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LinkedIn ads skill

B2B LinkedIn ads: Insight Tag, audiences and ABM, lead gen forms, creative and budgets that do not burn out.

Free · MIT licence · Copy needs a free sign-in

Category
Paid ads
Works with
Claude, Codex, Cursor, any agent
Format
SKILL.md · 1,348 words
Version
v0.1.0
Price
Free · MIT

The LinkedIn ads skill file

cmo-linkedin-ads/SKILL.md1,348 words · MIT
---
name: cmo-linkedin-ads
description: B2B LinkedIn ads: Insight Tag, audiences and ABM, lead gen forms, creative and budgets that do not burn out.
---

LinkedIn is the precision channel for B2B: the best professional targeting at the highest cost per click. The work is not wasting that precision. This skill sets up measurement, sizes and splits audiences, picks formats and bidding, and scales by audience penetration and lead quality rather than by spend.

When to use

  • Starting LinkedIn ads, ABM on named accounts, lead gen forms, document or conversation ads, thought leader ads.
  • "Too expensive", "not spending", "leads are poor", "how do I scale LinkedIn?".
  • Not for: organic LinkedIn posts drafted by Maggie (cmo-linkedin, cmo-linkedin-posts), a scored multi-platform audit (cmo-ads-audit), deciding whether LinkedIn earns a place in the channel mix (cmo-ads-strategy) or writing the ad copy at volume (cmo-ad-creative).
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Preview: the workflow, output, example, quality bar and guardrails unlock when you sign in.

Adapts open work by irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none).

Everyday usage

How people use LinkedIn ads day to day

Ask in plain words. The agent picks this skill, asks for anything it needs and hands back the result. Words in a highlight are yours to change.

Most common · also on the Paid ads page

LinkedIn ads

Audience plan with sizes, splits and exclusions

Ask your agentHelp me run LinkedIn ads
  • Audience plan with sizes, splits and exclusions
  • Campaign group build order, formats and bidding plan
  • A scaling and refresh rule set tied to audience penetration and lead quality

More things to ask

  • LinkedIn ads are too expensive
  • Set up an ABM campaign on LinkedIn
  • My LinkedIn campaigns aren't spending
  • Should I use lead gen forms or a landing page?
  • How do thought leader ads work?
How it works

From input to output

  1. 1You give it
    • Ideal customer: job functions, seniority, company size, industries, regions; or a target account list
    • Offer and the conversion that counts (demo, trial, qualified lead), average deal size and close rate
    • Campaign Manager export: spend, impressions, clicks to landing page, leads, CPM, CPC, frequency, audience size
    • Insight Tag and conversion setup, and whether leads sync to the CRM
  2. 2It works through the method
    • Asks what's missing, one question at a time
    • Follows the workflow step by step
    • Checks the result against its quality bar and guardrails
  3. 3You get
    • Audience plan with sizes, splits and exclusions
    • Campaign group build order, formats and bidding plan
    • A scaling and refresh rule set tied to audience penetration and lead quality
Why a skill

The skill against the alternatives

Do it yourselfHire helpLinkedIn ads skill
CostYour own timeAgency or freelancer feesFree, MIT licence
Time to a first resultHours, every timeDays to weeks, plus revisionsMinutes, in your agent
ConsistencyDepends on remembering every stepAs long as the retainer lastsSame steps and checks every run
The methodIn your headTheir process, often hiddenWritten down: read it, change it
Who does the workYou, from scratchSomeone learning your businessYour agent, following the skill
FAQ

Questions about the LinkedIn ads skill

What it does, what it needs and how to use it with your agent.

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What is the LinkedIn ads skill?

B2B LinkedIn ads: Insight Tag, audiences and ABM, lead gen forms, creative and budgets that do not burn out.

It's one of cmo.so's open Paid ads skills: a SKILL.md file that tells an AI agent when to use it, what to ask you first, the steps to follow, the checks to pass and what to hand back, so the job is done the same careful way every time.

When should I use it?

Reach for it when you'd otherwise say something like “Help me run LinkedIn ads”, “LinkedIn ads are too expensive”, “Set up an ABM campaign on LinkedIn”. Your agent reads the skill's description and picks it for requests like these, so you don't need to name it.

If a request is close but not quite right, the skill says so and points to the related skill that fits better, instead of forcing a poor answer.

What do I need to give it?

It works best with ideal customer: job functions, seniority, company size, industries, regions; or a target account list; offer and the conversion that counts (demo, trial, qualified lead), average deal size and close rate; campaign Manager export: spend, impressions, clicks to landing page, leads, CPM, CPC, frequency, audience size; and insight Tag and conversion setup, and whether leads sync to the CRM.

You don't have to prepare everything up front. The skill asks for missing pieces one at a time and says plainly when it's working from an assumption instead of your data.

What do I get back?

You get audience plan with sizes, splits and exclusions; campaign group build order, formats and bidding plan; and a scaling and refresh rule set tied to audience penetration and lead quality.

Every result comes from a written method with a quality bar, so numbers name their source, claims are checked and the output is ready to use or share rather than a rough draft.

Is it free?

Yes. The skill is open source under the MIT licence, so you can use it, change it and share it, including for client work.

Seeing, copying and downloading the whole file on cmo.so needs a free sign-in. Copying also upvotes and saves it, so you can find it again under Saved on the skills page.

Which AI agents can use it?

Claude Code installs it from the cmo.so marketplace. Any agent that reads SKILL.md folders, such as Codex or Cursor, can use it once the folder is in its skills directory.

You can also paste the copied skill into ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant at the start of a conversation and ask it to follow the skill.

How do I install it?

In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AI-Marketing-OS-LTD/cmo-so-skills, then /plugin install cmo-so-paid-ads@cmo-so. That installs this skill together with the rest of the Paid ads group.

For other agents, sign in, press Copy or Download above and put the file in your agent's skills folder as SKILL.md inside a folder named after the skill.

Do I need a cmo.so account to use it?

No. The skill works on its own with whatever your agent can already see and do: your files, the pages you share and the data you paste in.

A free cmo.so account only matters if you also want Maggie to plan, write and publish your marketing every day.

Which skills work well with it?

It pairs well with LinkedIn queue; and Paid ads audit. The agent can hand over from one to the next in the same conversation, for example research first, then the plan, then the writing.

Each of them has its own page with what it needs and what it returns, linked below.

Can I change it to fit my business?

Yes. It's a plain Markdown file, so you can edit the steps, add your own checks and examples, and keep your version in your own repo. The MIT licence allows it.

If your change would help others too, suggest it on the skills page or open a pull request on GitHub, and it may be folded into the library for everyone.

Where does the method come from?

It's written by cmo.so and adapts open work by others, credited on this page: irinabuht12-oss/marketing-skills (none).

Only permissively licensed work is adapted; copyleft repos are used for ideas only and repos without a licence aren't used at all.

Is my data sent to cmo.so when the agent uses it?

No. The skill only guides your own agent; your files, documents and data stay wherever your agent and its tools keep them.

cmo.so only sees what you connect to cmo.so. Your votes and saves on this page are stored against your cmo.so sign-in.

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