08/05/2026
I wasted ₹4,12,000 on Meta ads in my first year.
Not because I didn't work hard.
Because I was optimising for the wrong metric.
I was chasing low CPCs. Beautiful, shiny, cheap-looking CPCs.
Meanwhile, my client's sales team was drowning in leads that went nowhere.
Turns out there's a massive difference between:
→ Someone who clicks an ad out of curiosity
→ Someone who fills a form because they actually want to buy
The day I stopped optimising for volume and started optimising for intent —
everything changed.
CPL went up 18%. Revenue went up 340%.
The client renewed. The sales team stopped hating me.
And I learned the most expensive lesson of my career for free.
If you're running ads and measuring only cost per lead —
you might be building a very expensive pipeline to nowhere.
DM me "AUDIT" and I'll tell you what I'd fix first in your account.