How Much to Spend on Ads, and Where 95% of It Should Go

Every business you're watching win right now is paying to be found. 17 years in business, and I've paid for ads every single one of them. I've watched women wear "I've never paid for ads" like a badge of honor while the money sat on the table.

Ashley Brock has managed over $200 million in ad spend, and she teaches founders to run their own ads in-house. In this episode, we cover how to write a specific ad when you're not a copywriter, the two places she puts AI to work, which Advantage settings you can still turn off, and the column that tells you whether the ad you're about to pause is one step from converting.

Ashley won't go below $1,000 a month, and she wants it running 90 days before you judge it. $380 a month never gives the algorithm enough time or budget to learn who's buying from you.

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You're a multi-six-figure female founder with a coaching, course, or membership business, so you've already proven the model works. But your revenue stays unpredictable because your offer, your messaging, and your lead gen are each built partway, and no amount of effort makes up the difference. My Live Free Training shows you which one is costing you the most right now. Save your spot.

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How to Run a Promo With Something You've Already Built

You can bring in meaningful revenue this Black Friday without building anything new. Up to 70% of Black Friday search activity happens before the day arrives, so your buyers start getting ready in October, and the lead time you give yourself now is what makes the promo easy to run later.

You take one offer you've already created and sold, and you give it a reason to sell during the holidays. I walk you through choosing which one, and the two questions that decide your messaging and your pricing before you write a single email.

This can close a revenue gap before December 31. Last year my team sold a planning session at $197 with a $47 add-on, and we shut it off the Wednesday before Black Friday on purpose. Both reasons are in here, along with the one decision I'd take back.

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You're a multi-six-figure female founder with a coaching, course, or membership business, so you've already proven the model works. But your revenue stays unpredictable because your offer, your messaging, and your lead gen are each built partway, and no amount of effort makes up the difference. My Live Free Training shows you which one is costing you the most right now. Save your spot.

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How She Built Million-Dollar Months Without Sales Calls or Live Launches

The soft girl era is keeping women broke. Leanne Lopez Mosley built million-dollar months with no sales calls and no live launches, and to her, soft girl millions means you stop being the most expensive line item in your own business.

If you keep attracting clients who can't afford you, it's because you're talking to them. Lead with how to make more money and you speak to every revenue level at once, including someone brand new, while your best-fit client scrolls right past because you never named her specific problem.

We get into her three internal buying triggers and why she killed her free masterclasses for good. If your gut says do more this year, Leanne makes the case for going deeper on the clients already in front of you, because they're the ones who'd pay you ten times more.

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Find the one thing dragging down your conversions, and the exact fix to turn this month around, in about 45 minutes. The Offer Conversion Scorecard is $27. Click here to grab it.

Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you're a multi-six-figure female founder running a coaching, course, or membership business, you're clearly doing something right. The catch is you can't pinpoint what, so your best months feel like luck instead of something you can repeat on purpose. My Free Live Training shows you what's behind your numbers and how to bank on them. Click here to save your spot.

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How Seven-Figure Founders Generate Revenue Without New Leads

There's money sitting inside the business you've already built, and you've stopped seeing it because you're busy chasing the next thing. So I asked a room of seven-figure founders at a recent Milly Club event one question: if you couldn't get a single new lead for the next 90 days, could you still generate revenue? Hands flew up before I finished asking.

One founder realized that trimming her churn by two percentage points was worth an extra $10,000 a month, all from members already paying her. Another ran the math on her funnel and found $100,000 a year sitting in a conversion rate she'd never mapped, with no new traffic.

I'm walking you through five places to look in your own business this week, starting with the buyers who already trust you and pulled out a credit card once. By the end you'll know which numbers to pull up before you spend another dollar getting found.

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Find the one thing dragging down your conversions, and the exact fix to turn this month around, in about 45 minutes. The Offer Conversion Scorecard is $27. Click here to grab it.

Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you're a multi-six-figure female founder running a coaching, course, or membership business, you're clearly doing something right. The catch is you can't pinpoint what, so your best months feel like luck instead of something you can repeat on purpose. My Free Live Training shows you what's behind your numbers and how to bank on them. Click here to save your spot.

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How She Built a Team of 150 AI Employees Without Letting Anyone Go

Look at your to-do list right now. How much of what's on it could be done by something that isn't you? My guest this week, Callan Faulkner, has 30 people on her team and 150 AI employees, and she hasn't let a single person go to make room for them.

Callan built The Uncommon Business teaching founders how to hire AI employees, meaning an AI that owns a task or a whole outcome and does it as well as a person would. In three years she's gone from a kitchen-table experiment with ChatGPT to a $19.5 million launch. In this conversation she breaks down exactly how she gets her team to hand the repeatable work to AI and keep only what needs a human, and how you can start doing the same this week.

So much of our worth is tied up in effort, in how long something took and how much we carried alone. AI pokes a hole in that story, and for a lot of women it feels like cheating. Callan's reframe: the hours were never what your buyers paid for. Hand off the grunt work and get back the parts of your business only you can grow.

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Find the one thing dragging down your conversions, and the exact fix to turn this month around, in about 45 minutes. The Offer Conversion Scorecard is $27. Click here to grab it.

Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you're a multi-six-figure female founder running a coaching, course, or membership business, you're clearly doing something right. The catch is you can't pinpoint what, so your best months feel like luck instead of something you can repeat on purpose. My Free Live Training shows you what's behind your numbers and how to bank on them. Click here to save your spot.

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Revenue Is the Wrong Number to Watch

The Leading Numbers That Tell You What Your Revenue Is About to Do Before It Does It

My business coach asked me a simple question about my funnel, and I couldn't answer it. Not because I didn't care. Because I'd stopped tracking it. She stopped me right there and told me something I needed to hear: to succeed with this business model, I have to know my numbers every single week, until they're burned in my brain.

Revenue is a lagging number. By the time your bank account tells you something is off, the problem happened weeks or months ago. What actually predicts where your business is headed are your leading numbers, the three or four points in your funnel that move before revenue does. And they look different depending on your business model, so there's no universal list to copy.

In this episode, I walk you through the numbers I tracked during my live launch years versus the four I watch now, give you the simple test that tells you whether a number belongs on your list (follower count fails it every time), and show you the exact numbers to watch whether you run a membership, a course, a coaching offer, or an evergreen funnel.

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Multi-six-figure revenue, and the months still feel like a guess? The problem isn't your effort. It's that you don't know which numbers actually predict what your revenue is about to do. My Free Live Training fixes that. Click here to join.

High six figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Apply here.

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The Stage of Business Almost Nobody Names and the Decision That Moves You Through It

Only 1 in 10 female-owned businesses earning between $250K and $499K ever reach a million, according to the JPMorgan Chase Institute. Not the ones who didn't try hard enough. All of them.

If you're in that range and the effort isn't adding up the way it should, here's what I want you to see: there's a stage between $100K and $500K that almost no one has named. I'm naming it the Quiet Climb. It's the most structurally demanding chapter of building an online business, and because nobody told you it existed, the years of effort that haven't matched your results have probably felt like a personal failure. They're not. They're the signature of the stage.

What creates your next jump isn't more work. It's alignment between what you're doing and who you and your buyer have become. Getting there is harder than working harder. It means stopping long enough to look honestly at the business you've built.

I close with six exercises you can run this week, including the one question to ask your best client that tells you more than any survey could.

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Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making multiple six figures or annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My Free Live Training fixes that. Click here to join.

High six figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Apply here.

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The tell-all you've been waiting for, straight from the man behind the stories

After years of being the guy you only hear about, Hobie is finally in the studio, and his first order of business is telling on Amy. This is a no-strategy, no-homework hang that's just for fun.

You'll get the story behind the wedding-ring tattoo he got before they were even married, plus the most ridiculous thing Amy's ever made him do for content. There's also a newlywed game that proves they still crack each other up after 18 years. It's a peek behind the curtain at the real Amy and Hobie, dorky karaoke picks and all.

If you've been with the show for a while, you've earned this one. Meet the real Hobie Porterfield.

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Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My Free Live Training fixes that. Click here to join.

High-six-figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Click here to apply.MORE FROM ME

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What Every Founder Gets Wrong About Growing a Personal Brand

Nobody got rich from multiple streams of income. They got rich from one amazing stream, and then they diversified. Bezos had Amazon. Sara Blakely had Spanx. Yet the advice you keep hearing is to build seven of everything, and it's keeping you smaller, not bigger.

My guest Rory Vaden, New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of Brand Builders Group, explains why every new revenue stream isn't just more money, it's eight more jobs you have to fill. 

In this episode you'll learn what your brand actually is (it's not your logo or your colors), the one-word question that clarifies your entire business, and why the reason you feel busy but stuck has a name: priority dilution. If you've been adding offers and wondering why nothing's gaining traction, this conversation will change how you decide what to say yes to.

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Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. Find the blind spot that's keeping your revenue stuck. My Free Live Training is built for six-figure female founders who are ready to fix it. Click here to join. 

High-six-figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Apply here. 

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What 23 Multimillionaire Founders Have in Common

The women doing eight and nine figures? They started exactly where you are.

I just spent a weekend with 23 of them and came home with three things I've been too polite to say. 

If you've been putting in the hours and the results still don't reflect it, at least one of these three is going to explain why.

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Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My Free Live Training fixes that. Click here to join.

High-six-figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Apply here. 

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The Systems Behind a $2.2M Maternity Leave

Natalie Ellis took three months completely offline after her second daughter was born. No Slack, no email, no podcast. Her team did $2.2 million in revenue during that window with zero ad spend.

Natalie is the founder and CEO of BossBabe, she's crossed $40 million in lifetime revenue on under $3 million in total ad spend, and her brand-new book The Freedom-Based Business Method is out now.

In this conversation, Natalie walks me through the exact systems she built so her business could run on its own. She also gets honest about the moment she realized her million-dollar business had quietly become a job she couldn't quit. We dig into the alignment audit she has every founder run before touching a funnel, the "one number" that makes revenue predictable, and why she's never been willing to burn out her audience for a sales spike.

Natalie pulls back the curtain on all of it, including the Walmart licensing deal she rarely talks about and the exact rhythm her team runs when she's nowhere near her laptop.

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Revenue highs are exciting. The unexplainable dips that follow? Not so much. If you are a female founder making six figures or more annually, the problem isn't that things aren't working. It's that you can't yet see what is. And you can't repeat what you can't see. My free live training, The Revenue Consistency Formula, fixes that. Click here to join.

High-six-figures is a ceiling for a reason. What got you here stops working here. If you're a female founder earning $500K or more annually and you've already tried it all, what you need next isn't another strategy. It's someone inside your business showing you the way forward. The Milly Club is my private six-month coaching program for women growing toward their first million. Apply here. 

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HERE ARE THE 3 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

1️⃣ Hitting a million doesn't mean the business is built — Natalie made her first million with one $29 membership and a single webinar funnel, then made the mistake most successful founders make. She stopped doubling down on what was working and chased new offers and channels instead. Crossing a revenue milestone is the signal to deepen what's working, not the permission to take your attention off it.

2️⃣ Predictable revenue starts with knowing your one number — Every business has one metric that drives the rest. Webinar sign-ups, sales calls booked, email opt-ins. Once you know yours and build your daily activities around it, revenue stops spiking and lulling. Most founders are running 40 things at once and tracking none, which is why their months look so different from each other.

3️⃣ Your audience's trust is the asset, and you can't get it back once you burn it — Natalie has crossed $40 million in revenue on under $3 million in ad spend because she's protected that trust at every turn. She's said no to sponsorships and promo pushes that would've spiked short-term cash. Founders who treat their audience like a one-time spike machine end up rebuilding their list every year and wondering why nothing converts.MORE FROM ME

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