Jessie Healy

eCommerce Growth & Facebook Ads Marketing Consultant

Building DTC brands to 7 & 8 figures. Co-Founder of Webtopia. Founder of Ecomm Rockets. Podcast host - Ecommerce Impact. $50M spent on Meta & Google Ads. Ex-Etsy. 1X Exit.

My mission is to help you build a profitable, successful DTC brand through better advertising strategies.  Different stages of DTC growth need different types of support: Hitting your first 100k month is the first milestone. Putting in place the systems to get to $10M is a different kind of hard. For each stage in your eCommerce path, I have a solution for you. 

*Not Quite At 7 Figures - But Ambitious to Grow? Ecomm Rockets is my accelerator for early-stage eComm brands that provides growth marketing to get you to your first $100k months, for the next generation of iconic brands. A combination of mentorship, consultancy and teaching, this programme is perfect if you are ready to learn how to get the most out of your Meta and Google Ads. We can also include done-for-you ads management. 

*Established brand - keen to scale up? I have a range of consulting options and a network of partners, as well as very limited slots for full ads management - let me help you find the right fit for your brand's growth and Advertising challenges. 

Agency and Consulting: www.ecommgrowthcollective.com
Personal Website: www.jessiehealy.com

Accelerator: www.ecommrockets.com

Book a free strategy call: https://calendly.com/d/4dk-87x-f84T
The agency I founded and sold in 2023: www.webtopia.co

About Me: The $50 million I have spent on digital advertising for brands like Etsy, RealPlayer, Farfetch, Totter &amp; Tumble, ilabb, Baukjen and Candy Kittens has helped me crack the code to creating profitable ads and growth marketing strategies that convert.After a career spent working for consumer brands like Etsy - I struck out on my own as a freelancer in 2017, and then launched an agency which I grew over 5 years to 7 figures then sold it in 2023. I now work hands-on with brands again.

Not ready to chat just yet - why not sign up to my newsletter? https://ecommercecoach.beehiiv.com/

eCommerce Agency Founder & CEO | eComm Coach | Paid Social & Google Ads & Klaviyo Specialist

My Agency, Webtopia specialises in providing eCommerce businesses with highly optimised digital advertising on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok & Google, as well as Email Marketing with Klaviyo. Our team of 20 eCommerce experts focus on real results driving betweeen 3X and 15X return on investment for  our clients.
We make magic happen like: 

🌟15X ROAS for TWO YEARS (and counting) for an interior brand consistently
🌟Scaling a new brand to £150k a month spend and driving £600k in monthly revenue
🌟3 of our clients turning their side hustle into a million-pound-a-year business.

Jessie Healy 🎨

How to tell if your media buyer is still in 2020... 

1. Open Meta
2. Check if campaigns are set up with BOF/MOF/TOF

If yes... 

I am sorry but they are old school. 😖 

Convince me I am wrong!

Growing DTC brands to 7 & 8 figures. $50M spent on Meta & Google Ads. Ecommerce Marketing Coach & Consultant. Webtopia Founder (now acquired). 1X Exit. Podcast host - Ecommerce Impact Podcast. Ex-Etsy.

Just had devastating meeting with an eComm founder paying through the nose for a terrible rip off agency. 

This time $4K a month in agency fees. On a traffic campaign and a brand awareness campaign. 

Zero strategic advice. 

No creative strategy. 

No landing page help. 

No forecast. 

And campaigns optimised for traffic - which we all know doesn't work. 

All in the $5k bought her maybe 2 hours work for a junior agency employee to upload some ads that look like they were done in Canva. 

Agencies that take on these startup brands and then rinse them like this should be shot. 

There is a better way for new brands, and I am building it. 

My DMs are open if you are sick of this and looking for a solution.

🚨Meta just changed something that will affect how every performance marketer reads their ad results. 🚨

Click-through attribution now only counts actual link clicks.

Every other interaction has moved into a new bucket called Engage-Through Attribution. This replaces the old engaged-view metric and now applies across all formats, not just video.

The engaged-view threshold for video has dropped from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.

Meta’s internal data shows 46% of Reels purchase conversions happen within the first 2 seconds of attention 🤯

That stat alone explains why the change was overdue.

Here is what this means in practice.

Previously, a chunk of conversions that came from clicks on ads (not just outbound link clicks) were sitting inside click-through reporting. Now they are being separated. The click signal becomes cleaner. Engagement signals get their own lane.

In theory the total number of reported conversions should not change much. What will change is where those conversions appear inside the attribution breakdown.

If you want to understand the shift inside your own account, check two places inside Ads Manager:

- Compare Attribution Settings
- Breakdown by Attribution Setting

Both will show you where conversions are moving between click-through and engage-through.

So your data may look different because of this change which will make optimisation messy for a bit. 

Keep monitoring your overall blended ROAS and CAC and don't make any drastic account changes until it settles down.

I haven't jumped in here to tell you how the new agency is going behind the scenes....

3 months since launching officially we are carefully adding one client per month - and we are loving how things are rolling so far.

Our first client is already 33% up year-on-year.

And yes, that’s real Shopify revenue, not Ads Manager numbers.

So how do we drive the growth?

There’s no single silver bullet, it’s about getting the foundations right and staying relentlessly focused on what moves the needle.

Here’s what’s working:
- Creative testing that actually pushes boundaries
- The right set up in Meta to let the algo do it's thing
- Deep understanding of the customer — not just demographics, but motivations
- A strong partnership with the client that gives us room to move fast and try bold ideas

Excited to see where we can take things with our other new clients.

This feels totally different to my first agency - I am flying a plane I have already built before, rather than flying the plane as I build it.

I have said it before, but I will say it again.

If you are a new eComm brand and you haven't yet generated at least some sales by advertising your products to strangers on Meta, Google or TikTok, then you're not ready to hire someone else to do marketing for your product.

If you hire an agency to run a channel you have no understanding of, your chance of getting ripped off is very high.

Opened X this week and the DTC echo chamber is losing its mind over the Manus to Meta Ads Manager integration.

Hot take: I am not ready to hand Meta (Manus) my ad account.

Let me explain.

AI will absolutely change the media buyer role. It already is. Creative testing, reporting, budget shifts, anomaly detection. A lot of the repetitive work is on borrowed time.

But here is where I struggle.

Why would I blindly trust a Meta owned AI platform to tell me how to run ads on Meta?

Meta’s objective is clear. Increase advertiser spend. Increase revenue per advertiser. 
Improve platform yield.

My objective is different. Maximise profitable growth for the brand I represent.

To do this I have to exploit the algorithm better than my competitors, do things a bit differently, find loopholes and sweet-spots, I am not going to this by drinking the Meta Cool Aid.

It is the same reason I do not use Google Analytics as the single source of truth for Google Ads performance. Platforms grade their own homework.

As media buyers, our job is not just to push buttons and maximise platform ROAS, or even just contribution margin. There are often myriad, nuanced and competing objectives to balance.

Our job is to understand:
- How the algorithm behaves
- Where attribution breaks
- How cash flow impacts scale
- What inventory constraints look like
- What margin actually allows

No AI sitting inside the ad platform has full visibility of that context.

Will I test Manus? Of course!

If it can automate reporting, surface patterns faster, or suggest creative angles, that is a win.

But fully autonomous campaign optimisation?

I am sceptical.

The platform does not own that context. I do.

So convince me I am wrong.

Would you hand full control of your ad budget to an AI built by the same company that profits from your spend?

This year marks 10 years since I first hired someone to teach me Meta ads (and 20 years since I started on Google ads!)

It's wild to me that I am still opening up accounts and seeing stuff like this:

Brand spending $20k/month across 14 campaigns, 40+ ad sets. Most campaigns are stuck in learning. Half the ads have under 500 impressions. No signal, no scale, just noise.

Another account stuck with the same 5 ads since summer. Frequency is over 9. CPAs are rising fast. They're still running the same static image with the same hook, wondering why performance is falling off a cliff.

One DTC brand has 40% of their spend hitting past customers... inside their “prospecting” campaign. No exclusions. Creative with no information or benefit messaging.

They're paying Meta to re-sell to people who already bought and scratching their heads at high CAC.

The tactical fixes aren’t complicated. An experienced media buying can restructure an account like this in a few hours.

Yes - it's true - the creative strategy, landing pages and messaging have got harder with increased competition and ad-cost.

But what is wild to me is the fact that the basics aren't even there in so many accounts, still.

I'll say it again though - in case you have still missed it:

Meta rewards simplicity, signal density, and creative testing.

Stop over complicating media buying set up. Start launching more creative tests.

"Meta completely ignores audience exclusions.” True or false? 
Meta have finally confirmed the answer in their latest developer update...

Meta does NOT ignore exclusions, but they are now only a signal, albeit a stronger one than 'interests'. 

This is how it actually works now: 

Meta have said they essentially have hierarchy of 'signals' that they take into account. CRM and pixel data are at the top.

Interest targeting sits way down the bottom of their signal hierarchy, and is now really just loose guidance for when other signal is weak.

Interests, demographics, even gender targeting are no longer hard rules. 

My experience plays this out in reality - when you exclude past customers, website purchasers, or CRM lists, you absolutely reduce delivery to those people. 

I have seen the data. The overlap drops meaningfully, but not completely. It's a signal Meta is taking seriously. 

Meta’s targeting system is built around your objective, with your signals woven in. 
If you select Purchase, the algorithm is scanning for people most likely to purchase based on:

👉️ Your pixel data
👉️ Your conversion history
👉️ Your creative content, style, setting, layout, creators 
👉️ Your copy, headlines and keywords in your video 
👉️ Behavioral signals across the platform

It reads your ad. It interprets intent. It matches message to person.

So how does this shift impact campaign setup?

I always use exclusions when I want to reach new customers. That is non negotiable.

What I do not do anymore is create five ad sets split by micro interests thinking I am “controlling” audience targeting.

When business friends become real friends. This is Mike Koziol.
 
He coached me when I was in the early stages of my agency, only making 200K a year, right up to when I became a seven-figure agency and in the top 1% of female-owned businesses in the UK.

Mike was there for me on every step of the journey, warts and all.

He coached me through the highs and lows and helped me grow a sustainable business that I was able to then sell and have a successful exit from a couple of years ago.
 
I was lucky enough to meet up with Mike in Portugal last year and then this year he came all the way to New Zealand to visit me.

Here we are in Queenstown, having the best time ever, talking a bit too much shop but also talking life, relationships, philosophy, and everything in between.

We even managed to get to a gig and dance in a vineyard under the sun. He met my family, my friends IRL.

Business at the end of the day is about connection, and shared values.

So glad we met by chance all those years ago in an online community!

ps. we walked on foot from lake level up to this viewing platform while others took the easy route in the gondola - a bit of a metaphor there on how we both approach life.

I don't use engagement pods to grow. 

27k people decided to follow me because I (try to) have something useful to say. 

I am not here to hack the algorithm, not the Meta one or this one. 

I believe in sustainable marketing, not BS tricks. 

The End.

Are you still using Ads Manager metrics to measure your creative? 😬 
You are already behind. I was too, watching: CTR. Engagement rate. CPM. Conversion rate.

I believed if the numbers looked good, the creative was good.

Then everything changed.

Meta is not just looking at hard metrics anymore.

The GEM/Andromeda system is actually watching your ads.
Understanding what they are about.
Assessing whether they are unique.
Deciding who they are for.
Choosing when to show them.

If you are only looking at Ads Manager numbers to judge your creative, you are already behind.

After 15 years in eCommerce, I have learned that you have to run to keep up. Creative analysis is no longer manual pattern spotting in a spreadsheet. The algorithm is interpreting context, themes, repetition, and differentiation at scale.
So I started testing a tool that keeps me a step ahead of Meta: 

Aggero. 

This thing is wild. 

It analyses creative in a similar way Meta does.

It has been trained on 7 million hours of content.

And the most interesting part is its “Drivers and Drainers” feature.

It tells you:
• What elements are driving engagement
• What is quietly killing performance
• Which hooks actually hold attention
• Where viewer drop-off happens

As of this week, it plugs directly into your ad account. You can analyse live ads and see exactly what needs to change to get them working harder.

This is where creative strategy is heading.

Not guessing. Not colour-coded spreadsheets.

Machine-level pattern recognition applied to your own ads.

You can keep analysing the old way.

Or you can understand how the platform is really judging your content.
If you want to test the tool, comment 'CREATIVE' and I will ping you the details. 
@Aggero, #AggeroPartner

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Myths about DTC eComm:

- You can't scale if your AOV is less than $30
- You shouldn't enter a category that is already competitive 
- You can never compete against established players with huge budgets 
 
Reality:
 
✅ Native Deoderant has a price point of $13 and scaled to $100M in two years 
✅ True Classic entered one of the most competitive fashion categories - basic tees, and has done $250M in revenue since launching in 2019
✅ HiSmile competes against toothpaste giants and is set to hit $200M in revenue. 
 
Don't believe everything you read - know your customer and your category and you can prove the rule makers wrong.

Spicy debate topic alert! 

Is anyone using the traffic objective to drive top of funnel awareness to feed ASC and other conversion campaigns? 

An account I'm auditing is doing this - with 0 conversions coming from traffic campaigns but very high ROAS in the ASC. 

Some would say turn off the traffic objective, it's driving garbage traffic that is of no value - and that is certainly what I would have said this until very recently. 

But as Meta no longer lets us limit our conversion campaigns to truly cold audiences, I am wondering if there is some validity to using traffic to build out a full funnel and have more cold traffic for the ASC and conversion campaigns to convert. 

But the question then becomes, how do you test whether the traffic campaigns are helping your funnel - aside from doing a test that keeps all other variables the same, and monitoring for 30-60 days to see if your overall funnel performance declines without the upper funnel spend.

What does everyone think? Are traffic campaigns now a valuable part of a DTC funnel? If so, how do we track their efficacy?

Until recently - I thought the only thing holding back a product brand from growing was hitting a profitable customer acquisition cost (CAC) or ROAS. 

Once you hit that number, you can theoretically start to print money by scaling. 
 
It's why we love eComm - as long as your addressable market is big and you solve a big problem, once you crack ads it is off to the races. 
 
Right? I thought so! 
 
But I have been super shocked discover a tonne of businesses actually suffer from the oposite problem. 
 
They are hitting a great CAC and acquiring customers profitably. 
 
But they don't grow because they see media spend as a cost instead of as a growth lever, or they don't feel confident in which channel will actually give a profitable ROI. 
 
Example - a brand doing $80k in monthly revenue, spending $2000 per month paid ads with a 8X tracked ROAS and a blended ROAS of 40X. 
 
This might sound crazy - why don't they just scale spend so they can make more money? I'ts wild. I have seen this in multiple businessses now, particularily those that started out in wholesale or retail where marketing is seen a cost. 
 
They simply haven't grasped that in DTC, the more you spend, the more you make. 
 
The problem seems to be that they don't feel confident enough in their agency to give them more money and they lack the knowledge to know what is working. 

The result - for every business that can't seem to crack ads, there is another business sitting on a goldmine with no idea what they have, and not mining it all. 
 
Has anyone else come across this?

Most brands build ads backwards and it’s exactly why they stay stuck. Instead of starting with the customer, they start with guesswork.

If your ads feel random right now, go back to the source: your buyer.

That’s where the answers and the revenue are hiding.

Which path are you taking right now: the shortcut, or the strategy?

2 ways to create ads, only 1 builds an iconic brand

Last week, Google announced that products from Etsy and Wayfair will now be shoppable directly within its agentic AI search experience.

For anyone in eCommerce, this is not just another product update. It is a structural shift in how discovery, consideration, and purchase happen.

Years ago, I worked at Etsy running Google Shopping. One of the biggest challenges we tackled was making an enormous catalogue of one of a kind products actually discoverable by Google’s crawlers.

We were not dealing with 5,000 SKUs neatly organized into standardized attributes. We were dealing with millions of unique, handmade, vintage, custom items. Each with its own nuances. Each needing to match to a real user query like:

“14k gold minimalist ring under 200”
“Mid century walnut credenza 60 inches”
“Personalized leather anniversary gift”

The heavy lifting was in organising the feed. Making sure Google could understand not just that a product existed, but exactly who it was for and when it should appear.

The goal was to surface the most relevant unique product at the exact moment of intent.

What is changing now is where that moment happens.

With agentic AI search, Google is not just returning links. It is interpreting intent, curating options, and enabling checkout within the experience. That compresses the funnel dramatically.

Discovery, comparison, and transaction are converging.

For marketplaces like Etsy and Wayfair, if the last decade was about ranking in search results and Google shopping queries, the next one is about being structured in a way AI can interpret, trust, and transact on your behalf.

And the same goes for eComm brands - your product data is not a back office function. It is a growth channel, and this update makes this even more the case. 

What are you doing to be ready for this shift?

Meta creative testing structure we start with on most accounts: 

1. Winning creative - running in Advantage Plus Shopping Campaigns (ASC) 

2. Testing creative - CBO, broad audience, very few exclusions. Each persona gets its own ad-set. Once a creative starts to perform - scale 'in place' - because moving creative can kill the winning streak, but duplicate into the ASC. Add new creatives into this structure and new ad-sets when you have a net-new concept or persona with a set of ads. 

3. Set up new creative testing ad-sets within the CBO to ensure creative diversity. 
 
Continue to increase budget to winning campaigns. 
 
Does this work for you? What other structures do you use for testing?

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."

The Middle East situation was the punch we didn't expect in eComm this week. 

Mike Tyson said it about boxing. It also applies to global supply chains rn. 

What looked like another Red Sea style disruption has turned into something far bigger for global commerce.The Strait of Hormuz is now declared a closed military zone.

For operators this is what it means right now:

- The Suez Canal is now blocked. Carriers are already planning routes around the Cape of Good Hope, adding 10 to 15 days to transit times and burning far more fuel.

- Air freight demand is surging. When sea lanes slow down, high value categories move to air. Electronics and pharma capacity is already being bid up.

- Oil pushing past $85 feeds straight into the cost stack. Packaging production, freight surcharges, and even the last mile van all get more expensive.

This becomes a margin and cash flow situation. 

What can you do now to stay front footed? 

1. Do not wait for delivery delays to happen. Update shipping pages and post purchase emails now. Customers handle the truth far better than surprises.

2. Think about freeing up cash flow to order more stock now, so you have a big buffer if delays happen down the line. Build more buffer into your timelines. 

When supply chains get punched in the face, the brands that stay calm, communicate clearly, and protect stock levels are the ones still standing when things settle.

What else are you doing to prepare or react? 

ps. I know this is a business post - but my thoughts are with anyone currently living in a conflict zone.

With all the changes lately - I wanted to share the Meta Ads Structure that is working for my clients right now. This works for eComm brands from $0-$

Open article: Steal My Exact Meta Media Buying Structure in 2026 by Jessie Healy 🎨 • 2 min read

Steal My Exact Meta Media Buying Structure in 2026

Low AOV doesn’t just hurt your margins.

It makes paid acquisition feel “impossible”.

Here’s a quick AOV boosting idea that you should incorporate into your email + CRO strategy: 

👉 Make your default path a bundle (and send traffic + emails to the bundle page, not individual products).

Most brands do the opposite:

- Ads land on a single product
- Email pushes a single product
- The bundle is hidden in a menu (if it exists at all)

If you want higher AOV, you have to stop treating bundles like an optional add-on.

Make the bundle the default:

“Starter bundle” as the hero
“Best value” bundle (anchor it)
“Deluxe bundle” for price anchoring
Clear comparison table
One-click add to cart

Then align your email:

Abandoned cart flows for bundles
Post-purchase cross-sell built around “complete the set”
Campaign emails that sell the bundle outcome, not the SKU
Bundling is one of the cleanest levers in eComm.

Because it makes the same traffic worth more. The key thing to monitor though is to raise AOV without tanking conversion rates. Figure out the break-even conversion rate and make sure you are above that. 

If you already have bundles: are you actually sending traffic to them, or just hoping customers find them?

Founder @ MMS | Scaling Online Business (Ecom & Local services) | $80M revenue generated last quarter through meta & google ads | Creative Testing & CRO Systems | Paid Ads Expert

Hi, I’m Diksha.
I help e-commerce and performance-driven brands grow revenue  𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆  using full-funnel paid growth systems across Meta Ads and Google Ads.

Most brands I work with are already spending on ads ($20,000–$500,5000+/month).
The problem isn’t traffic…. it’s unstable growth.

That usually comes from three gaps:
 • Creative testing is unstructured, so winners burn out fast
 • The website leaks conversions, so paid traffic doesn’t turn into revenue
 • Retention is ignored, so repeat purchases and LTV stay low

So instead of “running ads”, I build systems where:
 → Paid traffic becomes predictable and scalable
 → Creative is tested, not guessed
 → The website converts more of what you already pay for (+10–25% RPV)
 → Retention compounds growth (often +20–35% incremental revenue)

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽:
 • Meta & Google Ads strategy, execution, and scaling (CPA stability in 30–45 days, 15–40% budget expansion)
 • Creative testing frameworks (2–3x faster winner identification)
 • Shopify CRO to lift CVR, AOV, and checkout completion
 • Lifecycle email & retention automation
 • Expansion to TikTok, Pinterest, Bing, and native (Taboola, Outbrain) when relevant

I’ve worked across home decor, lifestyle, apparel, beauty, supplements, gifting, and more.
I also support lead-gen when the funnel and offer are clear.

If you want a second set of eyes on your ads, funnel, or retention, message me with what you sell and your monthly ad spend

I’ll tell you where growth is getting stuck.

Diksha Gupta

𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲. 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗿𝘆. 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

When I started running ads, I thought performance marketing was just about ROAS and dashboards.

𝐈̶ ̶𝐰̶𝐚̶𝐬̶ ̶𝐰̶𝐫̶𝐨̶𝐧̶𝐠̶.

It’s psychology.
It’s data.
It’s pressure.
It’s clients trusting you with their growth.

Today I became a  𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 — and media buying professional for 7th time in a row - year after year!

But here’s the truth: 
Certification isn’t the win, Staying relevant is!

With AI reshaping ad creatives, targeting, and optimization faster than ever, I made a commitment to never fall behind.

Because in performance marketing, yesterday’s strategy expires fast.

To every founder scaling with Meta Or Google Ads —
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱.
And I’m here for it. Happy to chat and see if I can help.

On to the next milestone 🚀


#MetaAds #PerformanceMarketing #AIMarketing #MediaBuying #Growth

Adapt this one meta ads creative planning strategyto get better ROI #digitalmarketingservices #digitalmarketingtips #paidads

Business growth in eCommerce is honestly so up and down.

One week you’re celebrating ROAS.
Next week inventory is stuck.
CAC spikes.
Cash flow gets tight.

And after stepping 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸-𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺-𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, everything suddenly feels new and unfamiliar again.

Some days are super exciting, some feel slow & low — but I’m learning not to overthink the fluctuations.

Just showing up, building routines, and trusting that these small consistent steps might someday turn a small venture into a legacy business. Will they? 

Maybe time will reveal. 🤔 - (𝗵𝘂𝗵! 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱) 

For now — loving the office view, while home looks equally messy.

I think that’s the trade-off when busy building something which I truly care about✨

#EntrepreneurLife #FounderJourney #BusinessGrowth #StartupLife #BuildingInPublic

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Founders Are 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬. Here's What They're Building Instead.

Most founders are still hiring for the role that no longer needs to exist.

They're searching for the "perfect media buyer" while the smartest ones are 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩, don't quit, and don't make human errors.

The smartest founders we're talking to are no longer "managing" Meta Ads. They're building the brain that does it for them.

Founders are already asking us how to build this. The ones moving fastest — 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐝/𝐢𝐎𝐒 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐬 & 𝐰𝐞𝐛 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 — are doing it with OpenClaw. And the shift is radical.

OpenClaw isn't a tool. It's a system that:
🔥 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 & 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬: Complete Meta campaign control | Zero babysitting.
🔥 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐞𝐬 & 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬: Real-time performance audits on CPA, ROAS, and LTV — instant, always on.
🔥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬: Constant market & competitor monitoring while your team focuses on something productive.
🔥 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬: Suggests and executes growth strategies while you sleep.

The result? A 20–40% reduction in operational costs (per Deloitte/McKinsey) — and a team that finally has time to think, not just react.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤:
"It's not about clicking buttons in Ads Manager anymore"
The founders we're advising are structuring the logic, the prompts, and the workflows so OpenClaw can think like a world-class performance team.

We're seeing this move fast — and the ones who've made the shift? They're not looking back.

Stop scaling your headcount.
Start scaling your systems.

#AI #OpenClaw #GrowthSystems #MetaAds #PerformanceMarketing #AIGrowthLayer #FounderMindset

I scaled brand to $250K/month for my client.
 But almost let $𝟔,𝟓𝟎𝟎  break my own business!

I also lost $6,500.
Not from bad ads. Not from poor strategy. From unpaid invoices.

𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈'𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 $𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎/𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 $𝟐𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎/𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 told me he was hospitalised and would clear dues once he recovered. I believed him. I kept working without upfront payment.

The money never came.

When I stopped managing the account, performance dropped. He came back later — admitted growth wasn't the same without me — and asked me to return, promising payment once profits improved. 

That moment stung. But it also confirmed something quietly: the results were skill, not luck.

Two more clients followed the same pattern. One owed $2,000. Another $500. All cross-border. All happy with performance. All gone when it was time to pay.

Contracts signed. NDAs in place. No real enforcement.

That's when I had to face an uncomfortable truth:
𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝.

The problem wasn't my ability to get clients or deliver results. It was my weak boundaries. I had made exceptions to my own upfront-payment rule, thinking trust was enough.

It wasn't.

So we registered 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐔𝐒 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲, tightened contracts, and removed all flexibility around payments.

𝑩𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 $5𝑲 𝒕𝒐 $250𝑲/𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 $6,500 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚.

Skills build growth. Systems protect it.

#MarketingAgency #AgencyLife #BusinessLessons #Entrepreneurship #Freelancing #PersonalBranding #LessonsLearned #DigitalMarketing

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You're doing $250K a month in revenue. Ads are working. Orders are flying in. And yet — you're always short on cash. One of my clients called me mid-c

Open article: Most E-commerce Founders Are Scaling Broke — And They Don't Even Know It by Diksha Gupta • 3 min read

Most E-commerce Founders Are Scaling Broke — And They Don't Even Know It

We almost scaled a lifestyle brand into a disaster. A premium T-shirt brand from Dubai. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝟒𝐗 𝐢𝐧 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬.  
Budget locked! Strategy ready! Everything green!

Until it wasn't.

3 days before launch — they find out their packaging boxes are stuck. 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞. 
No boxes = no shipments. No shipments = no fulfilled orders.

The scary part? 

They had no idea until right before locking the deal.

Imagine if we had just launched. Thousands in ad spend driving traffic to a brand that couldn't ship. Chargebacks. Bad reviews. Customers who'd never come back. 𝐀 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 — 𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬.

Most founders would've said "let's launch anyway, we'll figure it out."

He didn't.He paused. 

Took a step back. Decided to scale only when the supply chain was airtight.
That's not weakness. That's the clarity that separates brands that last from brands that burn.

Scaling ads into low inventory doesn't just waste budget — 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝.

Ads can drive demand in days. Operations take weeks to fix.
The best scaling decision he made wasn't about the ads. It was knowing when not to run them.
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Every ecom founder needs to ask this before scaling — can your operations actually handle what your ads are about to create?

Because ads don't pause when your warehouse does.

#ecommerce #Operations #FounderMindset #Ecommerce #OnlineBusiness #PaidAds #MetaAds  #InventoryManagement #SupplyChain #EcommerceProblems #CashFlow

I recently tried Manus from a media buyer’s perspective, and honestly, it felt different from the usual AI tools. I used it mainly to analyze campaign performance data, spot patterns in CAC trends, and generate testing angles based on past winning creatives. 

What I liked most was how it structured insights instead of just throwing information at me. It helped me think clearer about budget allocation and scaling decisions. 

It’s not magic — you still need strong fundamentals — but it definitely feels like a smart assistant sitting next to you. Curious to see how it evolves for performance marketers.

#OnlineBusiness #Digitalmarketing #onlinemarketing #Adsexpert #Metaadsexpert

When performance dips, the default reaction is always the same:
“Let’s launch more ads.”
But more ads without structure = more noise.

What actually moves the needle is intentional testing.

That means:
• Knowing why a creative is being launched
• Mapping angles to customer awareness stages
• Learning from losers, not just celebrating winners
In accounts doing 5–7x ROI consistently, testing isn’t random.

It’s designed.

That’s how we’ve helped 35+ brands stabilize growth,
Not through hype, but through repeatable decision-making.

Ads are just one part of the system.

The brands that win understand:
• Ads bring traffic
• CRO converts it
• Retention multiplies it
When those three talk to each other, scaling feels… boring.
And boring growth is the best kind.

So I packaged the exact testing structure we use into a simple resource founders can apply immediately.
“The Intentional Testing Framework”

Inside you’ll see:
How to design creative tests with a clear learning goal
How to map angles to awareness stages (so testing isn’t guesswork)

A simple way to extract wins from losing ads

How testing connects with CRO and retention, not just ROAS
Want it?

Comment “TEST”

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I’ll send it over.

What do networking sessions and cricket nights have in common?

Just finished a session with Ayo Benson.

Now I’m unwinding — cricket on the screen, my favourite drink in hand, and watching the match with my man. 🏏🥤

Some of the best evenings start with great conversations.

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