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Paid Social Advertising

Meta advertising (Facebook and Instagram) is the most powerful paid acquisition channel for most B2C and many B2B products. This course teaches you how it actually works — the auction, the targeting, the creative, and the scaling — so you can run profitable campaigns without an agency.

No prerequisites — pairs with Marketing Analytics with GA4 to close the attribution loop
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$59one-time · lifetime access

What you'll learn

How the Meta ads auction works — CPM, relevance scores, reach estimates
Campaign structure — awareness, consideration, and conversion objectives
Audience targeting — interest, lookalike, custom audiences, and exclusions
Ad creative that converts — hooks, headlines, and visual frameworks
Launching your first campaign with proper budgets and bidding strategy
Reading Meta Ads Manager data — the metrics that matter vs vanity
Retargeting — website visitors, video viewers, and engagement audiences
Scaling winners — budget expansion, creative testing, and audience stacking

Course outline

Full course — $59 one-time

04

Creative That Converts — Formats, Hooks, and Copy

The ad creative principles that stop the scroll and drive people to click

10 min
05

Running Your First Campaign — Setup to Launch

Step-by-step: build, review, and launch a profitable Meta campaign from scratch

11 min
06

Reading the Data — What to Optimise and When

The metrics that tell you whether your campaign is working — and the ones that lie

9 min
07

Retargeting — Converting People Who Already Know You

Build a retargeting system that turns website visitors into customers at 3-5x the efficiency of cold traffic

9 min
08

Scaling — Budget, Creative Refresh, and CBO

How to increase spend without destroying the performance you built

9 min

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8 lessons — from your first Meta campaign to retargeting and scaling profitable ads.

8 lessons✓ Meta Ads setup guides✓ Certificate
$59one-time

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