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šŸ“ˆ Simple & powerful Facebook ad scaling strategy

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.

Here’s a variant:

Rolex variant ad

ā™Ÿļø Strategy: Scale with location callouts

Here’s a Meta strategy that’s working really well right now, especially in the lead generation space šŸ‘‡

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 ā€œCharlotteā€ callout

Ad with ā€œOrange Countyā€ callout

For us, it’s one of our most profitable campaign types. Here’s how one on those campaigns has performed from January 2024 until today:

One of our county campaigns in 2024

🧠 Clever ad of the week

Here’s another one using a similar concept:

šŸ† Placement of the week

šŸ—£ļø Quote of the week

ā€œIf it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.ā€

David Ogilvy