(Paid Ads)October 2024

Why your Meta ads
aren't working.

If your campaigns feel like a slot machine, the problem is almost never the creative. It is everything around it.

Why your Meta ads aren't working.

You're optimising for the wrong event

Most accounts optimise for clicks or leads. Meta will happily find you the cheapest clicks and the lowest-quality leads to match. Optimise for the event closest to revenue you can feed back — qualified lead, booked call, purchase. The algorithm is only as smart as the signal you give it.

No feedback loop

If Meta never learns which leads became customers, it cannot find more of them. Wiring closed-won data back into the ad platform — via your CRM and an automation layer — is the single highest-leverage fix most accounts are missing.

Creative volume, not creative perfection

One 'perfect' ad is a guess. Winning accounts test many angles cheaply and let spend flow to what works. Treat creative as a portfolio, not a masterpiece.

The landing page is half the ad

A great ad pointed at a slow, unfocused page burns money. The ad and the destination are one system — we never fix one without the other.

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