Lesson 2 of 6
Meta ads basics for fitness products and services
Learning objectives
- Understand the parts of a Meta campaign
- Stay compliant with body / health claim rules
- Budget enough to actually learn
- Know which metrics matter at each stage
The parts of a campaign
Objective, audience, creative, copy, landing page, pixel and tracking, budget, measurement. Each one influences the others. Founders who only focus on creative will plateau.
Compliance is not optional
Fitness and health claims are tightly policed by Meta. Avoid unrealistic transformation language, before-and-after images that imply guaranteed results, weight-loss promises and references to a viewer's personal body. Disapprovals hurt account health and CPAs.
Learn properly or don't run
Tiny budgets across many campaigns teach nothing. Give Meta enough data per ad set to exit the learning phase before you judge it.
Founder insight — Derrick Twum
Ad accounts don't reward complexity. They reward clean creative, a real offer, and enough budget to actually learn.
Key takeaway
Ads are a system: objective, audience, creative, page, tracking, budget. Weakest link decides results.
Reflection questions
- 1What is the campaign goal you actually need right now?
- 2What's a target CPA you can afford?
- 3Is your tracking set up correctly?
Action task
Plan one campaign using the brief below. Set a target CPA based on your margin.
Worksheet
Work through these prompts. Answers save to this device.
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