A month ago our ads were really struggling. CTR was at an all time low of around 0.6% and CPC was up to nearly $4. We were still profitable, but not very happy.

Today we're at 1.35% CTR and our CPC $2.22. This has given us a 35% decrease in CPA.

Here's what we did...

1) Tested, tested, tested. But not small variations or tweaks. Big things. New offers, new landing pages, drastically different creative types.

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2. The first big win came from when we launched this ad. Very different than anything we'd ran before. Thumbstop was over 40% and CTR was near 1%. But it wasn't converting so well...
3. I was pretty happy with that CTR, until I launched this ad... It had our highest CTR to date of nearly 2% and CPCs were under $2. Huge for us. Plus it's running to a customizable bundle, which has a higher AOV.
4. Here's a static version that also did well. These 2 ads allowed us to re-stabilize performance and scale quite a bit with a much lower CPC and CPA that we had just 2 weeks ago.
5. Scrolling through IG, I saw this post we put up. I figured our designer got the idea from the NY Post ad. I had an idea and figured let's give it a shot. CTR has been nearly a 3% and CVR and AOV are excellent. In fact...
6. ...It's become our top spending and most efficient retargeting ad this month. Why? Well we're actually running the traffic to the article, which is a lot more engaging and "funnel appropriate" for someone browsing FB in consumption mode, not buy mode...
7. ...Then, the article engages and provides enough social proof to buy. By the time they get there, they're so sold that they buy more than if they just went to a pdp.
8. Now for our last test, we ran a founder application/tutorial. This ad has nearly a 2% CTR, but it has an insane avg watch time of 11 seconds, so we're rewarded with lower CPMs. The result is our best ad by far since this iOS thing and an in platform ROAS of over...
9. ...2.0 across our account at the moment. Here's the ad... The interesting thing is we're testing it from our page and her personal page, and her personal page is performing 20% better across all metrics. Crazy, right?
10... BTW, that founder is my mom. She's mad at me because I didn't get this ad of her approved, but I told her it's doing so well that I won't take it down now even if she hates how it looks. Love you mom.
11. My takeaways are:

1. Take big risks when testing. New offers and drastically different creative concepts might be what's needed right now.

2. Do more whitelisting. Like today.

3. Run traffic to different types of pages that engage the prospect where they're at.
12. Here's my master plan based off these learnings:

TOF - Whitelisted education style ads from Founder page leading to an advertorial style LP written for this purpose. LP will lead to custom bundle, or quiz.

MOF /BOF- Whitelisted influencer tutorial/reviews for social proof
13. If you enjoyed this, I have nothing to sell. Just trying to share what's working for us in the hopes it helps someone out there. Feel free to connect and provide any feedback or ask any questions.

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In Mahabharat,it is described how 'Maharishi Ved Vyasa' gave away his divine vision to Sanjay


Dhritarashtra's charioteer so that he could describe him the events of the upcoming war.

But, even before questions of war could begin, Dhritarashtra asked him to describe how the world looks like from space.

This is how he described the face of the world:

सुदर्शनं प्रवक्ष्यामि द्वीपं तु कुरुनन्दन। परिमण्डलो महाराज द्वीपोऽसौ चक्रसंस्थितः॥
यथा हि पुरुषः पश्येदादर्शे मुखमात्मनः। एवं सुदर्शनद्वीपो दृश्यते चन्द्रमण्डले॥ द्विरंशे पिप्पलस्तत्र द्विरंशे च शशो महान्।

—वेद व्यास, भीष्म पर्व, महाभारत


Meaning:-

हे कुरुनन्दन ! सुदर्शन नामक यह द्वीप चक्र की भाँति गोलाकार स्थित है, जैसे पुरुष दर्पण में अपना मुख देखता है, उसी प्रकार यह द्वीप चन्द्रमण्डल में दिखायी देता है। इसके दो अंशो मे पीपल और दो अंशो मे विशाल शश (खरगोश) दिखायी देता है।


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This spring at SxSW, @SusanWojcicki promised "Wikipedia snippets" on debated videos. But they didn't put them on flat earth videos, and instead @YouTube is promoting merchandising such as "NASA lies - Never Trust a Snake". 2/


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