Marketing Playbook · META + Google Ads

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Start running your own paid ads system.

A personalised, AI-powered playbook that shows you exactly how to run META and Google Ads for your business. Campaign structure, budget splits, ad copy formulas, content workflow, tracking setup, 90-day plan, weekly routine. One price. Yours forever.

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01 Marketing Readiness Audit
02 Offer & Positioning Sharpener
03 META Ads Campaign Structure
04 Google Ads Campaign Structure
05 Budget Allocation
10
Sections covering META, Google,
tracking, and automation
15-20
Hours per week
the system saves you
$0
Free-tool path
included for every section
$99
One-off. Yours forever.
No subscription.
The leaks we fix

Your ad spend is bleeding, and you already know it.

Every small business running paid ads hits the same five leaks. Fixing any one of them pays for this playbook ten times over. Fixing all five is what agencies charge $3,000 a month to do.

💸

Ad spend disappearing

You're spending hundreds a week and can't tell what's actually driving leads. Welcome to the 80% of small business ad accounts.

📉

Pixel never set up right

iOS 14+ and ad blockers wipe out 30-50% of your tracking data. Without Conversions API, META is optimising blind on your behalf.

🎨

Creative that doesn't convert

Stock photos, generic headlines, and "contact us" CTAs. Your ads look like everyone else's, so they perform like everyone else's.

🔒

Agency keeping you dependent

You can't see inside your own accounts. You don't know what a good CPL is. The moment you cancel, your leads stop. That isn't marketing, that's a rental agreement.

🕸️

One campaign doing all the work

One lead-gen ad carrying the whole account. No awareness funnel, no retargeting, no warm-audience plays. You're only reaching people ready to buy today, and ignoring everyone else.

Leads going cold

You pay $40 for a lead, then take 3 days to respond to them. By then they've already called your competitor. No automation, no sequence, no chance.

The fix
Ten sections that plug every leak. Three-campaign META funnel. Google Search + LSA + Performance Max. Conversions API. Creative workflow. Automation flows. All yours for $99.
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Inside the playbook

Ten sections. One complete system.

Every section is personalised to your business name, location, services, and budget. Every step is click-by-click. Every tool is free unless we flag it. Every section has an AI update button so it never goes stale.

01

Marketing Readiness Audit

An honest baseline. What platforms you're on, what's working, what's leaking, what numbers you need to track before spending a dollar.

META Google Audit
02

Offer & Positioning Sharpener

The offer comes before the ad. AI prompts that generate 5 variants in 15 minutes, so you test winning offers, not mediocre ones.

Claude ChatGPT
03

META Ads Campaign Structure

Three-campaign funnel (Awareness / Consideration / Lead Gen). Exact budget splits, ad copy formulas, Advantage+ settings, step-by-step Pixel install.

Facebook Instagram Advantage+
04

Google Ads Campaign Structure

Search, Local Services Ads, Performance Max. Keyword research with AI, negative keyword baseline, all 6 extensions, LSA application walkthrough.

Search LSA Performance Max
05

Budget Allocation

Exact dollar splits across 5 channels. CPL benchmarks. Dayparting setup. The 20% scaling rule that stops you torching the learning algorithm.

META Google
06

Content & Creative Strategy

Phone-camera content SOP. Canva brand kit. CapCut Reel workflow. AI copy prompts that produce 5 ad variants from one brief in 2 minutes.

Canva CapCut ChatGPT
07

Conversion Tracking & Analytics

Google Tag Manager + GA4 + Meta Conversions API + UTM conventions + Looker Studio dashboard. The setup that makes every other section measurable.

GA4 Conversions API Looker Studio
08

AI Tools Stack

12 tools, ~$130/mo total. Covers copywriting, creative, automation, reviews, reporting. Replaces an agency retainer ten times over.

AI-powered Free tier
09

90-Day Launch Plan

Week-by-week rollout. Foundation in weeks 1-2, content in weeks 3-4, first campaigns live in month 2, scale in month 3. No overwhelm.

Phased rollout
10

Weekly Optimisation & Automation

30-minute Monday routine. Four Make.com automations (lead response, review requests, social auto-reply, weekly report). Everything runs itself.

Free tier covers 1000 ops/month. $9/mo above that.

Make.com ManyChat Google Sheets
The AI refresh button

The playbook keeps itself current.

Every section has a Check for Updates button. Press it and Claude scans the web for anything new in META, Google, or paid-ads best practice, then rewrites the section specifically for your business.

  • Connected to Claude with web search, every answer is grounded in real 2026 sources.
  • Specific to your business, it knows your niche, location, budget, and offer.
  • No subscription fee, the AI refresh is included in your $99 forever.
  • "NO_UPDATE" response when nothing has changed, so you don't chase ghosts.
  • Refreshed content cached, so you can come back to the latest version any time.
Section 03 · META Ads · Check for Updates
> Press Check for Updates
"Updating META Ads Campaign Structure for a small HVAC business in Dallas, TX. Current ad budget $1,800/mo. Looking for any changes since 2025."
✦ Claude responds
Two meaningful changes for your Dallas HVAC setup this quarter:

1. Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns now work for service businesses with lead forms attached. Run your Campaign 3 (Lead Gen) through Advantage+ for 15-20% lower CPL on average.

2. Meta's new Lead Filtering. In the instant form, enable the "Higher Intent" toggle and add a qualifier question like "Own or rent?" Reduces tyre-kickers by ~40%.

Everything else in this section is still current. Keep the 3-campaign structure and 20/30/50 budget split.
How it works

Three steps. Under 10 minutes.

01

Fill the form

Tell us your business name, location, services, and monthly ad budget. No payment yet. Takes 90 seconds.

02

Preview your playbook free

We build your personalised playbook overnight and email you a private link. Sections 1-2 are fully unlocked so you can see exactly what you're getting.

03

Unlock for $99

Pay once inside the playbook. Sections 3-10 unlock instantly. No subscription, no upsells, no follow-up sales calls. The link is the product. Bookmark it.

Pricing

Agency-level system. DIY price.

  • Personalised to your business. Your name, location, services, budget, and competitors baked into every section.
  • Ten sections end-to-end. Audit, offer, META, Google, budget, creative, tracking, AI stack, 90-day plan, weekly routine.
  • AI refresh button forever. One click updates any section with current best practice.
  • Free-tool path for every step. Paid tools are clearly flagged, never required.
  • Ad copy formulas and DIY walkthroughs. Click-by-click, no "figure it out" moments.
  • Four Make.com automations that run your lead response, review requests, and reporting on autopilot. Free tier covers 1000 ops/month. $9/mo above that.
  • Works on any device. Private URL, no logins, no passwords, no app to install.
  • Lifetime access. No subscription. No renewal. No "Pro tier." This is the product.
One-off · Lifetime
Agency retainer: $2,500 to $4,000/month
$99once

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Questions people ask

Everything you're wondering.

A course gives you theory. A PDF gives you a checklist. This gives you a living system built around your actual business, your name, your location, your services, and your budget. Every section has a real-time AI update button, so when META changes its algorithm or Google rolls out a new feature, your playbook updates with it. You don't go back to a course. You come back to a tool.
The playbook is built for people who have never run paid ads before. Every step is click-by-click. Every tool has a free-tier path. Every section has a "DIY walkthrough" that shows you exactly what screen to be on, what to click, and what to type. If you can follow instructions and copy-paste, you can do this. We flag every step that might trip you up and tell you exactly how to get past it.
Under 2 hours for the core setup: Pixel installed, tracking live, first campaign running. The full 90-day launch plan is staggered week-by-week so you never feel swamped. Most owners run the whole system on 2 hours a week once it's built.
One-time. $99 once. No renewal, no monthly fee, no "Pro tier" to upgrade to. The AI refresh button works forever. Every section has one. That's the product. There is no upsell.
Your playbook is hosted at a private, unguessable URL that is never listed, indexed, or shared with anyone other than you. No accounts, no logins, no passwords. Just a link only you have.
You see Sections 1 and 2 free. By the time you pay, you know what you're getting. All sales are final. Access or delivery issues? Email us and we'll sort it out.
Every section has a "Check for Updates" button. Press it and Claude searches the web for anything new in META, Google, or paid ads best practice, then rewrites the section specifically for your business. It knows your niche, location, budget, and offer. If nothing has changed in the last 90 days, it returns a single "NO_UPDATE" response so you're not chasing ghosts. Updated content is cached in your browser so the latest version is always there when you come back.
Email us at hello@plainblackcreative.com. We're a small team and we respond fast. The playbook is built to be self-sufficient, but if something isn't working or a step doesn't make sense for your specific setup, reach out and we'll help you figure it out.
PlainBlack is a small New Zealand-based studio that builds AI-powered marketing playbooks for small business owners who are done paying agencies. We don't offer retainers, ongoing services, or upsells. We build one-off systems you own permanently, delivered at a price that actually makes sense. Every playbook is written from scratch for your business, not adapted from a template with your name swapped in.

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I cancelled my agency retainer after finishing section three. I run all our META and Google ads myself now. Best $99 I've spent on the business.

Michelle P. Small business owner, New Zealand
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