What happens when your ad doesn’t suck… but still doesn’t work?
You know the drill.
The offer’s solid. The creative? Clean. Your audience? Hand-picked.
And yet — the performance is flat.
You start asking the same questions everyone asks:
➡ “Do I need a better image?”
➡ “Is it the wrong CTA?”
➡ “Is my audience too cold?”
Here’s the real answer:
You’re too close to it.
This is where AI isn’t just a writing tool. It’s a thinking partner.
You can drop your actual campaign into ChatGPT — metrics, copy, audience, creative — and ask:
“What would you tweak?”
And it answers. Like a good strategist would.
Not just “make it better,” but “Here’s what’s likely dragging this down — and here are 3 real fixes.”
Faster than a Slack thread. More insightful than a Google search.
We broke that down in this blog. Worth the five-minute read.
A Quick Story From the Trenches
One of our test campaigns was tanking.
Headline was fine. Copy was fine. CTR? 0.49%.
So we used the same prompt we just gave you.
ChatGPT told us:
The headline was too generic.
The offer lacked urgency.
The image felt stock-y.
We tweaked those three things.
CTR doubled.
CPC dropped by 40%.
Lead volume up. Cost down. Nothing revolutionary — just tighter feedback, faster.
That’s the thing. You don’t always need a new campaign.
You just need to see the current one more clearly.
A Simple Way to Split-Test Smarter
Here’s your experiment for the week:
Take your best-performing ad.
Ask ChatGPT:
“Give me 5 versions of this ad. Change the angle each time — urgency, logic, emotion, curiosity, and contrarian.”
That’s it.
You’ll walk away with five testable ideas in 30 seconds.
Split-testing becomes less of a chore, more of a creative unlock.
We walk through the full approach in this post — and it’s one you’ll come back to again and again.
The Prompt of the Week
“Find the leak in this funnel: [insert your real setup]”
Example: “FB Ad → Landing Page → Free Ebook → Email Nurture → Book a Call”
You’ll be surprised where ChatGPT points you — and how fast you’ll know what to fix.
One Last Thing
If your ads are spending but not scaling — and you're tired of guessing — let’s fix it together.
Reach out here. One clean strategy beats 10 more tweaks.
Until next Monday —
Ryan @ Growth Forge Studio
Helping you work smarter, one prompt at a time.