Adam Holmgren, CEO and co-founder of Fibbler, built a tool to connect LinkedIn ads with CRM systems. He talks about proving ad influence without clicks. Topics include sending impressions and engagements into HubSpot/Salesforce, building influence-to-pipeline reporting, account scoring and sales signals, and practical ABM workflows for SMBs and marketers.
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Measure Influence Not Just Clicks
LinkedIn ads often function as a brand-awareness channel because people rarely click ads.
Connecting ads data to CRM reveals influence even without clicks.
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Built To Prove Ads To Execs
Fibbler began as Adam's attempt to prove LinkedIn ads' value to execs and boards.
That origin led to features for influence pipeline and revenue visibility.
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Mason Cosby sits down with Adam Holmgren, CEO and co-founder of Fibbler, to talk about a gap in the market around LinkedIn advertising: what happens when “people don’t click on ads,” and “we continue to… measure them for clicks.”
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Adam Holmgren explains a “very simple” approach: connect LinkedIn ads data with CRM data so you can “showcase what happens even if people don’t click on a freaking ad,” and surface “the actual companies and the deals that you are influencing.” The conversation stays “super tactical” on how teams use impressions, engagements, and clicks to build reporting in HubSpot or Salesforce, support account scoring, and trigger workflows for BDRs: “These companies have engaged with us a lot in the last week… maybe we should give a task for BDRs.”
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👤 Guest Bio
Adam Holmgren is the CEO and co-founder of Fibbler. He built the tool from “my own frustration and issues, trying to prove myself to my execs, to my board,” especially in a channel like LinkedIn ads that “could be argued… to be more of a brand awareness channel.” He also shares that he runs “a bootstrap startup on the side of your full-time… job,” and he tries to “post five times a week” on LinkedIn.
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📌 What We Cover
Why LinkedIn ads can be “more of a brand awareness channel,” and why “measure them for clicks… just doesn’t make sense.”
“Connect LinkedIn ads data with your CRM data” to show influence, even if people don’t click on a freaking ad.”
“Influence pipeline” and “influence revenue”: giving exec teams “indications” and “tangible things” like “these are the deals.”
Sending impressions, engagements, and clicks into HubSpot or Salesforce weekly so marketers can build reporting “on their own.”
Account prioritization and account scoring: combining ad engagement with “website data” and other inputs to trigger sales tasks
Signals for sales and outbound: “These companies have engaged with us a lot in the last week… give a task for BDRs.”
Clay as a destination for account-level ads data when you “want to have context” and figure out who to reach out to
Title targeting, function targeting, and “super titles” that make the audience “shoot up… tens of thousands”
Where teams get stuck: without “technical capability” or a “marketing ops resource,” they “will not see value.”
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