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I've spent millions on Meta ads. Let me teach you.

1:1 coaching, scroll-stopping creative and full-funnel strategy for SaaS and eCommerce marketers who want results they actually understand.

Limited space for a few new clients

I'm Head of Marketing at Picfair and take on a handful of clients on the side.

Joe Hobbs
8 yrs
on Meta ads, every working day
£millions
in managed ad spend
−25%
cost per acquisition, with my ads
6.7M
views on a single ad I made
Featured result
One ad. £165k spent, and it still hasn't fatigued.

A single Meta video ad I made and scaled for Picfair. Most ads fatigue and fade within weeks, but there are tricks to make a winner last, and they are teachable. Years on, this one still holds the best cost per acquisition on the account.

6.7Mviews
50Kreactions
8.8Kshares
£165kspent, still scaling
Best CPAon the account
A Meta video ad for Picfair with 6.7M views and 50K reactions

What commenters say on my ads

★★★★★This ad literally had me sign up.
★★★★★This is the best ad I have ever seen and heard in my life.
★★★★★Signing up specifically for this ad.
★★★★★10/10 ad.
★★★★★The most classy and creative ad I have ever seen.
★★★★★Well damn. How can I not sign up after this ad?
★★★★★Now this is marketing!
★★★★★I was thinking of joining, but now? I am sold!
★★★★★Peak advertising!
★★★★★100 points to the marketing team.
★★★★★Everyone needs to do ads like this!
★★★★★Best. Ad. Ever.
★★★★★First ad I actually watched till the end.
★★★★★Advertising done right!
★★★★★The creativity here is unreal.
★★★★★That's what I call advertising.
I teach you to run it brilliantly. I don't take over your account.

Most consultants log in, make changes you don't understand, and leave you dependent on them. I work the opposite way, so the skill stays with you.

I don't just tell you what to do. I teach you how to think.

The real skill is asking the right question at the right point in the funnel. These are the ones a full-funnel marketer asks by reflex.

  • Do you have proof of concept? If not, what's the cheapest way to get it?
  • Is your messaging shaped by your customers? It should be.
  • Does your landing page list features? It should be selling outcomes.
  • Does your copy trigger an emotional response? It needs to.
  • Where in the funnel are people dropping off? Let's find out why.
  • Where are the biggest gains for the least effort? Let's go after those first.
  • Do we really understand what motivates your customers? Let's figure that out.
  • Are we taking a consumer-psychology-first approach? We need to be.

Answer these and the strategy writes itself. I don't hand you a to-do list. Together we build your instinct to know what to do next.

Ways to work with me

Learn to do it yourself, or have it made for you. Start with a free 15 minute intro call, or see the full price list.

I help with: Meta adsEmail funnelsLanding page optimisationFull-funnel optimisation

Coaching & strategy, I teach you

Weekly CoachingMy specialism
The work I love most. A weekly live 1:1 over Zoom, with optional WhatsApp support between sessions. Strategy, testing, creative direction and bringing your CPA down.
£750/month
Audit & 90-Day Roadmap
A deep review of your ads, email funnels and landing pages, with a written 90-day plan that sequences your biggest wins.
£950
Account Rescue
Ad account stopped performing? We diagnose what went wrong and rebuild it together, live, so you know exactly why it happened.
from £1,500

Creative, I make it for you

Still Ad Pack
Meta is a testing game: you find winners by testing at volume, so you need more than one. I make 10 distinct, test-ready statics with different hooks and angles.
£1,950/10 ads
Music Ad
My signature. I write the lyrics, produce the song with AI, then shoot or edit footage into a scroll-stopping ad.
£1,950/ad
UGC Ads
I keep a little black book of excellent, affordable UGC creators and can connect you with the right fit.
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Creative & Copy that Converts
Hooks, angles and ad copy that trigger an emotional response and stop the scroll.
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Bespoke / Custom Package

Want a combination of these, or full-funnel work across ads, email and landing pages? Tell me what you need and I'll build a package around it.

Let's talk
What I don't do: log in and run your account for you. I teach you to run it brilliantly, so the skill stays with you.

What you'll learn with me

The hard-won, practitioner stuff your account manager, a Google search and an LLM simply don't have.

The psychology of conversion

Use emotional psychology to make people genuinely act.

Reduce CPAs deliberately

Bring cost per acquisition down on purpose, not by luck.

The optimal account structure

Build accounts that scale instead of fighting the algorithm.

Improve thumbstop ratio

Stop the scroll in the first second, then earn the click.

Track what actually matters

Measure the conversions that count and cut through the noise.

Scale vertically and horizontally

More spend on winners, safely, then new audiences and geos so you never run out of room.

AI and LLMs for ad creation

Use cheap AI tools in ways that genuinely set you apart.

Testimonials that convert

Gather and use social proof that measurably lifts conversion.

How to think about testing

Plan testing rounds and spot the biggest wins worth chasing.

Ads I've made

From scroll-stopping music ads to the simplest static. Sometimes the plainest ad converts best.

Storyteller TacticsOriginal music ad · Pip Decks
Team TacticsOriginal music ad · Pip Decks
Snap, Upload, Sell static ad for Picfair
Snap · Upload · SellTop-performing static · Picfair
Hook-led static ad for Picfair
Hook-led staticHigh-converting · Picfair
Why my ads stop the scroll

I used to do this for a living. Literally.

Before marketing I was a professional stand-up comedian. Comedy is applied psychology: timing, hooks and holding attention against the odds. It's the same muscle that makes a thumb stop scrolling, and it's baked into every ad I write.

Instagram reel insights showing 2.2M views and 147K likes 2.2M views, 147K likes on one clip, not a single penny spent

The proof

Testimonials from people I've worked with, and a couple of results worth sharing.

★★★★★
"Joe was a steady pair of hands during a particularly busy period for us. It was a relief knowing he had our high-volume ad strategy handled while I focused elsewhere. Hardworking, proactive, creative and fun to work with. I'd happily use Joe's services again!"
Jacob · Pip Decks
★ Reserved
A testimonial from Benji, founder of Picfair, is on its way here.
Joe, drop Benji's words in to replace this card.
"I asked ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to beat my best-performing Picfair hook. None could."

Eight years of experience still beats the machines. I'll teach you the instincts they don't have, and how to make AI work for your ads instead of against them.

−25%

Cost per acquisition, cut.

A real result from one of my accounts: cost per signup down 25%, the difference between an account that scales and one that stalls. Reducing CPA is something I'll teach you to do deliberately.

Screenshot showing a 25.37% reduction in cost per action

About Joe

I'm a full-stack marketer, comfortable across both the data and the creative side of the work. For eight years I've run Meta ads every single working day, specialising in SaaS, with plenty of eCommerce too. I've spent millions, rebuilt accounts that had stopped working, and learned to keep costs lean the way only startups teach you.

I'm both scientific and creative: as comfortable designing an A/B testing roadmap as writing the hook that makes it fly, editing in CapCut and Figma, or producing an original music ad from scratch. After years of doing this daily, I've built a deep intuition for what will work, which test to run next, and where the biggest wins hide. That instinct is exactly what I help clients build.

Systems that keep costs down

I build the unglamorous infrastructure that keeps big accounts clean and reporting honest, like an automated ad-naming directory so every test is trackable at a glance:

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Questions

Do you manage my account for me?

No. I teach you to run it yourself, live over Zoom while you share your screen, so the skill stays in-house. For creative work I build things for you, and you stay in control throughout.

Who do you work with?

Mostly SaaS founders and in-house marketers, plus eCommerce brands, usually already spending on Meta and wanting to do it noticeably better. Newer to it? Coaching is built for you too.

How does the weekly coaching work?

A live 1:1 each week over Zoom while you share your screen. WhatsApp support between sessions is an optional extra.

Where are you based?

UK based, working remotely with clients anywhere. Happy to sign an NDA.

Limited space for a few new clients

Book a free 15-minute call

Tell me what you need help with. No pitch, no obligation.