March 10, 2026
If your results feel random, it’s usually because your system is. Predictable ads aren’t luck. They’re structure. This is the phase most people rush or skip entirely.
In this episode of Bringing Simplicity Unfiltered, Greta (founder) and Judy (CEO) show how an ad system becomes predictable: how they optimize, scale, and make growth feel stable instead of stressful, so you can get off the rollercoaster of highs and lows.
Running a business comes with a lot of rollercoasters. The more signs and guardrails you put up to protect yourself as a business owner, the better you move across every area of your business. When Greta and Judy come into a business, they add a marketing and ad system so you don’t ride those emotional ebbs and flows.
People say organic is unpredictable, because you never know what’s going to hit. Ads are always testing too. But with organic, once you’ve done a certain type of post over and over, you know what to expect. Maria Wendt talks about this a lot. She has the math broken down for how much she makes per post or reel.
With ads, you can put dollars behind what you’re doing, so people get excited. “That was a five-figure week, let’s double the budget next week!” Whoa, wait a minute. Spending $200 and making a lot back doesn’t mean doubling the budget is automatically the right move. It’s a possible action, not the only one.
When clients have pushed us to do it, we’ve done it, and then they say, “Oh, that didn’t work out.” Now they’re disappointed after being so excited. If you expect it to work that way, you’ll be disappointed. Your coaching business is different from another coach’s, and your leads are different.
That’s why Greta looks at the data in your accounts two or three times a day and decides whether to scale now or wait and stair-step it the right way.
The other side: one bad week and suddenly “ads suck,” “you guys are awful,” “the funnel is broken,” “these are bad leads,” “I need a new offer.” No. You need to emotionally regulate your feelings toward marketing so you’re not panicking.
As their mentors say, don’t live in drama. Live in data, and go back to the strategy you set. Judy says it’s the reason she has Greta. Judy wants to do things now, and Greta asks what the data says and whether the whole team will become dysregulated if they change direction. Bringing it back to the strategy creates predictability.
Ads will fluctuate because human behavior fluctuates. You’re selling to humans, not robots. But when you know your baseline and you’re not veering too far from it, your goals, or your strategy, you’ll know what to change, what to optimize for the leads who actually buy, and what needs fixing in the system. Your funnel might need tweaking, but you don’t need an entirely new funnel. That’s how predictable ads are built.
Everything sneakily returns to data. Business is built on boring basics, and data is one of them. Even Greta has to check herself: we’re not tweaking endlessly, we’re optimizing intentionally. That looks like this.
Identify the messaging that’s already proven. (If you haven’t watched our episode on the starter test, go back and watch it.) If we get impressions, a low cost per click, and link clicks, we’ll get the outcome you’re looking for. We build on proven messaging instead of guessing or throwing spaghetti at the wall.
When does someone come into your world? How long are they there? What triggers them to buy? It may seem like different things trigger different people, but when you plot the data points, patterns show up. On a recent call, a client realized about 80% of their sales come from email five in a seven-day sequence. So if we get more people to email five, we get more conversions. The more clearly you understand your funnel (top, middle, and bottom) and where conversion happens, the more solid your ads will be.
We look at frequency, how often people click, and how often they click multiple times. Greta watches accounts about twice a day. She’s not always tweaking. She’s watching for trends. “Our cost per lead is starting to creep up because frequency has gotten higher.” There are benchmarks, and we always start with them, but Greta knows, for example, that when a certain account’s frequency hits 2.2, it’s time for new ads, or cost per lead and everything else goes up.
“Let’s test a new hook, but only change the hook, nothing else.” Small changes with measurable outcomes lead to compounding results: more sales and more money for you.
Greta also shared that we recently purchased new software to help with data analysis. It shows how much money was “wasted” by not turning off underperforming ads. In the demos, people had crazy numbers. All of ours were under $25. Every dollar we spend goes toward the outcome we’re trying to achieve. Boring makes us millions.
Judy says people don’t want to do the boring work, and she gets it. It’s like health and fitness: you go to the gym and eat healthy. It’s not what you want to hear. When people ask what they need to do, Judy often says, “You’re not going to like what I’m about to tell you.” Go back and make sure your funnel is solid. Make sure you have a solid team, because when leads come in, what experience will they have?
Part of the boring work is looking at your data. If you’re like Judy and don’t enjoy it, hire people who do. Her rule: show me the data and give me two or three options, and I’ll decide in 10 minutes. That’s all you should be doing as the founder. Greta stays in the data because it fuels her. Know yourself, be self-aware, and build systems so you can make decisions faster.
When your systems connect, your business becomes scalable. It can grow and sustain without you. Once one system works, focus on the next one, and it compounds across your business.
You don’t have to do more to make more. You have to do the same thing over and over again. One client launching now used to have big spikes at the start and end of every launch, with an adrenaline rush to match. This launch, she’s had consistent sales throughout, and she’ll net more than any previous launch. She found her people, they trust her, and they’re buying. She also has to regulate into that place of predictability.
She’s really nailed the organic side. Paid will always amplify what’s working organically. Ads are not here to save the day. Ads are here to amplify what’s working.
Usually because the system behind them isn’t predictable. Human behavior fluctuates, but a clear baseline, strategy, and data review keep you from reacting to every high and low.
Not automatically. Scale based on the data and stair-step your budget rather than doubling it on excitement.
Don’t rebuild your funnel or offer. Check the data against your baseline and strategy, then make small, measurable changes where needed.
Watch frequency and cost per lead. In one account, Greta knows it’s time for new ads when frequency hits 2.2, because cost per lead starts to climb.
If you want a data-backed ad system that replaces guesswork, see our services or reach out to us.
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