Meta Ads Budget Strategy | Momentum Real Estate Partners
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Momentum Real Estate Partners
Meta Ads Budget · Aug – Dec 2026
Paid media plan · for leadership review

A $3,300 Meta ads budget that builds a pipeline before the conference.

A disciplined, prove-then-scale plan for Facebook and Instagram. It runs from August, brings in qualified prospects every month, and warms the room ahead of IMN Family Office East in October. Prepared by David Ramos, Marketing.

The bottom line

Small spend, measured every month

Total Meta budget
~$3,300
Across the full 4.5-month campaign, Aug 1 to Dec 5. Averages about $730 a month.
Monthly range
$400–600
Starts at $400/mo, scales to $600 only after cost per lead is proven.
Expected leads
50–70
Report downloads from accredited-investor profiles over the campaign.
Cost per qualified conversation
~$150
The number that matters: ad dollars per real 1:1 with the deal team.
The entire Meta budget is less than one week of management fees on a single $3M commitment. If it produces even one relationship that would not have happened otherwise, it has paid for itself many times over.
Where the money goes

Month by month, nothing hidden

Two layers of spend. An always-on lead engine that runs the whole time, and a short amplification flight concentrated on the weeks around the conference, geo-targeted to Miami and South Florida.

MonthAlways-onEvent flightMeta totalFocus
August$400$400Launch. Calibrate audiences, creative and cost per lead.
September$400$400Optimize on the winners. Build the retargeting pool.
October$600$1,200$1,800Scale plus event amplification. Miami push, retarget event-page visitors.
November$600$600Retarget warm leads while the deal team follows up.
December (to 5th)$100$100Wind down. Kill switch when briefing invitations land.
Total$2,100$1,200$3,300Every dollar runs on the Meta network: Facebook and Instagram feeds, Stories and Reels.
How it is built

Three campaigns, one funnel

Inside Meta Ads Manager the budget splits across three jobs. Most of it goes to lead generation; a slice keeps us visible at the top, and a slice re-engages people who already raised a hand.

20%

Awareness

Objective: reach

Keep the Momentum name in front of investor and family-office profiles across Miami and South Florida. The brand lockup, "the operator behind $1.8B." Builds the audience the other two campaigns draw from.

60%

Lead generation

Objective: leads

The engine. The "Download the Sun Belt Outlook" story and feed ads, pointing to the landing page. An accredited-investor question qualifies every lead before it reaches the team. This is where the pipeline comes from.

20%

Retargeting

Objective: conversions

The cheapest, highest-return dollar. Re-engage people who visited the page or opened the form but did not finish, plus post-conference follow-up to warm the room. Runs continuously.

Targeting is layered: interest and behavior profiles for investors and family offices, lookalike audiences built from our own contact list, and a custom retargeting audience of site visitors and engagers. All audiences are capped to Miami and the top South Florida metros to keep spend concentrated where we can host in person.

What to expect

The funnel, in numbers

Real estate and financial audiences are among the most expensive to reach, so we plan conservatively and let the first 30 days replace these benchmarks with our own actuals.

Impressionsfull campaign
~130,000in-market impressions
Landing-page visitsclicks to the outlook page
~2,000at roughly $1.50 each
Report downloadsleads captured
50–70accredited leads at ~$30–45
Qualified conversations1:1 with the deal team
18–28over the campaign
Into the pipelinealongside the conference
Warm listfeeds November meetings

Assumptions, to be validated in the first 30 days: blended CPM of $25–35, cost per landing-page visit around $1.50, cost per qualified lead of $30–45, and roughly one in three leads converting to a real conversation. Financial-services benchmarks; actual numbers depend on creative, audience response and the season.

How we control it

Prove first, then scale

  • Start at $400 a month. We do not commit to the full run up front. The first 30 days exist to prove cost per lead is real.
  • Scale only on evidence. Spend rises to $600 only if the cost per qualified conversation holds. If it does not, we hold or cut, no sunk-cost momentum.
  • One number governs everything: cost per qualified conversation, reviewed monthly. Vanity metrics like reach and likes are diagnostic only.
  • Every lead is tracked in the CRM, tagged by campaign, so we always know which dollar produced which conversation.
  • Hard kill switch on December 5, when the briefing invitations land. The campaign has a defined end, not an open tab.
The guardrail

Brand-level creative, counsel signs first

No performance figures, no offering language, ever.

Every ad stays at the brand and insights level: the firm, the Sun Belt thesis, the research. No return targets, no fund terms, nothing that reads as offering the fund to the public. The accredited-investor question and the follow-up flow are reviewed and approved by fund counsel before a single dollar is spent, so the plan is built to pass a 506(b) review, not to be fixed after one.

The decision

Two approvals, and we launch August 1

Approve up to $3,300 in Meta spend across the campaign, released as $400 a month to start and scaling to $600 only on proven results. Hard cap and kill switch built in.

Confirm the prove-then-scale mandate. We report cost per qualified conversation at 30 days and each month after, and only scale on evidence. Leadership can pause or stop at any review.

This is a $400 decision to start, not a $3,300 one. The full number is the ceiling for a campaign that reports back every month and stops the moment it stops paying for itself.