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What the Algorithm Can't Do for You, and Why Meta Ads Might Be the Answer with Caley Dimmick
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When's the last time you felt completely free from the algorithm? Not just a good week, not just a post that happened to take off, but genuinely unbothered by whether your content gets seen?
In this episode of Thinking About, I'm sitting down with Caley Dimmock – ads expert, teacher at heart, and someone whose brain I deeply trust when it comes to scaling without chaos.
Caley is the founder of Meta Ads Academy, a 12-week mentorship accelerator for people who want to learn to run ads themselves (or add them to their client offerings), and she also runs a business mastermind focused on building sustainable, capacity-aware businesses.
In this episode, we're talking about:
- Why intuitive content often connects more than a perfectly planned strategy
- The freedom of not being at the whim of the algorithm, and how ads changed Caley's business and life
- What needs to be working before you run ads (and why throwing traffic at something broken won't fix it)
- How to think about your ad budget by reverse-engineering your acceptable cost per lead or purchase
- How to test ads the right way: why it's about data and sample size, not how many days have passed
- What Meta's AI changes actually mean
- Why Caley built Meta Ads Academy and her business mastermind – and the fear she had to work through first
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Most Replayed Moment: Alain de Botton - Individualism Is Making Us Miserable!