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SaaS marketing agency booking demos with your ICP.

From Chennai, for B2B SaaS founders at Seed to Series A: LinkedIn and Google ads, outbound to named accounts, a Monday cost-per-demo report.
Where your buyers are

The channels that fill your demo calendar

As a SaaS marketing agency for early-stage teams, we run the two ad channels where B2B buyers can be found by name or by problem: LinkedIn Ads for the job titles and companies in your ICP, and Google Ads for people searching for the fix today. Outbound, review sites and your CRM sit around them.

Your ICP, by job title

LinkedIn Ads

  • Sponsored posts
  • Lead Gen Forms
  • Conversation ads
  • Named-account lists

Ads to the job titles, company sizes and industries in your ICP, or to your list of named accounts. The form asks role, team size and current tool before the demo. Held demos go back to LinkedIn to find more like them.

Reaches
Best-fit accountsHands-on championsUS buyers, from India
We judge it by
Cost per held demo by audience, from your CRM
How we run LinkedIn Ads
YYour productPromoted Month-end close stuck on matching invoices by hand? See it done on your own data. For finance teamsInvoice matching without spreadsheets A 20-minute demo on your datayourproduct.comRequest demo YYour product Book a 20-minute demo Work emailJob titleCompany sizeWhat do you use today? Submit

People searching for the fix

Google Ads

  • Search ads
  • “Alternative to” searches
  • Remarketing
  • Customer Match

Search ads on the problem and your category, like “invoice matching software”, and on “alternative to” searches for the tool they use today. Pricing and a demo slot sit one click away; a work-email form screens out students and freelancers.

Reaches
Buyers searching nowBest-fit accountsUS buyers, from India
We judge it by
Cost per held demo by search theme, from your CRM
How we run Google Ads
invoice matching software for finance teams AllMapsImagesNews Sponsored YYour productyourproduct.com › demo Invoice Matching Software · See It on Your Data Match invoices to POs and receipts automatically. Pricing on the page. Book a 20-minute demo. PricingHow it worksIntegrationsBook a demo
Sound familiar?

Why your demos aren’t turning into customers

Demos booked. Wrong people showed up.

No-shows, students, freelancers and “send me a deck”. Every call cost you prep hours and runway, and the release slipped a week.

When you build, pipeline stops.

Two weeks shipping a release and outbound went quiet. You’re the only seller, so week three’s calendar is empty.

Not sure who you sell to.

Four customers in four industries. A small budget split across LinkedIn, Google and cold email, and an agency report of clicks that never bought.

Targeting strategy

Who we target, and how we reach them

We start from your best customers, not from the ad platform. Your three best-paying accounts show who can afford you and feels the problem most. We find more like them by job title, company and search, test one segment at a time, and every held demo shows the ads who to find next.

Annual plans, your biggest contracts

Best-fit accounts

The team lead at companies like your best-paying customers: same size, same industry, same problem.

What they seeThe problem in their words, a customer like them, then a 20-minute demo.

How we find them
  • Job titles and company size on LinkedIn
  • Your list of named target accounts
  • Companies like your paying customers
  • Visitors to your pricing page
Where

A tool to replace a spreadsheet

Buyers searching now

Managers who hit the problem this week and are comparing tools on Google, G2 and Capterra.

What they seeYour answer to their search, pricing in plain sight, and a demo slot.

How we find them
  • Searches like “invoice matching software”
  • “Alternative to” searches for their tool
  • Comparing tools on G2 and Capterra
Where

A pilot, then a team plan

Hands-on champions

The analyst or ops person who would use the tool daily and takes it to their boss.

What they seeA useful template or teardown first, then “see it on your own data”.

How we find them
  • Engaged with the founder’s LinkedIn posts
  • Read your docs or integrations page
  • Watched your demo video, didn’t book
Where

Annual plans, priced in dollars

US buyers, from India

Teams at US and Canadian companies, for founders building in India and selling abroad.

What they seeCustomer proof they recognise, and demo slots in their working hours.

How we find them
  • US and Canada, by state or city
  • Job titles at US mid-market companies
  • Ads and demo slots in their mornings
Where

Every held demo sharpens the targeting. Held demos and paid deals from your CRM go back to LinkedIn and Google, which find more accounts like the ones that showed up.

What we’d run

What we’d run at your stage

Find the ICP that buys.

We test one segment at a time: one job title, one problem, one offer. Small LinkedIn and Google tests sized to your runway and the platform minimums, outbound to a named list, and a read of which demos turned into pilots.

  • ICP one-pager from your best customers
  • One segment and one offer per test
  • Named-account list per segment
  • Win and loss notes after every demo
How we fix wrong demos

How your calendar fills with the right demos

Segment, ad, form, slot, held demo. Then LinkedIn and Google find more accounts like it.
  1. Pick one segment

    From your best customers: one job title, one company size, one problem. One test at a time.

  2. Reach them by name or by search

    LinkedIn Ads by job title or named-account list, Google Ads on the problem, and outbound to the same accounts.

  3. Qualify before the calendar

    The form asks role, company size and the tool they use today. Outside your ICP? They get the recorded demo, not an hour of yours.

  4. Remind, then hold the demo

    An invite with the agenda, a reminder the day before and an hour before. You run the call; your CRM marks it held.

  5. Send held demos back to the ads

    Held demos and paid deals go back to LinkedIn and Google, so the next ads find accounts that show up.

What we report every Monday

The number we report: cost per held demo

Cost per held demo is your spend on ads and outbound tools divided by the demos that actually happened with an account inside your ICP, as marked in your CRM. We send it every Monday by channel and segment, with demos booked and demos that moved to a pilot or a paid plan.

The number

Cost per held demo

What it costs to put one right buyer on a call with you.

Ads + outbound spendHeld demos in your ICP

Every Monday · from your CRM

Read from

  • HubSpot. Which demos were held, in your ICP, and moved to pilot or paid.
  • Or Zoho CRM. The same stages. No CRM yet? A shared sheet works to start.
  • LinkedIn. Spend by campaign, audience and account list.
  • Google Ads. Spend by search theme and campaign.
  • Outbound. Emails sent, replies and demos booked, plus sending-domain health.
Spend ÷ held demos, week by week, by channel.
  • Why not cost per lead or MQL?

    A student’s form fill is cheap, and it still costs you an hour of prep.

  • Why not demos booked?

    A no-show fills your calendar and the report, not your pipeline.

Let’s fill your calendar with the right demos.

Finding the right leads was always a challenge for our mortgage business. With targeted campaigns and WhatsApp automation, we started receiving better enquiries and converting more prospects into sales. We also achieved a 4.6-star Google rating. Very happy with the results!

4.6Google rating

Anton DharmaseelanMortgage Broker, Canada What we did WebsiteLead generationWhatsAppSEO
Alone, a fractional CMO, or us

Keep doing it yourself, or get help?

Keep selling yourself, and get help with what fills your calendar. A fractional CMO sets the plan; someone still has to run the campaigns. Ask a cold-email agency whether it counts meetings booked or meetings held. We run the ads, the outbound and the CRM tracking, and report held demos in your ICP.

  • Doing it all yourself

    What’s counted
    Replies, when you find time to check
    Who runs it
    You, between product sprints
  • A fractional CMO

    What’s counted
    Goals set in their plan
    Who runs it
    Still you, or another hire
  • A cold-email agency

    What’s counted
    Meetings booked (ask whether held)
    Who runs it
    The agency, email only
  • Ads and outbound, with us

    What’s counted
    Held demos inside your ICP
    Who runs it
    Us: ads, outbound and CRM tracking
Cold email and LinkedIn rules

What the rules say about cold email and LinkedIn

In the US, cold B2B email is legal with conditions: CAN-SPAM has no exception for business email (FTC). Gmail requires SPF or DKIM on every sending domain and a spam rate under 0.3% (Google). LinkedIn bans bots and automated contact adding (User Agreement 8.2). Break them and you risk the spam folder, a restricted account or a fine.

Rules that change how a SaaS startup can run outbound and ads, with the source of each
What it means for youSource
GmailSPF or DKIM on every sending domain; spam rate under 0.3%. Above 5,000 emails a day to Gmail, DMARC and one-click unsubscribe too.Google email sender guidelines, from 1 February 2024
US recipientsCAN-SPAM covers B2B email: honest headers and subject lines, your postal address, and an opt-out honoured within 10 business days. Penalties run up to $53,088 per email.FTC CAN-SPAM Act compliance guide
Canadian recipientsCASL needs consent before a commercial email: express, or implied when the address is published for business, with no “no emails” note, and the email fits their role. Every email names you and has an unsubscribe.Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), sections 6 and 10
LinkedIn outreachNo scraping, and no bots or automated tools that access LinkedIn or add or download contacts. Accounts that break it can be restricted.LinkedIn User Agreement, section 8.2
LinkedIn AdsAn audience needs at least 300 matched members to run; LinkedIn suggests 50,000 for results. A short account list may not deliver.LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Help
IndiaThe DPDP Rules 2025 bring notice-and-consent duties for personal data from about May 2027; the 2011 data rules apply until then.DPDP Rules 2025, notified November 2025
First 90 days

Your first 90 days, week by week.

  1. Weeks 1–2Audit

    We read your last demos and deals.

    Demos and deals audit0 of 4 checks
    • Who booked, who showed, who paid
    • What your best customers share
    • CRM stages, booked to paid
    • SPF, DKIM and DMARC on your domains
  2. Weeks 3–4Build

    We set up the first test.

    Build0 of 4 live
    • ICP one-pager and first segment
    • Demo page with qualifying questions
    • Warmed domains and sequences
    • Held demos sent back to the ads
  3. Month 2Launch

    We go live, one segment first.

    Launch0 of 3 steps
    • Your approval on every ad and email
    • LinkedIn, Google and outbound live
    • First held demos in the CRM
  4. Month 3Scale

    We scale the segment that buys.

    Weekly routine0 of 3 jobs
    • Budget to the segment that closes
    • Next segment and offer test
    • Monday report from your CRM
FAQ

Questions about SaaS startup marketing

Demos and pipeline

At Seed to Series A, a SaaS marketing agency should fill the founder’s calendar with demos from the right accounts, not start a content calendar. For us that means ICP tests one segment at a time, LinkedIn and Google Ads, outbound to named accounts and CRM tracking, all judged on cost per held demo. You keep running the calls and closing the deals.

Not quite. SaaS lead generation usually counts form fills and meetings booked; a founder needs demos that happen, with someone who can buy. A webinar signup or a student’s free trial is a lead, not pipeline. We treat leads as an early signal and report cost per held demo, then pilots and paid plans.

We stop that test and start the next one; that is what testing one segment at a time is for. A pivot after a few demos is normal at seed. The new segment gets its own named-account list, ads and demo form, and the Monday report keeps the old segment’s numbers apart, so you can see what each one cost.

Less than booking demos yourself. You run the demo calls, until your first sales hire is ready, and approve every new ad and email before it goes live. At the start we need your best customers, CRM access and your sending domains. The Monday report shows what happened. Everything else, from targeting to reminders, we run.

Ads can book the first demos in the first weeks a test is live; outbound needs warmed sending domains first, so plan a couple of weeks of set-up. Knowing which segment buys takes longer, because demos have to turn into pilots or deals. We don’t promise a date; we report demos booked, held and won every Monday.

Channels and budget

Less than most agency menus. At seed, digital marketing for SaaS is the few things that put buyers on your calendar: one or two ad channels (usually LinkedIn and Google), outbound to named accounts, a demo page that qualifies, review profiles on G2 and Capterra, and CRM tracking. Content and SEO grow once you know which segment buys.

They do different jobs. Google Ads reaches people searching for the fix today: high intent, small volume, and only if people already search for your category. LinkedIn reaches your ICP by job title and company before they search, which suits new categories and named-account lists. Test both on one segment and keep whichever holds demos for less.

It can be, if the test is sized. LinkedIn needs at least 300 matched members for an audience to run and suggests 50,000 for results (LinkedIn Help), so a short named-account list may barely deliver. We start with one segment, one offer and a fixed test budget, and judge it on held demos, not clicks.

A free profile with reviews from your first customers usually is: buyers shortlist software on G2 and Capterra, and a profile with no reviews looks like a product with no customers. Paid placements are different. Capterra charges per click or per lead, so judge it like any channel, on cost per held demo, tracked in your CRM.

Two parts, on separate lines. Your ad budget goes from your own accounts straight to LinkedIn and Google, sized to your runway. Our fee depends on how many channels and segments we test, whether outbound and sending domains need setting up, how much creative you need, and whether CRM tracking needs building. We price it on a call.

Outbound, rules and fit

In the US, yes, with conditions: the CAN-SPAM Act has no exception for B2B email, so every email needs honest headers, your postal address and a working opt-out. Gmail also requires SPF or DKIM and a spam rate under 0.3% (Google). Canada’s CASL asks for consent first, so we check it before sending there.

It depends on what’s missing. A fractional CMO gives you a plan, positioning and a part-time leader; someone still has to run the campaigns and the outbound. An agency runs them. At seed, most founders need the running more than the plan, because the plan changes after every few demos. Some do both: the CMO sets direction, we run it.

Our published case studies aren’t SaaS yet. The closest is lead generation for a mortgage broker in Canada, where the job was also finding the right people, not more people. What carries over is the method on this page: ICP tests, cost per held demo and CRM tracking. The first two weeks audit your recent demos, before any ad spend.

Yes. We run LinkedIn and Google campaigns in the US and Canada by state and job title, build a demo page with dollar pricing and proof US buyers recognise, and keep outbound inside CAN-SPAM and Canada’s consent law. Demo slots and reminders run on US time, so buyers book in their working day: their mornings, your evenings in India.

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