Become great at Facebook Ads Creative
Learn the #1 way to use Facebook Ads to grow your brand profitably.
With lessons learned from hundreds of millions of dollars spent for DTC brands of all sizes, we will give you a framework for creating a high-performing ad creative and the strategy for setting up for the most success in your ad account.
We’ll draw on lessons from “Mad Men” advertising legends like David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach and apply them through the lens of modern DTC brand-building.
By Andrew Faris,
Ecommerce Growth Executive
Course length: 1h 12min
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Introduction video
This course is essential for you if…
- You’ve run Facebook Ads before and found that they’ve never worked for your business.
- You’re working with an ad agency that’s handling the creative for you, because it will help you manage them much more effectively.
- You believe that the Apple iOS14.5 update has made Facebook Ads impossible. Spoiler alert: it hasn’t.
After taking this course you will…
- Internalize a framework for how to leverage still images, video, and copy to generate high-performing Facebook Ad creative no matter your production budget.
- Know how to use variations of “offers” to maximize the performance of your Facebook Ad creative.
- Think not just in terms of products, features, and benefits, but in terms of “angles” to communicate the value of your product to your customer.
- Understand how to build creative for both quality AND quantity to set your brand up for success that’s truly scalable.
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Your course curriculum
Facebook Ads Creative
1 Generating Quantity: Utilizing Creative Volume And Cost Controls To Win
Learn the #1 way to use Facebook Ads to grow your brand profitably.
This starts with your account setup and general approach to success, which means trusting Facebook's algorithms to find you the right customers for the right price by generating a high volume of creativity and utilizing Facebook's Cost Controls to know how much to spend on each.
2 Generating Quantity: Five Ad Variation Types To Create A Wider Range Of Outcomes
In this lesson, we'll walk through five different ways you can vary your creative to create different performance outcomes as you seek to feed Facebook a high quantity of varying ads.
The wider the range of creative options you test, the wider the range of potential outcomes you'll get. So if you want significant improvements in ad performance, you need substantial changes in your ads.
You will learn:
- the difference between small, marginal creative testing and highly variable creative testing (and why you should usually prefer the latter)
- how creative variation, not ad targeting, is the way to ensure that your ads perform to your desired outcomes at the most possible scale
- the five different ways to add variation to your creative.
3 Generating Quality: Prioritizing Clarity + The Hero Product
In this lesson, we will cover why great direct response advertising must be clear above all else.
If the customer doesn't know what the ad is for or about, you've lost before starting. And nothing is more important for making advertising clear than imagery that features the product as the unquestioned hero.
You will learn:
- why direct response advertising in particular (as opposed to advertising focused more on brand-building) must be clear above all else
- what it means that "the product is the hero" of the ad and how that plays out in the visual design of the ad
- about the unique power of still images to present a product clearly and beautifully, and why that means this underrated ad format remains an important part of your advertising toolkit
4 Generating Quality: The Headline (Or, It Starts With Words)
In this lesson, we will cover how once the hero product imagery is established so that the product being advertised is both clear and presented attractively, it's time to generate attention and interest with the headline.
Great advertising starts with words and great copywriting starts with headlines.
You will learn:
- the concept of an "angle" in advertising, and how that helps you move from general product features and benefits to the specific ways a product will make the lives of your customers better
- how to use headlines to capture attention and pique interest, and why "attention" and "interest" are so important in creating advertising that performs
- to connect headline-writing to the overall concept & angle of any given ad as the starting place for clear and compelling communication
5 Generating Quality: Explaining The Value You’re Providing
In this lesson, we will cover the last step in generating high-quality advertising of any kind (including on Facebook) is to provide customers with the information they need to make their purchase.
Great headlines and great visual creative is all well and good. But they are not enough to actually sell products in most cases. For that, customers need some kind of additional information.
You will learn:
- how explanatory information uniquely drives the desire for your product and, ultimately, the action of making the purchase
- how to use various ad types, formats, and landing pages to test different kinds of information content in your advertising
- how to connect your advertising angle to your specific product and know-how that plays out as you generate information content in your ad
Andrew Faris
Ecommerce Growth Executive
I just really love growing ecommerce brands.
That love first formed in 2015 when I began my ecom career as a media buyer at QALO in the heart of its run from $0-$20M in 1.5 years with no external funding. I led our efforts on Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and direct media buys in digital and print.
After the exhilaration of that rapid growth, I became a growth strategist at the newly-formed Common Thread Collective (CTC), a digital sales agency that helps entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. Within two years I was promoted up to VP of Growth, where I led our digital strategy.
Soon after, CTC spun off its brands via its DTC aggregator, 4×400, and I was eager to get my hands dirty there. So I slid over to lead growth at 4×400 until again promoted within two years, this time to CEO.
I ran 4×400 until December 2021, leading up to 6 brands at a time, and now work as an outsourced ecommerce growth executive across multiple brands, where I get to keep doing exactly what I love:
Grow ecommerce brands.
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Learn Facebook Ads Creative: FAQ
Who is this course for?
This course is essential for you if…
- You’ve run Facebook Ads before and found that they’ve never worked for your business.
- You’re working with an ad agency that’s handling the creative for you, because it will help you manage them much more effectively.
- You believe that the Apple iOS14.5 update has made Facebook Ads impossible. Spoiler alert: it hasn’t.
Some careers that will especially benefit from this course are graphic designers, PPC specialist, digital marketer, social media manager, SEM specialist, SEO manager, growth manager, or account manager.
What will you learn?
After taking this course, you will:
- Internalize a framework for how to leverage still images, video, and copy to generate high-performing Facebook Ad creative no matter your production budget.
- Know how to use variations of “offers” to maximize the performance of your Facebook Ad creative.
- Think not just in terms of products, features, and benefits, but in terms of “angles” to communicate the value of your product to your customer.
- Understand how to build creative for both quality AND quantity to set your brand up for success that’s truly scalable.
What does the course include?
Our Facebook Ads Creative training includes 6 lessons, 4 downloadable resources, 1h 12min of video material, several assignments, and a final exam.
Are subtitles available for the lessons?
Lessons have English subtitles and transcriptions available.
Will I receive a certificate of completion?
After taking this course, you will receive the Facebook Ads Creative Certification from CXL, with credentials that you can add to your LinkedIn profile.
What is the refund policy?
All plans come with a 7-day refund period .
How long will it take for me to finish it?
This is entirely up to you – it’s how many study hours per week you can put in. This course is 1h 12min long.