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LinkedIn content strategy for Google Ads and Meta Ads consultants: how a Rennes paid media consultant found 29 founders and SME owners among 308 readers
We read every reaction on 24 posts from a Rennes Google Ads and Meta Ads consultant. 308 people, 29 founders, owners and directors. Here is what brings buyers, what brings peers, and the 5 posts we'd publish next.
Max Sawyer · Netwarm··12 min read
The creator in this case studyA Rennes Google Ads and Meta Ads consultant who runs a small agency
Followers5,510
Posts~4 a week
SellsGoogle Ads and Meta Ads management for small businesses and SMEs: campaigns, ad creatives, weekly follow-up and landing pages, plus training
PeriodSep 28 – Nov 5
Ideal client: founders, owners and managing directors of small businesses and SMEs, often in Brittany: local services, trades, schools, real estate and e-commerce brands that want more leads or sales from ads.The challenge: The consultant wrote it plainly: between a first meeting and the signature, a prospect has to trust someone they don't know, and saying « je suis bon » is worth nothing. The feed is full of ads experts who cheer each post on. Are the business owners who sign the contracts reading too?
These numbers are from 9 November. Your audience has already moved.
New founders and SME owners turn Hot every week and others go quiet. Run your free scan to see today’s version, with the names.
About 1 reader in 10 runs a business.29 founders, owners and directors reacted in 6 weeks, 9.4% of everyone. Ads, marketing and web pros are 62.7%.
Events and local network posts beat ads tips.They bring nearly 2x more owners per reaction (11.4% vs 6.0%), and 4.7 per post against 1.2.
7 owners keep coming back.They reacted to 3 posts or more. One of them reacted to 20 of the 24.
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Who actually reads you, and what the LinkedIn algorithm changed
The consultant posts about 4 times a week, almost always at 8:00: ads tips, client results, events and the Rennes network, founder life, and the odd rant about bad prospecting.
The LinkedIn algorithm shows a post to the people who reacted to the last ones, then to people like them. When other media buyers and marketers react the most, the feed keeps reaching more of them. Reach can't tell whether the owners who sign an ads budget are in it. Who reacted can. We looked at every person who reacted between 28 September and 5 November, and sorted them by role.
24posts in 6 weeks
308people reacted
29founders and SME owners
7came back 3+ times
Audience by roleThe 308 people who reacted, by roleFree
Ads, marketing, web and agency pros193 · 62.7%
Founders, owners & directors29 · 9.4%
Everyone else86 · 27.9%
Peers lead by far: 193 Google Ads and Meta Ads freelancers, media buyers, SEO consultants, web developers, LinkedIn coaches and agency founders. Many of them trained in the same circles and cheer every post. Few of them will hand over an ads budget.
The buyers are there, but thin: 29 founders, managers and directors of local service firms, trades, real estate, schools and young start-ups. About 1 reader in 10.
SeniorityAll people who reactedFree
Founder, owner, C-level7.8%
Director, VP1.9%
Manager6.2%
Independent8.8%
Other75.3%
IndustriesFounders and SME owners onlyNetwarm
Local services, trades and SMEs34.5%
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Core audience7 founders and SME owners engaged 3+ times · 2 engaged 5+ timesNetwarm
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What to post on LinkedIn to reach founders and SME owners
A consultant who sells ads management to business owners should judge a post by who reacted, not by how many.
We tagged each of the 24 posts by topic, then measured the share of founders, owners and directors among the people who reacted, and how many of them each post reached.
Your topicsWhat your 24 posts were aboutFree
24posts
Events, network and local scene7
Founder life5
Ads tips4
Client results3
Offers3
Prospecting rants2
Topics that attract founders and SME ownersShare of each topic’s reactions from founders and SME ownersNetwarm
Events, network and local scene11.4%
Offers8.5%
Founder life8.2%
Client results6.0%
Ads tips6.0%
Prospecting rants5.6%
One topic brings nearly 2x more owners per reaction than another. See which.See which topics
Events and local network posts bring nearly 2x more founders and owners per reaction than ads tips (11.4% vs 6.0%), and reach the most per post: 4.7 owners, against 1.2 for ads tips.
Posts that brought the most founders and SME ownersShare of founders and SME owners in each post’s reactions1 of 5 open
#1An evening of speed networking with Rennes business owners18.5%
#2LinkedIn Ads, really too expensive?15%
#3What do you deliver that AI can't?12.5%
#4Working in first class on the train is underrated12.5%
#5My first ad on a basketball court11.8%
For comparison, the 4 ads tips brought 5 founders and owners in total, 1.2 per post. The Paris Basketball ad breakdown and the post on when to start advertising brought 1 each.
6 rules for LinkedIn engagement from founders and SME owners
These rules come from what worked on the consultant's own profile over the last 6 weeks, and from the best-performing French posts on Google Ads, Meta Ads and paid acquisition since August.
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Post from the rooms where owners are. A speed-networking evening, a business club, a local trade fair: business owners react when they recognise the room and the people in it. It also shows the consultant meets clients in person.On this profile: the afterwork post at a Rennes car showroom brought 12 owners among 65 reactions, 18.5%, the best of the period. Events posts reach 4.7 owners per post, the most of any topic.
Ask the question a founder asks, not a lesson. Owners react to the questions they ask themselves: what to delegate, what AI won't replace, how to stay focused. A question in the consultant's own words invites them in.On this profile: the « que faites-vous que l'IA ne peut pas faire » post brought 12.5% owners, and founder-life posts average 8.2%, against 6.0% for ads tips.
Talk budget and leads, not settings. A business owner doesn't buy extensions or Quality Score. They buy « combien je mets, combien ça rapporte ». Frame each tip as a decision about their money.Across the niche: a Google Ads consultant's post on budget vs expectations got 67 likes. On this profile: ads tips bring 6.0% owners, among the lowest shares.
Count what lands in the client's inbox. Clicks and ROAS are the consultant's dashboard. Calls, leads and sign-ups are the owner's. Client stories land best when they say what changed on the client's side.Across the niche: an SEO consultant's post « aucun de mes clients ne m'a jamais demandé combien de clics » got 47 likes and 52 comments.
Tie the basketball to the business. The basketball story is part of the consultant, but owners react more when it meets their world: a local sponsorship, a club that fills its stands with ads.On this profile: the courtside ad post brought 8 owners and 11.8%, against 5.4% for the personal basketball story (3 of 56).
Don't count on prospecting rants to reach owners. Rants about bad cold messages travel among peers who receive the same ones. Owners rarely react to a quarrel between service providers.On this profile: the two prospecting rants brought 5.6% owners, and the « beaucoup de dirigeants » post none at all.
When founders and SME owners read: the best time to post on LinkedIn for Google Ads and Meta Ads consultants
We compared the share of founders, owners and directors by the day each post was published (Paris time). 23 of the 24 posts went out at 8:00, so there is no fair hour comparison yet.
Share of founders and SME owners by posting dayAmong the people who reacted to each postFree
9.2%
Mon
7.8%
Tue
8.7%
Wed
6.0%
Thu
12.8%
Fri
Friday brought the highest share: 12.8% owners and 5.0 per post, on 3 posts. Monday follows with 9.2% on 6 posts. Thursday brought the fewest: 6.0% on 6 posts.
Keep 8:00, give the events and local network posts the Friday and Monday slots, and move ads tips to Thursday, where they lose the least.
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5 posts ready to publish to target founders and SME owners
Each post follows the rules above, in the consultant's voice and in French, like the rest of the feed. Check every detail and swap in your own experience before posting.
1Ready to postEvent debrief
Media Buying Awards : ce que j'ai retenu de la soirée chez MetaRule 1: post from the room, on a Friday. It keeps the promise of the awards application post (10.2% owners), and talks to owners about what the jury rewarded.
Hook
Je vous avais promis un débrief. Le voici.Jeudi soir, chez Meta à Paris, espace Grand Bleu.
80 personnes du paid media dans la même salle. Un jury de 13 experts. Des campagnes notées sur leurs vrais résultats.--> Et ce qui m'a frappé, ce n'est pas la taille des budgets.C'est que les campagnes qui sortaient du lot avaient toutes la même base :
- un produit qui tient la route avant la première pub
- un message clair dès les 3 premières secondes
- un client qui teste, qui répond vite, qui ose ajusterLa pub n'est qu'un amplificateur. Je le dis souvent à mes clients. Jeudi, je l'ai vu sur scène.Merci à Ades Bootcamp et Brands to Medias pour l'organisation, et à celle ou celui qui m'a accompagné avec la deuxième place 🙏Dirigeants : si vous deviez présenter votre dernière campagne à un jury, vous seriez fier de quel chiffre ?
Visual · PhotoA photo from the evening at Meta: the stage or the room, with you in it. No slides, no logos in the foreground.Check before postingAdd your real result (shortlisted, winner or not) and the name of the guest who came with you, and keep only the lessons you really took from the jury.
8 dirigeants, 8 tournées : la question qu'ils m'ont tous posée sur la pubRule 1 and rule 3: the room where owners are, and their question about budget. Modelled on the Alpine Store afterwork post, 18.5% owners, on a Monday.
Hook
8 dirigeants. 8 tournées de speed networking. Et presque toujours la même question.« Combien je dois mettre en pub pour que ça marche ? »Un artisan, une dirigeante d'école, un agent immobilier, un fondateur de start-up. Des métiers très différents, la même inquiétude.--> Ma réponse les surprend à chaque fois : ça ne commence pas par le budget.Avant de parler d'euros, je pose 3 questions :
- Est-ce que votre offre se vend déjà sans pub ?
- Est-ce que vous pouvez rappeler un prospect dans l'heure ?
- Est-ce que vous êtes prêt à tester 2 messages différents pendant un mois ?Si c'est 3 fois oui, la pub va amplifier ce qui marche déjà.
Si c'est non, elle va amplifier aussi. Mais pas dans le bon sens.Le budget vient après. Et souvent, il est plus petit que ce qu'ils imaginaient.Merci au Padel Business Club pour ces formats qui obligent à aller droit au but 🙏Et vous, c'est quoi la question qu'on vous pose le plus en soirée networking ?
Visual · PhotoA photo from a networking evening in Rennes, people talking around a table. Your face visible, no logos in the foreground.Check before postingUse the real event and the trades you really met that evening, and change the 3 questions if you ask others in your discovery calls.
La pub ne sauve pas une offre. Elle l'amplifie.Rule 3: an ads idea framed as a decision about the owner's money. Built on the post on when to start advertising, and on a niche post on budget vs expectations.
Hook
Je refuse parfois des clients qui veulent faire de la pub.Pas parce que je n'ai pas de place.
Parce que la pub ne les aiderait pas. Pas encore.--> La pub n'est qu'un amplificateur.Si votre offre se vend déjà par le bouche-à-oreille, la pub va vous amener plus de gens comme vos meilleurs clients.
Si elle ne se vend pas, la pub va vous amener plus de gens qui ne signent pas. Et vous allez payer chaque clic.Alors avant de parler budget, je regarde 3 choses avec le dirigeant :
→ combien de clients il signe aujourd'hui, sans pub
→ ce que lui rapporte un client, sur un an
→ ce qui se passe quand un prospect appelle : qui répond, et en combien de tempsAvec ces 3 chiffres, on sait combien on peut dépenser pour un nouveau client. Et si la pub a du sens maintenant, ou dans 3 mois.Ce n'est pas le discours le plus vendeur pour une agence.
Mais c'est celui qui garde mes clients.Dirigeants : vous connaissez ce qu'un client vous rapporte sur un an ?
Visual · Single imageA simple hand-drawn amplifier with two arrows: « offre solide → plus de clients », « offre fragile → plus de clics payés ». Your colours, no logos.Check before postingKeep the opening only if you really turn down some clients, and adjust the 3 checks to the ones you use in your audits.
Pourquoi une agence de pub sponsorise un club de basketRule 5: tie the basketball to the business, on a Friday. Modelled on the courtside ad post, 68 reactions and 11.8% owners, the best of the last week.
Hook
On m'a demandé pourquoi une agence de pub en ligne s'affichait dans une salle de basket.Bonne question. Voici ma réponse.Je joue au basket depuis mes 15 ans. Mais ce n'est pas pour ça que je suis devenu partenaire de l'Union Rennes Basket.--> C'est parce que mes clients sont dans les tribunes.Des dirigeants de PME rennaises. Des commerçants. Des artisans. Des gens qui viennent voir un match le samedi soir et qui cherchent un prestataire le lundi matin.En ligne, je cible. En salle, je rencontre.
Et les deux se complètent :
→ le panneau me rend visible auprès de gens qui ne me connaissent pas
→ la pub en ligne me permet de leur reparler ensuite
→ et le match, c'est le meilleur moment pour échanger sans pitchC'est exactement ce que je conseille à mes clients locaux : ne choisissez pas entre le terrain et les écrans. Faites-les travailler ensemble.Dirigeants : vous sponsorisez un club ou un événement local ? Vous mesurez comment ce que ça vous rapporte ?
Visual · PhotoYour courtside ad in the Rennes hall during a match, the crowd in the background.Check before postingCheck the attendance figure for the match you show, and keep the « online + venue » logic only if it is really how you use the partnership.
12 pubs pour un seul match : le swipe file du Paris BasketballThe lead magnet: the Paris Basketball ad breakdown, offered for a comment instead of a link. Modelled on the YouTube episode post and on niche swipe files that drew 124 comments.
Hook
12 variantes de pub pour un seul match. J'ai tout rangé dans un fichier.Pour mon premier épisode YouTube, j'ai décortiqué les pubs du Paris Basketball, dans la Meta Ad Library publique.Une salle de 8 000 places à remplir une trentaine de soirs par saison.
Et un club qui s'y prend comme une marque e-commerce.--> Mon levier préféré : des pubs en serbe et en lituanien, pour vendre le match aux supporters de l'équipe adverse 😂Ce que j'en retiens pour une PME ou un commerce local :
→ une pub par public, pas une pub pour tout le monde
→ des variantes testées en même temps, pas une seule créa qu'on laisse tourner
→ un calendrier : on commence à vendre bien avant le jour JJ'ai mis tout ça dans un swipe file d'une page : les créas les plus diffusées, leur calendrier, les 5 leviers, et la grille pour l'appliquer à votre propre activité.Commentez BASKET et je vous l'envoie en message privé.
Visual · Carousel5 slides: 4 of the club's public ads side by side with one short note each, and a last slide showing the one-page swipe file.Check before postingHave the one-page swipe file ready before posting, use only ads still visible in the public library, and answer every comment the same day.
Free forever: unlimited scheduling through LinkedIn’s official API, with images, video and PDF carousels.
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LinkedIn lead generation: lead magnets that work to target founders and SME owners
Reactions show interest. A download shows intent. The fastest way to find out which owners are thinking about ads right now is to give them something useful and see who asks for it.
In French paid media and acquisition, these formats get the most requests:
Format 1The agency method as a free kitYears of account management turned into a ready-to-use kit, offered for a comment. The list of questions it answers does the selling.
Format 2The audit you can run yourselfAn audit method packaged as a checklist or a kit: the reader checks their own account, and the gaps they find are the start of a conversation.
Format 3The guide with real numbersA free guide that opens on the author's real figures and lists what's inside, so the reader knows exactly what they get.
Format 4The swipe fileThe ads that work right now, collected in one file with a short note on each. Easy to save, easy to share.
Le swipe file Paris Basketball : 12 pubs pour un seul match, et la grille pour votre activité
Our pick for you: “Le swipe file Paris Basketball : 12 pubs pour un seul match, et la grille pour votre activité”Built from the consultant's first YouTube episode, which breaks down the club's public ads. Offer it in post 5 for a comment instead of a link. Every request is someone who wants to fill a room, a calendar or a shop with ads, often a local business owner, which is exactly the moment to offer a look at their account.With a Reveal link, every person who downloads it is shown by name, with their role and how warm they are. Your first Reveal link is free.Create your free Reveal link
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From reactions to clients
Content brings owners to the profile. It doesn't say when to reach out. Most never comment, so they stay invisible among the peers. 7 founders and owners reacted to 3 posts or more in 6 weeks, and one of them reacted to 3 of the 4 posts of the last week.
On LinkedIn, the right moment to start a conversation is when someone keeps coming back. We call that Hot: 5 or more points over 90 days, where a reaction counts 1, a repost 2, a download or a reply 4.
Hot right now2 founders and SME owners · not contacted yetNetwarm
2 founders and SME owners are Hot. See who to message first.See who’s Hot
First messageAn opener for each Hot person, based on the posts they readNetwarm
Bonjour Thomas, vous suivez mes posts sur la pub depuis quelques semaines. Vous en faites déjà pour votre entreprise, ou c'est en réflexion ?Bonjour Claire, j'ai vu vos réactions sur mes posts du réseau rennais. On se croise au prochain afterwork ?
A first line for each of them, ready to send.See the openers
Netwarm sends nothing for you. It tells you who and when, and you write the message. It also works inside Claude and ChatGPT: ask “Who's Hot today?” and get the list.
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FAQ
Posts from the rooms where owners are (events, local clubs, partnerships) and founder questions. On this profile they bring 11.4% and 8.2% owners, against 6.0% for ads tips.
For this consultant, Friday: 12.8% owners and 5.0 per post. Monday follows with 9.2%. Thursday brought the fewest (6.0%). Nearly every post went out at 8:00.
This consultant posts about 4 times a week. The volume works as long as the posts that reach owners get the best slots, and the tips for peers don't take over the feed.
Look at who reacts, not how many. Group reactions by role, measure the share of your ideal clients per post, and follow the people who keep coming back. A free Netwarm scan does this for you.
Yes. Netwarm only reads public reactions to your own posts. It never logs in as you, never asks for your password, and never messages anyone for you.
How we made this playbook
We read the public reactions on 24 posts published between 28 September and 5 November 2026 (the first 100 reactors of each post), and sorted the 308 people by role. A post written by someone else that tagged the consultant was left out. Comments were not counted, so engagement figures are a floor.
Niche rules come from top French posts on Google Ads, Meta Ads and paid acquisition since August, and from the consultant's own posts of the last 6 weeks. Role groups are approximate; a Netwarm scan matches people to your own ideal client.