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From Evaluation Kit to Design Win: Marketing Reporting That Matches Your Sales Cycle

Your design cycle runs on years; your ad platforms report in days. A design win — the moment a customer commits your part into their product — is the number your board cares about, and it sits in Salesforce three fiscal years downstream of the LinkedIn campaign that started it. Mad Fish Elements connects Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Gemini to LinkedIn, Salesforce, Google Search Console, BigQuery, and the rest of your stack — 32 platforms, roughly 1,460 operations — through one governed gateway with per-seat permissions and a full audit trail. We’re Mad Fish Digital, and we built it for exactly this kind of long-cycle, many-system marketing.

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What Mad Fish Elements Changes

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Campaign-to-design-win attribution, connected at last

With LinkedIn, Google Ads, and Salesforce behind one gateway, you can ask which campaigns touched the accounts behind this year’s design wins — whenever the touch happened. The analyst-week spreadsheet join becomes a prompt, and the board question gets a defensible, repeatable answer every quarter instead of once a year.

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Both funnels, one governed view

Search Console, GA4, and Reddit cover the engineer’s journey — part-number queries, datasheet traffic, community threads. LinkedIn and Salesforce cover the partner’s. One gateway spans both, so product marketing and the partner team stop maintaining parallel reporting stacks and start asking cross-funnel questions: which technical content precedes evaluation-kit requests, and which partner campaigns follow them.

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The account list becomes a living coverage map

Join LinkedIn engagement to your Salesforce named-account list in one pass, and coverage stops being a quarterly workshop. Which tier-one accounts went quiet, which engaged accounts have no open design-in opportunity, which product lines have whitespace — each is a prompt your team can run Monday morning.

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One gateway across teams and regions

Product marketing, corporate marketing, and developer relations connect to the same 32 platforms through the same gateway — each seat scoped to exactly the platforms and permissions its owner needs. The global roll-up becomes a single prompt across LinkedIn, Google Ads, and Microsoft Advertising instead of a dozen exports. Everyone queries the same connected sources, so the numbers finally match.

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Share of voice on demand

Brandwatch, Reddit, and Search Console sit behind the same gateway, so conversation share against your two or three named rivals is a question, not a project. Track it weekly during a launch window, break it out by product category, and see the shift while a response still matters.

The Problems Semiconductor Marketing Teams Live With

The design-win attribution gap

An evaluation kit ships this quarter. Design-in happens next year. The design win lands the year after that, and production ramp — the actual revenue — later still. Meanwhile LinkedIn and Google Ads close their attribution windows in 30 to 90 days, so the campaigns that started your biggest wins report as failures. Connecting a three-year-old campaign touch to a design win in Salesforce means exports, spreadsheet joins, and defending the match logic in every review. It’s costly enough that most teams do it once a year — so marketing shows up to board meetings without its best evidence.

One team, two audiences that never overlap

Design engineers distrust marketing on principle. They get their information from datasheets, reference designs, application notes, and Reddit threads. Your OEM, ODM, and distributor partners want something else entirely: roadmaps, allocation confidence, and co-marketing support. Same product, two funnels with nothing in common. The engineer’s journey shows up in Search Console part-number queries and documentation traffic; the partner’s shows up in LinkedIn and Salesforce. Reporting that blends them misleads everyone, and running two separate reporting stacks doubles the manual work.

ABM against a finite universe, with no coverage map

Account-based marketing (ABM) — concentrating spend and content on a named list of target accounts — is the only model that fits when your addressable market is a few hundred companies, not millions of consumers. The catch: coverage reporting. Which of your 400 named accounts engaged this quarter, on which product lines, and which tier-one targets went completely dark? LinkedIn holds the engagement, Salesforce holds the accounts, and nobody has joined them since the last quarterly business review. Whitespace stays invisible until a rival announces the design win you were supposed to get.

Three marketing teams, five regions, one impossible roll-up

Product marketing runs one stack, corporate marketing another, developer relations a third — and campaigns span the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific with different platforms, privacy rules, and budgets in each region. A global picture of spend and engagement means collecting exports from a dozen logins across three time zones, and the roll-up is stale before the review starts. So regional teams optimize inside their own silo, because their silo is the only data they can actually see.

Share of voice: fought daily, measured quarterly

Share of voice — your slice of the industry conversation compared to named rivals — is how semiconductor categories actually get contested: two or three competitors per product line, and every launch a land-grab for engineer attention. But measuring it means someone assembling Brandwatch exports, community mentions, and search visibility into a deck that’s out of date at presentation and argued about afterward. When a rival’s launch moves the conversation in your category, you find out a quarter later — after the counter-campaign would have mattered.

Use Cases

The design-win contribution report

“For the design wins Salesforce closed this fiscal year, show every LinkedIn and Google Ads campaign that touched those accounts — going back three years — with spend and engagement by campaign.”

Platforms Salesforce, LinkedIn, Google Ads

The annual attribution project becomes a quarterly prompt, and marketing walks into the board meeting with campaign-level evidence of its contribution to design wins.

Technical content engineers actually find

“From Google Search Console, show the spec and application queries where we rank on page two, match them to our datasheet and application-note pages in GA4, and list the pages worth updating first.”

Platforms Google Search Console, GA4

The content roadmap gets built from what engineers actually search — spec queries and application problems — instead of what the campaign calendar assumed.

The tier-one dark-account alarm

“Compare our named-account list in Salesforce against LinkedIn engagement over the last 60 days, and flag tier-one accounts with no engagement and no open design-in opportunity.”

Platforms Salesforce, LinkedIn

The whitespace review runs weekly instead of quarterly, and the partner and sales teams get a ranked outreach list before a competitor fills the silence.

Developer-community listening with a deliverable

“Pull this month’s Reddit threads mentioning our product family, summarize sentiment and recurring technical objections from Brandwatch, and draft talking points for the developer relations team in a Google Doc.”

Platforms Reddit, Brandwatch, Google Docs

DevRel walks into the community with answers to the objections engineers are actually raising this month, not last quarter’s talk track.

The global roll-up, without the export chase

“Build the quarterly global summary: LinkedIn, Google Ads, and Microsoft Advertising spend and engagement by region and product line, with quarter-over-quarter change.”

Platforms LinkedIn, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising

The roll-up that took a week of chasing regional exports lands in one pass, current as of today.

Evaluation kits that don’t die in drawers

“For accounts that requested evaluation kits last quarter but show no design-in stage in Salesforce, add their contacts to the HubSpot eval-kit follow-up sequence and save the emails as drafts for my review.”

Platforms Salesforce, HubSpot

The eval-to-design-in gap — where most design wins quietly die — gets a systematic nurture, with every record touched logged to the user who ran it.

Five Prompts To Steal

Copy these into Claude once you’re connected — swap in your own account list and rivals and they’re ready to run.

“Roll up LinkedIn engagement for our named accounts by account tier and product line, match each account to its Salesforce owner and pipeline stage, and rank the ten accounts warming fastest this month.”

The ABM standup list — who’s heating up, who owns them, and what stage they’re really at — without a single export.

“From Google Search Console, list every query containing one of our part numbers from the last 90 days with impressions, clicks, and landing page — and flag part numbers landing on generic pages instead of product pages.”

Part-number query mining: demand you already have, routed to pages that can actually convert it.

“From Brandwatch, compare our share of voice against our two closest competitors in each product category, this quarter versus last, and call out which launches moved the conversation.”

The share-of-voice picture while a response still matters — by category, with the cause attached.

“Shift 20% of budget from our two lowest-engagement LinkedIn campaigns in EMEA to the APAC design-engineer campaign, and summarize what changed.”

A governed budget move executed in the same conversation that justified it — logged to your name in the audit trail.

“Build a design-win funnel dashboard — evaluation kits shipped, design-ins, design wins, and production ramps from Salesforce, with the LinkedIn and Google Ads campaigns behind each stage — and publish it as a report I can share with the exec team.”

The standing board link: the whole cycle in one view, refreshed on schedule, no deck rebuild next quarter.

Data Visualization for Semiconductor Marketing

Design-Win Funnel Board View

evaluation kits shipped, design-ins, design wins, and production ramps from Salesforce, with campaign context from LinkedIn and Google Ads at each stage. The board and exec team read it quarterly; scheduled refreshes keep the standing link current.

ABM Account-Coverage Matrix

your named accounts against your product lines, shaded by LinkedIn engagement and annotated with Salesforce stage. Product marketing and the partner team review it weekly; it’s the shared map that makes whitespace visible before a rival claims it.

Share-of-Voice Tracker

Brandwatch conversation share against your named rivals by product category, alongside Reddit community signals and Search Console visibility. Product marketing watches it through every launch window — yours and theirs.

The chart types that tell your story

Boards and business-unit leaders have seen a thousand dashboards — the ones that land use the chart the question calls for:

Funnel

evaluation kit to design-in to design win to production ramp. It puts marketing’s contribution on the same axis as the cycle the whole company runs on, and it shows which stage is leaking before anyone assigns blame.

Flow (sankey)

source to engaged account to design-in, as weighted streams. It answers “where do design-ins actually come from?” in a single picture.

Heatmap

named accounts by product lines, shaded by engagement. One glance separates well-covered accounts from whitespace.

Line

multi-quarter pacing against the design cycle. When the sales cycle runs years, only a long line shows whether this year’s pipeline was built two years ago.

Radar

share of voice across product categories versus your rivals. Each axis is a category; the shape shows where you own the conversation and where you’re being outspent or out-published.

Stacked bar

spend by region and segment. It ends the “where does the budget actually go” debate with composition, not just totals.

Gauge

target-account coverage at a glance. When your universe is 400 accounts, the percentage you’ve meaningfully reached is the honest summary.

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Governed Access That Passes Security Review

Semiconductor companies run strict security reviews, and a marketing tool asking for CRM and warehouse access gets the full treatment. Mad Fish Elements is built for that conversation: every seat authenticates through native OAuth under the user’s own identity — click Connect, no API keys generated or stored — and read, write, and delete permissions are granted per seat, per platform, enforced server-side on every call. Every operation across every connected system lands in one full audit trail tied to a named user. The platform is built around documented security controls, so your security team’s checklist starts with documentation instead of exceptions.

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Pricing That Fits a Named-Account World

Most semiconductor marketing teams start with Growth seats for product marketers working across LinkedIn, Salesforce, Search Console, and BigQuery, add an Ad Ops plan for the team managing paid campaigns, and put Data Visualization behind the design-win and coverage reporting.

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Ad Ops — managed ad spend
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Basic read
$299/mo + 0.75% of spend
Standard full capabilities
$799/mo + 1.25% of spend
Premium multi-client · priority · sandbox
$1,299/mo + 1.50% (0.85% above $250K)
Ops seats
Starter $99/seat/mo
read-only · up to 3 platforms
Growth $299/seat/mo
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Agency $499/seat/mo
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Data Visualization is available as an add-on to any plan — pricing on request.

Ops seats run $99/seat/mo for Starter (read-only, up to 3 platforms), $299/seat/mo for Growth (read+write+delete, up to 7 platforms), and $499/seat/mo for Agency (all platforms plus multi-team management, priority support, sandbox, BYO OAuth), with Enterprise custom. Ad Ops plans run $299/mo + 0.75% of managed ad spend for Basic (read), $799 + 1.25% for Standard (full capabilities), and $1,299 + 1.50% for Premium (0.85% marginal above $250K/mo spend; adds multi-client, priority support, sandbox), with Enterprise custom. Data Visualization is available as an add-on to any plan, and taking both lines earns a 15% bundle discount on the smaller one.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Our security team will ask about data access before anyone connects anything. What’s the answer?

Per-user native OAuth (no shared credentials, no stored API keys), per-seat read/write/delete grants enforced server-side per platform, a full audit trail tying every operation to a named user, and documented security controls. Your systems of record stay yours.

We have a finite account list, not consumer volume — does percent-of-spend pricing fit?

Better than you’d expect. The percentage applies only to managed ad spend on an Ad Ops plan, and ABM budgets against a few hundred accounts are modest, so the variable portion stays small. Teams that don’t need managed ad operations skip Ad Ops entirely and run flat per-seat Ops pricing.

Our audience is engineers who ignore marketing. What does this actually do for us?

It points your effort at the channels engineers already use. Search Console shows the part-number and spec queries they’re searching, GA4 shows which datasheets and application notes they read, and Reddit and Brandwatch show what they’re saying — so you invest in documentation and community answers, not louder campaigns.

Design-win data lives in Salesforce and belongs to sales. Can marketing see it without risk?

Yes. A marketing seat can hold read-only Salesforce alongside read-write LinkedIn, enforced server-side on every call — no request phrased to the AI can exceed what the seat allows. Sales operations keeps control of the grant; every query is logged.

Product marketing, corporate, and DevRel run separate stacks across regions. One gateway for all of them?

That’s the point. Each team’s seats are scoped to their platforms and permissions, the Agency tier adds multi-team management, and everyone queries the same connected sources — so the global roll-up stops being a reconciliation exercise and the audit trail covers all three teams in one place.

One Gateway From Evaluation Kit to Production Ramp

Your design-win evidence already exists — it’s just split between ad platforms that forget in 90 days and a CRM that remembers for years. Mad Fish Elements connects them behind one governed layer, so your team asks questions instead of assembling exports. Bring your account list and your toughest attribution question to a walkthrough, and watch it get answered live.

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