Author: Jason Gan

TikTok isn't inherently cheaper or worse than Facebook advertising — it's a different audience, with a different level of readiness to buy, and the right platform depends entirely on what you're selling and how. The decision comes down to two questions: are you running lead...

If you've optimized the ad — improved CTR, tested new creative, confirmed the budget is reasonable — and leads still aren't coming in, the problem might not be the ad at all. It could be the capture method itself. Native lead forms, landing pages, and...

The current approach to Meta ads creative isn't building one ad that tries to appeal to everyone — it's building a portfolio of ads, each speaking to a different persona within your audience, and letting the system match each one to the specific people it...

If your Meta ads account has felt off since late 2025 — numbers that don't behave the way they used to, a structure that used to reliably deliver results now feeling inconsistent — the most likely cause is a foundational change Meta made to how...

If you're running a large automated ad set — 10, 20, or more ads pooled together and left to Meta's algorithm — you've likely seen this: one ad performs beautifully for a week, strong CTR, solid cost per result, and then the following week, Meta...

Retargeting should launch at the same time as prospecting, from day one — not weeks later, once a top-of-funnel campaign has "had time to run." Waiting to start retargeting means losing the exact window when a visitor's interest is strongest, and that window closes faster...

The warmest audience most ecommerce advertisers aren't actively targeting is the one they already converted once. A dedicated win-back campaign — following past customers for up to 180 days, excluding anyone who bought very recently — turns that group into an ongoing, low-cost source of...

A single retargeting ad tells a recent visitor what they already know — the specific product they looked at. Running two or three retargeting ads at once, each covering a different category plus one highlighting current sales, uses the same short retargeting window to introduce...

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