Let's Talk About Failure
Failure is uncomfortable to talk about — for those who haven't learned to work with it.
I started running Google ads (AdWords, back then) in April 2010. My own campaigns, on a questionable offer, on a well-known affiliate network, back when you could still link directly to those pages. Here's how it went: I spent $2,750 and made back $476.67.
"But Lee," I hear you say, "you're not exactly filling me with confidence here." Well — we all start somewhere.
Back then we didn't have polished courses or Facebook groups, or that thing called YouTube that now teaches you everything. We had a handful of eBooks, a "guru" or two who was "killing it," and sheer determination to fail and learn. So that's what I did. I failed, a lot. And I learned from it.
From that first learning curve I went on to run PPC departments in the corporate world, with Google Ads budgets from $15k up to $500k per month. In 2017 I left the corporate world to build my own path — plugging into agencies and building out the Google Ads arm for their clients across dozens of niches.
Since then I've managed product and offer launches spending $1.5m+ in the first 7 days, with daily budgets exceeding $200k — profitably. From strategy to ad copy, funnel flow to the holy grail of paid media: Scale.