June 4, 2025
You don’t need a $1,000-a-month ad budget to get clients. We help people do it with just $5 a day. If running ads feels overwhelming or expensive, this episode of Bringing Simplicity Unfiltered is for you.
Judy and Greta break down how we use $5-a-day ads to generate leads and sales, why you don’t need a big audience or a complex funnel, and the simple system we teach to make every dollar count. It works even if you’re just starting out. And yes, it works without dancing or trending audio.
Most coaches lose money on ads because they blindly trust an agency. We get it. We’ve done the same thing. Why wouldn’t you trust an expert, the same way you’d trust your mechanic or your doctor?
One client had boosted posts and hoped for the best. She spent about $300 with zero results. Once we helped her clarify her message and content and built a simple quiz funnel to run ads to, she started getting leads daily for just $5 a day.
Her audience members were all in different places in their journey. A quiz let us segment them so each person felt seen and understood. That top-of-funnel strategy created a clear pathway to a sale, and she started getting sales quickly.
Her content, even boosted, wasn’t clearly telling people who she helped and how. The quiz identified exactly who they were and their path to success. If you take one thing away: don’t spend money on boosting, or anything else, until your message is dialed in.
We test that with $5-a-day reach ads. Organic gives you clues, but once you push reach ads behind a few pieces of content, you find out which message actually lands. The one you think will work often isn’t the one that does.
We’re not your typical ad strategists or media buyers. We don’t recommend starting with sales ads, or even direct-to-opt-in ads. We start by getting you seen.
Inside Bringing Simplicity, we teach clients to run $5-a-day reach ads to high-value reels or videos that build authority. One client doubled her audience in two weeks without creating any new content. She’s a true expert in her field, but her content wasn’t getting seen because of the algorithm. By focusing on value first and establishing her as a thought leader, people wanted more. She gained followers and grew her list.
Reach ads are inexpensive, powerful, and build the trust you need before you sell. You get visible fast without people feeling like you’re constantly pitching. Greta was reading Alex Hormozi that weekend, and he talks a lot about establishing thought leadership before asking for the sale. Judy adds that he uses organic for information and ads to pitch his products. Whatever works for you, works.
A lot of agencies would look at 3,000 followers and say, “Let’s spend $15 a day.” Whether you have 3,000 or 15,000 followers, we start with $5 a day. You can always scale from there, but it’s a good place to start.
We just talked a lot about followers, but growing your Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok following isn’t our goal. Vanity metrics aren’t the goal. Growing your list is the goal.
Another client ran ads to her quiz at a cost of about $1.28 per lead. Those leads turned into paying clients within about 30 days with no hard selling. Reach ads warmed people up, and her organic content, list, nurture sequence, and funnel did the selling.
Her offer was what we used to call low ticket and recently learned is considered mid ticket, so it could be sold by email without sales calls. As Judy always says, time is money. If you could get someone new into your world for $1.28, what would that be worth in your time? Even converting those people to a booked call is huge.
Greta tracks every piece of data, and the spreadsheets we give clients make ads decisions fast, like “that quiz is bombing” or “that quiz is crushing.” When your ad connects to a strong lead magnet like a quiz or checklist, you build your list and warm people up sooner. That’s how this client converted leads in under 30 days.
We’ve spent months and years dialing in which data matters. Within about three hours, we can tell you which organic content to push ads behind and what to create next, so you can keep running $5 a day to stay in front of your warm audience.
Yes. We start clients at $5 a day with reach ads to high-value content, then pair it with a clear lead magnet (like a quiz) and a nurture sequence. One client got leads at about $1.28 each that turned into paying clients within 30 days.
A reach ad puts an existing post, reel, or video in front of more people, especially your warm audience, so you become visible and build authority without a hard pitch.
We recommend starting with reach ads to build visibility and trust, then layering in opt-in and sales ads once your message is dialed in.
No. Whether you have a few thousand followers or tens of thousands, starting at $5 a day works, and you can scale from there.
If you’re ready to run ads that build your list without a huge budget, see our ads services or reach out to us.
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