If I see one more webinar ad for a business coach who coaches about business coaching that is vanilla, fluffy, and vague, I’m going to ????.

As an ad manager, it’s generally not our job to be a copywriter. However, a lot of the time, many of us are. We take that on board as we create the copy to go in the ads because that’s just how it’s done. Ideally, you get to a place where you’re either outsourcing it and your clients are paying for it, and that’s part of your billing system. Or your clients are providing it to you because, honestly, no one knows your clients better than they do.

So how do you create copy that will stand out in the newsfeed for our webinar ads that invite coaches to watch a webinar about coaching other coaches? It’s going to be that big, woefully vanilla, or vague copy. That’s kind of like a headline that says the three key foundations to working with premium clients with grace and ease. So it’s like, what the hell does that even mean? How is that speaking to me? And then the copy itself is full of all this other sort of stuff that’s just filling up the newsfeed, and Facebook does not like that kind of vagueness with their ads.

It’s not going to cut it these days as we go into this pixel iOS14 world. So your ad copy and creative needs to be clearer than ever before. You need to speak to the ideal client in a way that you’ve never spoken to them before, and that will lift you out of the newsfeed and connect you with your audience.

This all comes back to what we call a brilliant marketing message. It’s one of the things that we teach in my Elite Ad Manager Certification. It’s taking all the waffle and jargon out of these ads and out of these headlines to make things super streamlined, focused, and more powerful.

I was recently looking at holding an event and thought a cruise would be fun. Now yes, after COVID, cruises kind of seem like a big petri dish of germs. But they’re still a lot of fun! So we were looking and came across Virgin Voyager. The new cruise line going out by Virgin company out of Florida.

Richard Branson’s quote was, “Create a longing for the sea, not just a cruise ship.” That, to me, was a sign of a brilliant marketing message. It was that yearning for the sea rather than just, oh, here’s another ship, right? Make them look forward to the whole experience of it.

So as we create our ads for our clients, or they provide us with that copy, having an eye for that brilliant marketing message that’s going to reduce the fluff, reduce the vagueness, and not make things vanilla is so imperative to be able to have that eye to see it.

Now, one of the ways that you can do that, and what I love, is to get testimonials from clients or the client’s clients. Because chances are if you were to say to your client, “Explain to me who your ideal client is, what their pain points are, and what they want to achieve.” Chances are you’re going to get all this jargon spewed at you. They’re going to say they want to have some systems and frameworks to consistently implement and post and blah, blah, blah.

It’s going to be all the same vanilla, vague wording. What you want is to get the words from the horse’s mouth. So ask your client to provide you with testimonials from their clients so that you can see what they’re saying, where they were before working with your client, and now where they are afterwards and then be creative with that. Use their exact wording, but then add additional adjectives, action words, and words relevant to their field and to their niche into that copy. Make it really resonate with that audience.

Another way is to use your clients’ USP, which is their unique selling proposition. Each of us is unique, and that gets lost a lot in the newsfeed. It generally all comes back to who is the stereotype. This is what our graphically designed image will look like, and here’s our wording that’s going to go in the ad. That’s going to be the same as everyone else’s wording.

I think we get that from school, maybe, right? We handed in an essay, and when we got really creative, it was marked wrong. And so we get put into this little, “this is how it must be,” but when it comes to business and life for yourself and your clients, the USP (the unique selling proposition) is often you. People do business with people.

So show your uniqueness in your ad copy, messaging, and use the words that your client actually says. How do they speak? Are they all formal? How do they sound when they’re off the cuff, and you’re just talking to them? How can you incorporate that into the ad copy, as well as the testimonials that you’re pulling in from your client’s clients?

Now, if your client doesn’t have many clients or testimonials, or even if they do, I recommend you head over to Amazon and look at book reviews relevant to the niche that your client is in. Go through, see what people are saying in these book reviews, and incorporate that as inspiration for your ad copy.

Putting that uniqueness and standing out in the newsfeed means that we need to be looking at our clients, how they communicate, and how they generally talk. We’re looking at testimonials, what their ideal clients actually have said and bringing that into our ad copy, as well as looking at a brilliant marketing message. So identifying, seeing what all those words do, the three key foundations and attracting premium clients with grace and ease. Is that really what they’re wanting? Why do they want it?

I was talking to one of our ad managers who was getting a pool built, and they had been able to get this pool installed because of the bonus she got running Facebook ads for clients. So incorporating something like that into your marketing message, like imagine flying first class, thanks to working with premium clients and taking the vacations that you’ve been wanting to take.

So what is it that your ideal clients want? What are the struggles that they are actually facing and incorporating that into the ad copy? Stay away from vanilla, vague jargon terminology and get back to being human and putting that uniqueness back into our ads of being an individual and representing that in our ads.

I hope you found that valuable today. The next time you see some ad copy, analyze it, look at it, see how there may be jargon in the terminology and how it can be swapped out with things that are just everyday speaking to people. See where they’re at, thoughts they’re having in their minds and hearts, and bring that to life in the ad copy.