Easton Ads Walkthrough
For Korab · from Adam · Nov 10, 2026

How the Easton Facebook ads work

The whole setup on one page: what a business owner sees, where the lead goes, how the account is built, the rules I judge it by, and the five places I'd want your eyes. Everything here is read straight from the ad account and my plan files this morning.

PausedSince Oct 29. It ran a few hours. The restart below has not gone on.
$40a day, set on the campaign
$6.03spent, lifetime
132impressions
0leads so far
01 · The path

From a thumb scroll to a signed client

Seven steps. Tap each one. Green means it runs today. Amber means it is built and waiting to be switched on.

02 · The account

One campaign, three ideas, five ads each

The first draft had six ads with six different texts in one ad set, so a winner would have told me nothing about why it won. The restart splits it: each ad set is one reason to buy, with one text and one form. The five pictures inside it only change the trade shown. The ad set answers "which reason works on the Shore." The pictures answer "which way of showing it."

Campaign · Leads objective · $40 a day on the campaignMeta moves the money between ad sets. Each ad set gets a $10 a day floor so no idea is starved in week one.
3 ad sets · same audience, same offerOne big idea each, one instant form each, so the form a lead filled tells me which hook they tapped.
5 ads per ad set · 4 still pictures + 1 reelMarine, builders, landscaping, diesel. Same text with the trade words swapped. 15 ads in all.

Who sees it

  • Where105 ZIP codes, 9 Maryland Eastern Shore counties
  • Age25 and up
  • InterestsNone. Broad, the ad does the sorting
  • PlacementsFacebook + Instagram, Advantage+
  • Sizes4:5 for feeds, 9:16 for stories and reels

Settings I hold fixed

  • Advantage+ creative editsAll off
  • Flexible form deliveryOff
  • Price in the adAlways, $397 a month
  • Trade named in line oneAlways
  • Edits after launchNone for 7 days
03 · The offer

Why these three ideas and not others

I record my cold calls. About 1,960 of them are transcribed. I compared what the 28 owners who became clients heard on their calls with what the 613 owners who talked and never bought heard. Four things showed up far more often before a yes, and the three ad ideas are built on them.

Share of calls where the line was said. Blue is owners who became clients, gray is owners who never bought. Small sample on the client side, so I read it as direction, not proof. That is one of the things I'd like your read on.

04 · The rules

How I decide to scale, fix or stop

I judge it by cost per signed client, never by cost per lead. Type in a spend and a number of signed clients to see what the written rule says.

When a number is off, where I look first

What I seeWhat it points to
No leads after 5 to 7 daysThe offer
Few leads and a weak click rateThe pictures and the first line
Strong clicks, few leadsThe form
Leads, but few reached by phoneHow fast I call back
Reached, but few bookedThe call
Booked, but not heldShow rate and reminders
Held, but not signedThe demo

The day 7 read

  • Which idea gets leadsBy ad set, at lead level
  • Still picturesLink click rate over 1%
  • ReelsHook rate over 30%, then hold rate
  • BothCost per lead

The daily line

One script joins Meta spend to the CRM every morning: spend, leads, reached, calls booked, calls held, signed, lead to close, and cost per signed client. It is the one number that matters, traced back through every step.

05 · Where you come in

What I'd want your help on

You spent 13 years buying media and building the measurement behind it. That is the part of this I am weakest on. Five things, in the order I'd tackle them.

Read the restart plan before it goes on

Three ad sets and 15 ads on $40 a day is a lot of cells for a small budget.

Is it spread too thin to learn anything in 7 days? Would you start with one idea, or raise the budget?

Teach Meta what a good lead is

Today the ad sets optimize for a filled form. The CRM knows who booked a call and who signed.

I'd like those events sent back to Meta so it learns from buyers, set up the way you'd trust.

Score the leads

You built a lead score from 600,000 leads. I have about 2,000 recorded calls and a list of who became a client.

A simple score that tells me which leads to call first, and which ZIPs and trades to push.

The weekly read for the first 30 days

The rules above are written. Someone with your experience making the calls is better than me following a table.

One short read a week: what to cut, what to feed, what to test next.

Then the client accounts

I manage ads for clients at $400 a month plus their spend. One is agreed and waiting to start. Every business I work with is listed in the next section.

Once Easton's own account is proven, the same method on theirs, one at a time.

06 · The client book

The businesses we could run ads for

These are the local businesses I already work with. Each one has a site I built, tracking, and a CRM behind it, so a lead from an ad lands in a system that already answers it. That makes them the easiest ads clients to start: no cold pitch, and the plumbing is done.

How it would work

  • Ads management$400 a month, plus their ad spend on their card
  • OrderOne account at a time, proof first
  • The ads columnMy first guess. Yours to overrule.

The upsell beside the ads

Ads only pay if the lead gets answered. So each ads offer comes with the next step on my plans: Website $197, Lead Engine $397, Growth $497 a month, or the follow-up pack on its own (missed-call text-back, instant reply, review ask, owner alert). I only offer a step up after a client has been live 30 days and seen a report.

Agreed waiting to start First wave ready to pitch Seasonal pitch before their season Later not the right time yet