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Why I’m not allowed in our clients’ ad accounts
Emotion breaks disciplined scaling
Jude Cornish, CCO & co-founder✓£2,000 to start, then nothing until your first deal.
The short answer
Reactive, emotional decisions hurt ad performance. Moving all the budget onto any ad hitting £8 a lead is like trading with no stop-loss. Every creative should move into a scaling campaign on the same criteria, following a disciplined testing and scaling framework, so someone who follows that process runs the accounts.
Today I want to explain why I’m not allowed anywhere near our clients’ ad accounts.
There’s a genuine reason for it — and it isn’t because I don’t care.
It’s because I care too much, in the wrong way.
When we first started running Meta ads, I was in the accounts constantly. Watching numbers move. Reacting in real time. Making decisions based on what felt right in that moment.
Something hits £8 cost per lead?
“Put everything on that. Now.”
The problem wasn’t intent.
It was emotion.
This video is about why reactive decision-making quietly kills long-term performance, why structure always beats instinct, and why Joe is allowed in ad accounts — and I’m very deliberately not.
For context, this video was originally recorded on 5 December 2024, views & strategies may have changed since.
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▶ 0:00Hello, today I'm going to talk to you about why I am not allowed in our client's ad accounts. Now, funny story about this. So when we first started running Meta ads for our clients, I would look at the ad account probably as actively as Joe would and I would be like, oh my god, oh my god, that one's getting eight power cost per lead. Put all the budget on that one. Quick, Joe, Joe, Joe, put all the budget on that one.
▶ 0:26I want £100 a day going on that single creative. It's on £8 lead, the next one's on £25 lead. Everything on that one. And the problem with that was, because we were doing stuff like that, because at the time we were covering every client's advertising spend so we could be that sporadic and experimental. The problem with that was, first of all, there was no structure. It was all based on emotion. It would be like trading with no stop loss or no exit strategy, right?
▶ 0:53So with putting all the budget onto one creative, yeah, sure. If the creative was performing really well, then you should increase the budget on it and blah, blah, blah. But that should be done in a well-considered approach where every creative is moved into that scaling campaign based on the same criteria, because otherwise you're just going to be all over the place like a headless chicken. That's what I was in the ad account. I'm too, too, like, here there and everywhere to be running the ad account.
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