🗃️Issue #84 Sunscreen Bundle Ad

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Hi Marketer, in this Issue, we will be going over these ads:

1⃣ Sunscreen bundle ad

2⃣ Online certification course ad

3⃣ Roofing company ad

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Sunscreen bundle ad

The Hook

Look at the top first. The words "Never Ending Summer" sit in a bouncy, hand drawn font, dripping like melted candy, with little sparkle stars floating around it.

That font alone breaks the pattern of flat, boring sale banners. Under it sits a bright green pill that says "Up to 50% Off," and that shape pops so hard against the soft pink background that your eye cannot skip it.

The Reader

This is for someone who already has a skincare routine and knows a few of these brand names on sight.

They are not new to sunscreen, they are picky about it.

They are sick of ads that just show one product and a price tag with no personality. This ad talks to them like a friend sending a screenshot of a sale, not a store yelling at them.

The Proof

The proof here is the lineup itself. Six real products sit in a clean grid, each one a brand a skincare shopper already trusts, Purito, Nuxe, Piz Buin, Tocobo, Bioderma, P20.

Real packaging, real SPF numbers printed right on the tubes, no mockups, no stock photos standing in for the goods. When you already know half these names, you don't need convincing, you just need the discount.

The Slide

Your eye lands on the headline first because of the size and the wiggle in the letters.

Then it drops straight into the green pill, which is the only shape on the page with hard color and no texture, so it grabs you next.

From there your eye falls into the grid of products, moving left to right, top to bottom, the same way you'd scan a store shelf.

The soft rainbow background never competes with the products, it just glows behind them and pushes your focus down onto the tubes.

The Offer

The offer is stated plainly. Up to 50 percent off, no math required, no code to remember, just a number sitting in a bright pill.

There is no mention of how long the sale runs, no expiration date, no countdown, so there's a missing piece of urgency here.

Still, the effort is close to zero, you see the ad, you click, you shop a sale that's already picked for you.

The Story

The story is simple. Summer is not over yet, and neither is your skincare shelf.

The buyer isn't just grabbing sunscreen, they're stocking up like someone who takes their skin seriously and knows the good brands before the good brands go on sale.

It sells belonging to a small, in the know group of shoppers who buy from this store on repeat.

The Brain Trick

Social proof and scarcity are doing the work together here. Seeing six trusted brands stacked in one sale tells your brain this store carries the real stuff, not knockoffs.

The "Never Ending Summer" line and the missing end date both nudge a soft kind of FOMO, the sale feels good right now, and nobody wants to be the one who checked back too late.

Steal This

Pick your best selling products, real packaging, no stock photos, and lay them out in a clean grid on a soft, glowing background.

Write your sale headline in a font with personality, not a system font, and drop the discount number into one bright, solid shape so it can't be missed.

Add a real deadline next time, even a vague one, so the urgency has teeth.

CTA: Shop Now

Landing Page: Link

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Online certification course ad

The Hook

Look at the photo behind the text. A man in a real office is pointing at a wall covered in sticky notes, mid conversation, mid work.

That's not a stock photo of someone smiling at a laptop, it's a real Scrum meeting caught in motion. The blue light and the messy wall of notes tell your brain this is a real job, not a classroom, and that's what makes a scroller stop.

The Reader

This is for someone already working in tech or project management who keeps hearing "Scrum Master" in meetings and knows they should have the title too.

They've probably Googled the certification before and closed the tab.

They're tired of courses that feel like a PDF and a quiz. This ad shows the actual job, sticky notes and all, and that tells them this training won't feel disconnected from the work they already do.

The Proof

The Project Management Institute logo sits bottom left, small but doing heavy lifting, next to the words "Registered Education Provider."

Then the tagline spells it out plainly, "PMI R.E.P." That's a real, known credential body in this field, not a made up badge.

For a buyer deciding whether to trust a training company they've never heard of, that one logo answers the trust question before they even finish reading.

The Slide

Your eye lands on "Scrum Master" first, because it's the biggest text on the page and it sits in a clean serif font that feels more like a diploma than an ad.

Then you drop down to the thin orange line, which acts like a stop sign before your eye keeps sliding down. Next comes the tagline explaining what this actually is, training and certification, online, with the PMI stamp right under it closing the loop.

The photo pulls your eye the whole time too, since the pointing hand naturally drags your focus rightward across the frame.

The Offer

There's no price shown and no discount, so the ad isn't selling on cost.

What it's selling is clarity. Online, so no travel. Certification, so you walk away with something to put on a resume. PMI backed, so the paper means something once you have it.

The value math here is simple, a bit of your time now for a credential that can move your title and your pay later.

The Story

The story is career growth caught in a single frame.

You go from sitting in Scrum meetings to running them. You go from junior teammate to the person pointing at the board while everyone else listens.

The buyer isn't just signing up for a course, they're stepping into the identity of someone who leads instead of follows.

The Brain Trick

Status is the bias doing the work here. Everyone in a Scrum meeting has felt the itch of wanting to be the one steering the room instead of just contributing to it.

The ad doesn't say "get promoted," it just shows the moment of leading, and lets the reader feel that itch on their own.

Steal This

Shoot your product or service inside a real moment of the work it improves, not a posed stock photo. Put your strongest trust badge in the corner, small and quiet, and let it do the convincing without shouting about it.

Keep your headline short enough to read in one glance, then use one thin line under it to pace the eye down the page.

CTA: See Details

Landing Page: Link

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Roofing company ad

The Hook

Look at the two men shaking hands on a front lawn, a roof crew working behind them in the distance. That's not a stock photo of a shiny finished roof, it's a real homeowner and a real crew member caught mid handshake.

The photo alone tells a story before you read a single word, and that quiet, human moment is what makes a thumb stop scrolling past a wall of shingle photos.

The Reader

This is for a homeowner who has been burned before, either by a roofer who ghosted them or a quote that changed halfway through the job.

They've heard "top quality" and "we're the best" a hundred times from a hundred companies. They're tired of promises with nothing behind them.

This ad skips the promise and hands them a number instead, and that's the difference that earns a second look.

The Proof

The proof is stacked right in the middle of the frame where you can't miss it.

Over 1100 reviews, a Google logo, five full stars, and a 4.9 average sitting right next to it. That's not a company saying "trust us," that's over a thousand homeowners saying it for them.

Real stars, a real platform name, a real number, that combination is what turns a skeptical scroller into a lead.

The Slide

Your eye lands first on the handshake photo, since it's the only warm, human image on the page. Then it drops to the black bar that says "Top Quality Roofing," which reads like a plain label before the real hook.

From there your eye hits the blue block, "Don't Just Take Our Word For It," which is basically the ad talking directly to the skeptic in your head.

Then it lands on the review stack right under that line, which answers the doubt the headline just raised, and the roofing texture at the bottom closes the loop by reminding you what they actually do.

The Offer

There's no price, no discount, no free quote mentioned in this ad. What's being offered instead is proof, plain and simple, this company is asking to be judged by a track record instead of a sales pitch.

The value math for the homeowner is different here, it's not "save money," it's "stop guessing," and for a job as big as a roof, that's worth clicking for on its own.

The Story

The story is two neighbors talking, not a company selling. One is the roofer, one is the customer, and the handshake between them tells you the job went well and everybody's happy about it.

The buyer who sees this ad doesn't picture a sales call, they picture themselves as the guy shaking hands on their own lawn, roof fixed, problem solved, no drama.

The Brain Trick

Social proof is carrying this whole ad. A homeowner deciding on a roofer is scared of picking wrong, since a bad roof job is expensive and hard to undo.

Seeing 1100 plus reviews and a near perfect star rating quiets that fear fast, because it feels a lot safer to trust a crowd of strangers than one company's word about itself.

Steal This

Open with a real photo of a real customer interaction, not a finished product shot, since the human moment is what stops the scroll.

Pull your best proof number, review count, star rating, years in business, and give it its own bold block instead of burying it in small text.

Write one line that speaks straight to the skeptic in your reader's head, then answer it immediately with the number that proves you're right.

CTA: See Details

Landing Page: Link

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I hope this inspired you to make 1% better ads than you would before.

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