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Meta Ads Strategist

Run the account, not the settings: prove incrementality, allocate budget on marginal return, run experiments that hold up, and defend the number to a client. Requires the Meta Ads Specialist certificate.

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1. Measurement Beyond the Pixel

Attributed versus incremental, lift and geo tests, MER and blended CAC.

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2. Data Foundations at Scale

Event Match Quality, conversion lag, CRM events through the Conversions API, modeled conversions.

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3. Account Structure at Scale

Consolidation, Advantage+ sales campaigns, new versus existing customers, audience overlap.

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4. Budget Economics

Marginal ROAS, diminishing returns, cost goals at scale, funnel budget allocation.

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5. Creative as a System

Testing matrices, iterating winners, creative diversity, fatigue across a portfolio.

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6. Unit Economics and Targets

Contribution margin, LTV and payback, new versus returning, seasonal targets.

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7. Lead Generation Depth

Lead quality loops, Instant Forms versus website, conversion leads optimisation.

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8. Commerce Depth

Catalog feed health, product set strategy, retargeting windows.

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9. Experiments That Hold Up

A/B tests in Ads Manager, holdouts and power, reading results honestly.

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10. Account Operations

Account audits, structural rebuilds, naming and QA governance.

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11. Client Strategy

Quarterly plans, forecasting with ranges, defending the number.

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12. Strategist Capstone

Inherit a messy account and run a full quarter under one authorization.

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