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Gary O.

Creative Strategist | 4M+ Ad Spend Managed | Winners Found Surgically

Four questions. Which hook won? Which format? Which promise in your account has never had a dollar behind it? Which of your winners has never been varied on purpose? Most accounts can't answer any of them. Two years of spend and no findings, because nothing was ever tagged and nothing was ever organized around what works. So every new ad starts from zero instead of starting from the thing that already won. Same problem either way. Whether you're a direct-to-consumer brand or a performance agency scaling hundreds of ads a day, it's the same problem and the same fix. Your last person probably started by making new ads. That's what everyone does, and it's part of why you're back on here. Anyone can find you a winner. Throw enough at the wall. What nobody's actually selling is the next one on purpose. Most people will tell you it's a quality problem. They'll offer to make you better ads. Usually it isn't quality. It's deployment, and more ads won't touch it. What I actually do. I run a system that finds what's already winning in your account and makes the next one deliberate. It exists. You're not waiting on me to invent it. Your team makes the ads. I'm the thinking that tells them what to make and why. Where it's worked. @upforcemedia: I came in on creative strategy and ended up authoring the operational reference that defines how the whole company runs. I'm lead creative strategist there, running well over six figures a month in the tax relief industry. @lobsterboysteam: brought in to build the creative intelligence their in-house team didn't have. They were stuck at $71 per new customer against a $50 target, and had run close to 100 creatives to find 3 winners. I broke down why those 3 won, turned the mechanisms into a system their team could run off, and inside three weeks they had 14 new ads with 6 trending at or under target. @themove.miami: $350K to seven figures, 20x ROI, 250+ celebrity clients. The unlock was a testing framework that separated which angles got clicks from which ones actually converted. Not the same thing, and most accounts never find out. @mansourmusic: an international tour across nine cities and four countries. 348 verified ticket sales at $66.96 blended, with cost per sale falling up to 60% from takeover to show day. Meta's own automated callouts flagged the same drops independently. Those are attributed purchases only, so the real number is higher. I'd rather report conservatively than inflate. Send me your account and I'll tell you what I see. Ready for a convo when you are.

🇺🇸Peabody, United States$60/hr100% JSS5.00 (6)Since Jul 2024
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.6k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#29,443 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,869 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$606

Last 6 months: $9.7k

World#57,670 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,796 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$15k

Billed in all: $16k

World#161,888 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#26,400 / 62.1k
Per project
$1.2k

$1.1k in the last 6 months

World#112,012 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#19,108 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
9
33% fixed67% hourly
World#21,106 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,165 / 62.1k
Projects in all
13
46% fixed54% hourly
World#175,715 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#25,131 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$15.8k+$606 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$15.0k$15.5k$16.0kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

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