This one might sting.
When ads "work" at low spend, it feels like relief. You think, "Okay, we've got something."
But ads working at low spend tell you almost nothing.
At low budgets, you're reaching the easiest people. Your warmest audience. People who were probably going to buy anyway.
In that small, friendly bubble ...
Your product-market fit doesn't need to be sharp. Just close enough.
Your messaging can be fuzzy. Your offer doesn't need to be clear. Warm audiences fill in the blanks themselves.
So everything "works." The dashboard gives you a thumbs up.
Then you scale. And it falls apart.
That's not the scaling breaking things. That's the scaling telling the truth.
The low-spend version of your business was the polite version. It hid the gaps.
The most dangerous moment in ecommerce is when your ads are working at low spend. It feels like proof. But it's actually permission to stop looking deeper.
More on that tomorrow …
See you then,
Jeremiah
P.S. If you've ever scaled, watched things fall apart, then pulled back and said "well, it works at this level" ... you didn't find a safe spot. You found a hiding spot.
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