3 Elements To Inspire Your Ad Campaigns:

• Know Your Audience: These ads are targeted at a narrow segment of marketers. They are people who are at least aware of Breakthrough Advertising, Eugene Schwartz, the power of copywriting and another copywriting G.O.A.T. Gary Halbert. It is unquestionable that this narrow targeting makes these expensive ads to run so if you are adopting this strategy you better have a funnel that works and some high ticket items to seel on the back end.
• Leverage Social Proof: Both ads make use of testimonials or quotes from reputable figures to establish credibility and trust. In Ad 1, it’s the claim that Breakthrough Advertising is one of the most important books ever written in its field. In Ad 2, it’s a quote from the late Gary Halbert, a renowned copywriter. To apply this technique to your own ads, consider including quotes or testimonials from experts, influencers, or satisfied customers that relate to your product or service.
• Create a Sense of Urgency & Scarcity: We can break the CTA into 3 sections “Click the button below” “today” “and get it at the lowest price available”. Not a sylable is wasted. The first part tells people what to do. The section part tells them exactly when they should do it. The third part gives them a resons to do it. This creates a sense of both urgency and scarcity, which can motivate potential customers to take action. For your own ads, consider incorporating phrases that prompt immediate action, such as “limited time offer,” “act now,” or “before the promotion ends.”

3 Elements We’d Test:

• Creative Mix: Both the ads feature video creative. Video is a phenomenal conversion booster but only when it has been refined and tested. Early in a campaign often images will produce a higher conversion rate. One way or another its always a good idea to have a mix of video and images. Different people respond favorably to different creative mediums.
• Widen The Audience (a little): Very few marketers will spend $125 dollars (or $199 for the plus bundle) on a book. As a result the ads should appeal to a very select audience. If we were running the ads we would expand the appeal of the ads to a slightly wider audience. As the copy stands if you haven’t heard about Breakthrough Advertising, Eugene Schwartz or Gary Halbert the ad won’t resonate with you. This is a deliberate strategy. Potentially there are people willing to purchase the book outside this very knowledgeable audience. It is at least worth a test.
• Include Transformation: If we were testing a broader audience it would be important to expand the copy and introduce an element of transformation. What will a copywriter experience once they understand and can apply what they have learned in Breakthrough Advertising? How have the lives of Brian’s previous customers changed once they implemented Breakthrough Advertising principles. If someone is “Your Solution Aware” you can be direct. If they are only “Problem Aware” or “Solution Aware” then you have to provide more evidence for them to elevate them through the stages.

Facebook Ad Swipe Files

• SWIPE FILE – 0041 – Brian Kurtz – Facebook Ad to Book Sales Page v1
• SWIPE FILE – 0041 – Brian Kurtz – Facebook Ad to Book Sales Page v2

Lessons from Effective Sales Page Strategies

This is an absolute beast of a sales page. A true masterpiece of direct response copywriting. Do yourself a favor and flip through the page here.

Below is an extract featuring the above the fold section:

Sales Page – Above The Fold

This is clearly an organic Instagram post being run as an ad. Because there is no call to action button, it is likely a boosted post. I strongly advise against this method, but that’s a topic for another day. We can tell the ad is being run solely on Instagram as it doesn’t have a link in the copy, and it directs people to Click the link in the bio for further information.

3 Elements To Inspire Your Ad Campaigns:

• If you spend time and money creating content, why not put some ad spend behind it? One simple strategy is to take your 3 best-performing organic posts every week and put $10 – $20 behind them. It will grow your audience, following, and reach. Social may be free, but creating content isn’t. So if you calculate the cost of creating posts spending an additional $60 per week to get the most return from them just makes sense.
• Engagement can reduce your CPM significantly. If you have a lead generation or sales ad you know will perform well, run it with an engagement objective first to get likes and comments (bonus points if you can target your existing customers). Then, use the ad/post ID in a lead or purchase conversion ad.
• Try different things. I don’t think this ad will directly result in many Challenge registrations. However, I think it will bring many new people into Mastin’s world. If Mastin has a deliberate strategy to convert people from Instagram followers to clients, this is a great strategy. I am a big fan of following best practices…. until I don’t. If you are experimenting, do it with a limited budget and never have a financial outcome dependent on an experiment.

Facebook Ad Swipe Files

• SWIPE FILE – 0048 – Mastin Kipp – Facebook Ad to Challenge 

Uncover the Keys to an Effective Challenge Opt-In Page

3 Elements To Inspire Your Ad Campaigns:

• Join the conversation: Jeff immediately joins the conversation in people’s heads. “If you’ve been sitting on a great business idea…. But have no idea if people will pay for it or not”. A lot is going on in this one sentence. Jeff hits a pain point. So many people want to start a business and believe they have a great idea but don’t know what to do next. Jeff shows that he understands his audience by voicing inner feelings, thoughts and conversations his audience is having. Jeff also calls out their big challenge. Even if my idea is good, how will I get people to pay for it?

   

• Take A Counter Intuitive Stance: Next, Jeff builds interest by introducing a “crucial” (hidden, secret, missing) step. This step will bring you from where you are stuck (idea phase) to your dream state (profitable business). But it’s not what you would expect. It’s what makes people “BELIEVE” in a product or service. To an aspiring entrepreneur, this opens up a host of new opportunities. It wasn’t that their idea was wrong. They just hadn’t found this secret sauce that would make people believe in their product and buy it. This is why they failed before. This is why it will be different this time.

   

• Tackle Objections: “If you’ve got an idea for a transformation product, program or course, you don’t have to have an MBA, wait for the “perfect” time, or have a flawlessly polished offering” What holds people back the most are feeling like they need to learn more or now is not the right time, or they need things to be perfect. It’s the exact same for your audience. Call this out but the key is to tell them what the magic antidote is to help them move forward with confidence. 

3 Elements We’d Test:

• Simplify The Language: “then I’ve got exactly the key information you’ve been missing” Sometimes, we feel the need to stack adjectives and adverbs into our copy. Often this can detract from our message and lose our audience. It would be interesting to see if “then I’ve got the critical information you’ve been missing”. It’s only a change of two words but sometimes that can have a big impact on results.
  

• Simple URLS: The URL’s in the body copy are very long and complex. https://productlaunchformula.com/PLFLive2023/challenge/. It would be interesting to test if the url https://productlaunchformula.com/challenge/ performs better. The less unnecessary information we give our audience to process, the higher the conversion rate. It could be that Jeff wants to pre-introduce PLFLive through the url, but that may be trying to be too smart. Goal #1 is to get people off Facebook to your landing page.
  

• Formatting: This is something small but it still plays into the vision your audience creates of you. Make sure to review your ads before they go live. We can see the url in the middle of the ad has fallen off its bullet point. This will have a tiny impact on conversion rates if any but it is still worth noting. Make sure to review your ads before you hit publish. After doing all the work sometimes all you want to do is hit that publish button and go live but always stand back. Take a mental break and come back to review your ad copy and creative later with fresh eyes. You’ll be surprised what you’ll pick up. (PS. Deliberate mistakes and errors can result in higher conversion rates. It’s a risky strategy and one I would only attempt after every other avenue was explored!) 

Facebook Ad Swipe File

• SWIPE FILE – 0042 – Jeff Walker – Facebook Ad to Launch Opt-in

Analyzing a Successful 3-Part Pre-Launch Strategy

So onto Jeff’s launch strategy. Jeff is running a 3-Part Challenge as a pre-launch for PLF Live.

At PLF Live, Jeff will offer Launch Club. 

This makes Countdown to Launch a pre-launch for the pre-launch of Launch Club.

The structure is as follows:

(JV, FB Ads, Email) > Countdown to Launch Opt-in > VIP Upsell ($47) > PLF Live ($397) > Launch Club ($12,000)

3 day live events are the #1 way to sell high-ticket programs. Since COVID forced people to move there events online, people across the board are seeing significant decreases in event costs, increases in events registrations and high conversion rates to their in event offers. 

The three primary methodologies for launching a virtual live event are webinar series, challenge or multi-part workshop.

Jeff is rolling out a multi-part workshop….but here is the interesting part. He isn’t just doing it once. He is delivering the workshop live and then rolling out a recorded version of it each week for 3 weeks up until PLF Live. 

This gives plenty of opportunity for his JV partners to pick the most opportune time to email and his team time to scale their Facebook Ad campaigns.

Here is an above the fold screen shot of the opt-in page.