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One of the easiest ways to burn ad budget without noticing: showing prospecting ads to people who already bought from you. They convert again in your reports, your CPA looks cheap — but those sales were already yours. I always add a past-buyer exclusion (website purchasers plus customer list, 180 days) to every prospecting campaign, and keep those buyers in a separate retargeting flow with upsells and new arrivals instead. It takes five minutes to set up and it instantly makes your real acquisition numbers honest. Do you exclude past buyers from your prospecting campaigns? #MetaAds #Ecommerce #PaidSocial
Good point. One thing worth adding is to match the exclusion window to the product's repurchase cycle. For consumables, 180 days can hide people who are ready to reorder, so a shorter window plus a separate replenishment ad often works better. Do you change the window by category?
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Don't kill an ad after $5 of spend — wait for statistically meaningful data first.
One of the most common mistakes I see in audits: an advertiser runs an ad for a day, sees zero sales, and switches it off. Then they wonder why nothing ever scales.
Here's the thing — Meta's algorithm needs roughly 50 conversion events per week per ad set to exit the learning phase. Five dollars of spend on a $20 product won't tell you anything except that you gave up early. I've seen ads that looked dead on day 1 turn into winners by day 4 once the data was real. Before judging creative, give it budget for at least 2–3x your product price.
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One pattern I see across almost every account I touch: UGC-style creatives beat polished studio ads almost every time. It's not even close. The lo-fi, phone-shot content feels like something from a real customer, so thumbs stop scrolling and watch. Polished ads scream 'I'm selling you something' before the first frame even lands. I'm not saying never shoot high-end creative, but if your video ads are stuck under 1% CTR, test a raw, founder-shot or creator-style version against them. You might be surprised how fast the results flip. What creative style is winning for you right now — raw UGC or polished brand? #MetaAds #PaidSocial