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We Fund Your Bing Ads Team, You Fund the Media

Revenue-share Microsoft Advertising for Irvine companies selling to enterprise, healthcare, or technical buyers.

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Most Irvine founders know Google Ads. Fewer test Bing. That's a gap worth closing if you sell software, instruments, enterprise services, or anything requiring technical consideration. Microsoft's network reaches decision-makers who skip Google, and LinkedIn audience layering lets you target by job title, company size, and industry. We fund the team that builds and runs your Bing campaigns. You fund the ad spend itself. We earn a share of the revenue those campaigns generate over two years.

Why

Irvine
Specifically

Irvine's economy clusters around high-consideration purchases. Medical device firms selling into hospital systems. SaaS platforms targeting HR or finance departments. Biotech companies marketing lab instruments to research institutions. These buyers often use Bing because it's the default in corporate environments running Windows and Office 365. They search during work hours, on work machines, and the demographic skews older and higher-income than Google's median user.

We've seen strong Bing performance for companies in the Irvine Spectrum and University Research Park. The platform's LinkedIn integration matters here because UCI partnerships, corporate spinouts, and private equity-backed growth companies all operate in defined professional networks. If your ICP includes procurement managers, lab directors, or IT buyers, Bing's audience targeting can isolate them more cleanly than broad match keywords on Google.

How the Partnership Works

MarketStra is a capital partner, not an agency. We deploy operating capital into your Bing Ads execution—account structure, keyword research, ad copy, LinkedIn audience builds, bid management, conversion tracking, monthly reporting—and we take a percentage of revenue attributed to those campaigns over 24 months. You remain responsible for the media spend itself: every dollar that goes to Microsoft Advertising comes from your budget. We cover the cost of our team running the campaigns. That includes strategy, creative iteration, landing page recommendations, and integration with your CRM or analytics stack. If the campaigns produce qualified pipeline and closed revenue, we both win. If they don't, we share the downside through our revenue stake.

What to Expect Over 24 Months

  • Microsoft Advertising account built with search campaigns, shopping feeds if applicable, and LinkedIn audience layers targeting job functions relevant to your product.
  • Import and optimization of high-performing Google Ads campaigns, adjusted for Bing's lower volume and different user intent patterns.
  • Monthly spend efficiency reviews, especially important given Bing's smaller scale and the need to avoid budget waste on low-signal queries.
  • Conversion tracking integrated with your CRM so we can attribute closed deals to Bing-sourced leads and adjust bidding accordingly.
  • Incremental pipeline from enterprise or technical buyers who default to Bing in workplace environments and don't overlap with your Google traffic.
  • Performance documentation that shows cost-per-acquisition, return on ad spend, and contribution margin by campaign, updated monthly and reviewed quarterly.

Common Questions

Why would an Irvine tech or biotech company prioritize Bing over Google?

We don't say prioritize. We say test in parallel. Bing volume is 10-15% of Google's in most verticals, but the audience skews corporate, older, and higher-income. If you're selling into hospitals, labs, or IT departments, those users are often on managed Windows machines where Bing is the default. The CPC is typically lower, and competition is thinner. For high-ticket B2B, even a small channel that delivers qualified leads at better unit economics is worth running.

Does MarketStra fund the ad budget or just the team?

We fund the team and infrastructure. You fund every dollar of media spend that goes to Microsoft. Our operating capital covers account management, strategy, creative production, bid optimization, reporting. Your capital covers the cost-per-click. We share revenue generated by the campaigns, so we're incentivized to make your media spend work harder, but we don't pay for the ads themselves.

Can you import existing Google Ads campaigns into Bing?

Yes. Microsoft's import tool pulls campaign structure, keywords, ads, and extensions directly from Google. We review the imported campaigns, adjust bids for Bing's different auction dynamics, and refine match types since Bing's close variant matching behaves differently. We also layer in LinkedIn profile targeting where it makes sense, which Google doesn't offer. The import saves setup time, but the campaigns still need tuning.

What volume should we expect compared to Google?

Typically 10-20% of Google's impression and click volume in the same market. Irvine-specific searches are lower volume to begin with, so Bing won't flood you with leads. The value is in incremental reach and often better cost efficiency. We usually recommend starting with a monthly test budget of $2,000-$5,000 to validate whether the channel delivers your target cost-per-acquisition before scaling further.

How does revenue share work if Bing is a secondary channel?

We attribute revenue to the channel that sourced the lead, using last-click, first-click, or multi-touch models depending on your sales cycle. If a lead comes from Bing and closes, we earn our share of that revenue. If Bing assists but Google gets last-click credit, attribution rules determine the split. We build this into the partnership agreement up front so there's no confusion when deals close six months later.

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