Author: Jason Gan

Standard retargeting depends on a pixel installed on the destination page — but if you're promoting something you don't own or control, like a Shopee affiliate product, that's simply not available. Retargeting is still possible in this situation; it just relies on a different foundation:...

Based on direct experience with real client cases: generally, no — a restricted Business Manager doesn't allow any changes, including removing a page from it. If your page is tied to a Business Manager that's been restricted, it stays tied to that Business Manager, even...

If your ideal customer is a specific, hard-to-define B2B role — a factory owner, for example — there's often no clean interest category on Meta that targets them directly. Hyper-location targeting solves this differently: instead of trying to describe who they are through interests, pinpoint...

For a complete beginner starting from zero confidence and zero experience, $1 a day — Meta's own minimum threshold — is a genuinely reasonable place to start. The goal at that budget isn't results volume. It's learning how the platform actually works, and building the...

Over-retargeting is a real, common mistake — and it's made worse by the fact that it's sometimes taught directly by the marketplaces themselves. One seller running CPAS ads for a Shopee store followed Shopee's own official seller training, which recommended retargeting for 180 days. The...

Whether to optimize directly for Purchase or start further down the funnel depends less on how new your account is and more on how common the product itself is. Common, mass-market products benefit from Meta's learning across other advertisers selling similar things. Niche products don't...

Audience Network is a placement most advertisers should manually exclude, even though doing so costs a few points on Meta's Advantage+ compliance score. One real account saw budget quietly shift to 30-40% going to Audience Network — a placement that should typically sit around 1-2%...

Why Aren't Your Meta Ads Converting?

The exact diagnostic framework used to audit 1,000+ ad accounts, now $10 (was $99).

See What's Broken — $10