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Also, lessons from famous Rolex print ads.

Rolex ad from 1957
This Rolex ad teaches some powerful lessons about advertising luxury products:
Emotional appeal: Associate your product with qualities your customers desire. For Rolex, those qualities are power, inluence and prestige.
Subtle endorsement: Create a sense of exclusivity and trust by implying that important people use your product.
Iterate on winning ads: If it worked once, it will likely work again. Create variants and experiment with new copy and visuals.
Hereās a variant:

Rolex variant ad
āļø Strategy: Scale with location callouts
Hereās a Meta strategy thatās working really well right now, especially in the lead generation space š
Start by testing creatives in an ABO campaign with best copy:

Creative test with the same copy
Then horizontally scale the winner into a CBO with location callouts, where each ad set targets a different county. Something like this:

Ad with āCharlotteā callout

Ad with āOrange Countyā callout
For us, itās one of our most profitable campaign types. Hereās how one on those campaigns has performed from January 2024 until today:

One of our county campaigns in 2024
š§ Clever ad of the week

Hereās another one using a similar concept:

š Placement of the week

š£ļø Quote of the week
āIf it doesnāt sell, it isnāt creative.ā