Jacob's Brain

The Maker Letter ·

Can you start with $5/day?

Hey Friend,

For a long time, running ads for myself felt like admitting defeat.

I live in an organic world. I had no problem running paid for clients. But for my own stuff? Something about spending money to get traffic to my own offer felt like cheating on my content.

So I ran a quiet experiment instead.

I spent 313 euros.

I netted $12,808. In February. From ads alone — nothing organic counted.

(Minus one refund from someone who said it wasn't the right time. No questions, no drama.)

Now I had something to work with.

The method was simple. I set up the ads. Waited for the first high-ticket sale to land through the back end. Took 25% of that and put it straight back into good ol' Zuckerberg's platform.

I recorded the whole thing behind the scenes in a video here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYnLdKyPCms) if you want to see it.

Then I started slowly turning up the dial.

It's now sitting at roughly 1 new client per week or two from ads alone. I've raised spend from $5/day to $15/day because the experiment is working and I'm enjoying it.

Target: $7k/week from The Micro Snack Cartel. We're getting there.

I'm walking everyone through this live inside Modern Maker Fast Lane right now - funnel setup, ad strategy, tweaking, all of it.

If you want to see if it's a fit for what you're building, reply " FAST LANE " and I'll send the info.

Your biggest fan,
Jacob '313 euros well spent' Pegs

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