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Ad Advisor — How-To Guide + Ebook
A working guide for solo founders on spending money on ads without wasting it.
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What it is
A 28-page PDF guide: 9 chapters plus 4 fill-in worksheets. It teaches the structure underneath paid advertising — the arithmetic, the sequence, the decisions, and the specific ways people lose money — rather than screenshot tours of platform interfaces.
This is a self-serve guide you work through with your own numbers. It is not a done-for-you service: nobody sets up or runs your ads for you.
Who it is for
- Solo operators spending their own money on ads.
- No agency, no media buyer — you make the decisions yourself.
- You want to know, before you spend, whether ads make sense for your offer yet.
- You want a simple, repeatable way to decide what to stop, what to leave alone and what to put more money into.
What is inside
An introduction and 9 chapters.
Introduction: The expensive part isn't the ads
Why most ad money is lost before a single ad runs, and why advertising is an amplifier, not an engine.
Don't run ads yet
The five conditions that should all be true before you spend, what ads are good and bad at, and the honest default if you are not there yet.
The only number that matters
A four-step calculation for the most you can afford to pay for one customer — your ceiling — and the two places people flatter the arithmetic.
Where to advertise
Intent-based versus interruption-based ads, why people who already know you come first, and why you should pick one platform.
The page does the selling
What the page an ad points at has to do, why it is never your homepage, and how to test it before you spend.
Writing the ad
What goes in an ad, what stays out, and how to test one change at a time.
Keep the structure simple
One campaign, one audience, two or three ads — plus how to size a test budget from your ceiling and why to leave it alone.
Reading the numbers
The few numbers that matter, the ones that mislead, and how to diagnose a problem from two of them.
Kill, keep, or scale
The weekly decision for every campaign and a fifteen-minute review rhythm.
How solo founders actually lose money
Nine consistent failure patterns and the short version of the whole discipline.
Plus 4 fill-in worksheets
The guide calls the worksheets the actual deliverable — the chapters are there so you can fill them in honestly.
- Worksheet 1 — What you can afford to pay for a customer (affordable-acquisition-cost calculator)
- Worksheet 2 — Pre-launch readiness checklist
- Worksheet 3 — The ad brief
- Worksheet 4 — The weekly review (weekly review sheet)
Questions
What does it cost?
$75, one-time.
What format is it?
A 28-page PDF (6×9 in). It reads on a phone, tablet or desktop, and the worksheets print cleanly if you prefer paper.
What happens after I pay?
Checkout is handled securely by Stripe. As soon as payment completes, the confirmation page shows your direct PDF download link — save it so you can download the file again later.
Is this a service?
No. Ad Advisor is a how-to guide and ebook. It does not include account setup, ad management or consulting.
What exactly is inside?
An introduction, 9 chapters and 4 fill-in worksheets — the full list is shown above.
Ad Advisor — How-To Guide + Ebook
28 pages, $75, delivered as a PDF the moment you check out.
Get the guide — $75Note
This guide provides general educational information about paid advertising. It does not guarantee any result; outcomes depend on your offer, your numbers and your decisions.