads
Explore Meta where your customers use Facebook and Instagram. We agree the audience, creative, capture route and measurement before launch.
LinkedIn ads
LinkedIn Ads can work well for B2B, professional services and higher-value offers. Target by job title, company size, industry and seniority, then use retargeting to stay visible during longer decisions.
TikTok ads
TikTok Ads can help visual brands, clinics, fitness businesses and local services create demand quickly. It works best when creative feels native, useful and easy to engage with.
Estimate what your paid social budget could generate.
Explore an illustrative scenario using the budget, platform and sale value controls. The tool uses fixed cost-per-lead assumptions and a 30% close rate; it does not predict campaign performance.
Estimated monthly results
Treat this as a planning range, not a promise. The real improvement usually comes from fixing targeting, creative, landing page quality, tracking and follow-up before increasing spend.
Estimate only. Results are not guaranteed and will depend on offer strength, audience quality, conversion journey, sales process and market demand.
EKN does not just run ads. We build the system around them.
A paid social campaign only works when the audience, creative, offer, landing page, tracking and follow-up are connected. EKN builds that journey around your ad spend.
Awareness and demand creation
People who have never heard of you see your brand for the first time.
Consideration and retargeting
People who have shown interest get follow-up ads that push them toward a decision.
Conversion-focused offers
People ready to buy see a direct offer on a page built to convert.
Retention and lifetime value
Past customers get campaigns that keep them coming back.
A simple paid social process built around real results.
We diagnose the opportunity, build the campaign properly, then optimise what is working instead of guessing from week to week.
Onboard
Before writing ads, EKN reviews your customers, competitors, offer, landing page and current tracking. We find the best paid social opportunity and choose the channels most likely to generate enquiries.
Build and launch
Your first campaign can go live quickly, but not blindly. We prepare the landing page, install tracking and launch with a clear view of what a good lead, enquiry or booking looks like.
Test and scale
What works gets more budget. What does not gets cut. We continue testing audiences, creative angles, offers and landing pages so the campaign improves over time.
Paid social works better when the full journey is fixed.
Better targeting gets attention. Better pages, tracking and follow-up turn that attention into enquiries. These services usually work best alongside paid social advertising.
Website and conversion rate optimisation
If your landing page does not convert, paid social traffic gets wasted. CRO fixes what happens after the click so your ad spend has a better chance of becoming enquiries.
See CRO → For follow-upMarketing automation and CRM
Paid social leads go cold fast. Automated CRM follow-up helps every enquiry get a response, reminder or next step within minutes rather than hours.
See automation and CRM → For clarityTracking and attribution setup
If you cannot see which ads are working, you cannot scale confidently. Proper tracking shows which campaigns, audiences and landing pages are generating your best paid social leads.
See tracking and attribution →Paid social support for UK marketing teams.
Explore service-sector examples using the tabs. Each campaign needs its own audience, offer, approved evidence and budget assumptions.
Plumbers: Meta ads generating local emergency and planned work enquiries
Meta puts your ads in front of homeowners within a few miles of your service area. Retargeting brings back people who visited your site but did not get in touch. Lead gen forms let them enquire without leaving Facebook.
Recommended: Meta ads + CROElectricians: Meta reaching local homeowners before they start comparing
Meta puts your business in front of local homeowners before they start searching. Retargeting follows up with anyone who showed interest but did not get in touch.
Recommended: Meta ads + retargetingDentists: Meta filling appointment books with local patients
Meta lets you lead with trust. Reviews, results and before-and-afters work well for dental. Instagram Reels and Stories convert well for cosmetic and private dental practices.
Recommended: Meta ads + CROClinics: visual before-and-afters driving local bookings on Meta and TikTok
Use clear service information and approved evidence suited to the offer. We review the creative and platform requirements before agreeing a campaign approach.
Recommended: Meta ads + TikTok adsPersonal trainers: local radius targeting on Meta driving first-session bookings
Meta lets you reach people within a couple of miles of your gym. A retargeting sequence with a simple first session offer brings down your cost per booking. TikTok works well if you want to build a following before converting.
Recommended: Meta ads + landing page optimisationCleaners: Meta building recurring local client bases with low-cost leads
A single cleaning client is worth a lot over their lifetime. Meta radius targeting with a simple offer and lead form is a cost-effective way to fill your schedule with local clients.
Recommended: Meta ads + lead gen formsAccountants: LinkedIn reaching SME owners and directors at decision moments
LinkedIn lets you target business owners and FDs by job title, company size and industry. Meta retargeting keeps you visible to the same people across platforms while they decide.
Recommended: LinkedIn ads + Meta retargetingSolicitors: LinkedIn and Meta reaching people at the moment they need legal help
For B2B legal work, LinkedIn targets business owners and directors directly. For consumer legal services like conveyancing or family law, Meta life-event targeting puts you in front of people at exactly the right moment.
Recommended: LinkedIn ads + Meta adsStop wasting paid social budget on clicks that do not convert.
The businesses getting results from paid social are not always spending more. They are spending on the right audience, message, page and follow-up system. EKN helps you fix the waste before increasing the budget.