Paid social, run as revenue

Meta Ads Consultant: Facebook & Instagram growth that scales

I run Meta ads as one channel inside a fractional growth engagement, integrated with your full funnel, not as isolated campaign management. Prospecting, retargeting, and a real creative testing system get wired to the same attribution and revenue model I own as your fractional growth lead, so Facebook and Instagram scale on outcomes instead of on whatever the platform dashboard flatters.

Elementor
100x
$200K to $20M ARR as acquisition lead, 2018-2020
Riverside
+337%
MRR growth driven as a growth operator
Across engagements
$100M+
ad budgets managed across paid social and search
The job

What a meta ads consultant actually does for your revenue

Most accounts I inherit are optimized for the wrong thing. They chase cheap clicks, cheap reach, and cheap leads. None of those pay your salary. As a meta ads consultant, I start from the money. I trace every campaign back to closed revenue, then I cut what does not convert and scale what does. That is the whole job. The platform is a means, not a scoreboard.

I run Meta as a revenue channel, not a creative playground. That means clean conversion tracking through the Conversions API, deduplicated events, server-side signal, and a feedback loop where the pixel learns from your actual buyers instead of every form fill. Without that foundation, you are paying Meta to find people who look like leads, not people who look like customers. Fixing the signal is usually the single highest-return week of the engagement.

My positioning is Fractional Head of Growth, so I do not stop at the ad account. I have managed $100M+ in budgets across paid social and search, and the pattern repeats: the account is rarely the bottleneck. The offer, the landing page, the lead-to-sale handoff, and the follow-up are. A good meta ads consultant audits the full path from impression to invoice, then attacks the weakest link first. From Traffic to Revenue is the only metric that survives a board meeting.

Measurement is where I refuse to compromise. I align Meta's reported numbers against your CRM and analytics, because in-platform ROAS lies after the iOS signal loss. I build a blended view: blended CAC, payback period, and contribution margin by campaign. If a meta ads consultant cannot tell you the payback period on last month's spend, they are guessing. I report on the numbers your CFO already trusts, and I tie ad decisions to them every week. For the technical backbone, I lean on Meta's own implementation standards in the Meta Marketing API documentation rather than third-party folklore.

The model

How I run Meta ads inside a fractional engagement

The typical Meta ads consultant lives inside Ads Manager, chasing a lower cost per result while the post-click experience, the email follow-up, and the actual margin sit outside their remit. The account looks healthy and the business does not move. I run Meta differently: it is one channel I own as your fractional head of growth, alongside lifecycle, CRO, and analytics, with every decision made against your real funnel and contribution math rather than platform-reported conversions alone.

One channel I own as your fractional head of growth, judged on contribution math, not platform-reported conversions.

On Meta specifically that matters because the platform optimizes hard toward whatever event you feed it. If that event is not tied to real value, you scale waste efficiently. Because I own the measurement layer too, I make sure the conversions Meta chases are the ones that map to revenue. For the standalone paid discipline see performance marketing; for ecommerce specifics see fractional CMO for ecommerce.

Inside the account

What I actually do in the account

Six disciplines I run against revenue, not a list of tactics.

01

Prospecting at broad scale

Broad and interest-led prospecting that leans on Meta's signal rather than over-segmented audiences, structured so the algorithm has room to find buyers while staying tied to real conversion value.

02

Retargeting that respects the funnel

Retargeting tiered by intent and recency, capped so you are not burning budget re-serving people who already converted or will never convert.

03

Creative testing as a system

A steady cadence of creative concepts and angles tested against each other, because on Meta the creative is the targeting. The winners feed the next round instead of one-off guesses.

04

Conversions API and signal quality

Server-side Conversions API, deduplication, and event-value mapping so Meta optimizes on clean signal in a post-iOS world. See marketing ops.

05

Offer and landing alignment

The ad, the landing page, and the offer treated as one unit, run with the CRO work I own so the click converts. See CRO.

06

Incrementality over last-click

Spend judged on incremental lift and blended efficiency, not last-click attribution that over-credits retargeting and hides what prospecting really did.

Honest fit

When Meta ads are right for you, and when they are not

A strong fit when

Meta is right when you have a visual or emotional product, a broad addressable audience, and a creative engine that can keep feeding the channel. For most ecommerce and DTC brands, and for consumer-facing apps, it is a core channel. It rewards creative volume and clean conversion signal.

Not the right channel when

It is the wrong bet when your buyer is a narrow B2B title that does not browse a feed in buying mode, when you cannot produce fresh creative regularly, or when your product needs heavy consideration that a feed ad cannot carry alone. For pure B2B pipeline I will often point you to demand generation or LinkedIn instead, and I will say so rather than force Meta to fit.

Full funnel

Integrated with your full funnel

Meta only scales when the post-click world holds up. As your fractional growth lead I connect the ads to the same attribution, lifecycle, and revenue reporting as every other channel. A click becomes a tracked session, the buyer enters the email and retention flows I also own, and real revenue flows back into the Conversions API so Meta learns from outcomes that matter. See how the engine fits together on user acquisition and fractional CMO.

Where the leverage is

What a Meta ads consultant changes once creative is the real targeting

On Meta, account structure stopped being the lever years ago. Broad targeting plus Advantage+ does the finding; the creative does the selling. So the first thing I do as a Meta ads consultant is stop fiddling with nineteen ad sets and start shipping creative in volume, because the algorithm can only pick winners from what you actually give it.

That means a testing system, not a campaign: hooks against hooks, angles against angles, statics against UGC, with enough budget per cell to genuinely learn. A Meta ads consultant who has run growth sets the kill criteria up front, so losing creative dies in days instead of bleeding for weeks.

The second thing is measurement honesty. After iOS 14.5 the pixel alone lies. I wire the Conversions API server-side, deduplicate events, and reconcile Meta's reported ROAS against what actually landed in Stripe or Shopify, so you optimize to truth instead of attribution theater. For B2B that means feeding qualified pipeline back, not raw leads; for ecommerce it means margin-aware purchase values, not blended revenue.

The third is the split most accounts blur: cold prospecting and warm retargeting are different jobs with different creative and different math. A Meta ads consultant who owns the number protects prospecting budget from being flattered by retargeting's easy conversions.

If you want a Meta ads consultant who runs the account against CAC and payback rather than platform ROAS, that is exactly how every engagement works.

Track record

The growth track record behind the channel

I led acquisition at Elementor from roughly $200K to over $20M ARR between 2018 and 2020 as the company grew past five million users. I led growth at cnvrg.io, an MLOps platform, ahead of its acquisition by Intel announced in November 2020 (TechCrunch). I drove 337% MRR growth at Riverside as a growth operator. Paid social was one lever inside those engines, run against revenue, never in a silo. Full detail on the Elementor and Riverside case studies.

Meta Ads Consultant - Facebook and Instagram growth by Yaniv Goldenberg
Meta is one lever inside a revenue engine, run by an operator who has scaled three companies to market leadership.
Engagement & pricing

Pricing: Meta is one channel within these engagements

You are not buying a paid-social management retainer. You are buying a fractional growth engagement in which Meta ads are one of the channels I run end to end.

Diagnostic Sprint
$6,000-$8,000
fixed scope
2-4 week audit of your growth stack plus a 90-day roadmap. Fixed scope, converts to a retainer.

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Tracking Infrastructure
From $5,000
per month
Conversions API, server-side tracking, and attribution plumbing that makes paid social measurable. See marketing ops.

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Embedded Operator
$8,000-$18,000
per month
A full fractional growth engagement. Meta is one channel I run end to end against your revenue model.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do you offer standalone Facebook ads management?
No. I run Meta ads as one channel inside a fractional growth engagement, integrated with your full funnel, not as isolated campaign management. That is what keeps the spend honest.
Do you handle both Facebook and Instagram?
Yes, both run through Meta Ads Manager as one system, with placement and creative chosen for the funnel job rather than treated as separate channels.
How do you approach creative testing?
As a system, not one-off guesses. A steady cadence of concepts and angles competes, winners feed the next round, and the creative is treated as the real targeting lever on Meta.
What about iOS and signal loss?
I set up the Conversions API, deduplication, and event-value mapping so Meta optimizes on clean server-side signal rather than degraded browser data.
Are you a Facebook ads consultant for ecommerce?
Yes. DTC and ecommerce are core fits for Meta, run with value-based events and the retention flows I also own so spend ties to margin, not just first orders.
What if Meta is not right for my business?
I will tell you. Narrow B2B buyers or products that need heavy consideration are often better served by demand generation or LinkedIn, and I will point you there instead of forcing the fit.
How do you measure success?
On incremental lift and blended efficiency against the revenue model I own for the whole engagement, not last-click attribution that over-credits retargeting.
What does it cost?
A fixed-scope diagnostic sprint runs $6,000 to $8,000. Infrastructure builds start at $5,000 per month. A full embedded operator engagement runs $8,000 to $18,000 per month.
Next step

Make Meta one connected part of your growth engine

Book a 15-min call. I will tell you whether paid social is your next move, or whether your money is better spent elsewhere.