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B2B Lead Gen · Institutional Hygiene Equipment · Google Ads + Meta Ads · 5 Years

22,000+ leads generated. Qualification rate above 60% throughout. CPL down 70% in year five.

Five years of B2B lead gen for institutional hygiene equipment. A 2025 Google account restructuring cut cost per lead by 70% while volume kept climbing. More leads, lower cost, same budget. That's what account maturity looks like when the qualification discipline holds from year one.

Ad spend metrics reported in USD. R$5 ≈ $1 USD.

22,000+
leads generated
> 60%
qualification rate, sales-validated
−70%
Google CPL improvement (2024 → 2025)
$38 → $12
Google CPL (2024 → 2025)
5 years
partnership and counting

Section 1 · The Problem

Biovis manufactures and sells institutional hygiene equipment for institutional procurement: soap dispensers, hand dryers, paper towel holders, trash bins, and accessory lines for offices, hospitals, construction sites, and commercial spaces. The buyer is a procurement manager, an engineer, or an architect specifying equipment for a project. The sale starts with a catalog download or a WhatsApp conversation. Nothing closes without a qualified lead first.

Biovis had a strong product, a clear market, and a sales team capable of closing. What they didn't have was a systematic way to put the right buyer in front of that team at scale. Lead generation for institutional B2B equipment isn't a simple funnel. The buyer is technical, the purchase is considered, decisions involve multiple stakeholders, and a "lead" that doesn't fit the buyer profile burns the sales team's most valuable resource: time.

They found Loocro in the first half of 2021. Five years later, the partnership is still running.

Section 2 · The Diagnosis

When we audited the market and the operation, three things shaped the strategy.

01The buyer profile was crisp, but the targeting wasn't.

Procurement managers, facilities engineers, and architects specifying institutional projects look very specific on paper. The Biovis ICP wasn't fuzzy. What was fuzzy was the campaign architecture pointing budget at them. Broad targeting was attracting consumer-grade interest that the sales team had to filter out manually every week.

02Two channels needed to do two different jobs.

Google could capture the active intent: engineers, architects, and procurement teams searching for specific equipment for a specific project. Meta could build reach and generate catalog downloads from buyers who matched the profile but hadn't started searching yet. Running them with the same logic, the same creative, and the same audience model was leaving signal on the table on both sides.

03Qualification rate had to be the gatekeeper metric, not lead volume.

Anyone can buy more leads. The harder question is: what percentage of those leads makes it past the sales team's qualification check? Industry benchmarks for B2B sit between 25% and 45%. We set 60% as the operating floor from day one. Anything below that meant the campaigns were attracting the wrong audience, no matter how cheap the CPL looked.

Section 3 · What Changed

We built two campaign engines with two distinct jobs.

Google Ads, tuned for active intent.

Search campaigns tied to product-specific and solution-specific keywords. Engineers, architects, and procurement teams actively searching for institutional hygiene solutions, hand dryers for specific environments, or equipment for construction projects, met Biovis at the moment of decision.

Meta Ads, tuned for buyer-profile reach.

Targeting construction companies, facilities managers, and decision-makers in industries that consume institutional hygiene equipment at scale. Lead campaigns drove catalog downloads and WhatsApp contact initiations, feeding the sales team a consistent flow of warm prospects who hadn't yet started looking.

Both channels evolved continuously over five years. New product launches triggered new campaigns. Seasonal demand patterns shaped budget allocation. The sales team reported back weekly on lead quality, and that feedback became the steering wheel for every reallocation decision.

The 2025 restructuring of the Google account was the largest single optimization in the partnership's history: a complete rebuild of campaign structure built on five years of accumulated qualification data. We knew which keywords fed the sales team and which fed the trash folder. The new architecture systematized that knowledge.

Section 4 · The Metrics

Metric2024 (year 4)2025 (year 5)
Google CPL (avg)~$38/lead~$12/lead
Meta CPL (avg)~$11/lead~$9/lead
Google CPL improvementbaseline−70%
Qualification rate> 60%> 60%
Lead volumestronghigher than year 4
Lifetime MetricValue
Total leads generated22,000+
Sales-validated qualification rate> 60% throughout
Partnership duration5 years and counting

Read the table this way: The 70% CPL drop didn't come from buying cheaper traffic. It came from five years of disciplined data feeding a smarter account architecture. Volume went up, cost went down, qualification rate held above the 60% B2B benchmark. More leads. Lower cost. Same budget. Same standard.

Section 5 · The Business Impact

Twenty-two thousand qualified opportunities over five years isn't only a marketing result. It's a sales operation that scaled with stability.

When CPL drops 70% in a single year on a five-year-old account, the math compounds across every team that touches a lead. Sales spends less time qualifying noise and more time closing real buyers. Operations forecasts more accurately because the inbound flow is more predictable. Procurement (Biovis's own procurement, on the supply side) can plan inventory with confidence because the demand signal upstream is steady.

The 60%+ qualification rate is the line that keeps the whole thing honest. Without that floor, a CPL drop is just cheaper noise. With it, a CPL drop is real efficiency the business can convert into growth.

When I first met the team at Loocro, I hoped for an agency that would truly understand our vision.

Four years in, they had delivered far beyond expectations, helping us generate over 22,000 leads with precision and care. But what matters even more is the trust we've built. They stand by us, think with us, and work with the same passion we have for our brand.

I trust Loocro like no one else, and I proudly recommend them to anyone looking for a true marketing partner.

A. Cristofoli A. Cristofoli Founder @ Biovis
Questions B2B founders ask about this case

FAQ

22,000 leads in five years sounds like a lot. Were they all genuinely qualified?
No, and we don't claim they were. The honest framing is that 22,000+ leads were generated and more than 60% of them passed the sales team's qualification check throughout the five years. The B2B benchmark for qualification rate sits between 25% and 45%, so 60%+ is above market. The number that matters operationally is the qualification rate, not the gross lead count.
A 70% CPL drop in a single year. Was that a tactic or luck?
Neither. It was the payoff of five years of accumulated qualification data feeding a deliberate account restructuring. We knew which keywords, audiences, and creatives consistently fed the sales team and which fed the trash. The 2025 rebuild systematized that knowledge into a tighter account architecture. The 70% drop isn't replicable in year one. It's replicable in year five, after the discipline has compounded.
Why does Meta's CPL improvement look small compared to Google's?
Because Meta was already operating efficiently. Going from $11 to $9 is an 18% improvement on a channel that was already healthy. Google went from $38 to $12 because there was room for that kind of jump after the restructuring. The right read isn't "Meta underperformed." It's "Meta was closer to its ceiling already, and Google had been carrying excess inefficiency that the restructuring removed."
Our sales team complains the leads aren't qualified. Where does Biovis's 60%+ come from?
From two things working together. The media side: campaigns built specifically around the procurement, technical, and architectural buyer roles, with creative and offers matched to each. The sales side: a documented qualification framework that both Biovis's sales team and Loocro's account team agreed to in writing. Lead quality conversations stopped being opinion versus opinion. They became data versus data.
How long until our B2B account would see this kind of compounding?
Year one: stable volume, qualification rate at or above benchmark, CPL on a downward trend. Year two to three: the data accumulates enough to identify which campaigns deserve real scale. Year four to five: the kind of restructuring that drops CPL 70% becomes possible because the historical signal supports it. B2B paid media is a long game. Most agencies leave before the compounding starts paying.
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