Starter
3 sourcesabout 40–49 leads a month
The sources we would pick first
- "[hiring]" "social media"
- Facebook Ads & Google Ads Services Expert
- "[hiring]" "google ads"
Marketing agencies
Marketing agency leads: business owners asking for someone to run their ads, social media and SEO
Hodorak finds marketing agency leads in public posts: owners and founders asking for someone to run their Facebook or Google Ads, manage their social media or fix their SEO, and owners unhappy with the agency they pay now. They ask in the open on LinkedIn, Facebook, Reddit and X, and Hodorak shows you the post, not a list of contacts you buy.
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All four platforms
380 requests a month
from 350 people
- Facebook200
- Reddit110
- X10
- LinkedIn60
Measured Oct 28, 2026 over 3 days per source, scaled to a month. Updated monthly.
What you would see on each plan
What a business following these sources would see on each plan, estimated from our read: more sources, more requests. Your sources, area and season change it.
Pro
10 sourcesabout 130–160 leads a month
The sources we would pick first
- "[hiring]" "social media"
- Facebook Ads & Google Ads Services Expert
- "[hiring]" "google ads"
- looking for someone to run my facebook ads
- looking for someone to run our ads
plus 5 sources from the table below
Max
30 sourcesabout 330–410 leads a month
The sources we would pick first
- "[hiring]" "social media"
- Facebook Ads & Google Ads Services Expert
- "[hiring]" "google ads"
- looking for someone to run my facebook ads
- looking for someone to run our ads
plus 15 sources from the table below
We measured the leads Hodorak would have shown from every valid source in a month, and a post seen in two sources is counted once. Max is that whole read; Starter and Pro are an average source times the sources each plan follows, so more sources bring more requests. Each range is 90 to 110 percent of that. Estimates, not promises.
Max follows up to 25 sources; this read found 20 valid ones, so its range uses those 20. The searches for the services you sell add to it.
How to get clients for a marketing agency from people asking now
Most marketing agency lead generation is the slow kind: cold email, an outreach tool, a directory profile, or a lead platform that sells the same request to several agencies. There is a route with no cost per lead. Business owners, founders and managers ask in public every day for someone to run their ads, their social media or their SEO, and the agency that answers first with something useful is often the one they message.
This guide walks through it in the order the page shows it: where business owners ask, the phrases that find them, which posts to answer first, how to reply, and how it compares with buying leads for marketing agencies.
Where we found leads
Marketing work is bought online, so this page has no areas: owners from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and beyond ask in the same places, and you can serve most of them from anywhere.
The sources that produced these requests
Ranked by requests a month, all four platforms in one list. Copy a source and add it in Hodorak on your first day.
| # | Source | Kind | Members | Requests a month | People | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "[hiring]" "social media" | Search | — | 234 | 234 | |
| 2 | Facebook Ads & Google Ads Services Expert | Group | 68,600 | 70 | 50 | |
| 3 | "[hiring]" "google ads" | Search | — | 62 | 62 | |
| 4 | looking for someone to run my facebook ads | Search | — | 50 | 50 | |
| 5 | looking for someone to run our ads | Search | — | 50 | 50 | |
| 6 | Porady Google Ads / Reklama w Google / Zlecenia Google Ads / Praca | Group | 3,800 | 30 | 30 | |
| 7 | TÌM AGENCY - TÌM DIGITAL MARKETING AGENCY ☑️ | Group | 23,300 | 30 | 30 | |
| 8 | someone to run my google ads | Search | — | 30 | 20 | |
| 9 | r/SEO | Subreddit | — | 30 | 30 | |
| 10 | looking for a marketing agency | Search | — | 10 | 10 | |
| 11 | need a google ads freelancer | Search | — | 10 | 10 | |
| 12 | r/Dentists | Subreddit | — | 10 | 10 | |
| 13 | r/EntrepreneurRideAlong | Subreddit | — | 10 | 10 | |
| 14 | r/PPC | Subreddit | — | 10 | 10 | |
| 15 | r/SEO_Xpert | Subreddit | — | 10 | 10 |
The estimate above also uses 5 sources not shown here.
Search phrases that found requests
The phrases people used, per platform, with the requests each found in our read. Only phrases with 3 or more.
- looking for someone to run my facebook ads5 requests
- someone to run my google ads3 requests
- "[hiring]" "google ads"4 requests
- looking for someone to run our ads5 requests
Where business owners ask for a marketing agency
Business owners rarely post in marketing groups. They post where they already are, and they write the job, not the word agency:
- LinkedIn posts by founders and owners: "Looking for a Google Ads expert", "Can anyone recommend a small agency?". The search finds them better than any group.
- Facebook posts in business and town groups: "Looking for someone to run my Facebook ads", "Social media manager wanted".
- Reddit, where founders ask for advice before they hire: r/PPC, r/SEO, r/socialmedia and r/startups, and the hiring searches across the whole site.
- X, where founders post a remote gig with the skills they need.
The groups made for marketers are mostly agencies selling to each other. Follow the places your clients talk, not the places your competitors talk.
Search phrases for marketing agency leads
The phrases that work describe the job in the owner's words. These are the families worth adding:
- Running ads: "looking for someone to run my Facebook ads", "looking for someone to run our ads", "need a Google Ads freelancer".
- Hiring a channel: "hiring Google Ads", "hiring social media", "need an SEO".
- Asking for a name: "recommend a marketing agency", "looking for a marketing agency".
- Unhappy with an agency: "unhappy with my marketing agency", "new marketing agency".
A search that names one service, such as Google Ads or social media, finds fewer posts than "marketing agency", but far fewer of them are agencies advertising themselves.
Real posts, as Hodorak shows them
Real public posts we collected when we measured this page, as Hodorak shows them. They are old by now, but people post requests like these every day. Phone numbers, e-mails, handles and full names are hidden, as in the app. Open a card to read the whole post.
looking for someone to run our ads
Looking for a Google Ads Expert! We are a Plumbing company based out of Piscataway, New Jersey. We operate 24/7 and are looking for someone who could run our google ads advertising. Must have experience with digital marketing and of course, google ads. If interested, reply to post or feel free to Email/Text. Thank you! […], Owner […] […]
Why it fits: a plumbing company owner looking for someone to run their Google Ads
looking for someone to run my facebook ads
📣💜 SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER WANTED! 💜📣 I'm looking for an experienced and creative Social Media Manager to help grow and promote my businesses! I need someone who knows how to get results, not just someone who can make a pretty post! 👀 ✨ Ideally, you'll have: ✅ Proven experience managing business social media accounts ✅ A successful track record of growing followers and engagement ✅ Evidence of previous results, including reach, insights and growth statistics ✅ Experience creating engaging content, reels and promotional campaigns ✅ Knowledge of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ✅ The ability to turn social media engagement into genuine enquiries and bookings ✅ Creative ideas and the initiative to help a business stand out 💜 Experience within the health, wellness, beauty or community sector would be a bonus! I'm looking for someone who can bring fresh ideas, take initiative and genuinely help take my businesses to the next level. 📩 INTERESTED? Please inbox me with details of your experience, examples of accounts you've managed, proven results and your prices/packages. 👇 PLEASE TAG AWAY! If you know someone amazing at what they do, I'd love to hear from them! 📍 Blyth, Northumberland #SocialMediaManagerWanted #SocialMediaMarketing #NorthEastBusiness #Blyth #SmallBusinessSupport
Why it fits: a business owner looking to hire a social media manager, asks for prices and packages, place named
"[hiring]" "google ads"
Dental Marketing Companies Are there any good marketing companies out there?I purchased a practice in a competitive area so I decided to hire a marketing company to help me get more patients. The first one I used created a decent website, but charged me per patient they “helped” acquire and they had so many tech issues and poor service that I decided to stop using them. I found another company that seemed promising and they’d help me with social media, Google ads and SEO. 6 months in and my website looks great, but it doesn’t look like they’re doing much else for me. My Google SEO looks the same as when I started even though I have great reviews and a growing number of them. They managed my Google ads account and I’ve spent around 3k for only 3 leads. What companies do you recommend that actually helped your practice?
Why it fits: a dentist unhappy with two marketing companies asks which companies to recommend
looking for someone to run my facebook ads
Looking for recommendations! Does anyone on here know someone who specialises in Meta (Facebook & Instagram) Ads and Google Ads? I’m looking for someone who can help with paid advertising, generate leads and grow my business. Ideally someone who can offer a more personal, hands-on service rather than a big agency. If you know anyone you’d recommend, I’d really appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Feel free to tag them below or drop me a message.
Why it fits: a business owner asking for a recommended Meta and Google Ads specialist
"[hiring]" "google ads"
Hiring: Google Ads specialist for a B2B SaaS targeting Shopify sellers in India We’re an early-stage startup looking for a Google Ads specialist to run our first paid acquisition campaigns. What we doWe’ve built an AI agent for Indian Shopify and D2C sellers that reduces failed COD deliveries. It calls and messages buyers in their own language (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and more) to confirm orders, verify addresses and remind them before delivery. Sellers set it up through a chat in a few minutes. Less RTO, more delivered orders. Who we’re targetingShopify and D2C brand owners in India doing 500+ COD orders a month, especially in fashion, beauty and home categories. What we need Account setup, conversion tracking and GA4/Shopify integration Search campaigns on high-intent keywords (RTO, COD verification, NDR management, etc.) Weekly reporting with CPL and cost per demo booked Ongoing optimisation for the first 3 months, with room to extend Budget Ad spend: ₹50,000 to ₹75,000 per month to start Management fee: open to fixed monthly or performance-based, share your model Nice to have Experience with B2B SaaS or Shopify app marketing Familiarity with the Indian e-commerce/logistics space If interested, DM me with a short intro, 1 or 2 relevant accounts you’ve managed, and your pricing.
Why it fits: startup founder hiring a Google Ads specialist with a budget and a 3-month term
("looking for an seo" OR "recommend an seo" OR "need an seo" OR "hire an seo") -filter:retweets lang:en
Our website ([…]) is growing steadily and bringing in real leads every week. But there’s still a massive amount of unlocked potential. I’m looking for an SEO/AEO whiz for a remote gig. Someone who actually knows what they’re doing, will take full ownership, and exponentially scale our organic growth. We have the content. We need more eyeballs, stronger rankings, and most of all, top-tier visibility in AI search. If that’s you, email […]. Include your proof of work, case studies, and a quick note on why you're the right fit. P.S. Only email if you truly believe in the Build in Bharat mission. 🇮🇳
Why it fits: a business owner inviting an SEO/AEO freelancer for a paid remote gig
looking for someone to run our ads
🚀 Looking for a Meta Ads Specialist (Small-Budget E-Commerce) We are looking for an experienced Meta Ads media buyer who is actively running and scaling conversion/sales campaigns for e-commerce brands right now. We want to run sales-focused Meta Ads for our online shop, and while our budget is on the smaller side, we care deeply about smart structure, creative testing, and real ROI—not vanity metrics or burning cash. If you currently manage Meta Ads for brands and know how to squeeze results out of a modest daily/monthly budget: Drop a comment below or send me a direct message. Please share a quick sentence or two about your recent experience and how you approach small-budget e-commerce accounts. (No agency fluff or beginners still learning the ropes, please—looking for someone hands-on who can prove what they're doing.) #MetaAds #FacebookAds #ECommerce #MediaBuying #SmallBusiness #DigitalMarketing #Shopify
Why it fits: online shop owner looking to hire a Meta Ads media buyer, no time or place
"[hiring]" "social media"
Looking for advice on hiring a Social media manager for an Anime/Manga startup. I really love the honest and genuine advice that is given out by the Reddit community. I have used some marketing groups in the past and the fees to results never seem to match up. I like the idea of having a dedicated person that can plan and drive awareness and engagement. Any advice is welcomed.
Why it fits: a startup founder asking how to hire a social media manager after poor agency results
r/SEO
Would anyone recommend paying Fiverr creators for SEO or blog writing? Ive started my company and like many others I’m having a hard time with SEO. So I looked on Fiverr and seen some blog writing specialist and SEO experts. Before i proceed with any payments just wanted to get some opinions to see if Fiverr is actually helpful or not. I’m really in need of help.
Why it fits: new company owner about to pay for SEO and blog writing, asks if Fiverr is worth it
Which marketing agency leads to answer first
Not every request is worth the same. Answer in this order:
- An owner who names the service and the business: "a plumbing company looking for someone to run our Google Ads". They know what they want and they are choosing who.
- An owner unhappy with their current agency. They already pay for marketing; they want someone who explains what they do.
- A request for a name: "does anyone know someone who does Meta and Google Ads?". The first good answer often becomes the shortlist.
- A founder posting a defined gig with a budget or a term.
- An owner asking whether to pay for SEO or ads at all. Answer well and you are the name they come back to.
Skip agencies offering their services, marketers asking how to get clients, full-time job ads and tool questions. Hodorak leaves those out and marks each request with its level, so the first ones in your list are the ones to open.
One lead, worked through
One of the posts above, opened: why it fits, its level and the reply Hodorak drafted for it.
looking for someone to run our adsLooking nowLead levelHigh
The post
Looking for a Google Ads Expert! We are a Plumbing company based out of Piscataway, New Jersey. We operate 24/7 and are looking for someone who could run our google ads advertising. Must have experience with digital marketing and of course, google ads. If interested, reply to post or feel free to Email/Text. Thank you! […], Owner […] […]
Why it fits
a plumbing company owner looking for someone to run their Google Ads
Suggested reply, written by Hodorak; you edit and send it from your own account
For a plumber that answers around the clock in Piscataway, the Google Ads money is in the emergency searches: burst pipe, no hot water, sewer backup, and the late hours when other shops stop picking up. I would start with a few call-focused search campaigns around those jobs, a tight radius around the towns you serve, and call tracking so you can see which ads turn into booked jobs, not only clicks. I run Google Ads for home service companies and would be glad to look at your account and tell you what I would change first. Which towns around Piscataway do you want the most calls from?
What happens next
- Open the original post.
- Reply in the thread from your own account.
- Mark the lead in Hodorak: in progress, then done.
Three steps to your first reply
- 1
Add the places owners ask
Start with the LinkedIn and Facebook searches for the service you sell, such as "looking for someone to run our ads", then r/PPC, r/SEO, r/socialmedia and the hiring searches on Reddit.
- 2
Read the requests that fit
Hodorak shows each post with its lead type, its level, why it fits your agency and a link to the original post.
- 3
Reply from your own account
Open the post and answer about their business first, the way a good marketer would on a first call. Mention your agency once, at the end.
How to get clients for social media marketing and ads from a reply
The reply above shows the pattern. A good reply reads like an expert giving a free opinion, not like a pitch:
- Answer within the hour if you can: owners who post a job get replies fast, and the early ones get read.
- Start with their business: one thing you would check first in their account, or the question you would ask before you quote.
- Show you read the post: their trade, their city, their budget or their bad experience.
- Mention yourself once, at the end, and say what you would look at on a short call.
- On Reddit, give the advice first and keep the pitch out; on LinkedIn, a short reply and a message when they ask.
Avoid a pasted portfolio, a list of every service you sell, or a price before you have seen the account. Owners get dozens of those.
Buying leads vs Hodorak
Shared leads from lead vendors against public requests nobody sold. Vendor prices are as published on the day we read them.
| Where the lead comes from | Price | Exclusive? | Who else got it | When you learn about it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bark (seller credits)read Oct 29, 2026 | Not published | Not stated on the page | Not stated on the page; you pay credits to contact a customer, and the cost in credits is shown before you respond | When Bark sends you the request; you see the customer's phone and email only after you pay the credits |
| GigRadar (Upwork job alerts)read Oct 29, 2026 | No price per lead: a one-time credit pack ($1,697 or $2,497), credits spent per proposal sent, plus an Upwork Agency Plus plan | No: the jobs are public Upwork posts | Every freelancer and agency on Upwork can send a proposal to the same job | Real-time alerts in Slack or Telegram when a matching Upwork job is posted |
| Leadfeeder (website visitors)read Oct 29, 2026 | No price per lead: billed by companies identified a month, Discover from €79 a month billed annually | Not stated on the page | Not stated; it names companies that visited your own website, not people asking to hire | Real-time alerts when a target company visits your website |
| Hodorak | $20 to $100 a month, not per leadEGP 1,000 to EGP 5,000 a month, not per lead | Nobody sells it: it is a public post | Anyone who reads the post; you answer in the same thread | When Hodorak reads the post in a source you follow and judges that it fits: it shows on your board and comes to you by Telegram or email. |
Free leads for marketing agencies vs bought leads
The table above shows what the lead tools say on their pricing pages. The difference is not only the price:
- Lead marketplaces: you pay credits to answer a request, and other agencies can answer the same request.
- Website visitor tools: they tell you which companies visited your site, not who is looking to hire. You still have to start the conversation cold.
- Freelance platform tools: they alert you to new jobs on one platform, where many freelancers send a proposal to every job.
- Public posts: nobody sells them. Anyone can read them too, but you answer in the same thread where the owner asked, often minutes after they posted.
Many agencies use more than one. Searching LinkedIn, Facebook and Reddit by hand every morning works too; the cost is your time and the posts you miss while you work for your clients.
Choose the plan that fits your business
Start with a 7-day free trial on Starter or Pro. Every plan has the same features; choose the capacity that suits your sources and team.
Agency lead generation as a daily habit
The agencies that get the most from public posts treat it as a routine, not a campaign:
- Pick your sources once: the LinkedIn searches for the services you sell, a few Facebook searches, and the subreddits where owners ask.
- Check the new requests every morning and again in the afternoon.
- Answer the owners who name a service and a business first, then the recommendation asks, then the advice questions.
- Keep the reply short and useful, mention yourself once, and follow up only when they ask.
- After a month, drop the sources that brought nothing and add the phrases your best clients used.
Hodorak does the reading: it watches those sources, shows only the posts that fit a marketing agency with the reason each one fits, and suggests a first reply you edit and send from your own account. It never posts for you.
Questions about this use case
Short answers about the requests, the sources and how you reply.
Is Hodorak a list of marketing agency leads I buy?
No. Hodorak does not sell contacts or charge per lead. It shows you public posts from business owners asking now for marketing help, with a link to the original post, so you answer in the same conversation. Nobody sold that lead to you or to another agency, but anyone can read the post too, so a quick, useful reply matters.
How to get clients for a marketing agency from LinkedIn, Facebook and Reddit?
Follow the places where owners ask, not the marketing groups where agencies sell to each other. In our read, the LinkedIn and Facebook searches for people looking for someone to run their ads, the Reddit hiring searches for Google Ads, and r/SEO carried the most requests. Answer about their business first, mention your agency once, and follow each group's rules on self-promotion.
Which marketing services do owners ask for most?
Paid ads first: someone to run Facebook and Instagram ads or Google Ads, often with the business named. Then social media managers, then SEO, often from an owner who already pays an SEO company and sees no change. Add the searches for the services you sell, and the leads that fit you come first.
Are there free leads for marketing agencies?
The posts are public, so you could search for them by hand every day. Hodorak does the searching and shows only the posts that fit your agency, with the reason. Free leads by hand cost hours; Starter and Pro start with a free trial.
How many marketing agency leads would I see?
We estimate about 40 to 49 leads a month on Starter with 3 sources, about 130 to 160 on Pro with 10, and about 330 to 410 on Max with the 20 valid sources we found: estimates, not promises. More sources bring more requests, and the services you sell and the season change it.
Is this agency lead generation that posts or sends messages for me?
No. Hodorak never posts, comments or messages for you. It finds the request and suggests a reply; you open the original post and answer from your own account.
Do posts from agencies and freelancers looking for clients count?
No. Most posts in marketing groups are agencies offering their services or marketers asking how to get clients. We left those out, and so does Hodorak: a lead here is a business that needs marketing work done and is asking who should do it.
How we measured
- Window
- Oct 25, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026 (UTC), up to 3 days per source
- Posts read
- 2,954
- Sources
- 80 probed, 20 valid
- Per platform
- Facebook 6 sources, 944 posts
- Reddit 11 sources, 1,020 posts
- X 1 source, 384 posts
- LinkedIn 2 sources, 668 posts
- What counts as a request
- A business owner, founder or manager, or someone acting for a named business, who needs marketing work done (ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google or TikTok, social media management, SEO, email, content, a strategy or a launch) and asks others to help find or choose who does it: a request for an agency or freelancer, a defined paid gig that invites agencies to reply, a quote they want checked before they hire, or an owner unhappy with their agency who wants another.
- Left out
- Agencies, freelancers and marketers offering their services or posting results; marketers asking how to get clients; DIY questions with no plan to hire; trade talk between marketers; full-time jobs, internships and recruiters; tool and software recommendations alone; creators looking for brand deals; affiliate and network-marketing recruiting; and other trades with no marketing ask, such as a website build, a logo, PR, printing or video alone.
- How posts were judged
- By hand, against the written definition above, with a sample of the posts the cue filter left out checked for missed requests. Sample: 264 posts outside the filter, with 1 request among them.
- Coverage
- Every subreddit and LinkedIn search was read back to the start of the window, and every Facebook search back to it or to the last page Facebook returned. Facebook search shows only part of the posts, so the Facebook numbers are a floor, and so is the X number: the X search skipped more than a day of the window. The same request is often posted in more than one group or search; each copy counts in its own row, and once in the total. Most posts in marketing groups are agencies selling to each other, so most of the groups we tried came out as sellers, not sources.
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