Category: Sales & Marketing
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I ran an ad recently and got 45 leads. Real people, genuinely interested, messaging me about my mini-importation book. I felt like I’d cracked something. Then I sent every single one of them straight to my Selar link and asked them to buy. But guess what? I got zero sales. Not one. Forty-five people who…
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I once ran a Facebook ad campaign and spent $200 without a single sale. At the time, I could not tell you what went wrong, because I was not tracking anything meaningful. I had not even set up a Facebook Pixel because I genuinely did not know what it was or why it mattered. All…
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When I started repositioning myself as a copywriter and marketer, I hit a wall almost immediately. Every potential client asked the same question: “Do you have a portfolio?” And for a while, my honest answer was no. I had experience running my own business, writing my own ad copy, and building my own sales pages,…
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In early 2025, I spent weeks preparing to launch a new product. I wrote the description carefully, edited it repeatedly, designed clean product images, and picked what I thought was a fair price. I was confident. I hit publish expecting sales to follow naturally, because I genuinely believed I had built something good. Weeks passed.…
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A client running a clinic in the United States once reached out to me, frustrated and confused. His Google Ads campaign had been performing well for weeks, real enquiries, real bookings. Then, almost overnight, he started getting message after message from people who were clearly not looking for his services at all. He had not…
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In the early days of my watch and jewelry business, I lived on my phone. Someone would message asking about pricing, and I would type out the same answer I had typed a hundred times before. Then another message asking about delivery time, the same reply again. By the time I answered the tenth person…
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I once spent weeks building a platform for a digital product idea I was convinced would work. I planned the branding, imagined the launch, and mentally spent money I had not even made yet. I never once asked a stranger if they would actually pay for it. When I finally launched the product, silence. No…
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The first time I ran a Facebook ad, I felt like I understood what I was doing. I had a product, I had a budget, and I hit publish feeling confident. A few days later, I had spent thousands and made almost nothing back. No sales. Just a shrinking ad account balance and a growing…
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A customer once messaged me about a single wristwatch. By the end of that conversation, she had bought four different pieces of Jewelry. Not because I pushed a sale, but because I had positioned each product so clearly that she understood exactly why she needed it, what problem it solved for her, and why it…
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When I started my watch and jewelry business, I made a costly mistake. I jumped straight into running Facebook ads before I had built anything people could recognize or trust. No consistent visuals, no real story, no proof I was legitimate. The result? Messages poured in with many people asking questions, showing interest, but almost…
