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Why your Meta ads are failing in 2026

Standard lead forms and low creative volume stall solar growth.

Video transcript

In 2026. Lots of solar installers have already tried meta advertising and it hasn't worked out for them. Now let's go through the reasons why. Number one, traditional agencies funnel leads to lead forms. Now the issue with that is that 8% of all accounts on meta are bots. And those bots can actually fill in those lead forms which can impact results.

Also, you can't use Captcha technologies on the lead forms. And thirdly, you can't optimize those lead forms. There are only three currently variations of lead forms on meta. So we use perspective and we funnel all of our leads to perspective. Now what that allows us to do is to continually test the funnel and optimize it over time.

So we run imagery tests, we run headline tests, we run some headline tests as well on the funnel. And over time, we just noticed that the conversion rate seems to creep up, so it may start at 2 or 3% when a campaign is launched. But I have to say five imagery tests, then the conversion rate actually sits at like 4 to 5%.

And then on top of that, with all the headline tests and the sub headline tests, it can creep up to 7 or 8. We've got an average conversion rate across the funnels at about 5.5%, and we're aiming to increase that to 7% over the next six months. So with a perspective for now, there's more friction than a typical lead form on matter.

Our funnels currently have about eight pages, whilst a typical meta form has between 3 to 4 pages, and we can also personalize the funnel to answer questions that you want leads to answers. The result of that is that there's better quality leads, and we see a lower cost per acquisition in turn. Now that's the funnel side.

So let's look on the ad side now on the other side, when people say that they don't get results from meta, if you take a look into the ad account, you can start to see why. We see typically some solar installers in the past and actually some agencies as well. Uh, just running one art post, Andromeda, which is a massive upgrade that happened to meta last year.

Creative diversity is so important when you publish more ads, a higher volume of ads, then the capacity for reaching more people and for those people to to resonate with the messaging that you have in the ads increases. Likewise. So if you're just running one ad, you may only appeal to one type of customer. But if you run at, say, 1020 ads, then you could appeal to different types of customers, which therefore decreases the cost per lead.

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