u/bondtradercu

Like when the bill comes in front of you at the end, do you just sit there and let the guys pay or you offer to split out of courtesy?

Sometimes it is kinda awkward when the bill is sitting there and you not offering? And I am just offering out of courtesy not like expecting them to say ok to it

Do you see someone again of they agreed to your offer and split?

I have 38k and a 35k fna. I was trying to select W Osaka as I saw some folks been able to do it but this one and all others I tried show as ineligible to be used for FNA?

Say they are single and looking for a relationship, are most or all of them on apps?

If someone isnt on apps I can assume they are not single lol?

Even if you are not recruiting for a job?

Bought at 7 and was waiting for it to go up at least to 4 😭😭😭

Mine is 50pct down.

Did you sell all or wait to recover?

That I can use? I need to go 1-2 times during 5-7 pm hours to see if I like it to sign up for 1 year membership.

Thank you so much!!!

Also if you are member do you like this club?

Should I dump 10k into this tomorrow?

Been running Meta ads for about 4–5 months for my DTC brand and honestly starting to hit a wall mentally.

We are a super small team:
• 2 founders
• Partner still working full time
• I am basically the only one running the business full time
• goal is to scale this to $1M+/year eventually

We worked with an agency for 2 months end of last year and honestly it was disappointing.

They were not very proactive.
I constantly had to tell them what to test or change.
Their designers were good at following instructions, but there was very little actual strategy or creative direction coming from them.

Eventually I joined Ecommerce Equation and the advice was basically:
“Run ASC broad and feed creatives.”

So now we mostly run:
• 1 ASC campaign
• broad targeting
• lots of creative testing
• $100–150/day spend
• usually testing 10–15 creatives at a time

At the beginning of the year performance was decent.
We had some winning creatives and conversion rate was around 3%.

But May has been brutal.

Now some creatives get insane CTRs (sometimes 20–30%+) but conversion rate collapses below 1%.

Audience age also suddenly skewed older (65+) even though many creatives are variations of previous winners.

At this point I genuinely cannot tell whether the issue is:
• creative angles
• offer positioning
• ASC/broad structure
• Meta traffic quality
• account quality/data
• landing page mismatch
• or just creative fatigue

Feels like I spend every day:
• analyzing old winners
• making iterations
• trying new hooks
• testing founder UGC/statics/testimonials/ AI clones
• studying metrics
• trying to reverse engineer what changed

Question for people further along:

At our stage, is it worth hiring another marketing agency?

Or is this one of those stages where:
• founders should keep learning themselves
• get a one-time audit/creative strategist instead
• simplify testing
• and just keep iterating internally?

What actually helped you break through this stage?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people who scaled through this messy early phase because right now Meta feels incredibly inconsistent.

Been running Meta ads for about 4–5 months for my DTC brand and honestly starting to hit a wall mentally.

We are a super small team:
• 2 founders
• Partner still working full time
• I am basically the only one running the business full time
• goal is to scale this to $1M+/year eventually

We worked with an agency for 2 months end of last year and honestly it was disappointing.

They were not very proactive.
I constantly had to tell them what to test or change.
Their designers were good at following instructions, but there was very little actual strategy or creative direction coming from them.

Eventually I joined Ecommerce Equation and the advice was basically:
“Run ASC broad and feed creatives.”

So now we mostly run:
• 1 ASC campaign
• broad targeting
• lots of creative testing
• $100–150/day spend
• usually testing 10–15 creatives at a time

At the beginning of the year performance was decent.
We had some winning creatives and conversion rate was around 3%.

But May has been brutal.

Now some creatives get insane CTRs (sometimes 20–30%+) but conversion rate collapses below 1%.

Audience age also suddenly skewed older (65+) even though many creatives are variations of previous winners.

At this point I genuinely cannot tell whether the issue is:
• creative angles
• offer positioning
• ASC/broad structure
• Meta traffic quality
• account quality/data
• landing page mismatch
• or just creative fatigue

Feels like I spend every day:
• analyzing old winners
• making iterations
• trying new hooks
• testing founder UGC/statics/testimonials/ AI clones
• studying metrics
• trying to reverse engineer what changed

Question for people further along:

At our stage, is it worth hiring another marketing agency?

Or is this one of those stages where:
• founders should keep learning themselves
• get a one-time audit/creative strategist instead
• simplify testing
• and just keep iterating internally?

What actually helped you break through this stage?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people who scaled through this messy early phase because right now Meta feels incredibly inconsistent.

Been running Meta ads for about 4–5 months for my DTC brand and honestly starting to hit a wall mentally.

We are a super small team:
• 2 founders
• Partner still working full time
• I am basically the only one running the business full time
• goal is to scale this to $1M+/year eventually

We worked with an agency for 2 months end of last year and honestly it was disappointing.

They were not very proactive.
I constantly had to tell them what to test or change.
Their designers were good at following instructions, but there was very little actual strategy or creative direction coming from them.

Eventually I joined Ecommerce Equation and the advice was basically:
“Run ASC broad and feed creatives.”

So now we mostly run:
• 1 ASC campaign
• broad targeting
• lots of creative testing
• $100–150/day spend
• usually testing 10–15 creatives at a time

At the beginning of the year performance was decent.
We had some winning creatives and conversion rate was around 3%.

But May has been brutal.

Now some creatives get insane CTRs (sometimes 20–30%+) but conversion rate collapses below 1%.

Audience age also suddenly skewed older (65+) even though many creatives are variations of previous winners.

At this point I genuinely cannot tell whether the issue is:
• creative angles
• offer positioning
• ASC/broad structure
• Meta traffic quality
• account quality/data
• landing page mismatch
• or just creative fatigue

Feels like I spend every day:
• analyzing old winners
• making iterations
• trying new hooks
• testing founder UGC/statics/testimonials/ AI clones
• studying metrics
• trying to reverse engineer what changed

Question for people further along:

At our stage, is it worth hiring another marketing agency?

Or is this one of those stages where:
• founders should keep learning themselves
• get a one-time audit/creative strategist instead
• simplify testing
• and just keep iterating internally?

What actually helped you break through this stage?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people who scaled through this messy early phase because right now Meta feels incredibly inconsistent.

Been running Meta ads for about 4–5 months for my DTC brand and honestly starting to hit a wall mentally.

We are a super small team:
• 2 founders
• Partner still working full time
• I am basically the only one running the business full time
• goal is to scale this to $1M+/year eventually

We worked with an agency for 2 months end of last year and honestly it was disappointing.

They were not very proactive.
I constantly had to tell them what to test or change.
Their designers were good at following instructions, but there was very little actual strategy or creative direction coming from them.

Eventually I joined Ecommerce Equation and the advice was basically:
“Run ASC broad and feed creatives.”

So now we mostly run:
• 1 ASC campaign
• broad targeting
• lots of creative testing
• $100–150/day spend
• usually testing 10–15 creatives at a time

At the beginning of the year performance was decent.
We had some winning creatives and conversion rate was around 3%.

But May has been brutal.

Now some creatives get insane CTRs (sometimes 20–30%+) but conversion rate collapses below 1%.

Audience age also suddenly skewed older (65+) even though many creatives are variations of previous winners.

At this point I genuinely cannot tell whether the issue is:
• creative angles
• offer positioning
• ASC/broad structure
• Meta traffic quality
• account quality/data
• landing page mismatch
• or just creative fatigue

Feels like I spend every day:
• analyzing old winners
• making iterations
• trying new hooks
• testing founder UGC/statics/testimonials/
• studying metrics
• trying to reverse engineer what changed

Question for people further along:

At our stage, is it worth hiring another marketing agency?

Or is this one of those stages where:
• founders should keep learning themselves
• get a one-time audit/creative strategist instead
• simplify testing
• and just keep iterating internally?

What actually helped you break through this stage?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people who scaled through this messy early phase because right now Meta feels incredibly inconsistent.

Been running Meta ads for about 4–5 months for my DTC brand and honestly starting to hit a wall mentally.

We are a super small team:
• 2 founders
• Partner still working full time
• I am basically the only one running the business full time
• goal is to scale this to $1M+/year eventually

We worked with an agency for 2 months end of last year and honestly it was disappointing.

They were not very proactive.
I constantly had to tell them what to test or change.
Their designers were good at following instructions, but there was very little actual strategy or creative direction coming from them.

Eventually I joined Ecommerce Equation and the advice was basically:
“Run ASC broad and feed creatives.”

So now we mostly run:
• 1 ASC campaign
• broad targeting
• lots of creative testing
• $100–150/day spend
• usually testing 10–15 creatives at a time

At the beginning of the year performance was decent.
We had some winning creatives and conversion rate was around 3%.

But May has been brutal.

Now some creatives get insane CTRs (sometimes 20–30%+) but conversion rate collapses below 1%.

Audience age also suddenly skewed older (65+) even though many creatives are variations of previous winners.

At this point I genuinely cannot tell whether the issue is:
• creative angles
• offer positioning
• ASC/broad structure
• Meta traffic quality
• account quality/data
• landing page mismatch
• or just creative fatigue

Feels like I spend every day:
• analyzing old winners
• making iterations
• trying new hooks
• testing founder UGC/statics/testimonials/ AI clones
• studying metrics
• trying to reverse engineer what changed

Question for people further along:

At our stage, is it worth hiring another marketing agency?

Or is this one of those stages where:
• founders should keep learning themselves
• get a one-time audit/creative strategist instead
• simplify testing
• and just keep iterating internally?

What actually helped you break through this stage?

Would really appreciate honest advice from people who scaled through this messy early phase because right now Meta feels incredibly inconsistent.

Is this a short or long term play?

P2 never had bilt before and only have had like 3 credit cards in total.

Would they get approved or low chances? If low then I don't want to add an inquiry on their report

also is Bilt strict with identity verification for first Bilt card?

Rent is being paid on my Bilt Palladium.

But we have large expenses coming up and was wondering if it is worth it to get a Bilt card for P2 for churning purporses and get the bonus?