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Richard Millington - Indispensable Consulting

I Invested $10k In Ads To Grow This Newsletter - Here's What Happened

Let's explore the power of social ads to grow your consulting practice. What can you expect for your investment and how should you do it well?

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Richard Millington
Apr 29, 2025
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Hi, I’m Rich. Welcome to my weekly newsletter where I share systems and frameworks for scaling your consulting practice from $0 to $1m+ in revenue.

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Can You Attract Clients Via Social Ads?

Over the past fifteen years, I’ve dabbled with using social ads to grow my practice, but typically with terrible results. I’ve often set something up, let it run for a day or two, realised I’d lost $200 without any results, and quickly cancelled it, (while wondering how anyone achieves results doing this).

But given that it appears increasingly difficult to attract organic traffic, I figured social ads were something to explore at some point, especially as a top-of-the-funnel mechanism to attract initial awareness.

A while back, Rei, a former client from Intel, shared his great success using social ads to grow his newsletter. The results were impressive, so I figured I’d give it a sho…

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