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Project Esty

PlatformsFacebook and Instagram Ads
GoalCohort Applications
8.0x
Return on Ad Spend
15 of 15
Seats Filled, Every Quarter
$374
Cost / Enrolled Seat

Overview

A single-platform Meta account selling seats in a paid masterclass that runs as a quarterly cohort.

Challenge

A cohort has a fixed number of seats and a fixed start date, which makes every unsold seat a permanent loss rather than a delayed sale. The program had never filled a cohort. Demand had to arrive on a schedule, in a quantity that matched the room, on one platform with no second channel to lean on.

Approach

We ran the two ways a person can enter the program as separate campaigns rather than one, so the on-site application and the native lead form could be judged against each other instead of averaged together. Cold prospecting carried the volume and retargeting was kept deliberately small, at under three percent of spend, so it could not quietly eat budget that belonged to new demand.

Results

Every cohort since has filled. Fifteen of fifteen seats, every quarter, against a program that had never sold out before.

The Proof

The numbers that moved.

Overview · Blended

8.0xReturn on Ad Spend
$90,000Program Revenue
$11,210Ad Spend
145Applications

By Platform

Meta
$11,210Ad Spend
145Applications
$77.31Blended Cost / Application
565,610Impressions

Meta, March to August 2026. Fifteen seats a quarter at $3,000 a seat.

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