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write a LinkedIn ad that doesn't suck
also: sex thermos pics, your customers' words, and a pilot offer

Hey,
While LinkedIn’s experimenting with the algo by showing weeks-old posts to us, we’re funding those experiments by paying tens of thousands every month to show sex toy-looking thermos pics to our buyers.
(How many good ads have you seen in your feed recently?)
After chatting about it in DMs with in-house B2B marketers and their agency counterparts, I realized I wasn’t the only one frustrated:
💬 "an outsider can do it better than someone in-house"
💬 "I've been wanting a fresh take on copy and creatives for our clients"
💬 "very few teams have someone who’s just creative"
💬 "the best ad management teams in the world are limited by shit creatives"
💬 "the copy provided with most designs we rework quite hard"
💬 "we have a vendor but they're clearly not up to snuff"
Absurdly, the bar is so low that many companies’ ads can be improved by literally quoting their happy customers — e.g. this one from Fullstory or this one from Attio.
Having developed messaging, homepage, and landing page copy for B2B SaaS, writing ads almost feels like cheating: a freedom to test wild concepts, fast turnarounds, virtually zero red tape.
I wrote a fun retargeting campaign for a B2B SaaS last month, and this was the most fun I’ve had in a while:

The first three of eight ads in the campaign
So, here’s the pilot offer you can get in on:
💰 $1,200 per campaign/platform
📦 4-8 ads included
🏙️ Ad copy, creative copy, and visual concept included
🗓️ 1 week turnaround
If you want your next campaign to outdo everything you’ve run until now, reply with your current best-performing ad, and I’ll send you ideas on how to outdo it.
Until next time!