The Andrew Faris Podcast

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In the 30 days leading up to me recording this episode, my team made 2,358 still image ads and 1,063 video ads for my 5 clients. That's a level of output we've been building towards for a long time, and in this episode I'm breaking down why and how we build so much creative, what I'm learning about the process, and how I intend to keep making it better (in both quality and quantity). EPISODE SPONS...

Think big tech companies are squeezing money from you while over-reporting results? You might be right sometimes. But you're probably wrong with Meta. If you're measuring your performance on a click-only basis, your spend is almost definitely creating more value than you think. In this episode I explain exactly why and how that's true. EPISODE SPONSORS BILY Get enhanced Meta Ads event...

I talk about media buying methodology and the importance of Cost Controls a lot. Some might even say "too much." But then, over and over and over again, I get access to ad accounts that are blowing huge amounts of money on ads—gigantic, ridiculous, easily-solvable amounts of money. So I'm not going to shut up about it. Your media buying is a problem, and you need to know it. EPISODE...

So Shopify Capital (or someone else) offered you $250,000 in exchange for 17% of daily revenue for 90 days. The best part? You can get the money with just a few clicks. Should you take it? In one of my most popular episodes ever, Natural Dog Co CEO and former investment banker Bill D'Alessandro said, "Absolutely not. You're paying an absurd APR and these lenders know you don't und...

If you want a growing, profitable brand, you have to get noticed. That starts at the brand level and works all the way through your ads. Lianna Patch is my favorite copywriter around. She's the founder of Punchline Conversion Copywriting, and she's relentlessly good at one thing: she's interesting. Her copy is eye-catching, clear, and above all, funny. In this episode, I pick Lianna&#3...

AI is revolutionizing the way we make ads. Right? Yes. Definitely. But I'm sure I'm like many people in that, at least so far, the promise of AI for ad creative is both tantalizing and frustrating. In this episode I'm registering my initial reflections on trying to use AI to streamline my process for making great ads, including what I think AI is good at, what it's bad at, and what...

There are parts of your process for generating new ad creative that are time-consuming and, therefore, expensive. Good. That's how it should be. But not for everything. To build better performing creative in a more cost effective way, you need to understand the differences between which parts should be which. On this episode of the podcast, I'm explaining exactly how to do that. EPISODE SP...

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Sarah Levinger spends most of her time thinking about what people REALLY want. Then she makes ads that talk about that. Sarah is a Consumer Behavior Strategist, working with DTC brands to think more about what's really motivating their customers, then build their brand and advertising to communicate about those things effectively. Learn that, she says, and your creative will reach whole new le...

Here's one of the most common patterns I see for DTC brands: They switch to Cost Controlled media buying. Everything goes great at first. Then things slow down and they scramble. Part of the scramble is a return to automated bidding, on the assumption that the Cost Controls are the problem. Performance only gets worse. Today on the show, I'm talking you through why its so common to step in...

Colab with The Ecommerce Playbook! Taylor and Andrew do our second Tim Ferris-inspired "Random Show." In this episode, we talk about: What the heck is Andrew's business and why is he thinking about it so badly? Why is Taylor tweeting and talking so much about incrementality? How much should you spend on ad creative relative to your Meta Ads budget? What's the best way to leave mo...

It's my second ever AMA! This time I'm talking about all things creative strategy for your Facebook Ads account. Want to make ads that sell products? Here's how. EPISODE SPONSORS MORE STAFFING Virtual Assistants can be helpful, but Virtual Professionals can change your business. Hire incredible ecom talent from the Philippines with my friends at More Staffing at ⁠https://morestaffing.c...

Mehtab Bhogal is obsessed with growing profitable DTC brands. His team at Karta Ventures own majority stakes in 2 ecommerce brands and minority positions in 8 more. They see a LOT of brands and have big incentives to grow them profitably. In this episode, Mehtab explains how to negotiate your shipping rates, save big on Google Ad spend without sacrificing growth, how to capture more of the money y...

Nate Lagos is one of my favorite thinkers in DTC. That's because he thinks as well or better than anyone I know about how to do "brand building" in a way that actually generates profit. Put another way, "brand building" doesn't have to = "money burning." At least not for Nate. On this episode we talk about how Original Grain (where Nate is the CMO) is generati...

Am I embracing creative testing campaigns? Am I going all ABO? Am I ditching manual bids? No. No. And no. But I've nonetheless made a significant change to my approach to media buying, and so far, it has worked well for every client with whom I work. Today on the show I explain the best argument against my media buying approach (that no one ever makes) and the change I've made because of i...

Gregg Carey felt overwhelmed by the number of things he had to do in his 7-figure ecommerce business. Anyone who has been in that phase knows the feeling: there's too much to do, not enough time to do it, and not enough money to hire help. Except that last part isn't true: Gregg hired Lara Guevara to take over his supply chain from her home in the Philippines, and the result was growth, pr...

Riley Stricklin had a question for me. He had left his role as CEO of Lume Cube, a mid-8-figure DTC brand that he co-founded and I'd worked on briefly a number of years ago, and was thinking about what he wanted to do next. One idea he had: start an ecom HoldCo and try to spin up multiple new brands. When he reached out to ask for my input (as a former aggregator CEO myself), I told him, &quot...

"Every brand is different. Make sure to test what works for yours." That's some of the most common advice about how to run an ecommerce business and I think it's deeply misleading and unhelpful. In this episode of the Andrew Faris Podcast, I make the case that instead of testing everything, you should learn from the collected wisdom of the people who already have. EPISODE SPONSOR...

WHAT IS OPENING THE BOOKS? "Opening The Books" is my series of live-recorded coaching calls with brand operators who get my time for free in exchange for recording the call, including showing actual ad accounts and other financial data on the call. For more info and resources from this episode, visit ⁠www.ajfgrowth.com/zollie EPISODE SUMMARY Sarah Resnick has been helping crafters and, m...

Where do you need to focus your attention to grow your Meta spend? Is it in writing new angles? Increasing the volume of ads? Adding influencer content? Better media buying tactics? Or solving attribution? Well: it depends. Growth with Meta Ads is different depending on which stage your account is. Today, I'm breaking down the 3 stages of account growth so you can think through where to dedica...

I'm amazed at how good some ecommerce businesses are. Not necessarily the ones you read about or see on social media. They may or may not be good businesses. I'm thinking instead of businesses that I have seen up close and personally. In these businesses, when operators get crystal clear that bottom line profit is the ultimate driver of the value of their business, they can build SERIOUSLY...

Email & SMS are cornerstones of DTC growth marketing, so I brought in one of my most trusted experts on the subject, Joel Biery. Joel is the founder of KapturBox, an email & SMS agency with whom I've worked on shared clients. So I've seen the quality of his work and can vouch for him: he knows what he's talking about. On today's episode, we talk about how to use owned chann...

Drew Fallon knows what financial mistakes you're making in your DTC business. And he wants you to stop. From being the CFO & COO of Mad Rabbit Tattoo to launching Iris (a brand new DTC financial data tool), Drew has thought about ecommerce finance from just about every angle. On this episode of the Andrew Faris Podcast, Drew and I tell you to stop spending ad dollars, start forecasting mor...

Everything is going great for a business: your ads are working, scale is happening, and you're seeing huge revenue growth for both new and returning customers. But you can't figure out why: were the new ads you made THAT much better than the old ones? Or sometimes it's the opposite: nothing is working, including the ads that were doing great only a few weeks ago. So what's the diff...