Financial certification650% lower cost-per-lead, YoY
6,000+qualified leads against a 3–4K goal, on similar spend
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Selected work 01
Proof, not promises.
Campaigns and platforms our founders and senior team have led for national institutions: financial certification, statewide public health, economic development and clean energy. Real numbers, named work, and an honest line on who did what.
A note on attribution 02
Credentials, framed honestly: the experience you'd be hiring.
Several of these engagements were led by our principals during prior agency and in-house tenures, including work executed alongside Lambert by LLYC, where our strategy and media leads ran the programs. We present them as credentials, not as Zoned-the-company client logos.
We'd rather tell you exactly who did what than overclaim. That same candor is how we run every engagement: clear KPIs, transparent reporting, and numbers we'll stand behind.
The team you'd hire 03
The work on this page was led by the same senior people you'd work with directly.
No account-manager relay, no junior hands learning on your budget. Before founding Zoned Marketing, our principals built and ran the programs behind these numbers. That experience is exactly what you're hiring.
Our co-founder led a 15-person team across media planning, programmatic, SEO, social, analytics and web, overseeing the CFP Board, MEDC, Caterpillar Fans and Missouri DHSS portfolios, with foundational craft earned earlier at LinkedIn and Google. Our head of media strategy carries deep, hands-on expertise across programmatic, SEM, paid social and CTV/OTT.
It's a credential set, framed honestly: several of these programs were executed during prior agency tenures. We present them as the experience you'd be hiring, not as Zoned Marketing client logos.
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annual media spend managed by our leadership
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cross-discipline team built and led by our co-founder
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institution-scale accounts in the portfolio they ran
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lower cost-per-lead year over year (CFP Board)
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statewide impressions in a single year (MO Vax)
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qualified leads in one fiscal year (MEDC)
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new e-commerce run-rate within a year (Caterpillar Fans)
Flagship case 04
How we cut cost-per-lead by 650% for the CFP Board.
The Certified Financial Planner Board needed more aspiring planners in the pipeline: better leads, not just more spend. Our team rebuilt the funnel end to end: tighter audience targeting, a rebuilt landing experience, and creative engineered for conversion rather than clicks.
On a comparable budget year over year, the program delivered 325% higher lead volume at a 650% lower cost-per-lead, with a 68.85% form-completion rate against an industry where half that is considered strong.
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qualified leads vs. a 3–4K goal
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impressions on a ~$985K budget
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final cost-per-lead
Financial certification · lead gen
How we think about results 05
A number only counts if it's tied to the outcome you're paying for.
Impressions are easy. Plenty of agencies will sell you reach and call it a result. We start from the metric your business actually lives or dies on (a qualified lead, a booked table, a sale) and engineer the whole funnel backward from there. Every dollar is pointed at that number, and every number is one you can audit.
Strategy → spend → measured outcome
We name the KPI before the budget
CFP Board's was 4,000 net-new leads by year end. MO Vax's was vaccine confidence in high-vulnerability counties. We agree on the one number that defines success, then build to beat it.
Media-neutral, so the spend is honest
No kickbacks, no vendor allegiance. We buy the channels that move your metric, not the ones that pad a margin, and negotiate from a clean slate every time.
Efficiency under pressure
When MEDC cut media spend 50%, we held 25,858 qualified leads against a prior 28,271: a 9% dip on half the budget. Constraints are where a real system shows.
The case studies 06
Selected engagements. Real numbers.
From statewide behavior-change campaigns to a B2C e-commerce launch. Different categories, the same integrated system and the same accountability to outcomes. And it's the same system we run for the work we love most: restaurants and food service.
Financial certification
Public health147M+ impressions, statewide
Gold & Silver2025 Ragan PR Daily Content Marketing Awards
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Economic development28,000+ leads in one fiscal year
454Mimpressions at national scale, single fiscal year
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B2C e-commerce$300K/month within a year
0 → scalea new direct-to-consumer store built and grown from launch
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Clean energy10+ clean-energy program sites
2019–2023accessible, high-uptime web platforms for a public energy provider
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B2B e-commerce & SEOStrongest year on record
2024surpassed the prior best via margin segmentation, SEO & brand
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Financial services+35% organic, goals beaten
44% / 41%over goal on MQLs and SQLs, with a rebuilt pipeline engine
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Restaurants & food serviceWhere this system goes next: restaurants
Full houseonline ordering, reservations, social content, reviews & local SEO, built to fill seats
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Why the numbers land 07
The results aren't luck. They're the output of one connected system.
Most agencies hand you a slice and hope the channels add up. We run strategy, media, creative, web and analytics as a single loop, so every dollar is measured and every channel makes the next one smarter.
Strategy first, then spend
We define the KPI and the funnel before we buy a single impression, so the work is built to convert, not just to run.
In-house media, senior hands
The same people who've managed $30M+ in annual spend run your buys across search, social, programmatic, CTV and OOH.
Creative engineered for ROI
We don't just make ads. We build assets and landing experiences designed to move the metric that matters.
Measured in real time
GA4, dashboards and multi-touch attribution mean you see what's working while it's working, not in a quarterly recap.
Built for regulated work
Accessible by default, compliant with grant and procurement requirements, and able to survive public scrutiny.
Honest about attribution
We'll tell you what we delivered and what we learned. Transparency is the whole point of a partnership.
Let's talk 08
Let's build the case study we tell next.
Tell us what you're working on. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right partner, and if we are, exactly how we'd approach it.