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Why your Meta ads stopped working.

For a New Zealand ecommerce brand whose costs are up, whose reported return does not match the bank, and whose ads die after a few days. Four causes, how to tell them apart, and a check you can run on your own account.

4Diagnoses
60sAccount check
8Sections
Field guide

Meta ads, diagnosed

A guide you use yourself. Not someone else running the account.

$12.95NZD · instant access
  • The crowded auction, bad numbers, a small-market ceiling, and tired creative
  • What to track daily, weekly, and monthly
  • A 60-second diagnosis you can run on your own figures
  • An audit, and which changes are noise
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What’s inside

Tell the causes apart.

01
Chapter

The auction got more crowded

When the same result costs more because more advertisers are bidding, and how to tell that is the market.

02
Chapter

Your numbers are lying

When the reported return does not match the bank, and the three fixes, in order.

03
Chapter

Small markets have a ceiling

New Zealand is not a big audience. The one metric that shows you have hit the limit.

04
Chapter

Creative dies faster

Why ads wear out, the signals, a rotation that works on a small budget, and what to do when a winner suddenly stops.

05
Chapter

What to track

Daily, weekly, and monthly. The few numbers that tell you which problem you have.

06
Tool

Diagnose in 60 seconds

Put in your own figures. The tool names what is going on, and keeps a log in the browser.

07
Chapter

The audit

What to check before you change the account.

08
Chapter

Red flags and normal noise

Most accounts have more than one of these at once. This is how you sort them.

In the guide

Use your own numbers.

01
Four causesCrowded auction, bad reporting, a small market, or creative that has worn out.
02
The checkSpend, revenue, and frequency. A read on the account in about a minute.
03
The logSave each check. You can see whether the same flag keeps coming back.
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Name the problem. Then change the account.

One payment. Open it in the browser. It is a diagnosis, not someone managing the ads.

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