{"id":1539710,"date":"2024-07-12T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/?p=1539710"},"modified":"2024-07-16T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T01:19:53","slug":"ugly-ads-perform-best-marketer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/ugly-ads-perform-best-marketer-says","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Ads Perform Best, Marketer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Hott is a longtime Facebook advertising consultant. He says first reactions to an ad largely determine its performance. He advises merchants to create ugly ads, those that people won&#8217;t skip over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m the Make Ugly Ads Guy,&#8221; he told me.<\/p>\n<p>In our recent conversation, Hott addressed key Facebook ad metrics, budgeting, testing, and, yes, ugly creative. The entire audio of that discussion is embedded below. 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That&#8217;s not to say I don&#8217;t use them. They&#8217;re tools to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/directness-wins-in-advertising\">used in certain ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Say an ad is not getting a great cost per purchase, but the system knows it to be getting an overall sales lift. If you set your bid too low or set a cost cap too low, then I fear that the individual ad, if placed in an ad set that has too low of a bid, will never get the chance to spend in a way that it can support the entire ad ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I like to have a controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/tools-to-monitor-competitors-ads\">testing environment<\/a> where every new concept gets an ad set for organizational purposes and just for letting things battle it out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandholz:<\/strong> What metrics are you looking to hit?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Hott: <\/b>The first thing to do is look at the best ads in the same environment \u2014 targeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/ecom-exec-marketing-attribution-is-a-waste\">attribution<\/a>, and settings. Everything stays the same. I need to know my best ads can spend this much and get this cost per purchase. 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Depending on budgets and your return on ad spend, you&#8217;re going to have different tolerances. It&#8217;s all going to vary. I&#8217;m usually looking for about 20 decent signals at the ad set level \u2014 hopefully that&#8217;s 20 actual purchases. By that point, I&#8217;ll know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I&#8217;ll look at an ad that gets shut down quickly by bids for not spending and hypothesize about it. Why did the ad fail? Can I adjust it? I&#8217;d rather spend more time obtaining more data to see if there&#8217;s another pocket or placement elsewhere. It&#8217;s going to lose money, and I&#8217;m okay with that. But I will spend the time analyzing it and learning from it from a creative perspective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">However, if you don&#8217;t have time to do that sort of analysis, use rigid bids and cost caps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandholz:<\/strong> What sort of creative produces good results?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Hott:<\/strong> Again, I am the Make Ugly Ads guy. I tell people to focus on making stuff uglier because our brains, as marketers, make prettier stuff. What matters are relatability, relevance, and authenticity. You can do that in a non-ugly way. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it. But you can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That first reaction is often what matters more than anything. Make something immediately relatable that people will care about. 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