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Why Your Ugliest Ad Is Probably Your Best One ad creative ascend ascend collective lead generation marketing paul meldrum Jul 03, 2026

There's a post sitting in your account right now that makes you a little uncomfortable. It's plain. It's blunt. It doesn't match your colour palette or your nicely spaced grid. And it's probably your ...

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Why the Ads You Love Usually Lose (And the "Ugly" Ones Print Money) ad creative ascend ascend collective lead generation marketing paul meldrum Jul 02, 2026

Over the last 12 months I've run ads for more than 70 businesses. Different industries, different budgets, different offers. And the single biggest problem I keep running into has nothing to do with t...

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Paul Meldrum

Iā€™ve spent the last 21+ years building in the trenches of fitness, coaching, and service-based businesses ā€” not just delivering outcomes, but designing acquisition, delivery, and operational systems that work in the real world.

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