€1.5M in Revenue in 2 Years… and Now Meta Ads Is Killing My Business
Honestly, I don’t understand what’s going on with Meta Ads anymore.
I run an online store that generated €1.5 million in revenue in 2 years. The product works, it solves a real problem, and I’ve had excellent results with Meta in the past. Yet for about a year now, I haven’t been able to get back to consistent profitability.
And it’s not like I’m sitting back doing nothing. I create new creatives almost every day, test new angles, new campaigns, different audiences, different formats… I spend a huge amount of time trying to figure out what actually works today.
But what completely blows my mind is how volatile the results are.
I can launch a campaign and get a 7 ROAS on the first day, then the next day it drops to 1.2, without making any major changes. And sometimes the performance suddenly comes back again.
That’s exactly why I don’t think the problem is simply the product. If my product didn’t work, I wouldn’t be having days with a 7 ROAS.
I completely understand that performance can fluctuate, competition can increase, CPMs can go up, and some periods can simply be worse than others. But seeing performance go from 7 ROAS to 1.2 ROAS within 24 hours, and then randomly recover again, is extremely difficult to understand.
And please, don’t just tell me “let it run for 15 days so the algorithm can learn.” I’ve already done that several times. I’ve let campaigns run long enough to see whether they would stabilize.
The result? The only thing that stabilized was the amount of money I was spending. 😅
After a year of testing, analyzing, changing things and trying to get things back on track, I’m honestly very close to giving up completely.
I’d really like to hear from people who have experienced exactly the same thing:
Have you ever had a period where your Meta Ads were performing really well and then suddenly deteriorated for several months? And for those of you who managed to get through it, what did you actually change to get back to consistent profitability?