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I Made $1.5M Using This Meta Ads Strategy (Step-By-Step) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00What's up, guys? My name is Nick
  2. 0:01Dolberg, and I'm going to share the one
  3. 0:02simple meta ads testing strategy that I
  4. 0:04use to build the foundation and scale
  5. 0:06one of my drop ship stores to over $1.5
  6. 0:09million so far this year alone. After
  7. 0:11this video, you'll have a clear
  8. 0:12understanding of how to properly test,
  9. 0:14launch, and analyze your campaign's
  10. 0:16results effectively. Again, my name is
  11. 0:17Nick Dolberg and you can find me on
  12. 0:19Instagram at jung.labs. You can also
  13. 0:21find me here on YouTube, Junglabs. And I
  14. 0:23would appreciate if you could drop this
  15. 0:24video a like and subscribe to the
  16. 0:26channel. And you can also find me on Tik
  17. 0:27Tok at Junglabs. Now, so far this year,
  18. 0:29I've done over $1.5 million in sales.
  19. 0:31Now, the reason I show you that is to
  20. 0:33prove that the strategy that you're
  21. 0:34going to learn today is effective and
  22. 0:35works. But before I jump into the
  23. 0:37strategy itself, there's three important
  24. 0:38topics that we need to understand first.
  25. 0:40Look at these almost as prerequisites.
  26. 0:41You need to have a basic understanding
  27. 0:43of these before you launch your
  28. 0:44campaigns. Otherwise, you're going to be
  29. 0:46extremely confused. These three topics
  30. 0:47are the pixel, the learning phase, and
  31. 0:49the attribution window. We're going to
  32. 0:50start over here on the left with the
  33. 0:52pixel. The pixel is essentially just the
  34. 0:53brain of your ad account. Your pixel
  35. 0:55needs time to optimize around your
  36. 0:57customer. The more data it collects, the
  37. 0:59better your delivery will be.
  38. 1:00Essentially, just meaning the better
  39. 1:01your results will be as your pixel
  40. 1:03starts to collect more data. Now, you
  41. 1:04ideally need around 100 purchases in
  42. 1:06order for your pixel to start properly
  43. 1:08optimizing around your customers. Next,
  44. 1:10we have learning phase. All new adets
  45. 1:12that are just launched are going to be
  46. 1:13put in the learning phase, and this is
  47. 1:15where Meta is trying to find your ideal
  48. 1:17customers. Now, your results will get
  49. 1:19better over time as your adsets exit the
  50. 1:21learning phase and start to stabilize.
  51. 1:23Now, in order to do that, you need about
  52. 1:2550 events. And in this case, we're only
  53. 1:27going to be optimizing towards purchase
  54. 1:29events because that's what we do when we
  55. 1:30drop ship. So, you're going to need 50
  56. 1:32purchase events to exit the learning
  57. 1:34phase within a 7-day time period. And I
  58. 1:36mentioned this because in the beginning,
  59. 1:37your results may be a bit choppy. But
  60. 1:39later on in this video, I'm going to
  61. 1:40show you how to analyze your metrics so
  62. 1:42you can rule out any outliers there.
  63. 1:44Now, lastly, we have attribution
  64. 1:46windows. And this is how Meta attributes
  65. 1:48sales back to your dashboard. For
  66. 1:50simplicity, let's look at it like this.
  67. 1:52You have a 7-day attribution window and
  68. 1:54a 1-day attribution window. Let's start
  69. 1:56with 7-day. This is what I recommend to
  70. 1:57anybody just getting started. And this
  71. 1:59is the default window that Meta gives
  72. 2:00you. A 7-day attribution window is any
  73. 2:02sales made within a 7-day window are
  74. 2:04attributed back to your dashboard. And
  75. 2:07this is the best for exiting learning.
  76. 2:08So, let's say, for example, I saw your
  77. 2:10product from an Instagram ad. And let's
  78. 2:12say I decided to click on that ad and go
  79. 2:13to your website, but for some reason, I
  80. 2:15decided not to buy. And 3 days later, I
  81. 2:17remembered your URL and went back to
  82. 2:19your website. or maybe I saw an ad from
  83. 2:21you on Tik Tok and decided to go back to
  84. 2:23your website and decided to buy right
  85. 2:24then and there. Well, since it's within
  86. 2:26that 7-day attribution window, Meta is
  87. 2:28going to attribute that sale back to our
  88. 2:30dashboard. So, you can see why that's
  89. 2:32really good for exiting learning because
  90. 2:33we need 50 purchases within a 7-day
  91. 2:35window to exit. So, 7-day is recommended
  92. 2:37for most people getting started and
  93. 2:38probably for you watching this. Now, on
  94. 2:40the other hand, we have a 1-day
  95. 2:41attribution window. So, any sales that
  96. 2:43are made within a 24-hour window. Now, a
  97. 2:451-day attribution window is any sales
  98. 2:47that are made within a 24-hour period.
  99. 2:49And with this, you're typically going to
  100. 2:50get higher quality traffic, but the
  101. 2:51caveat is you need a larger budget in
  102. 2:53order to exit the learning phase here.
  103. 2:55So, here's a quick recap. Starting with
  104. 2:57the pixel, we need about 100 purchases
  105. 2:59in order for our pixel to start
  106. 3:00optimizing properly. For learning phase,
  107. 3:03you're going to need about 50 different
  108. 3:05purchase events to fire off, meaning
  109. 3:07just 50 different purchases to happen
  110. 3:08within a 7-day time period on those
  111. 3:10adsets in order to exit learning. And
  112. 3:12lastly, we have attribution window. And
  113. 3:14I recommend starting out with a 7-day
  114. 3:15attribution window, which you don't need
  115. 3:17to do anything there because by default,
  116. 3:18you'll already have that. Any sales that
  117. 3:20happen within a 7-day window that come
  118. 3:22from Meadow will be attributed back to
  119. 3:24your campaigns, which will help you exit
  120. 3:26learning phase faster, which will also
  121. 3:28help your pixel start to optimize a bit
  122. 3:30quicker, leading you to getting better
  123. 3:32results. But if you guys have any
  124. 3:33questions about pixel learning phase or
  125. 3:35attribution windows, feel free to let me
  126. 3:36know in the comments, and I'll be sure
  127. 3:38to respond to those. But let's get into
  128. 3:39the strategy itself. So, let's first
  129. 3:41start with a breakdown and then I'll
  130. 3:42show you step by step how to launch
  131. 3:43this. So, we're going to be running a
  132. 3:44manual CBO campaign. Now, I prefer CBO
  133. 3:47because I want the platform to tell me
  134. 3:49which creative is the best. It's
  135. 3:50efficient and effective and it saves
  136. 3:52time. Now, next inside of this campaign,
  137. 3:55I'm going to have anywhere from three to
  138. 3:57five different adets. All these adsets
  139. 3:59are going to be completely broad, but
  140. 4:01with manual placements. Now, the reason
  141. 4:02I do manual placements is because Meta
  142. 4:04has a whole lot of different placements
  143. 4:06that aren't really that effective. The
  144. 4:07ones that really drive sales from my
  145. 4:09experience are feed, story, and reels.
  146. 4:11So, what we're going to do with manual
  147. 4:13placements is go Instagram and Facebook
  148. 4:15feed, story, and reels. Inside each ad
  149. 4:17set, there's going to be one unique
  150. 4:19creative. So, if we have three different
  151. 4:21adsets, there's going to be one ad
  152. 4:23inside of each. Now, each creative that
  153. 4:25we make is going to have a different
  154. 4:26angle on it, meaning it's going to have
  155. 4:28different messaging. So, a quick recap.
  156. 4:30We're going to be running a manual CBO
  157. 4:32campaign with anywhere from three to
  158. 4:34five broad ad sets, but with manual
  159. 4:36placements, Instagram and Facebook feed,
  160. 4:38story, and reels. And then inside of
  161. 4:40each adset, there's going to be one
  162. 4:42unique creative with its own angle. So,
  163. 4:45to set this up, the first thing you want
  164. 4:46to do is go to your meta ad dashboard
  165. 4:48and then click create. And then you want
  166. 4:50to click sales and then click continue.
  167. 4:52Now, starting at the very top for
  168. 4:54campaign name, you want to give your
  169. 4:55campaign a name, something that's easily
  170. 4:56recognizable. What I like to do is give
  171. 4:58it the date, followed by the product,
  172. 5:00followed by the targeting, which is
  173. 5:01broad, followed by the creative set. So,
  174. 5:04what I mean by creative set is this.
  175. 5:06We're using three different creatives,
  176. 5:07all with unique angles, but I made them
  177. 5:09in a batch. So, this is just creative
  178. 5:10set one. This is how I recognize my
  179. 5:12creatives cuz that's the only real
  180. 5:14difference inside of this specific
  181. 5:16campaign is just the creatives. So, now
  182. 5:18moving down to budget, what we want to
  183. 5:19do is make sure that campaign budget is
  184. 5:21selected, which it should be
  185. 5:22pre-selected. Then we want to set a
  186. 5:23daily budget of anywhere from $50
  187. 5:25minimum to $100 a day. I personally
  188. 5:28recommend starting out with about $100
  189. 5:30per day. However, $50 a day will work as
  190. 5:32well. Then once you have this set up,
  191. 5:34the campaign name and the budget, then
  192. 5:35you want to go ahead and click next.
  193. 5:37Now, we're going to be inside the adset
  194. 5:38level of the campaign. If you look over
  195. 5:40here on the left, you can easily
  196. 5:41identify that you're in the adset level
  197. 5:42simply just by looking at the icon. The
  198. 5:44four squares means adset. The website
  199. 5:46icon right here means ad, and the folder
  200. 5:48means campaign. And another simple way
  201. 5:50to look at this if you ever get confused
  202. 5:51is look at your campaign like a garage.
  203. 5:53Look at the adset sort of like the
  204. 5:55engine of the vehicle that's sitting
  205. 5:56inside of the garage because this is
  206. 5:58where because this is what actually
  207. 5:59makes the campaign do something. And
  208. 6:02then look at the ad like the exterior of
  209. 6:04the car because that's what the customer
  210. 6:06will only see. So for the adset name,
  211. 6:08remember we're going to keep this all
  212. 6:09broad. So the only thing that we need to
  213. 6:11do to identify what this adset is is by
  214. 6:13the creative. So name this whatever your
  215. 6:16creative is or something that's easily
  216. 6:17identifiable for you. Next, under
  217. 6:19conversion, what we want to do is make
  218. 6:21sure that our performance goal is set to
  219. 6:22maximum number of conversions. And then
  220. 6:25you want to choose your data set. And
  221. 6:26this is your pixel. So, make sure that
  222. 6:28your pixel is selected. And then for
  223. 6:30conversion event, this is where we want
  224. 6:32to choose our purchase event. And we
  225. 6:34always want to choose purchase event. We
  226. 6:36don't want to choose anything else, only
  227. 6:37purchase. Next, we want to move down to
  228. 6:39budget and schedule. And what we want to
  229. 6:42do is schedule for the following day at
  230. 6:43midnight. That way, we can spend our
  231. 6:45budget evenly throughout the day and we
  232. 6:47get a fair test. Now, moving down to
  233. 6:49audience, you're going to notice that
  234. 6:50Advantage Plus is on. So, what we're
  235. 6:52going to do here is just click further
  236. 6:53limit the reach of your ads and then
  237. 6:55click switch setup. Now, from here,
  238. 6:57you're going to notice that this is
  239. 6:58still on. And this is no big deal
  240. 7:00because once we change our placements,
  241. 7:01then our campaign will go from an
  242. 7:03advantage plus campaign to a manual CBO
  243. 7:05campaign. So, for here, we're not going
  244. 7:07to do anything. We don't need to do any
  245. 7:08targeting because remember, all the
  246. 7:10adsets inside of this campaign are going
  247. 7:11to be completely broad. So, now we're
  248. 7:13going to move down to placement. And
  249. 7:14what we want to do here is click show
  250. 7:15more settings. And then underneath
  251. 7:17placement controls, what we're going to
  252. 7:18do is deselect instream ads. We're going
  253. 7:21to deselect search and then we're going
  254. 7:23to deselect apps and site. Then we're
  255. 7:25going to open up feed and we're just
  256. 7:27going to click this check box up here to
  257. 7:28remove everything. And then we're going
  258. 7:29to manually select Facebook feed,
  259. 7:31Instagram feed. And then what we're
  260. 7:32going to do is close that. Then open up
  261. 7:34story and reels and do the same thing
  262. 7:35here. Click the check to deselect
  263. 7:37everything. And then manually select
  264. 7:38Instagram stories, Facebook stories,
  265. 7:40Instagram reels, and Facebook reels. And
  266. 7:43that is all you need to do inside of the
  267. 7:44adset level. So, let me give you a quick
  268. 7:46recap starting at the very top. For your
  269. 7:47adset name, you want to name this your
  270. 7:49creative. Something that's easily
  271. 7:51recognizable because every single adset
  272. 7:52is going to be the exact same from this
  273. 7:54point on. The only thing that's
  274. 7:55different is going to be the creative
  275. 7:57itself that's living inside of the
  276. 7:58adset. Moving down to conversion, we
  277. 8:00want to make sure that website is
  278. 8:01selected. The performance goal is set to
  279. 8:03maximum number of conversions. The data
  280. 8:05set that is selected, which is our pixel
  281. 8:06for our store, our conversion event is
  282. 8:09purchase and only purchase. Then, moving
  283. 8:11down to budget and schedule. Our ads are
  284. 8:13scheduled to run at the following day at
  285. 8:15midnight. Then for audience, we're not
  286. 8:17going to do anything here. The only
  287. 8:19thing that we're going to do inside of
  288. 8:20this tab is actually switch the setup to
  289. 8:22a manual configuration. Then for
  290. 8:24placements is deselect every single
  291. 8:26placement except for Facebook feed,
  292. 8:27Instagram feed, Instagram story,
  293. 8:29Facebook story, Instagram reel, and
  294. 8:31Facebook reels. So if done correctly,
  295. 8:33you should see 18 out of 24 placements
  296. 8:35excluded right here. So with that being
  297. 8:37said, now we're done and we can move
  298. 8:39into the ad level. So click next.
  299. 8:40Starting on the ad level, the first
  300. 8:42thing that you want to do is make sure
  301. 8:43that your ad name is easily
  302. 8:45identifiable. So you can use the same ad
  303. 8:46name that you used on the adset name. In
  304. 8:48this case, we're going to use video one.
  305. 8:50Then you want to make sure that your
  306. 8:51Facebook page is selected. This is going
  307. 8:53to be your brand's identity. So go ahead
  308. 8:56and select that followed by Instagram
  309. 8:58account. If you have an Instagram
  310. 8:59account, go ahead and connect that here.
  311. 9:01If not, just select use Facebook page
  312. 9:03and that will show up as your page's
  313. 9:05identity. Then you're going to want to
  314. 9:06move down to ad setup and then you're
  315. 9:08going to want to select create ad and
  316. 9:11then select manual upload and then under
  317. 9:13format single image or video. And then
  318. 9:15lastly, you want to make sure that
  319. 9:17multi-advertiser ads is deselected. So
  320. 9:20this right here is my product page. I'm
  321. 9:22going to grab the URL here. And then I'm
  322. 9:24going to take this back to the meta ad
  323. 9:25library and paste this right here in
  324. 9:28website URL. Now we want to continue
  325. 9:30moving down. And for browser add-ons,
  326. 9:32make sure that none is selected. And
  327. 9:34then now for ad creative, this is where
  328. 9:36we're going to upload our creatives and
  329. 9:37write out our ad copy. So click setup
  330. 9:39creative. Then select video ad or if
  331. 9:41you're doing an image, feel free to
  332. 9:43select image. And from here, click edit
  333. 9:44and remove this source URL. You don't
  334. 9:46need this. It looks like you do, but you
  335. 9:48don't. Then move next to media. And this
  336. 9:51is where you're going to actually upload
  337. 9:52your creatives. So here we go. This is
  338. 9:54one creative here. And then we're going
  339. 9:56to select next. And then now we're going
  340. 9:58to write our copy. And for this, I had
  341. 10:00chat GPT help me out. I told it, "You're
  342. 10:02a world-class copywriter. write me copy
  343. 10:04for a wireless shaping bra for plus-siz
  344. 10:06women. And it gave me some examples
  345. 10:08here, but I told them to shorten it and
  346. 10:09also give me a call to action at the
  347. 10:11end. And it gave me this. And this is
  348. 10:12completely fine. So, we're going to copy
  349. 10:14this and move back to meta. And under
  350. 10:16our primary text, we're going to paste
  351. 10:17this. And then once our text is set up,
  352. 10:19we're then going to select next and move
  353. 10:21over to enhancements. And then we want
  354. 10:23to make sure that catalog items is
  355. 10:24deselected. However, you may not see
  356. 10:26this on yours, which is completely fine,
  357. 10:27but just make sure catalog items is off.
  358. 10:29But then text improvements, video
  359. 10:31filters, and expand video is on along
  360. 10:33with video touch-up and enhance CTA.
  361. 10:35Then click done, and you're going to see
  362. 10:37our ad pop up over here. Now, there is a
  363. 10:39few more things that we need to do for
  364. 10:40headline, which will show up right here
  365. 10:42next to the CTA button. We want to make
  366. 10:44the headline what our offer is. So, the
  367. 10:46text that chat GPT generated was just an
  368. 10:48example, but I'm going to roll with it.
  369. 10:50But make this what your offer is. So, in
  370. 10:51this case, I did 40% off today only. And
  371. 10:54then you want to add a description. Now,
  372. 10:56sometimes if your headline text is too
  373. 10:57long, you won't be able to see the
  374. 10:58description. But for the description, I
  375. 11:00just like to add some urgency, scarcity,
  376. 11:02or some trust. So, for here, loved by
  377. 11:0410,000 plus women. And then for call to
  378. 11:07action, we want to make this a shop now
  379. 11:09or get offer. I typically run with shop
  380. 11:12now though, but get offer does work as
  381. 11:13well. So, now that we have this done, we
  382. 11:14are all good to go. So, let me quickly
  383. 11:16recap. Starting at the very top with ad
  384. 11:18name, make this the same name as your ad
  385. 11:19set, just a unique identifier for the
  386. 11:22creative itself. Moving down to
  387. 11:24identity, make sure that your Facebook
  388. 11:25page is selected and make sure that
  389. 11:27Instagram account is linking to your
  390. 11:28Instagram account if you have one. But
  391. 11:30if not, that's okay. Use Facebook page.
  392. 11:32For ad setup, you want to do manual
  393. 11:34upload. For format, single image or
  394. 11:37video. Under destination, for website
  395. 11:39URL, you want to make sure that you're
  396. 11:41pasting your product page URL. Not your
  397. 11:43homepage, but your product page URL.
  398. 11:45Next, for browser add-ons, make sure
  399. 11:46that none is selected. Now, for ad
  400. 11:49creative, you want to make sure that
  401. 11:50your one video, that video one is
  402. 11:52uploaded. And under enhancements, you
  403. 11:54just want to make sure that everything
  404. 11:55is on except catalog items. And then you
  405. 11:58want to have your copy lined up along
  406. 12:00with your headline, which for headline,
  407. 12:02this should be what your offer is. And
  408. 12:04then for description, urgency, scarcity,
  409. 12:07trust works fine. And then lastly, for
  410. 12:09call to action, you want to make sure
  411. 12:10that shop now is done. You want to make
  412. 12:12sure that shop now is selected. And then
  413. 12:14from there, you're good to go. So now we
  414. 12:16can move on to the final step which is
  415. 12:17coming over here to the top left under
  416. 12:19the ads set level. Remember the four
  417. 12:21squares. You just want to click these
  418. 12:22three dots and then click duplicate. And
  419. 12:24you want to duplicate these two times
  420. 12:26and also deselect show existing
  421. 12:28reactions and comments on new ads. Now
  422. 12:30you see it created two unique copies.
  423. 12:32What we're going to do is select into
  424. 12:33one of these copies and then just change
  425. 12:35the adset name to video 2. And from here
  426. 12:37we're not going to change anything in
  427. 12:38here since we already set this up. It's
  428. 12:39already good to go. The only thing that
  429. 12:41we need to swap inside of this adset is
  430. 12:42the actual ad creative itself. So, after
  431. 12:45we change the name of the ad set, we're
  432. 12:46also going to do the same thing to the
  433. 12:47ad name. And then we're just going to
  434. 12:49come down here to edit media and we're
  435. 12:51going to change the video. So, again,
  436. 12:53click media and then choose your second
  437. 12:56video. And it's the same exact process.
  438. 12:58Click next. Click done. Make sure that
  439. 13:00all the enhancements are on except for
  440. 13:02add catalog items. Then click done. And
  441. 13:04then now your second ad set is set up.
  442. 13:06And now we need to move on to our third
  443. 13:08and final. Or if you're doing five, you
  444. 13:10would want to repeat this step for all
  445. 13:12of them. But in this case, we only have
  446. 13:13three creatives. So this is going to be
  447. 13:15video three on the adset name. Again, we
  448. 13:17don't need to change anything here
  449. 13:18because we're already set up. Then
  450. 13:19underneath the ad level, we want to go
  451. 13:20ahead and swap that as well. And then do
  452. 13:22the same thing. The only thing that
  453. 13:23we're going to swap here is the
  454. 13:25creative. So now, if you look over here
  455. 13:26on the left, you can see that we have
  456. 13:28three different adets. And inside each
  457. 13:30adset is one unique creative. So a quick
  458. 13:33recap on how we did that is we first set
  459. 13:34up our first ad set. A quick recap on
  460. 13:37how we did that is we set up our first
  461. 13:38ad set and then we set up our ad and
  462. 13:41then we duplicated it two more times to
  463. 13:43create two different copies. Then inside
  464. 13:45of each ad in the copies we just changed
  465. 13:47the video and then adjusted the actual
  466. 13:50ad set and ad name. And once you have
  467. 13:52that set up you are good to go. You can
  468. 13:55click publish and your campaign will be
  469. 13:57scheduled. So it should look something
  470. 13:59like this. On the campaign level right
  471. 14:01here you'll see your campaign set up.
  472. 14:02Then inside of the ads set level, you'll
  473. 14:04see your three different ad sets. And
  474. 14:06then inside of your ads, you'll see
  475. 14:08three different variations of ads. So
  476. 14:10this is exactly what we just set up. A
  477. 14:11manual CBO campaign with three different
  478. 14:13adsets. And inside each adset is one
  479. 14:16unique creative. Now from here, all
  480. 14:17you're going to do is let this run for
  481. 14:19about 2 to 3 days. And during these 2 to
  482. 14:21three days, you're going to be looking
  483. 14:22for three different things. Number one
  484. 14:24is sales. Number two is data on your
  485. 14:26dashboard. And then number three is
  486. 14:28which creative had the highest intent or
  487. 14:30which one performed the best. But now
  488. 14:31let's cover the outcomes. So you're
  489. 14:33either going to be in one of these two
  490. 14:34situations. Number one, you got sales.
  491. 14:36Or number two, you didn't get sales. So
  492. 14:38I put together four different
  493. 14:39hypotheticals to help you understand a
  494. 14:40little bit better what you should do in
  495. 14:42these unique situations. So hypothetical
  496. 14:44number one is you got no sales, but you
  497. 14:46have purchase intent. People are adding
  498. 14:48to cart, but they're not buying. This is
  499. 14:50a good sign. This means people want to
  500. 14:51buy your product, but there's something
  501. 14:52that's stopping them. So the solution to
  502. 14:54this is make sure that your markets,
  503. 14:56your shipping zones, your inventory, and
  504. 14:57your offer is set up properly. A quick
  505. 14:59little pro tip here is place a test
  506. 15:01order before you launch your campaign to
  507. 15:03avoid common errors like I just
  508. 15:04mentioned. And then number two, you're
  509. 15:06not in a rush. So verify that everything
  510. 15:08is set up properly before you launch.
  511. 15:10The next hypothetical is you have no
  512. 15:12sales, no purchase intent, low clicks,
  513. 15:14low CTR, and a very high CPC. And this
  514. 15:17is simply just an invalid test because
  515. 15:19there's not enough traffic going to your
  516. 15:20site. So this is a creative problem,
  517. 15:22hence the metric. So the solution to
  518. 15:24this is new creatives. Now, a pro tip
  519. 15:26for this is if you're lost on how to do
  520. 15:27this, look at what your competitors are
  521. 15:29doing. I personally like to voice memo
  522. 15:31their ads on my phone and then send the
  523. 15:32file to an AI transcriber and then have
  524. 15:35chat GPT break down the format of that
  525. 15:37ad script. So, essentially what I'm
  526. 15:39saying here is leverage AI to help you
  527. 15:41make better ad creatives. For
  528. 15:43hypothetical number three, you made
  529. 15:45sales but you're not profitable. Well,
  530. 15:47this isn't bad. There's demand, hence
  531. 15:49the intent in sales. So, what you could
  532. 15:50do here is add or maybe refine your
  533. 15:52digital offer bumps. add complimentary
  534. 15:55or best-selling products on
  535. 15:56post-purchase upselles. This will
  536. 15:58increase your average order value,
  537. 15:59hopefully making you more profitable.
  538. 16:01Pro tip, the if the offer is not
  539. 16:03working, we're not going to change it.
  540. 16:05Instead, let's optimize on the back end
  541. 16:07so it won't affect our test. So, this is
  542. 16:09why I said we want to add or refine our
  543. 16:11digital offer bumps because that has
  544. 16:12nothing to do with the price point of
  545. 16:13the product itself or add complimentary
  546. 16:16or our second and third best sellers on
  547. 16:18post-purchase upselles. Because when a
  548. 16:19customer sees that, they've already
  549. 16:21purchased, you've already gotten their
  550. 16:22money. We don't want to do anything that
  551. 16:23can change our control, which is our
  552. 16:25test itself. So, we only want to add
  553. 16:27these things on the back end where it
  554. 16:30has no impact on the front. So, to
  555. 16:31backtrack to get more profit, we just
  556. 16:33simply need to increase our average
  557. 16:34order value. And this can be done easily
  558. 16:36if you get your customers to buy one or
  559. 16:38two more items. Now, hypothetical number
  560. 16:40four is you made profitable sales. Now,
  561. 16:42that doesn't necessarily mean that you
  562. 16:43have a winning product just yet, but
  563. 16:44there's a good chance it may be a
  564. 16:46winner. So, there's three things that
  565. 16:47you need to do if you notice that you
  566. 16:48have profitable sales after 2 to 3 days.
  567. 16:50Number one, optimize post purchase for
  568. 16:53maximum AOV. This is going to allow you
  569. 16:55to make more profit on the front end to
  570. 16:57continue scaling further. Number two is
  571. 16:59you need to do a creative deep dive and
  572. 17:01understand which winning angles perform
  573. 17:02the best. And number three, you need to
  574. 17:04do a soft breakdown of the demographic
  575. 17:06on the platform. And I wanted to give a
  576. 17:07quick warning here. Number one, don't
  577. 17:09rush into scaling your testing. A lot of
  578. 17:11beginners oftent times will see
  579. 17:12profitable sales on day one and start
  580. 17:14increasing the budget significantly,
  581. 17:16which will then lead to something
  582. 17:17breaking. Number two, your results may
  583. 17:19fluctuate on day three, day four, day
  584. 17:21five, and so on. The following days
  585. 17:23aren't promised winners like today is.
  586. 17:25So, this is why we're not rushing to
  587. 17:26scale because the results may fluctuate.
  588. 17:28And this goes back to what I was
  589. 17:29previously mentioning with pixel
  590. 17:31learning phase and also attribution
  591. 17:32windows. Now, before we continue to the
  592. 17:34final step, I want to show you two
  593. 17:35things. How to actually see your
  594. 17:37purchase intent on your dashboard and
  595. 17:38then also how to hit a breakdown. So, to
  596. 17:40see your purchase intent, you want to
  597. 17:41click on columns and then you want to
  598. 17:43select customize columns and then you
  599. 17:44want to search add to cart. And then
  600. 17:46once you have add to cart selected, you
  601. 17:48want to deselect inapp and you want to
  602. 17:49deselect offline add to carts. And then
  603. 17:51you want to deselect meta ad to carts.
  604. 17:53And then you want to search checkouts
  605. 17:54initiated and select this. And then
  606. 17:56under total, you want to deselect
  607. 17:58everything again except for website
  608. 18:00checkouts initiated. And then from
  609. 18:01there, you may want to move these up in
  610. 18:03your column so they show up over here.
  611. 18:04But we're just going to click apply. And
  612. 18:06then you're able to see the number of
  613. 18:07checkouts initiated and the number of
  614. 18:09add toarts initiated there so you can
  615. 18:10start to measure the purchase intent. I
  616. 18:12would recommend saving this column as a
  617. 18:14preset. That way you have it. And then
  618. 18:15lastly, to look at your breakdown, to
  619. 18:17the right of columns, you're going to
  620. 18:18see breakdown. From here, you're going
  621. 18:19to be able to seg your data by certain
  622. 18:21views. So, for example, age. If we want
  623. 18:23to get an idea of what the age of people
  624. 18:25who are buying is, we select age. And
  625. 18:27since this campaign is not live, we
  626. 18:28can't see anything, but it would show us
  627. 18:30different age groups. 18 to 24, 25 to
  628. 18:3234, 35 through 44, 45 through 54, 55 to
  629. 18:3664, 65 plus. That way, we get an idea of
  630. 18:38what our most profitable demographic is
  631. 18:40and which demo is responsible for the
  632. 18:42most sales. And we can do the same thing
  633. 18:44with placement to understand which
  634. 18:45placement is performing the best, which
  635. 18:47platform is performing the best, which
  636. 18:49gender is performing the best, and maybe
  637. 18:51which country is performing the best if
  638. 18:52you're targeting different countries.
  639. 18:53That's important data to know moving
  640. 18:55forward. To wrap this up, I want to
  641. 18:56cover one more thing. The entire purpose
  642. 18:58of this test is to simply test. We want
  643. 19:00to understand number one, is the product
  644. 19:02valid? Number two, is the offer valid.
  645. 19:04And number three is who is buying and
  646. 19:05what are they buying for? What is the
  647. 19:07reason? This is what needs to be built
  648. 19:08on later in order to achieve a
  649. 19:10sustainable scale. So let's say for
  650. 19:12example that we ran this CBO campaign
  651. 19:14for three days and this was the outcome.
  652. 19:17Adset number one didn't get any spend
  653. 19:19because the CBO is going to allocate the
  654. 19:21budget towards the ads set and the ad
  655. 19:22that was performing the best. So let's
  656. 19:24say ads set one got no spend. Ads set
  657. 19:26two got a little bit of spend but adset
  658. 19:283 was the one that got the majority of
  659. 19:29the spend and it also got purchases that
  660. 19:31were profitable. And also if you look
  661. 19:33underneath the ads you can also see that
  662. 19:34I gave unique angles for them. Just food
  663. 19:36for thought here that you can maybe use
  664. 19:38to get creative. Uh, so an us versus
  665. 19:40them angle. So again, let's assume that
  666. 19:42we're selling a shaping bra. So we could
  667. 19:44compare us to skims or compare on the
  668. 19:46price point. Uh, for ad two, I did
  669. 19:48curvier women with larger breasts. And
  670. 19:50then number three was like maybe older
  671. 19:51women that are experiencing loss of
  672. 19:52firmness and loss of natural lift in
  673. 19:54their breast. But let's say that was the
  674. 19:56winning ads set and this was the winning
  675. 19:57angle. Now we have an idea of what our
  676. 19:59winning angle is based off our data.
  677. 20:01Older women who are experiencing loss of
  678. 20:03firmness/natural lift. Now what we can
  679. 20:04do from here is start curating new
  680. 20:06messaging around this for future ads.
  681. 20:08That being number one, specific call
  682. 20:10outs, different pain points and problems
  683. 20:12that people experience that have that
  684. 20:13issue. Number two, a direct ICP or ideal
  685. 20:16customer profile call out, gender, age.
  686. 20:19Number three, mirroring in ads.
  687. 20:20Mirroring essentially just means making
  688. 20:22sure that the creator is very similar to
  689. 20:24who your actual customer is. Now, a
  690. 20:26quick pro tip for this is number one,
  691. 20:27keep your testing campaign live and let
  692. 20:28it continue to run. It's going to
  693. 20:30continue to collect more data and it's
  694. 20:31going to exit learning and help season
  695. 20:33your pixel some more. Number two, if you
  696. 20:35hadn't done so already, add a
  697. 20:36post-purchase survey to know exactly why
  698. 20:38your customers are buying. I like to use
  699. 20:40no commerce for this. And then number
  700. 20:41three, leverage chat GPT for angles or
  701. 20:44competitor reviews. This can be
  702. 20:46anywhere. This can be your exact product
  703. 20:48that another person is selling. You can
  704. 20:49look at their reviews. You can even go
  705. 20:51on Amazon, maybe see if your product's
  706. 20:52on there. And if it's not, maybe a
  707. 20:54product that's very similar that solves
  708. 20:55the exact problem. And lastly, Reddit.
  709. 20:58There's tons of different subreddits on
  710. 20:59every single painoint that you can
  711. 21:01imagine. So, you're going to use this to
  712. 21:03educate yourself more on the problem and
  713. 21:04the solution and who the ideal customer
  714. 21:06profile actually is. At this point, you
  715. 21:08should have a good idea of how to
  716. 21:10properly set up an efficient meta ads
  717. 21:12test. And you should also be able to see
  718. 21:14the foundation that this is built on.
  719. 21:16It's not only identifying that the
  720. 21:18product is number one valid and then
  721. 21:19number two the offer is valid, but most
  722. 21:21importantly which creative angles are
  723. 21:24performing the best and then gathering
  724. 21:25the data not only on dashboard but also
  725. 21:27from post-p purchase survey to refine
  726. 21:29your messaging to curate better ads that
  727. 21:31are hyperargeted around who is actually
  728. 21:33buying now that you know who is. This is
  729. 21:36the foundational way to set up an
  730. 21:38efficient and effective test that can
  731. 21:39scale into the six and seven figure

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