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21/05/2026

Are you spending more on Meta ads than you were six months ago, and somehow making less back? And has it got noticeably worse since March?

If that's a yes – and for a lot of premium brands right now, it is – you've probably been handed the advice that's everywhere in 2026. Just publish more. Ship thirty, fifty, a hundred new ad creatives a month. Throw them all into one Advantage Plus Shopping campaign. Let Meta's algorithm sort out the rest. Volume, volume, volume.

Here's what nobody is telling premium brands: that approach is terribly wasteful for you specifically. Not because volume is always wrong, but because your customers don't shop the way that strategy assumes they do. A premium buyer doesn't see an ad and tap 'buy' in the same scroll. She researches. She validates. She takes days. Throwing more creative at an algorithm optimising for impulse behaviour just means you're paying to learn the same wrong lesson faster.

This week's episode unpacks why the dominant Meta advice is wrong for premium brands, what changed in March that made it worse, and what actually works instead. 30 minutes, slightly indignant, three concrete things you can do this week at the end.

🎧 Search 'The Brand Marketing Show' on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

BELL ART CASE STUDY: The Strategy.We began by implementing a comprehensive digital marketing strategy focused on both gr...
20/05/2026

BELL ART CASE STUDY:

The Strategy.

We began by implementing a comprehensive digital marketing strategy focused on both growth and long-term sustainability.

Key areas of focus included:

1. Paid Advertising (Meta & Google)

2. Email Marketing with Klaviyo

3. Ongoing Campaign Strategy

This approach allowed us to capture immediate opportunities for growth while also building a marketing foundation that could scale with the business.

https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/case-study-bell-art-from-artists-studio-to-lifestyle-business

20/05/2026

Just spoke to a founder who'd burned months of budget on a strategy designed by twenty-somethings for a product she built for women in their sixties 😩

The strategy wasn't bad. It just wasn't designed for her customer.

Three signs you might be growing around the wrong one too. Save this if you've ever quietly wondered why none of the "best practice" advice feels like it fits your brand.

There’s an ad making the rounds on Instagram that I cannot scroll past without an audible sigh.You’ll know the one. Beac...
19/05/2026

There’s an ad making the rounds on Instagram that I cannot scroll past without an audible sigh.

You’ll know the one. Beachside backdrop. Designer linen. The gentle implication that someone built a multi-seven-figure business in 90 days, working three hours a day, armed only with ambition and an intimate relationship with ChatGPT.

It’s compelling. It’s polished. And it’s nonsense.

I’ve built businesses. I’ve worked with founders across Australia. And I can tell you this with certainty: no great premium brand was ever built by one person doing everything alone.

Not because founders aren’t capable. But because quality businesses require depth — strategy, operations, customer experience, creative direction, decision-making — and no one person can sustainably hold all of that forever.

The fantasy of the “solo founder empire” is not aspirational. It’s often the exact reason brands plateau.

Building something meaningful takes people. It takes perspective. It takes support.

The village was never optional.

→ If you’ve been trying to grow your brand while carrying everything yourself, it may be time for a different way. Send me a message — there’s a conversation worth having.

Read the case study
https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/case-study-bell-art-from-artists-studio-to-lifestyle-business

If you've been staring at your Meta ads dashboard since March wondering whether you've forgotten how to do marketing – y...
19/05/2026

If you've been staring at your Meta ads dashboard since March wondering whether you've forgotten how to do marketing – you haven't. The platform has changed, and not in a way that's been kind to premium brands.

In early March, Meta restructured its attribution model. Click-through now requires an actual link click. Engage-through has a one-day window. And nobody is saying clearly which kind of brand gets hurt most.

It's premium brands. Yours.

Here's why. A premium buyer doesn't shop like a person three drinks in on a Tuesday scrolling Temu. She sees your Meta ad while half-watching the news. She saves it.

Then she conducts what I can only describe as a Royal Commission – four browser tabs deep, a check of ProductReview.com.au, a Reddit lurk, a ChatGPT consultation, two TikTok reviews from women who look like her, a night to sleep on it, and finally she converts three days later. Often via Google search.

Because she's a grown woman with money to spend and she'd like to know what she's spending it on, thank you very much!

This entire performance is exactly what makes premium buyers the customers worth having. Higher AOV, lower returns, working memory longer than 24 hours.

And as of March, Meta has decided not to count any of it.

But here's the bit nobody is telling premium brands: it IS possible to grow on Meta through this nonsense. You just need a strategy designed around YOUR customer rather than around the platform's assumptions about your customer.

My own brand Indagare Beauty has seen new customer acquisition, revenue and MER all go UP since March – because the strategy is built around how Indagare's customer actually shops (considered, careful, multi-day), not around what the platform's dashboard wants to count.

If your Meta reporting has looked off since March, it's not you. It's the platform. And the platform is currently biased against the way your best customers actually shop.

Let's talk about scaling your brand.A genuine strategic conversation – not a sales pitch. About 45 minutes. Free.We’ll l...
18/05/2026

Let's talk about scaling your brand.

A genuine strategic conversation – not a sales pitch. About 45 minutes. Free.

We’ll look at where your brand is now, what’s actually getting in the way of where you want it to go, and which of our partnership tiers (if any) fits where you are right now. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you. If we are, we’ll talk about what working together would look like.

The day before your scheduled session, our brand growth strategist Shar will give you a quick call to confirm your booking and ask a few preliminary questions about your business. This means the 45 minutes you spend with one of our senior strategists is focused on the strategy itself, not the basics.

→ Book your strategy session
https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/book-a-brand-growth-strategy-session

18/05/2026

Charging more for your eCommerce brand doesn't make you premium. Posture does.

The brand running a 30% off banner above the hero image has just told every premium buyer she isn't the customer they're built for. The brand that doesn't has said the opposite.

If you've been wondering why your conversion rate looks fine but the lifetime value never quite matches the price point – this is usually where it starts.

Amanda's experience with Productpreneur Marketing“Bell Art has grown consistently each year; our website was changed rig...
17/05/2026

Amanda's experience with Productpreneur Marketing

“Bell Art has grown consistently each year; our website was changed right from the get-go, and it’s been the best move we’ve made. The combination of Shopify, Meta, Google, Klaviyo and Productpreneur ensure our monthly sales are increasing reliably, and we are also increasing our product offering. Bell Art moved out of the house and into warehouse premises plus we now employ staff!

The biggest change for me is how confident I now feel with my marketing. I used to attempt my own marketing with Meta and Google, but not being an expert, I never succeeded like we are succeeding today. Marketing was a big drain on my time and while I knew in theory what needed doing, I couldn’t do it all myself. Outsourcing this part has freed up my time to concentrate on other parts of the business.

I feel like I have a full-on marketing department at my disposal and it’s a terrific addition to my business. I personally can choose to work rather than being chained to the desk!”

– Amanda, Owner of Bell Art

Read the case study
https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/case-study-bell-art-from-artists-studio-to-lifestyle-business

One of our clients, , grew 292% over three years.Not because the founder worked more hours.Not because she found a magic...
17/05/2026

One of our clients, , grew 292% over three years.

Not because the founder worked more hours.
Not because she found a magical AI shortcut.
Not because she suddenly became better at multitasking at 11pm.

She grew because she stopped trying to run the whole thing alone.

When Amanda first came to us, she was doing what so many premium brand founders are doing: carrying every marketing decision in her own head, working far harder than the business should have required, and quietly assuming this was just what entrepreneurship felt like.

Today, she runs what she calls a lifestyle business.

Same brand. Bigger growth. Less personal chaos.

Because the strategy stopped living only in her head and started being supported by people whose actual job is to help brands grow.

That’s the uncomfortable truth the “build it alone” ads won’t tell you:

Most premium brands don’t plateau because the founder isn’t smart enough.

They plateau because the structure is too small for the growth they’re trying to create.

→ Read Amanda's full case study – step-by-step, exactly how Bell Art grew 292% in 3 years (and what shifted to make it possible).

If you'd rather skip ahead and have a real conversation about what could shift in your brand, book a Brand Growth Strategy Session.

Read the case study
https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/case-study-bell-art-from-artists-studio-to-lifestyle-business

17/05/2026

Type your brand name into ChatGPT. The sentence that comes back is now the first thing most customers will ever read about you.

If it's wrong, vague, or just plain absent – you're losing the buyer before she's even decided to look for you.

The fix isn't abandoning the mystique that makes premium brands premium. It's making sure the commercial bones underneath – ingredients, provenance, policies, specs – are clean enough for a machine to read clearly, so the human still gets to make the decision.

15/05/2026

There's a particular kind of moment that happens to a lot of founders of premium brands.
It's the moment when you realise – usually quite suddenly, often late at night – that you're working harder than you did at your old job. For less money. With less freedom.
And worse still… you’re not really doing the part of the business you actually love.
It's the trap almost every premium brand founder falls into. The deal you made with yourself when you started – meaningful work, plus freedom over your time – stopped working somewhere in year two or three. Now you're working evenings, working weekends, drowning in marketing decisions you never asked to be making.

You can grind harder. You can buy another course. You can switch platforms. You can run yet another sale. None of it fixes the actual problem.

Because the actual problem isn't tactical. It's structural.

Today's podcast is about why you're working harder than you did at your old job – and what actually builds the freedom you started this for.

🎧 Listen here: https://www.productpreneurmarketing.com/episode-315/

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