The cheapest CPL wins the budget
A lead form at AED 40 per lead looks great until the call centre reports that most numbers don't answer.
For real estate developers and brokerages
Know which ad sold the unit.
Dubai launches move fast and ad budgets are large. Zero Metrics follows every lead from the Meta, Google or TikTok ad through your call centre's CRM statuses, so you see cost per qualified buyer, per viewing and per reservation for each project and each ad.
The problem
Leads are cheap. Buyers are not.
Lead forms in the UAE can bring hundreds of enquiries a day. Most teams still can't say which of them turned into a viewing.
Sales and marketing argue about quality
Marketing shows platform dashboards. Sales shows CRM notes. Nobody has one view of both.
Launch reporting takes days
Someone exports leads, matches them to campaigns in a sheet, and the report is out of date by the next launch.
What changes
Report on buyers, not form fills.
Your CRM statuses become the stages that matter: qualified, viewing booked, reservation.
- Cost per qualified lead, per viewing and per reservation, by project, campaign and ad
- Investor and end-user audiences compared on lead quality, not volume
- Call-centre statuses mapped once to MQL and SQL
- Arabic, English and Russian-language campaigns side by side in the same table
- A live launch dashboard sales and management can open on their phones
- Daily summaries to the CEO and sales director every morning
Worked example
Same launch, two answers.
Two ad sets for an off-plan launch. One wins on cost per lead. The other wins on cost per viewing, which is the number that matters.
Illustrative figures
| Ad set | Spend | Leads | CPL | Viewings | Cost per viewing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investors · Lead form | AED 22,000 | 520 | AED 42 | 14 | AED 1,571 |
| End users · Landing page | AED 22,000 | 230 | AED 96 | 31 | AED 710 |
How it works
Live before your next launch.
Connect ads and CRM
Meta, Google, LinkedIn or TikTok ad accounts, plus HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive or the Google Sheet your call centre uses. Read-only.
Set the naming rule
Vertical, market, project, audience and format, such as RE_DXB_MarinaLaunch_Investors_LeadForm. Each lead finds its ad through it.
Map your statuses
Tell Zero Metrics which CRM statuses mean qualified, viewing and reservation. Then read cost per stage for every ad.
Built for you
The parts real estate teams use most.
Project-level pivot
Every launch, campaign, ad group and ad with cost per stage.
Learn moreFind winners
Rank creatives by cost per viewing, with a minimum-leads rule.
Learn moreCall-centre status mapping
Your statuses decide what qualified means.
Learn moreLead data quality
Duplicates, wrong numbers and missing fields flagged by form.
Learn moreLaunch goals and pacing
Budget, lead target and target cost per lead for the month.
Learn moreDaily CEO summary
Yesterday's spend, leads and best ad, every morning.
Learn moreGuides
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Read the guideFAQ
Questions, answered.
Does Zero Metrics work with Dubai real estate CRMs?
Zero Metrics reads from HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive and Google Sheets. If your CRM can export or sync leads to a Google Sheet, or exposes a REST API, it can be connected too.
Can I compare investor and end-user campaigns?
Yes. Put the audience in your campaign naming rule and the pivot table groups results by it, showing cost per qualified lead and cost per viewing for each audience.
Which metrics should a real estate developer track beyond CPL?
Cost per qualified lead, cost per viewing (or site visit) and cost per reservation. These come from your CRM statuses, so they reflect what your sales team actually did with each lead. Our guide to real estate lead generation in Dubai covers this in detail.
Do you handle property portal leads?
If portal leads reach your CRM or lead sheet with a source field, Zero Metrics shows them next to your paid campaigns. Ad-level cost data comes from your ad accounts.
Is lead data shared with anyone?
No. Connections are read-only and each portfolio's data is visible only to the people you invite.
Free data inspection
Is your CRM data telling the truth?
Most lead data looks fine until you trace it back to the ads. We'll inspect your ad accounts, CRM and tracking for free and show you what's being counted, what's missing, and what to fix first.
- How many CRM leads can be traced to the exact ad that brought them
- Whether ad platform lead counts match what reaches your CRM
- Campaign naming, UTM and click-ID capture on your forms
- CRM statuses, duplicates and missing contact details
- Whether Meta and Google receive your qualified-lead results
Get to zero.
Zero guesswork in your ad budget. Bring one live campaign to a 30-minute demo and leave knowing its real cost per qualified lead.
- Your campaign's cost per MQL and SQL
- Which ads to scale and which to cut
- A setup plan for your CRM and naming rules
30 minutesRead-only accessNo commitment