paid ads

8 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jun 22, 2023 by Greg Isenberg · across every show →

Everything said about paid ads, oldest first

Jun 22, 2023 positive
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Creators underutilize post-purchase drip campaigns to boost ROAS, says Greg Isenberg.
“I don't think enough people do this where they have a low ticket item that they sell via paid ads mostly, and then put them in a drip campaign that ultimately leads them to audience building, community building, and affiliate deals that are related, like value…”
Greg Isenberg Jun 22, 2023 ▶ 13:49 I met this guy who is the million dollar content flywheel king
Nov 30, 2023 positive
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Founders can use paid ads to quickly test value propositions
“You could do a similar thing with paid ads to just see, okay, which value prop gets more clicks or which value prop gets more attention. If you have a new paid platform where ads are underpriced, that might be another arbitrage that you can jump on.”
Dru Riley Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 8:12 How To Make MILLIONS As A Faceless YouTuber | Dru Riley
Dec 4, 2024 negative
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Chou: SaaS ads should never link directly to homepages
“One mistake I think a lot of SaaS companies face is they would run paid ads directly into their homepage. You need a dedicated landing page because ranking on Google is different than like a super CRO The page, you know, you got to have something hella convert…”
Jackie Chou Dec 4, 2024 ▶ 11:33 Growth Genius Leaks Million Dollar SEO Plan
Dec 11, 2024
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Yadegari: AI health apps must use fear-mongering marketing to drive downloads
“But I think that the primary lever to drive downloads to something like this would have to be paid ads or influencer marketing, where we could get into it more later, but it would play on the emotions of a little bit of fear mongering on the idea that they mig…”
Zach Yadegari Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 19:45 Inside the Brain of a 17-Year-Old $1M/Month AI Founder
Feb 26, 2025 negative
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Park: SEO and paid ads are early-stage traps
“The reason that I put SEO and paid ads at the end is I kind of feel like in many ways they're both a trap. When you're an early stage entrepreneur, you want really fast inner cycles, right? So you want, like, you want to be able to test something, see if it re…”
David Park Feb 26, 2025 ▶ 56:58 REVEALED: The Exact Strategy I Used to Build a $10M AI Startup
Sep 17, 2025 bullish
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Schneider: Organic short-form winners consistently perform as paid ads
“So you find the winners, pull those out, put ad spend behind them. They're going to, if they work organically, they're also going to work in a paid setting.”
Cody Schneider Sep 17, 2025 ▶ 13:57 Apps make $50K/mo like THIS (I shouldn't share this)
Dec 8, 2025
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Hoffman: Long-running Meta ads in Ad Library are reliably profitable
“The longer an ad has been running, you can guess that that ad is performing well for them. So go to company's meta ad library, take a look at what they're doing, copy it, and specifically look for the ads that have been running for a long period of time. The o…”
Rob Hoffman Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 59:36 Blueprint to Build a $1M SaaS From Scratch
Dec 8, 2025 negative
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Hoffman: Paid ads cannot profitably scale SaaS priced under $1,000/month
“If you want to use ads to scale your SaaS, you can't do it with a low ticket offer. And when I say low ticket, I basically mean anything that is below a thousand dollars per month. If your SaaS is 50 dollars a month, a hundred dollars a month, this probably wi…”
Rob Hoffman Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 50:54 Blueprint to Build a $1M SaaS From Scratch
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