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228 ACADEMY · LAUNCH YOUR META ADS YOURSELF · $147 · available anytime
228 ACADEMY
228 ACADEMY · Paid acquisition

Launch your Meta Ads yourself

A complete lead generation campaign, built with your own hands, in your own account, ready to publish. Without the $1,000-a-month agency.

You follow every step of a real campaign launch, from the pixel to reading the numbers. By the end, you have not watched a course: you have a real campaign sitting in draft in your account, and you know how to read your results to decide what to cut and what to push.

One payment. Lifetime access. Available anytime.
What you walk away with

Not a course you watched. A system you built.

This course produces something concrete at every lesson. By the end, here is what actually exists in your account, built with your own hands.

YOUR IDENTITY

A brand Page and a connected pixel

Your advertiser Page linked to your account, your pixel installed and verified with a real test. The tracking that closes the loop between the ad and the result.

YOUR CAMPAIGN

A leads campaign in draft

A targeted ad set, a broad audience, a budget calculated on the right threshold, all of it ready to publish in your account. Not a demonstration: your own campaign.

YOUR ADS

Four ads with four distinct angles

Four ads that each answer a different objection, with trackable links so you know which one did the work. The "4 angles" template filled in for your business.

YOUR READ

The Day 4/Day 7 decision grid, filled in

The five numbers that matter, their thresholds, and your written rule for cutting and scaling. The skill most people are missing: reading a campaign instead of enduring it.

You know how every piece works, because you are the one who put it there.

Who this is for

Built for the owner who wants to do it themselves.

This course exists for one simple reason: to make you able to build and read your own paid acquisition, without depending on an agency.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF
  • You run solo or with a small team, in services or local business, and you want to launch your first leads campaign.
  • You would rather learn once and keep the skill than pay an agency $1,000 to $1,500 a month.
  • You want to understand your numbers, not just see an invoice at the end of the month.
  • You are starting from zero with ads and you want clear steps, laid out in order.
THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF
  • You want to delegate everything and build nothing yourself. In that case, 228 OPERATORS takes acquisition off your hands.
  • You are looking to build your entire system (server, automations, follow-ups, sales), not just the ads. In that case, look at Build Your System.
  • You are looking for a theory course to watch. Here, you build a real campaign, and by the end something exists in your account.
The path

Seven short lessons. Each one produces something.

About 90 minutes in total. No chapter to read passively: every lesson ends with an action taken in your account and a deliverable checked off.

LESSON0
The terrain, and the end before the beginning
10 min "My terrain" sheet

Know the exact result you are after, open your accounts, understand why you optimize for leads and not sales.

LESSON1
Your advertiser identity
12 min Brand Page linked

Create your Page, link it to your account, and understand why zero followers does not hurt a paid campaign.

LESSON2
The pixel and conversion tracking
16 min Pixel live + verified event

Install your pixel, watch your event fire in a real test. The golden rule: not one dollar spent before that proof.

LESSON3
The campaign and the ad set
18 min Campaign + ad set in draft

Build the campaign, calculate your budget instead of guessing it, set a broad audience. The math behind the fifty-conversion threshold.

LESSON4
The creatives and the copy
16 min 4 ads + "4 angles" template

Build four ads that each say something different, set up the trackable links. Distinct ideas, not shades of the same one.

LESSON5
The final check and publishing
10 min Checklist checked off

Review the campaign point by point, know when to publish, and why a rejection is not a punishment.

LESSON6
Read your numbers and decide
18 min Day 4/Day 7 decision grid

The five numbers, their thresholds, the cascade read, the cut-and-scale rule. The lesson that changes everything.

BONUS7
Iterate: the second wave
6 min Week 2 plan

What to keep, what to replace, what to test. A campaign is cultivated, not relaunched.

Seven lessons · about 90 minutes · eight concrete deliverables in your account

18
MINUTES
LESSON 6
The lesson that changes everything

Read your numbers.

Building a campaign, plenty of people can do. Reading one, very few. That is why so many owners hand it all to an agency without ever knowing if the money is working. Lesson 6 gives you the five numbers that matter, their thresholds, and the cascade read: when your cost per lead runs too high, you will know whether it is the creative, the page, or the audience. You will know what to cut clean and what to push gently. It's the skill that frees you from the agency. Eighteen minutes, and the read is yours.

The method comes from a real launch

Documented on a real launch, not invented for the course.

Everything you build in this course, we build for real, for our own brand: our campaign goes live on July 1, 2026. The complete method is already in the document, diagram by diagram, and you can build your campaign today. The screenshots from that launch, the real pixel, the real campaign, the real table of numbers read on day four, are added to the document with the July update, included with your purchase: your download link always serves the most recent version. You are not watching a staged demonstration. You are looking over the shoulder of someone doing it with their own money, with the real trade-offs decided as they come up.

IN ALL HONESTY

You are watching a services case. The skeleton copies over: account, pixel, one ad set, broad audience, budget calculated on the threshold, reading the numbers. The flesh changes with your business, and every lesson transposes the case to local with a "For your business" box. Do not copy the case word for word. Copy the method.

What comes next, when you are ready

This builds your acquisition. The rest of the system comes after.

This course does one thing and does it completely: your paid acquisition. It does not build your server, your automations, or your follow-ups. That is deliberate. When you want to build the whole system around your acquisition, in the right order, the path is Build Your System: the infrastructure, the organization, automations that hold up day after day, sales, and recurring revenue. Launch Your Meta Ads Yourself is a solid step. Build Your System is the full staircase.

See Build Your System →
THIS COURSE YOUR ACQUISITION BUILD YOUR SYSTEM
The questions you ask us

Before you start.

Yes. Everything is written for someone starting out, in order, with the exact action to take at each step, shown diagram by diagram, then in annotated screenshots from the real launch as of the July update. You do not need to understand everything in depth to succeed: you follow the sequence. Every lesson ends with a deliverable checked off, so you always know where you stand. And if you get stuck somewhere, the steps are built to be retraced without breaking anything.
The method is the same for everyone: an account, a pixel, one ad set, a broad audience, a budget calculated on the threshold, reading the numbers. What changes from one business to the next is your reality: the action that matters to you (a call, a booking, a form), your area, your language, your offer. Every lesson includes a "For your business" box that transposes the case to a local business, and the angles template ships with examples for the restaurant, the salon, the clinic, the studio. You copy the method, not the case.
A budget is not guessed, it is calculated, and Lesson 3 shows you exactly how. In short: the platform learns well at around fifty conversions a week, so your floor budget is roughly fifty times the cost of one conversion in your sector. For a local business where one conversion costs little (a call, a booking), that floor is low. That ad budget is separate from the price of the course: the course is $147, paid once. The ad budget stays in your hands, and you learn to set the right amount.
The method does not change with the interface. The budget calculation, the five numbers and their thresholds, the cascade read: those principles hold no matter which version of the platform you are on. Labels and button locations do move sometimes. That is why we gathered them in a companion sheet, "Interface landmarks", kept up to date separately. You always look for a function by what it does, not by where it sits on the screen.
You can still launch. Lesson 2 shows two paths for installing the pixel: through your site builder's module, or by handing it to whoever manages your site. And if you have no site at all, the platform offers a built-in form, filled out without ever leaving the ad. We flag it as a fallback, so nobody stays stuck for lack of a site.
Launch Your Meta Ads Yourself

You can keep paying an agency, or learn to do it yourself.

A complete campaign built with your own hands, in your account, and the skill to read your numbers and decide. That is what you keep at the end: a real system and a read that depends on no one.

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