There are days where you feel like you’re building exactly the life you want
Then the next day you feel like you have no idea what you’re doing
I think that’s just part of it
A static can generate less revenue than a video and still be the higher leverage creative, this is why:
Revenue is not only what the creative makes you, you also need to look at what it costs you to create and test it.
Let’s say a video needs a creator, script, editor, product shipping, revisions, and one week of production, while a static can be built and tested for a fraction of that.
That means the same production budget can give you one video concept or ten completely different static concepts.
Even if the video becomes the bigger winner, the statics helped you find the message that deserved the video production in the first place.
That means if you judge creative leverage only by revenue per winning ad, you are ignoring the production cost, testing cost, number of concepts tested, speed of learning, and contribution after all those costs.
Statics are not valuable only because they are cheap, they are valuable because the cost of being wrong is low.
Most of your five star reviews are useless for selling your product, here is why:
Let’s say your claim is fast relief, showing a review saying “Great product, I love it” can be completely real and positive, but it doesn’t prove how fast the relief happened.
If your claim is better sleep, the proof needs to show what changed during the night and the next morning.
If your claim is durability, the proof needs to show what happened after weeks or months of use.
That means proof is not only about showing that people like your product, it needs to answer the exact doubt created by your claim.
You don’t always need more testimonials or more five star reviews, you only need the proof to match what you’re asking the customer to believe.
One piece of relevant proof can do more than 50 random five star reviews.