Spend roughly 10% of your revenue on ads.
And that applies even if you're small.
Doing $5k a month? That's $500 into ads.
Don't get it twisted though, at $500 a month you can't expect crazy results.
Depending on your niche, you might not even sign a client from that first $500.
So people look at that and conclude ads "don't work" at their level.
Wrong lesson.
What that $500 actually buys you is a couple of calls a month, some leads, and a pipeline of people to follow up with.
And that's the start of something most agency owners never build: momentum.
Think about what's actually happening.
Your ad account is gathering data on what your market responds to.
Your pixel is learning who converts.
You're getting experience on sales calls with cold prospects, which is a completely different skill to closing referrals.
And your follow-up list grows every single week.
None of that shows up as revenue in month 1.
All of it compounds.
200$ for higgsfield
120$ for claude
30$ for chat
2000$ ad spent
30$ klaviyo
30$ meta
Planning on running my company on 2.5K per month with ZERO employees.
BREAKING: Claude Code can now make your ads like a $10K/mo agency.
One skill. One product URL. Five finished Meta ads in under 5 minutes.
I tested it to prove it couldn't be that good.
It was.
Distinct angles. Different funnel stages. Each one looked like a separate creative team built it.
I have hired those teams. But this was sharper.
Here is what the skill actually does once you feed it a URL:
- Pulls live competitor ads and finds the angles nobody is running
- Reverse-engineers the hooks already winning in your category
- Builds the full brief: ICP, pains, customer language, the psychology behind the buy
- Writes the concepts, the copy, and the visual direction as one package
- Ships a set built to test against each other, not to sit pretty in a deck
No dashboards. No logins. No designer queue. It runs in the terminal.
And here is the uncomfortable part for the industry:
You were never paying $4K for ideas.
You were paying for briefs, decks, revision rounds, and the Slack thread that goes quiet for three days.
I dropped this into our performance engine and the first account went from one new angle a week to five a day.
More angles. More signal. We found the winning ROAS in days, not months.
If you want the exact build:
1. Connect with me
2. Comment "CLAUDE"
I'll send it to your DMs.
Things that happened during the year i started my new tech lead beauty company in beirut
A war
Then another war
Maybe a third war its kinda blurry
Closed over 2000 orders
Ai tsunami of tools
Musk became a trillionaire
Knicks in 5
Partnered up with 2 ecom experts
Met the Loml
Hired 2 interns
Received 1 bad review from someone at 4 am
Startup is 20% automated with AI
Crypto crash