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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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.

Skills you will master

Facebook Ads messagingMarketing campaignsFacebook AdsFacebook Ads CreativeCopywriting

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Your course curriculum

Facebook Ads Creative

1 Generating Quantity: Utilizing Creative Volume And Cost Controls To Win

In this lesson, we will cover how to best utilize the features that make Facebook Ads such an effective tool.

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

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 ima

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

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 a

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.