your ad hooks are probably sh*t. lemme spoonfeed you mfs — Transcript
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- 0:00In this video, I'm going to be going
- 0:01over
- 0:02ad hooks specifically. So, I I think the
- 0:05best way to understand anything and to
- 0:07get really really good at anything is
- 0:08you can break down this big thing. In
- 0:10this case, it's just going to be hooks
- 0:11into its various component parts. In
- 0:14fact, when I was younger and when I was
- 0:15a kid, that was one of my favorite
- 0:16things to do. It wasn't to like always
- 0:18play with the toys. It was to completely
- 0:20disassemble them and understand how all
- 0:22the pieces work together, then figure
- 0:24out how to put it all back together.
- 0:25That was one of my uh one of the
- 0:28activities I really enjoyed when I was
- 0:29younger. And I think that's part of the
- 0:31reason why I'm good at what I do now.
- 0:32It's because in order to truly
- 0:34understand something, you should
- 0:35understand how all the parts work
- 0:36together. And you should strip it down
- 0:39as much as you possibly can to its bare
- 0:41bone uh elements, the foundations. And
- 0:44if you understand those, then only then
- 0:46can you build on top of that. The issue
- 0:47is a lot of you guys go to uh you know
- 0:50you go to get hooked or whatever, you
- 0:52swipe some ads, you swipe some copy, you
- 0:53throw it into Claude, you say rewrite
- 0:55this. And Claude is not good at writing
- 0:58hooks in general. [clears throat] Um I
- 1:00don't actually use Claude a lot for
- 1:03uh for copy overall. Um if I do, the
- 1:08most
- 1:10recent model I would ever use for
- 1:12writing copy is Opus or Sonnet 4.6. I
- 1:14would not go beyond that. and eventually
- 1:16those are going to be deprecated as
- 1:17well. So at at that point you got to
- 1:20find other alternatives for writing
- 1:22copy. So uh I've been writing a lot of
- 1:25copy with chatbt over the last few
- 1:27months. I've been writing copy with
- 1:28Grock over the last few months. Um but
- 1:31just so that you know typically most
- 1:32these LLMs they work pretty similarly
- 1:35unless you are feeding in a ton of
- 1:39really really good context around how to
- 1:41actually write good hooks. as soon as
- 1:42you go to rewrite it with AI and just
- 1:45expect the swipe to work, it's probably
- 1:47going to [ __ ] up the swipe in the first
- 1:48place. And that's why swiping is, you
- 1:51know, difficult thing to uh to to really
- 1:54make work sometimes, especially if it
- 1:56works. Then you're really [ __ ] Like
- 1:57it's good, but then you're [ __ ]
- 1:58because you have no idea why it's
- 1:59actually working. Um anyway, to strip it
- 2:01down to its its component pieces. What
- 2:03do we have the hook, right? Let's talk
- 2:05about video ads specifically. That's
- 2:07going to be the majority of what this
- 2:09video will be about. I'll I'll maybe
- 2:10have a little bit about some uh primary
- 2:13text on native static so we can talk
- 2:14about the hook there because that's also
- 2:16incredibly incredibly important. But
- 2:18let's talk about videos first. So in
- 2:20regards to videos,
- 2:23right?
- 2:26Videos, if you take the first roughly 3
- 2:29to 5 seconds of a video ad, that is what
- 2:31we define as the hook. And with video,
- 2:34it's not just something that you're
- 2:35reading. Like it's it's an experience.
- 2:37Like watching a video is an experience.
- 2:39And there's three things that kind of
- 2:41make up said experience. Um, which is
- 2:44your hook. So like this entire piece al
- 2:46together is your let's just call like
- 2:50the hook, right? So first thing that we
- 2:52have is going to be
- 2:55the actual the actual copy. Right? This
- 2:58is one of the most important pieces. I
- 3:01think this actually used to be even more
- 3:02important and now it's starting to shift
- 3:05in another direction which I'll get to.
- 3:07But one of the three pieces is your
- 3:08copy. The other is going to be your
- 3:10scroll stopper, which is essentially the
- 3:13video portion. So you have text that is
- 3:16being stated. That's the copy. And then
- 3:18you have the actual video being played
- 3:21behind said text. And that is of course
- 3:23your scroll stopper. And then the third
- 3:26and final thing, if you think there
- 3:27can't be possibly anything else, there
- 3:29is because here we have the visual, we
- 3:31have the
- 3:34text on screen. And then we have to have
- 3:36the audio as well, which is going to be
- 3:37the third and final thing, which is
- 3:38going to be what actually happens in the
- 3:40background audio-wise to bring together
- 3:43this hook. [clears throat] So these
- 3:46three things make up your hook. If I had
- 3:48to put it into percentages of which is
- 3:50most important, I would say audio is
- 3:52probably like 5% maybe 10% max. You
- 3:56know, a lot of people watch ads even
- 3:58with their sound turned off. So that
- 4:00alone should tell you that it's not
- 4:01anywhere near the most important thing.
- 4:03I would say 5 to 10%. And then we're
- 4:05going to have these two things which
- 4:07carry the most amount of weight. If you
- 4:08ask me a few years ago before this this
- 4:11algorithm update from Facebook and the
- 4:13few algo updates that have been from
- 4:15Facebook over the last uh year, yeah,
- 4:19roughly year, um
- 4:22you'll notice that having more diversity
- 4:25when it comes to your scroll stoppers
- 4:27specifically
- 4:29is a really good thing
- 4:31because that means that you're
- 4:32increasing the level of diversity across
- 4:34them compared to keeping everything in
- 4:35the ad the same and only changing like
- 4:37the copy. of the hook.
- 4:40So,
- 4:41for that reason, um, before that, I
- 4:45think copy was literally the most
- 4:47important thing. And the reason I can
- 4:48tell you why is because there are comp I
- 4:51mean, [ __ ] there's still companies now,
- 4:53but [clears throat] like the old school
- 4:55VSSL, like VSSL is a video sales letter,
- 4:57the old school VSSLs, which we could we
- 4:59could say VSSLs are being run as ads all
- 5:01the time. Old school VSSLs, the way that
- 5:04they would work is you would literally
- 5:05take a text sales letter. You take a TSL
- 5:08and you would convert it into a video.
- 5:11And the way you do that is you would
- 5:13just have this dude, you know, voicing
- 5:16over uh the particular script because,
- 5:19you know, here's here's something you
- 5:20may not know. Uh most copywriters,
- 5:23myself included, you know, a lot of them
- 5:26relatively antisocial. [laughter]
- 5:28And if if at least not antisocial, don't
- 5:31like showing their face on camera
- 5:32actively all the time. That's probably
- 5:33the reason they became, you know, a
- 5:35copywriter.
- 5:37so that they didn't have to do that. And
- 5:39so this guy is basically like speaking
- 5:41and narrating a PowerPoint presentation
- 5:44that's like a 100 plus slides. And
- 5:46that's that was like the uh the
- 5:51genesis I guess of the VSSL. Um Keith
- 5:56Bowman, you know, you know. So that was
- 5:59that was essentially the invention of
- 6:00the VSSL. And the reason I say that is
- 6:03because in the same way that you have a
- 6:06VSSL, it was literally just text on a
- 6:08white background. It's like black text
- 6:10on a white background. The most basic
- 6:11[ __ ] of all time. Yet, these would
- 6:12print, you know, eight plus figures if
- 6:14you had a phenomenal phenomenal VSSL and
- 6:17you had really good traffic being sent
- 6:18to it. That could that can be an eight
- 6:20plus figure VSSL right there. And I have
- 6:22specific ones like in mind that I can
- 6:24think of that I have watched that are
- 6:27literally just black words on a white
- 6:30[ __ ] PowerPoint. That's it.
- 6:34Now, the reason I bring this up is
- 6:36because there's no there's no video
- 6:38element to this whatsoever. Like, yes,
- 6:40it's a video because it's recorded and
- 6:42there's this visual element to it, but
- 6:44it's not like the way that we know VSSLs
- 6:46today. But this is how VSSLs were
- 6:48legitimately created. Like this is this
- 6:50is truly the foundation here. And again,
- 6:53the reason I go down this whole [ __ ]
- 6:55rabbit hole about VSSLs is because this
- 6:58skews very very heavily in the text
- 7:00direction, specifically the copy. The
- 7:02copy will make or break a VSSL. But with
- 7:05ads, because they're so short and
- 7:06because of these new algorithm
- 7:07algorithmic updates that we had from
- 7:09Facebook, we know that the scroll
- 7:11stopper is slowly increasing and its
- 7:14overall weight in the formula of how to
- 7:16make a successful hook. becoming more
- 7:18and more important, you know, over time
- 7:24because this element of not having
- 7:27similar ads, this element of creative
- 7:29diversity,
- 7:31it's becoming more and more important as
- 7:32we see. So, in any case, I would still
- 7:35probably give more weight to the uh the
- 7:38copy. Like, I would say this is probably
- 7:39going to be 60%.
- 7:41And then I would give I guess that' be
- 7:4335% here to the scroll stopper. So, when
- 7:46you're creating your hook, right, the
- 7:48most important part of the ad, keep this
- 7:51in mind. If you're not spending
- 7:53proportionate amounts of time on each of
- 7:55these, like the far majority of your
- 7:57time on copy, and then second that only
- 7:58the visuals that's going to be happening
- 8:00behind the copy, then you're probably
- 8:02wasting your time and not spending it in
- 8:04uh in areas that that are going to be
- 8:06highly effective. Okay, so that's the
- 8:09the first thing. Now, just like
- 8:11anything, let's talk about let's talk
- 8:13about the copy and the scroll stopper
- 8:14specifically, right? That's like 95% of
- 8:17of your success of a good hook. It's
- 8:18funny because if you look at like
- 8:21ads overall, it's like 90%
- 8:26your creative.
- 8:30If you look at creatives,
- 8:35your success is like 90% the hook.
- 8:42Dude, what is what the [ __ ] is wrong
- 8:43with this [ __ ] thing?
- 8:47And then if you look at the hook,
- 8:50[laughter]
- 8:52it's 90%
- 8:56the copy
- 8:59and uh scroll stopper, right? So, if
- 9:05you're looking where you should spend
- 9:06your time in ecom in general and you're
- 9:07running paid ads, everything points
- 9:10here. And now let's take it deeper like
- 9:14copy
- 9:15and uh scroll stopper
- 9:1890% of your success of those things is
- 9:21what? Who can tell me? Type it in the
- 9:24chat right now. What is 90%
- 9:26of your success in copywriting and 90%
- 9:30of your success in creatives in general?
- 9:33What does it come down to? Tell me.
- 9:35[snorts]
- 9:46>> [snorts]
- 9:50>> Someone said
- 9:52voice of customer visual. No hook. No,
- 9:58we just said the hook. You We can't go
- 10:00backwards. We have Okay. Who's the first
- 10:03person to get it?
- 10:07meter metarin co whatever your name is
- 10:10bro you got it bro it's research 90% is
- 10:14research and just like anything that is
- 10:16where we're gonna start okay so I put
- 10:19out a video on on uh a secondary YouTube
- 10:22channel that I have with one of our BBA
- 10:24students William highly recommend you go
- 10:26watch it just search up Mark Builds
- 10:28Brands reviews but William was William
- 10:30has done well over seven figures over
- 10:32the last year and I was asking him like
- 10:36what are the main inflection points
- 10:37where you were like unsuccessful and
- 10:39then became successful and he hopped on
- 10:42a call with one of our coaches. Um, and
- 10:45shout out to this this coach, you know,
- 10:46you know who you are. Shout out to you,
- 10:48bro, for giving him this advice. But I
- 10:50have this whole foundational docs
- 10:52process, right? I make it so easy for
- 10:55you to have incredibly good research. In
- 10:59fact, I'm going to take it a step
- 11:00further,
- 11:02right? You want to have the best
- 11:03foundational [ __ ] docs on the planet,
- 11:04do this.
- 11:09run it on perplexity
- 11:14and specifically you're going to run it
- 11:16on perplexity computer.
- 11:19This is an additional feature of uh just
- 11:21an agentic computer that is run by
- 11:24perplexity itself to do research. Let me
- 11:27tell you what happened when I did my
- 11:29research on Perplexity computer. when I
- 11:33ran it against regular perplexity.
- 11:35All right, we're going to do like per
- 11:38and then we're [ __ ] And then we're
- 11:40going to do
- 11:43per comp perplexity computer. All right,
- 11:48so I was ranking it on a few different a
- 11:51few different things. Number one is I
- 11:53was looking at how many sources is it
- 11:54using
- 11:57and when it came to sources
- 11:59just regular perplexity I think gave a
- 12:02total of uh by the way I told this to
- 12:04our BBA guys like weeks and weeks ago.
- 12:07[clears throat] Um the sources I believe
- 12:10it got like 130 on perplexity roughly.
- 12:15Perplexity computer 580.
- 12:20Next thing I'm looking at is the length.
- 12:22So, how many pages of research can I
- 12:24actually get right on Perplexity
- 12:27Standard? Um,
- 12:31I think I got about 22 pages. Perplexity
- 12:35computer I got 73.
- 12:41Next thing I'm looking at is domains.
- 12:44So like, okay, maybe you scoured 130
- 12:46sources, but every single one of them
- 12:49was like Kora or Reddit and you didn't
- 12:52have any diversity in your sources
- 12:55domains. I believe Perplexity got like I
- 12:59don't know, I think like seven or so.
- 13:02Um, Perplexity Computer
- 13:06last time I ran this
- 13:08got over 30 domains.
- 13:12So, when it comes to comparing tools,
- 13:14you know, to me there's a pretty clear
- 13:16winner. And by the way, I'm always split
- 13:17testing like these research tools. In
- 13:19fact, I split tested Perplexity Computer
- 13:22against another thing that actually did
- 13:24better than Perplexity, but not as good
- 13:26as Perplexity Computer, and that was my
- 13:28own Hermes Agent.
- 13:31I literally had a Hermes agent follow
- 13:34this prompt as well and it did better in
- 13:37every area compared to Perplexity, but
- 13:40it did not beat Perplexity Computer. So,
- 13:42the overall winner was absolutely
- 13:45Perplexity Computer. Just so that you
- 13:47know, when it comes to research, I have
- 13:48my foundational docs. Um, somebody if
- 13:51you could please share them. Share the
- 13:52foundational docs uh document if I have
- 13:55any mods in the chat. I don't know if
- 13:57you guys could share it, that'd be
- 13:58great.
- 13:59Um, but research is where everything
- 14:02comes from. Now, the reason I brought up
- 14:04William in that BBA interview is because
- 14:08on that call that he had with one of our
- 14:10coaches, our coaching, our coaches gave
- 14:12him a very, very specific piece of
- 14:14feedback. And that was, "Did you do the
- 14:16foundational doc?" And he was like,
- 14:17"Yes." And then he was like, "Did you
- 14:20read the full research document from top
- 14:22to bottom?" And William at the time
- 14:24said, "No,
- 14:27you can have AI do work for you, but to
- 14:29become a great marketer, you have to
- 14:31understand you need to know your
- 14:34customer better than they know
- 14:35themselves." I'm not saying your AI
- 14:38agent needs to know your customer better
- 14:41than they know themselves. You do. You
- 14:43do. If there's one document that you
- 14:45should read in the entire foundational
- 14:46docs, it is your [ __ ] research doc.
- 14:49And what you should do is get really
- 14:51high quality research, sit down for an
- 14:54hour. Uh, pop it open in a Google doc,
- 14:57whatever you want to do. And what you're
- 14:59going to do is go through and just
- 15:01[ __ ]
- 15:03see if I have a You're just going to go
- 15:05and highlight [ __ ] You're going to
- 15:07highlight the takeaways. Highlight.
- 15:09You're going to add comments, right?
- 15:13Going to add little, you know, comments
- 15:14here and there. Comments here and there.
- 15:16and you're just going to go down this
- 15:17entire longass document and understand
- 15:20your market to a level that nobody
- 15:22nobody ever really has. And when you do
- 15:25that, you'll be able to understand
- 15:27things when you're creating your
- 15:28landers, when you're creating your ads,
- 15:29when you're writing your [ __ ] hooks,
- 15:31which is what I'm talking about in this
- 15:32video right now, that your AI will never
- 15:35actually pick up.
- 15:37It'll pick it up if you ask it directly.
- 15:40But this is one of those like unknown
- 15:43knowns where if you don't ask directly
- 15:46about something super specific that you
- 15:47highlighted, for example, then the AI is
- 15:49not going to bring it up themselves. So
- 15:51they can help with ideiation, but they
- 15:53should help your own ideation that is
- 15:56already there existing. Does that make
- 15:58sense? This alone, I think for many of
- 16:01you that are struggling finding and
- 16:03creating profitable ads, you need to
- 16:05[ __ ] understand your customers, bro.
- 16:07I was talking to another uh another BBA
- 16:09student actually. He went through this
- 16:12process. I told him, "Did you read it?"
- 16:13He said, "No." I said, "Go read your
- 16:14[ __ ] research doc." He took an exact
- 16:16quote from the research document, ran
- 16:19that quote, that quote as a hook for a
- 16:21native static, and now it's one of his
- 16:22most profitable ads that he's running.
- 16:28It's all there. It's all there. You just
- 16:30have to stop being a lazy [ __ ] and read
- 16:32it.
- 16:34Now, the re the foundational docs
- 16:36process is, you know, one of many ways
- 16:39that you can do really good research,
- 16:40right? We have, let me write this down.
- 16:43Foundational
- 16:50foundational dicks, foundational docks.
- 16:54So the next method that you can use for
- 16:57research is what I call intentional
- 17:04doom scrolling.
- 17:09And this is where you set up a burner
- 17:11account on Facebook and Instagram,
- 17:13especially Facebook.
- 17:16You literally get it on your phone
- 17:18ideally. If not, try to use the mobile
- 17:20version on your desktop and you're going
- 17:22to legitimately doom scroll after
- 17:24training your burner account on your
- 17:26particular market by going and liking
- 17:28other pages, uh, by commenting on post,
- 17:30by clicking on links, by going through
- 17:32the entire checkout process, aband
- 17:34hitting checkout. You're going to train
- 17:35your algorithm. I don't need to go over
- 17:36how to create a burner account, like how
- 17:38to create a burner profile, but that's
- 17:40exactly what you do. And then you're
- 17:41going to start intentionally doom doom
- 17:43scrolling. You want to doom scroll and
- 17:45you want to be sucked in, but you also
- 17:47want to be conscious. You don't want to
- 17:48be completely subconscious separated
- 17:50from the fact you're just consuming
- 17:52useless media. You're consuming media
- 17:54with the intention of identifying hooks
- 17:56of identifying emotional hot points by
- 17:59looking at the comments, looking at the
- 18:00top comments of like these really
- 18:03polarizing posts and using those as
- 18:05hooks, using those as additional points
- 18:07of research. This is super super uh
- 18:10underrated in general. And you want to
- 18:12observe like what is making you stop
- 18:14scrolling
- 18:15because even when you're in a niche,
- 18:18there's this uh you just kind of get
- 18:22lulled into the doom scrolling, but
- 18:23eventually there's going to be something
- 18:25that you scroll and you're like, "Holy
- 18:27shit." And that is the kind of content
- 18:30you want to emulate when it comes to
- 18:32writing really good hooks. And that is
- 18:34an incredible form of research that most
- 18:36people just do not um just do not do.
- 18:40Okay. So, as an example, right, with the
- 18:44deep research that I'm speaking about
- 18:46and the
- 18:48uh what's the [ __ ] name?
- 18:53Foundational docs. Yes.
- 19:01[snorts]
- 19:05What I'm talking about. Now, this one is
- 19:07a little bit shorter, right? Uh, but
- 19:09what I'm talking about is going through
- 19:12with a highlighter like this and just
- 19:15highlighting [ __ ]
- 19:17Specifically, the main things I'm going
- 19:18to be looking at is going to be the
- 19:21customer beliefs, emotions, hopes, and
- 19:23fears. I want to look at all these pain
- 19:25points, and I want to literally
- 19:27underline things, bold it, like do
- 19:28whatever you want to do. But this is
- 19:30going to train your brain on how to
- 19:32think when it comes to writing and
- 19:35writing really good hooks. So, I don't
- 19:37think I need to go through that, but
- 19:38that's exactly what you would do.
- 19:43Okay. So, if you've done your research,
- 19:45you're already better than 99% of people
- 19:48when it comes to writing really good
- 19:49ads. And again, I don't mean just
- 19:51conducting the foundational docs, like
- 19:52go farther because the moment that
- 19:55something becomes like mainstream and
- 19:57standard practice, everybody uses the
- 19:59[ __ ] foundational docs now. So, if
- 20:01you're running the same product as
- 20:02somebody else, how do you have any
- 20:04competitive advantage over them? Hm. You
- 20:06don't. You [ __ ] don't. Which means
- 20:09you're going to lose to them. Your AI is
- 20:11going to come up with the exact same ad
- 20:12angles as theirs. So now you're really
- 20:16in the [ __ ] [ __ ] and you got you
- 20:17got some work to do. So just like
- 20:19anything, when something becomes
- 20:20standard practice, when it becomes the
- 20:22norm, you still have to follow this
- 20:24fundamental [ __ ] principle of
- 20:27marketing, which is creating contrast.
- 20:37And yes, I wrote this in red. It's to
- 20:40explain the [ __ ] point.
- 20:43You want to create as much contrast as
- 20:45humanly possible.
- 20:48All right. So, I want to look at a few
- 20:52different ads here, and we're going to
- 20:55break them down together, and I'm going
- 20:57to tell you why they're successful,
- 20:59and you're going to be able to emulate
- 21:01those for yourself. I'll tell you this
- 21:03as one final note before we do this. One
- 21:06of my copywriting mentors, uh, she
- 21:08taught me about a concept called your
- 21:10copy diet. And your copy diet is the
- 21:13copy that you're reading to train
- 21:15yourself to become become a better
- 21:16copywriter. In the same way that if you
- 21:18have a really [ __ ] diet and all you eat
- 21:20is [ __ ] McDonald's and you eat
- 21:22[ __ ] [ __ ] fast foods every
- 21:24[ __ ] meal of the day,
- 21:27then your body's going to represent
- 21:28that. In the same way, if you're reading
- 21:30really [ __ ] copy and you just continue
- 21:32to train your your your copy chops that
- 21:35this is good, it's not good and you're
- 21:39just going to make yourself and your AI
- 21:40spit out really really poor quality
- 21:42copy. So, when it comes to swiping and
- 21:45analyzing successful competitors, I only
- 21:48look for these brands that are doing
- 21:50like
- 21:52that that I know that there's a strong
- 21:55direct response
- 21:57presence in the hooks. And I'll show you
- 22:00exactly what I mean because I got some
- 22:01good examples here. All right, let's
- 22:02look at this one first.
- 22:05[snorts]
- 22:34All righty. Again, we're analyzing video
- 22:36hooks here. Maybe if I have some time at
- 22:37the end, I'll try to get to image hooks.
- 22:39But let's take a little look see what we
- 22:42got here.
- 22:44>> Can you see it?
- 22:46>> I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah,
- 22:48yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.
- 22:49>> Oh, wow.
- 22:52>> Okay.
- 22:55Please steal this. Okay. Please steal
- 22:58this. Specifically asking if they can
- 23:00see something. If you ask like, "Can you
- 23:03see this? Do you see this? Do you see
- 23:06what I'm looking at?" You're not giving
- 23:08people a demand, but you are
- 23:11commanding an action that is a
- 23:14subliminal
- 23:16uh what's the [ __ ] word? Micro
- 23:18commitment.
- 23:20It's a subliminal micro commitment.
- 23:22You'll notice if you study some really
- 23:24good uh sales people, especially sales
- 23:26people like in person, like you think of
- 23:28somebody like Tony Robbins, like this
- 23:29dude sells people for a [ __ ] living,
- 23:32literally. And he gets on these stages
- 23:34in front of, you know, tens of thousands
- 23:36of people. And he gets these people to
- 23:38[ __ ] run up to the stage all through
- 23:40his words and his actions and how he
- 23:41speaks.
- 23:43And he understands this concept of
- 23:45getting micro commitments from people.
- 23:46If you've ever been to a Tony Robbins
- 23:48event, which I have, and it was it was
- 23:51[ __ ] crazy. [snorts]
- 23:54What is he always asking you to do? He's
- 23:55like, "Raise your hand if you're this.
- 23:57Raise your hand if you're that. Raise
- 23:57your hand if you're this." Micro
- 23:58commitment. Micro commitment. [ __ ]
- 24:00micro commitment. Another one. Everybody
- 24:02stand up. He starts clapping. Everybody
- 24:04stand up. Everybody stand up. It's like
- 24:06he's getting people bought in with every
- 24:08individual word. Anytime that
- 24:11you tell somebody to do something and
- 24:12they do it, no matter how small, that's
- 24:14a micro commitment and that's getting
- 24:15them closer and closer and closer to
- 24:18becoming a customer. Everything in the
- 24:20way that he speaks and talks, you want
- 24:22to get really good at copy, just go, you
- 24:24know, go go watch some some Tony Robbins
- 24:26events, dude, and you'll see exactly
- 24:29everything that he does. It's just so
- 24:30incredibly intentional. Nothing is by
- 24:32accident. Not the way that he speaks,
- 24:34the way that he [ __ ] claps, uh,
- 24:37everything that he asks his audience to
- 24:39do. I'm not even a Tony Robbins lover
- 24:41like that. Like, I I'm neutral about the
- 24:43dude, but I understand who's got game
- 24:45and who understands this [ __ ] at a
- 24:47psychotic level. And he is one of those
- 24:49people. He's absolutely one of those
- 24:51people.
- 24:52>> Can you see it
- 24:54>> already?
- 24:57Really [ __ ] good. Also understand the
- 24:58inflection in the voice. like the
- 25:01inflection of the voice. So here, let's
- 25:02break this down, right? Because we
- 25:03talked about this triangle, this
- 25:06beautiful triangle we have up here of
- 25:07copy, audio, and scroll stopper. In this
- 25:09case,
- 25:11in this case, the audio is actually the
- 25:14way that partly the way that this woman
- 25:16is talking. This was a dude that was
- 25:18just like, can you see this? Versus this
- 25:21woman who has this upward inflection in
- 25:23her voice, this upspeak at the very end
- 25:25to signify like a question and get you
- 25:28more bought in because you want to know
- 25:29the answer. And also she says, "Can you
- 25:32see it?" What the [ __ ] am I supposed to
- 25:34see?
- 25:36Open open [laughter] loop.
- 25:40Um, so that's kind of the audio piece,
- 25:42right? Let's look at the copy. So the
- 25:43copy is twofold here. We have the copy
- 25:45that's actually on the screen,
- 25:47[clears throat]
- 25:48number one, which we'll get into, but we
- 25:50also have the copy of the audio. And the
- 25:54audio is basically, can you see it? And
- 25:56then these guys reacting to whatever it
- 25:58is.
- 25:59>> I think so. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.
- 26:01Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah.
- 26:02>> Oh wow.
- 26:03>> That was it. Right. That's that's the
- 26:05[ __ ] hook right there. It's like can
- 26:06you see it? I think I can see it. Oh
- 26:08wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
- 26:11You know. So
- 26:14now that's from a copyrightiting
- 26:16perspective. You know there's not a
- 26:18whole lot to dissect there. It's just
- 26:21a wild reaction to something where we
- 26:23don't actually know what the [ __ ] is
- 26:24happening except for this woman's
- 26:25shoulder or neck is moving. Right now,
- 26:27let's look at the copy that is actually
- 26:30on
- 26:34uh the screen here. Let me see if I can
- 26:35zoom in a little bit more. Yeah. Okay.
- 26:38To the [ __ ] who gave me this
- 26:40device, this is the first time I felt a
- 26:42brain orgasm. So,
- 26:45few things that were done right here. To
- 26:47the [ __ ] [ __ ] blurred
- 26:49out, but also anytime you include
- 26:51cursing in a hook, you're just asking
- 26:53for polarity. Cursing is one of those
- 26:55things that, you know, I feel like it's
- 26:57become relatively normalized over the
- 26:59last like 20 years, but it's still very
- 27:01polarizing. Like if somebody curses, you
- 27:04can assume certain things about that
- 27:05person in the same way that if somebody
- 27:07is super against cursing that you can
- 27:09also assume certain things about that as
- 27:10well. It it creates a divide. It's
- 27:12polarizing.
- 27:15And polariz polarizing is almost
- 27:17synonymous with creating contrast. If
- 27:20you have if you have a high degree of
- 27:21polarity,
- 27:23like if you think of like political
- 27:25polarity, there's also political
- 27:26contrast. Very very uh almost synonyms
- 27:29for one another.
- 27:32So to [ __ ] who gave me this
- 27:34device, another open loop here. Very
- 27:36simple way to do this. Anytime you're
- 27:38speaking, always say this instead of
- 27:40explaining what this is because she's
- 27:42saying this device, I can barely see it.
- 27:44Like I would not see this as voucher
- 27:46scrolling on her phone. the fact that
- 27:47there's something around her neck right
- 27:48now.
- 27:54This is the first time I felt a brain
- 27:56orgasm.
- 27:58Dope, dope, dope [ __ ] term there. Um,
- 28:02in all caps with an emoji and also kind
- 28:05of designed to look a little bit more
- 28:06native with this kind of like Tik Tok
- 28:08Instagram text. It's very, very subtle
- 28:10detail that I don't even know if it's
- 28:12intentional, but you know, it is what it
- 28:14is. But the brain orgasm piece is really
- 28:17[ __ ] sick. That's almost like a
- 28:20unique mechanism of the solution a
- 28:22little bit. Um, if not, it's just a cool
- 28:25term for the outcome that you can get
- 28:27from using this product.
- 28:33So having [ __ ] and excuse me and
- 28:37orgasm in the same sentence,
- 28:41think about the level of contrast you're
- 28:42create creating there and curiosity. A
- 28:45lot of copy, especially hooks, is just
- 28:47opening as many loops as you possibly
- 28:49can. Opening these tabs in the brain of
- 28:52the person watching the video,
- 28:56knowing that you're going to close them
- 28:57later down the down the line. Now, if I
- 29:00were to be a psycho about this, I think
- 29:02the one thing that could have been done
- 29:03better from this text here is just the
- 29:07length. Because again, think of who's
- 29:10going to be watching this, and they're
- 29:11mostly going to be watching on their
- 29:13phone. Roughly, your phone is going to
- 29:14be about this size. Like, if I hold my
- 29:16phone up to the screen, that would be
- 29:18the actual size. I think I have a iPhone
- 29:2016. So, this is the actual size. I'm not
- 29:24going to read this entire thing as
- 29:26there's speaking going on in the
- 29:28background. I if this were me to adjust
- 29:30this and turn it to something even
- 29:32better, the text on screen should be way
- 29:35more simple. It should be shorter. It
- 29:37should be simple, but it should still
- 29:38punch.
- 29:41So, I think the stronger piece is going
- 29:43to be brain orgasm.
- 29:49Even like first time feeling a brain
- 29:52orgasm, that's better. Still a little
- 29:54bit too long. Um,
- 29:58I think even something as simple as like
- 30:00brain orgasm alone creates a ton of
- 30:02curiosity.
- 30:04>> Can you see it?
- 30:05>> I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 30:08>> Also, just so you know how in-depth I go
- 30:10with these these ad reviews, do you
- 30:12notice how the camera angles are
- 30:14changing? Right. So, first initially, it
- 30:17actually starts in this angle. This is
- 30:19this is that zero minutes in the ad. It
- 30:22lasts for a a few milliseconds. And then
- 30:24it goes to a new camera angle right
- 30:26there. That was under one second.
- 30:29[snorts] And now she's looking off
- 30:31camera, but she's looking to the other
- 30:33camera, but now she's looking off camera
- 30:34directly. And we already have a dynamic
- 30:37camera switch, which, you know, camera
- 30:39uh angle switches can also improve
- 30:41retention a lot because you want to keep
- 30:43it dynamic typically every, you know,
- 30:45two to four seconds.
- 30:46>> Can you see it?
- 30:48>> I think so. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
- 30:50Yeah. Oh wow.
- 30:51>> And then whatever the [ __ ] is happening
- 30:53obviously is is a nice little open loop
- 30:55of whatever is actually happening.
- 30:56>> Oh yeah.
- 30:56>> Oh wow.
- 30:58>> Oh
- 30:59okay. I
- 31:02>> All right. We get it. So when people
- 31:05talk about like Mark, I have this
- 31:06winning ad.
- 31:09How do I make more of them? How do I
- 31:10make variations? How do I make
- 31:12iterations? And what I've what I've
- 31:15spoken about here for the last like five
- 31:17or 10 minutes is the first 5 seconds of
- 31:19this ad. This is 2 minutes long. I think
- 31:22a lot of you just don't realize the
- 31:25sheer level of depth you should go to
- 31:27when you analyze your ad creatives,
- 31:29especially the successful ones. Because
- 31:31whether you understand it or not,
- 31:33there's all these psychological triggers
- 31:35that are happening um underneath the
- 31:38surface that I can see as somebody who's
- 31:40been practicing copy for like eight
- 31:42years, but most people just don't see it
- 31:46or they just choose not to analyze this
- 31:48deeply because they're [ __ ] lazy. So,
- 31:52that was a cool ad. Uh kind of like a
- 31:54product demo
- 31:56and super high curiosity, super duper
- 31:59broad as well. Like this is the textbook
- 32:01definition of like a top offunnel
- 32:03creative. Even though the product is
- 32:05immediately being shown, this product
- 32:07>> product demos typically are a little bit
- 32:09more middle or bottom funnel, but here
- 32:11it's being used in a way that's
- 32:12definitely top of funnel. Let's move on
- 32:13to the next ad here.
- 32:23All right, these guys scaling up their
- 32:25uh creative production as you can see
- 32:28already in September. have tested triple
- 32:30the ads that they were testing in
- 32:33August.
- 32:36Let's take a look here.
- 32:39>> Look at that. That's freaky. Ladies, if
- 32:41you are over 40 and
- 32:44>> Okay, so this is
- 32:47[ __ ] This one's a little bit similar to
- 32:49the other because it's also like showing
- 32:51the outcome, but it's not an actual
- 32:52demo. No, it is actually a demo of the
- 32:54product. Um, but what you have here is
- 32:58kind of like a micro hook into a
- 33:01qualifying hook. The micro hook is what
- 33:03you see in the first few seconds. So,
- 33:05let's let's check it out.
- 33:10Also, a very very short clip in the
- 33:11beginning that was probably
- 33:12unintentional, but just, you know, I do
- 33:14notice the text on screen. We see bring
- 33:16the med spa home for one price. I think
- 33:19that's [ __ ] weak, but
- 33:23you know, it's better than nothing, I
- 33:24suppose.
- 33:26Look at that.
- 33:27>> Also, the
- 33:29captions on screen are relatively small.
- 33:31I think uh it's not too bad. I guess you
- 33:34zoom out. This would be on your phone. I
- 33:37think for this market is probably okay,
- 33:38but I I like to be very maniacal about
- 33:41the size of uh text, whether it's on
- 33:43ads, whether it's on uh landers. Most of
- 33:46you probably are going to increase your
- 33:49conversion rate across any asset that
- 33:50you have if you just make the text
- 33:52larger.
- 33:54Like I I remember learning this in like
- 33:562020 I think from this email copywriter
- 33:59dude. He was like, "Yeah, I was sending
- 34:01out emails to my list, you know, every
- 34:03single day." And I was running a promo
- 34:05and every day I just increased the font
- 34:07size by one or two pixels and every day
- 34:10my conversions went up. It was a split
- 34:12test he was running and it was like
- 34:14every single day my conversions went up
- 34:15and and the emails converted better and
- 34:17better and better.
- 34:19So, I was like, "Fuck, if that's true
- 34:21with email copyrighting, I wonder who's
- 34:23doing that on their landers. I wonder
- 34:24who's doing that in their creatives."
- 34:27Clarity is one of the most important
- 34:29principles in copyrightiting. Don't try
- 34:31to impress people with how cool your
- 34:33copy is. Just try to be incredibly
- 34:35clear.
- 34:37>> That's freaky.
- 34:38>> So, that's kind of the micro hook here.
- 34:41It's the first two seconds and then from
- 34:43two seconds to however many seconds
- 34:44after that, we have the qualifier.
- 34:48Look at that. That's freaky.
- 34:51>> Look at that. That's freaky. So, I don't
- 34:54have a whole lot to say here. Just kind
- 34:56of the the shock factor, but notice
- 35:00notice.
- 35:06>> Can you see it?
- 35:08>> You see it? You seeing a trend here? Can
- 35:11you see it here?
- 35:14>> Look at that.
- 35:18You [ __ ] are you [ __ ] putting two
- 35:20and two together little [ __ ] [ __ ]
- 35:24Not only a micro commitment, but the
- 35:26most micro commitment, most important
- 35:28micro commitment you could ever [ __ ]
- 35:30have, which is to get people to continue
- 35:32watching the [ __ ] ad. Look at that.
- 35:33Do you see this? Do you [ __ ] see
- 35:35that? You guys ever see these videos uh
- 35:37trending on social media where it's like
- 35:41somebody's using an old audio,
- 35:45but it's a new video and the old audio
- 35:47is like, "Whoa, look at that. Do you see
- 35:50that? What the [ __ ] is that?" And then
- 35:52the video literally is showing nothing.
- 35:54It's like showing nothing interesting,
- 35:55yet the video will have like hundreds of
- 35:57thousands of views because the person is
- 36:00continually telling them to like look at
- 36:01something and you're like, "What the
- 36:02[ __ ] What the [ __ ] am I looking at
- 36:04here? And then that's just getting them
- 36:06cons to consume more and more and more
- 36:09of that video.
- 36:12So both of these ads are doing this very
- 36:14very well by not only getting that micro
- 36:16commitment but getting them to consume
- 36:17more simply by using this visual
- 36:19explainer. Look at this. Look at that.
- 36:21Look at me. [ __ ] you. You know
- 36:24>> that's freaky.
- 36:27Ladies, if you are over 40 and menopause
- 36:30has started doing that little gravity
- 36:32trick on your face, then you need to
- 36:34listen up.
- 36:34>> So, that's kind of the the qualifier
- 36:36hook after. Um, this was originally
- 36:40invented by Prince of Print himself,
- 36:42Sergey Halbert. This is kind of like the
- 36:44if then. Ultimately, you want to qualify
- 36:47as many people as possible within that
- 36:49hook. And she's going for menopause,
- 36:52ladies over 40, you know, skincare
- 36:53issues, then you need to listen up. So
- 36:55once again getting another tie down on
- 36:58why they need to watch the rest of this
- 37:00creative. So I don't really want to
- 37:02analyze the rest of this because
- 37:04actually let me let me break down this
- 37:06um very quickly the the qualifier hook
- 37:10because they're actually using hook
- 37:11stacking here which is using one hook
- 37:12right on top of another in order to
- 37:14maximize retention and get more people
- 37:15to watch your ad. So the first hook was
- 37:18like a micro hook super duper short
- 37:20using the product.
- 37:22>> Look at that. That's freaky. just
- 37:24saying, "Look at that." Getting that
- 37:25micro commitment. Next,
- 37:26>> ladies, if you
- 37:28>> We have the woman actually using the
- 37:30product the entire time. If this was
- 37:31just a lady looking at the camera, maybe
- 37:33with a product in her hand, um you're
- 37:36not going to get as good retention where
- 37:38you're compared to doing something like
- 37:40this where you're actively doing
- 37:41something. Like, I'm sure we've all also
- 37:43came across those videos on uh IG or
- 37:45other platforms where somebody's like
- 37:48telling a story, but they're like doing
- 37:49something the entire time. they're like
- 37:50cooking or like solving a [ __ ]
- 37:52Rubik's cube or like whatever they're
- 37:54doing something because your brain is
- 37:57now,
- 37:58you know, your ears are listening to
- 38:00what the person is saying, but now your
- 38:02eyes have something to feast upon that's
- 38:03not just like the person talking. It's
- 38:04like them accomplishing something. So,
- 38:07you're able to trigger even more
- 38:08dopamine to uh to consume the ad. Let's
- 38:11look at Let's look at one more. This is
- 38:13actually going way uh longer than I
- 38:15thought for for each ad, but
- 38:19I actually think it's better to go
- 38:21through viewer creatives, but go way
- 38:23more in-depth because dude, everybody
- 38:26posts these [ __ ] videos and like
- 38:27there's a reason that I don't post
- 38:29videos like this where it's like
- 38:30breaking down the successful ad. [ __ ]
- 38:33you, bro. Anybody can [ __ ] do that.
- 38:36Anybody. I think at least I'm going
- 38:39really deep into this and I'm like I'm
- 38:40spending five plus minutes on the first
- 38:43two seconds of the video.
- 38:46But these these people that are like
- 38:48here's why this you know ad was
- 38:50successful and they're like okay he had
- 38:52a really high curiosity hook. Like no
- 38:55[ __ ] [ __ ] dude like wow you
- 38:57understand advertising 101. You got to
- 39:00have a good hick. What good [ __ ]
- 39:01hook? This is news to me
- 39:05you know. [ __ ] you. Let's get Let's
- 39:08Let's get into some real [ __ ] [ __ ]
- 39:10huh? Okay,
- 39:12I don't remember this one. Let's see.
- 39:14Um, really strong thumbnail, though.
- 39:16Super strong thumbnail. Let's see what
- 39:17we got.
- 39:19>> Look what this fake under eye device did
- 39:21to my face.
- 39:23>> All right, let's break it down. So, we
- 39:26have the curse word. So, same rules
- 39:28apply there of of creating that
- 39:30polarity. Um, cur uh bleeping it out, I
- 39:34think, creates actually more auditory
- 39:36contrast as well. In the same way, uh I
- 39:40know audio is like not the most
- 39:41important thing, blah blah blah, but to
- 39:44create that level of contrast through
- 39:45the audio,
- 39:47um I think that's [ __ ] badass. I
- 39:49mean, I remember when these these songs
- 39:52were coming out when I was younger. I
- 39:53was like in middle school, and they
- 39:55would legitimately bleep [ __ ] out. They
- 39:57wouldn't just like remove the the curse
- 39:59word. Like, it would be like the beep
- 40:01like in the song. It's like my all my
- 40:03attention went to the beep now. like you
- 40:04you were trying to get me to forget
- 40:06about the curse word. Now I really want
- 40:07to [ __ ] know what what was [ __ ]
- 40:09happening there. Same principle here.
- 40:11So, we actually get some really
- 40:12interesting uh polarity and contrast
- 40:15created just with that beeping sound
- 40:16beeping out the curse word. Plus, it's
- 40:18going to be more compliant on Facebook.
- 40:20I've run stuff uh ads where you're
- 40:22cursing actively in the ad. And I think
- 40:25if it's very minimal, it has a really
- 40:27minimal impact on your your CPMs, your
- 40:29conversions overall. Like I get them
- 40:30approved no problem personally,
- 40:33but I like this better personally.
- 40:37>> This look what this fake under eye
- 40:40device did to my face.
- 40:41>> So we got one of these green screen um
- 40:44hooks here.
- 40:49[laughter]
- 40:50Dude, I mean, wait a minute. Who the who
- 40:53the [ __ ] face is this?
- 40:56This [ __ ]
- 41:00This is like the Is this one of the Is
- 41:03this the captain of the ship from
- 41:04Wall-E? That [ __ ] movie of the
- 41:06robots?
- 41:08Those super overweight [ __ ] people.
- 41:10What kind of
- 41:12[laughter]
- 41:14What kind of [ __ ] squashed faced
- 41:17[ __ ] skull is this
- 41:20[ __ ] butternut butter squash looking
- 41:23ass face, bro? Golly goodness gracious.
- 41:27I don't even like looking at this.
- 41:29That's actually a good principle though
- 41:30when it comes to creating like these
- 41:32visual the visual element of the hook
- 41:34here. You want to create what I call
- 41:38like the uh I'll just call it like the
- 41:41car crash effect, which is like if
- 41:43you're at your house and you walk
- 41:45outside and you're just kind of looking
- 41:47at the cars that are passing you and
- 41:49there's a bad [ __ ] accident, like
- 41:52really bad between two cars. You don't
- 41:56want to look, but you can't help but
- 41:59look. You know, you know that kind of
- 42:02feeling if you look at some really crazy
- 42:04native statics, it's the exact same
- 42:06principle. It's like I don't want to
- 42:07look at this. Like looking at this
- 42:09genuinely makes me uncomfortable, but I
- 42:11can't stop looking at it. That's kind of
- 42:13the element that you should create when
- 42:14it comes to your your visual piece of
- 42:17the hook. those squirrel stoppers is you
- 42:20want to make something that is
- 42:22borderline
- 42:26uncomfortable, borderline disgusting,
- 42:29but like you feel like you still have to
- 42:31look at it, you know, like you just
- 42:32can't look away.
- 42:33>> This look what this
- 42:36>> Once again, we have the same This is
- 42:39crazy. I didn't intentionally pick
- 42:40these. Um, these were just in in one of
- 42:43my swipe files, but notice how all three
- 42:46of these ads that we have now reviewed
- 42:48have used the exact same concept of this
- 42:50micro commitment saying, "Look at look
- 42:52at something in some way, shape, or
- 42:54form. And they're all profitable." Well,
- 42:58I don't know if they're profitable, but
- 42:58they're all successful ads.
- 43:01All of them.
- 43:04And they all use the same principle.
- 43:05Isn't that interesting? Hm. It's almost
- 43:07like maybe you should [ __ ] listen
- 43:09listen to what I [ __ ] say. Huh? H
- 43:13Maybe that's a maybe that's a good
- 43:14[ __ ] idea. What do you think?
- 43:17All right.
- 43:19In this case, we have the exact same
- 43:20text as we do the copy. So, there's not
- 43:25a ton to break down here. We have the
- 43:26look. We have the the cursing. Uh once
- 43:28again, we have underey device. The
- 43:30previous one also had the word sorry
- 43:33this one also had the word device right
- 43:35here
- 43:37did to my face.
- 43:41I think if I were to take over this ad
- 43:43and I was like you know we have to step
- 43:45this up somehow. I would probably make
- 43:47this last uh this image in the back. I
- 43:52would make it a video and I would make
- 43:53it dynamic.
- 43:55>> Thising fake under eye device did my
- 43:57face. Look what this fake under eye
- 44:01device did to my face.
- 44:02>> Okay, that's like a whole three ass
- 44:04seconds right there. Like 3 seconds
- 44:06staring at an image. I mean, granted, we
- 44:08have her in video form, which is good,
- 44:10but if I were to take it over, I would
- 44:11want to see this uh X-ray scan, I guess.
- 44:16I'd want to see it dynamically changing
- 44:19in a really weird way, you know, a way
- 44:20that makes me go like, "What the [ __ ] I
- 44:22need to watch the rest of this."
- 44:26So
- 44:29yeah, um
- 44:32I think at this point I'm gonna I'm
- 44:35going to pause because I've been I've
- 44:37been yapping for a bit. I was not even
- 44:38looking at the chat. I don't know what
- 44:40what's going on there, but let me take a
- 44:41second to look and we can move to Q&A
- 44:44now.
- 44:46We can move to Q&A. So whatever
- 44:48questions you guys got, feel free to
- 44:49drop them in the chat. I got about I
- 44:52actually don't have that much time. I
- 44:53got like five minutes. I got like five
- 44:56minutes and I got to bounce. [snorts]
- 44:59Who is this guy and why is he naked?
- 45:02He must be new here.
- 45:05Yeah, let's drop some questions in the
- 45:06chat, guys. I'll I'll rapid fire get to
- 45:08as many um
- 45:12as many [ __ ]
- 45:16as many [ __ ] people as I can.
- 45:23>> [snorts]
- 45:25>> Okay, great question. Young JB,
- 45:28good to see you, bro. Hey, Mark, how do
- 45:30you know when you're either not selling
- 45:32somebody enough on the ad or landing
- 45:33page when you have good CTR but no
- 45:35sales? It's one of the most difficult
- 45:37things, bro, when it comes to
- 45:38advertising because you have to be able
- 45:40to read the data, but you also have to
- 45:42be able to read between the data. So, if
- 45:45you have really good CTR, I'd want to
- 45:46know what CTR because a good CTR means
- 45:49like different things to different
- 45:50people. But I would say if you have a
- 45:53really good CTR, let's say it's above
- 45:54like 5%. Um, but no sales,
- 46:00you got to break down your metrics
- 46:03associated with your funnel first to see
- 46:05what is within KPI and what is outside
- 46:07KPI. It's really easy to spend money on
- 46:09ads and be like, "My CTR is great. No
- 46:12sales." uh you know, but it was like why
- 46:15was there no sales?
- 46:17Let's let's isolate it first to rule out
- 46:19every possible reason why it's maybe not
- 46:23the lander. Okay, let's look at the link
- 46:25click to landing page view drop off. It
- 46:27should be no more than 20%. Let's look
- 46:28at the add to cart ratio for products
- 46:31like in the 40 to $80 price ration price
- 46:34range. It should be like 8 to 10%. More
- 46:36than $80, it should be like seven or
- 46:38eight%.
- 46:40So, is that within KPI? Yes. No. Cool.
- 46:42How about add to cart to purchase ratio?
- 46:44Um, for most products, it should be
- 46:46around 30%. So, if you get 10 add to
- 46:48carts, at least three should go through
- 46:49and purchase. Okay, which one of those
- 46:51is outside of KPI? There's a different
- 46:53answer to all of those. So, for most
- 46:55people, it's add to cart ratio. And you
- 46:58have to be able to look at your lander
- 46:59and then go back to your creative and
- 47:01rewatch it, reread it if it's like a
- 47:03native static, and understand the kind
- 47:06of traffic that you are attracting
- 47:08through your marketing words. Because
- 47:10something that Facebook does not admit,
- 47:12but they 100% do is they use your
- 47:15primary text to determine your targeting
- 47:17to to some degree. 100%. Maybe it's only
- 47:2110% of their uh information that they
- 47:23use to determine targeting. But the
- 47:25reason I can say this with such
- 47:26confidence is because if you run
- 47:28something like a native static, you
- 47:29know, if you simply change the text, the
- 47:32primary text, you can target completely
- 47:35different kinds of people. If it was
- 47:36only targeting based off the creative,
- 47:38you would never come to that conclusion.
- 47:41So that's how you know it's not just the
- 47:42creative that determines your targeting.
- 47:44It's the creative and the copy. That's
- 47:45especially true for images. It's less
- 47:47true for videos. But in general, you
- 47:49have to go and read your uh creative and
- 47:52read your copy associated with it. What
- 47:54I see super frequently, bro, is a lot of
- 47:57guys try to like CTR max on their
- 48:00creatives now with native status.
- 48:01They're like, "Oh, look at me. I got 30%
- 48:03[ __ ] CTR. Oh, I'm at like a 10% CTR
- 48:05link. Then you read the copy and you're
- 48:07like, look at the people you're speaking
- 48:09to, bro. Like, these people have no
- 48:10interest in buying from you. So, now
- 48:12you're just optimizing around these
- 48:14people. Um, because if Facebook doesn't
- 48:16have any conversion data to optimize on,
- 48:19they're going to initially use a little
- 48:20bit of the engagement data. And once
- 48:23again, the targeting partially is due to
- 48:26the text that you have in your primary
- 48:27copy. So unfortunately I can't tell you
- 48:30just like you know exactly what it is
- 48:33for you because I don't know your
- 48:34numbers and your data and I haven't seen
- 48:35your ads but it should be a combination
- 48:37of reading the data and reading between
- 48:39the data to understand most often what I
- 48:42see is people going way way way too top
- 48:44of funnel. They run like these native
- 48:45statics that the the hook is like my dog
- 48:49died and it's my fault. They're like,
- 48:51"Oh, Jesus Christ, bro." Like, yes, of
- 48:53course you have a 50% [ __ ]
- 48:55click-through rate. And then somehow
- 48:58you got to [ __ ] tie the [ __ ] into
- 48:59like a joint supplement for a dog.
- 49:03That's not easy to do. Like, it's
- 49:04possible. And if you crack it, cool. You
- 49:06got the most scalable ads on the [ __ ]
- 49:08planet. But if you don't,
- 49:10now you're just attracting really,
- 49:12really [ __ ] people that just want to
- 49:13read an interesting story and have no
- 49:15desire in buying your product. Not
- 49:17saying it can't work. It can work. But
- 49:20the degree to which you have to be
- 49:21really [ __ ] good at copywriting
- 49:22exponentially increases the more top of
- 49:25funnel you go when it comes to your
- 49:26copy.
- 49:29I don't think people will understand how
- 49:30valuable what I just said actually is.
- 49:32But like if you know then you know
- 49:44how important is a thumbnail considering
- 49:46people mostly get into the ad by
- 49:47scrolling. It used to be way more
- 49:49important. Now ads are autoplayed. So I
- 49:52think it's it's really not like I don't
- 49:53I don't put much emphasis really on the
- 49:55thumbnail at all anymore.
- 49:57Um, hey, I have a 3.5% conversion rate,
- 50:00but my ad cost is higher than my
- 50:01earnings. Should I drop that product or
- 50:03test different ads? Read the data, bro.
- 50:04If you have a three and a half%
- 50:06conversion rate, that's really good. You
- 50:07may just need to make better ads to
- 50:09lower your CPC. So it depends on what
- 50:11your CPC actually is and where the
- 50:14breakdown is occurring on your creative
- 50:15side because your funnel is obviously
- 50:17converting really, really well. So most
- 50:19likely the answer is make better ads.
- 50:32How do you niche down in life? Pick a
- 50:34skill and get good at it, especially not
- 50:35from first world.
- 50:39Um,
- 50:42bro, I think the best the best advice I
- 50:45could give you is don't even don't even
- 50:47try and just
- 50:50let me finish. Don't even try to go do
- 50:53all this research to figure out what you
- 50:56should center your life around. Just try
- 50:59[ __ ] Just start getting your hands
- 51:00dirty. test a bunch of things that you
- 51:03think are a little bit interesting and
- 51:05see where it takes you because you're
- 51:06going to learn very quickly if it's
- 51:08actually something for you, something
- 51:09that you're interested in and something
- 51:11that's going to help you, you know,
- 51:13achieve your your goals with your life.
- 51:15You're going to learn that really
- 51:16quickly. And the only way you're going
- 51:17to know that, it's not the research.
- 51:19It's just through actually doing it. So,
- 51:21the faster you can get into just testing
- 51:23[ __ ] testing [ __ ] the better.
- 51:39All right, I'm not going to lie. These
- 51:40these [ __ ] questions suck. So,
- 51:44I'm sorry. Go rewatch this [ __ ] live
- 51:47and a few other lives. And that's all I
- 51:49got for today. Thank you guys so much
- 51:50for being here. Other than that, I'm
- 51:52going to cue the outro because I got to
- 51:54get out of here pretty soon. But thank
- 51:56you for being here. Share it with a
- 51:59friend or something, bro. Oh, you know
- 52:01what? I got some [ __ ] I got some ball
- 52:03knowledge today. [snorts]
- 52:06I went down a rabbit hole last night.
- 52:22this morning about my [ __ ] I'm bing.
- 52:24She
- 52:29[music]
- 52:31pushing the limit. I'm pushing it up.
- 52:32[ __ ] it up. I'm back with your [ __ ]
- 52:34She g it up.
- 52:37[music]
- 52:38Like I'm got a lot of money. I can't
- 52:41relate to you. I don't know what [music]
- 52:43the time you talk to me. Sounded dumb as
- 52:45[ __ ]
- 52:47If you could understand me, [music] I'll
- 52:49ass.
- 52:56>> I'm pushing the limit. I'm pushing it
- 52:57[music] up. I'm [ __ ] it up.
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