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08/03/2026

Everyone wants to kill the same ad. It’s always the ugly one. It’s almost always their best performer. 😬

You know the one. The plain one, the off-brand one, the one that looks like it took five minutes. “Can we turn that off? It doesn’t look like us.” And almost every time, I’d check the numbers.. the ugly ad was outselling the pretty ones. Sometimes by a lot.

Here’s why: you think you get to decide what performs, based on what YOU would click on. But you’re not your customer. She’s not scrolling past going “hmm, is this on-brand?” She stops because something felt real. Polished reads as ad. Ugly reads as person.

So I stopped arguing about taste and started translating it into money: “We can turn it off but that costs you about $X a month in sales. Your call.” Funny how fast the ugly ad stops being ugly.

07/30/2026

You think tight targeting makes your ads better. It’s doing the opposite. 🎯

Here’s the move almost everyone makes: you look at your results, spot an age group or a placement that’s “not converting,” and cut it. Feels smart. Feels like cleanup.

But when you tell Meta to get you a sale, Meta already wants that sale, it’s not wasting your budget on people who won’t buy. So cutting groups doesn’t remove waste. It just shrinks the pool, and a smaller pool costs you more.

cut your oldest age group and that budget doesn’t go to your dream customer. It slides to the next age down. You didn’t fix anything. you made your audience smaller.

Real problem with one group producing junk? Don’t cut them. Bid less on them with a value rule. Steer the budget instead of slamming a door.

Before you narrow anything, ask: what problem does this actually solve? “They don’t feel like my customer” is a guess and guessing costs more than the waste you were cutting.

Which have you cut before an age group, or a placement? Tell me below.

Meta ads · Facebook ads targeting · ad strategy · small business ads

07/27/2026

Unpopular Opinion: cost per lead means nothing.

What actually matters: how many leads become customers, and what a customer is worth. Without those two numbers, “cheap leads” is just a cheap number.

Remember, the algorithm is literal. Ask for leads and Meta finds you the cheapest people willing to type an email. Cheapest doesn’t mean interested.🤷🏽‍♀️

Track what happens AFTER the form. Then work backward to what you can actually afford to pay.

Send this to the friend bragging about their cost per lead. 😘

The Ad Racket, where I make ads make sense. Follow for the series.

Meta ads, Facebook ads for small business, lead generation, cost per lead, ad strategy

07/24/2026

“Great CTR this month!” Cool. Did it make you money? 📊

Quick Meta ads translation from 16 years inside 159 accounts:

CPM = what the audience costs. Not whether anyone bought. A cheap CPM with no sales is just affordable failure.

CTR = your ad got attention. Says nothing about whether your page converted it.

Reach = people scrolled past. That’s the whole metric. None of these are useless but None of them are the point. Money in, money out is the point … everything else is a clue.

The racket leads with clues because something is ALWAYS up and to the right if you pick the right chart.

First question on any ad report, including your own: what did we spend and what did it make us?

Send this to the friend whose agency report is all reach and impressions. 📤

The Ad Racket.. how the ads industry profits off your confusion. Follow for the series.

07/22/2026

Same client. Organic post: 30 likes, dead in two days. Her ad: thousands of likes, hundreds of comments — and still collecting. 📈

Here’s what nobody explains: every organic post is born with an expiration date. The algorithm gives it a window, shows it to a slice of your followers, and moves on. Your best post ever will be forgotten by Thursday. An ad doesn’t expire. It runs as long as it performs, in front of exactly who you picked and it KEEPS every like, comment, and share it earns. Month four, that same ad is wearing a crowd, and every new person who sees it sees the proof. It literally gets more persuasive over time.

Try this: find your best-performing post ever — the one that already proved the message works — and make THAT your first ad. Put a few dollars a day behind it and stop letting your winners die on the treadmill.

Send this to the friend posting every single day and wondering why it’s not turning into sales. 📤

This is The Ad Racket, how the ads industry profits off your confusion, from 10 years inside 159 Meta ad accounts. Follow for the series

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