META ADS PORTFOLIO / SELECTED THINKING & WORK

Strategy
before spend.

Selected work showing how I approach Meta advertising—from understanding the market and developing creative strategy to structured testing and performance diagnosis.

Explore the work
  1. 01Research
  2. 02Strategy
  3. 03Test
  4. 04Diagnose
  5. 05Optimize

Good Meta Ads decisions
don’t start in Ads Manager.

They start with the market, the customer, and the offer. The work below shows how I connect that understanding to creative, testing, and performance decisions.

01 / UNDERSTANDMarket Research & Buyer Psychology

Abundance Academy

Understand what makes someone ready to buy.

Explore customer desires, objections, category beliefs, and competitor positioning before deciding what an ad should say.

Online Education / Personal Development

  • Buyer psychology
  • Awareness & sophistication
  • Competitive research
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THE RESEARCH QUESTION

What would make paid guidance worth choosing over free information?

02 / STRATEGIZECreative Strategy

IvyWise

Turn customer insight into creative direction.

Connect research with persona selection, concepts, persuasive angles, and production-ready video and static briefs.

College Admissions Consulting / Education

  • Persona development
  • Concepts & angles
  • Creative briefing
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INSIGHT → DIRECTION

How can personal guidance become a clear, concrete message?

03 / TESTCreative Testing Strategy

Maidenform

Give every test a reason to exist.

A four-week plan for testing customer needs, creative variables, and purchase objections—with a learning agenda to guide the next iteration.

E-commerce / Apparel

  • Test hypotheses
  • Weekly priorities
  • Iteration & decision rules
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THE LEARNING AGENDA

Testing isn’t about producing more ads. It’s about learning what moves performance.

04 / DIAGNOSEPerformance Analysis & Optimization

Meta Ads Performance Diagnosis

Find the cause before choosing the fix.

Read funnel behavior, attention, spend efficiency, and tracking health alongside changes in the offer and product availability.

Campaign Performance / Business Context

  • Funnel analysis
  • Business context
  • Prioritized corrective actions
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THE DIAGNOSTIC PRINCIPLE

Performance problems should be diagnosed before they are “fixed.”

F
Funnel metrics
A
Attention metrics
S
Spend efficiency
T
Tracking health

05 / OPTIMIZE

Better evidence.
Better-informed next steps.

Research informs strategy. Strategy informs testing. Testing creates learning. Data informs the next decision.

What this work demonstrates

Understand the market
Market research · Buyer psychology · Competitive research · Awareness & sophistication
Shape the creative
Creative strategy · Persona development · Creative briefing · Structured testing
Interpret performance
Campaign analysis · Performance diagnosis · Optimization thinking

CONNECTED TO REAL CAMPAIGN EXPERIENCE

Strategy is only useful when
it connects to execution.

Alongside these strategic examples: my work on high-ticket course lead generation, from research and campaign setup to testing, optimization, and reporting.

10,924
Website leads
$2.55
Average CPL
$27.8K+
Ad spend
1.2M+
People reached
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YOUR NEXT MOVE

Need someone who can think
beyond Ads Manager?

I help businesses connect research, creative strategy, testing, campaign execution, and performance analysis so Meta Ads decisions are based on evidence rather than guesswork.