Advertising

Paid Ads Cheatsheet

Campaign structures, creative angles and budget rules that stop ads burning cash.

72 pages About 80 minutes PDF + EPUB Updated July 2026
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About this ebook

Paid Ads Cheatsheet is a compact reference for anyone spending their own money on ads. It covers account structure, creative testing and the small number of metrics worth reacting to.

Instead of platform tours, it gives you decision rules: when to kill a creative, when to scale, and how to tell a bad offer from a bad ad.

What you'll learn

  • Structure accounts so the algorithm has enough data to learn
  • Write and test creative angles systematically
  • Read results without over-reacting to noise
  • Set budget and scaling rules in advance
  • Diagnose whether the problem is the ad, the offer or the page

What's inside

6 chapters · 72 pages · About 80 minutes

  • 1. Before you spend

    Offer, tracking and the minimum viable budget.

  • 2. Account structure

    Consolidation, audiences and why fewer campaigns win.

  • 3. Creative angles

    Twelve angles with examples and a testing grid.

  • 4. Reading the numbers

    Which metrics to act on and which to ignore.

  • 5. Scaling rules

    Written thresholds for kill, hold and scale decisions.

  • 6. Troubleshooting

    A flowchart for campaigns that suddenly stop working.

Sample pages

Cost per click tells you how the auction feels about your ad. It tells you nothing about whether the business made money. Judge on cost per outcome, over a window long enough to matter.

From Chapter 4

Decide your kill threshold before the campaign runs. Decisions made while watching spend tick up are decisions made by anxiety.

From Chapter 5

Who it's for

  • Small business owners running their own ads
  • Marketers new to paid
  • Freelancers managing client budgets

Frequently asked

Which platforms are covered?

Primarily Meta and Google, with principles that transfer to TikTok and LinkedIn.

Minimum budget to apply this?

The rules work from roughly €20/day upward.

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