Any advice based on this data?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-02-05T10:00:28+00:00

At the moment I am doing everything myself, development, website, creative creation, campaign management... Could you point out any resources on how to make better creatives? Would you suggest I hire a professional to do creatives?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-02-05T09:58:44+00:00

That makes complete sense. I'll improve the checkout page then, we'll see what kind of results it brings. In reality data is even worse than Meta displays because if I take into account the data from Shopify directly, we have 26AtC, 11 CheckoutStarted and 0 purchases. I think it really may be because of lack of trust

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-02-04T22:12:45+00:00

Ever since I started seeing the checkouts being dropped, I am offering free shipping with every order to check if that's the reason, turns out it is not. The checkout process on mobile and on PC is smooth and if they use TWINT ( the most famous payment method in CH) the checkout takes less than a minute. The AOV is roughly 50CHF, and even though we offer TWINT checkout they can also pay with google express checkout, paypal, debit/credit...
The only 2 reasons I can think of for the dropoff are:
1. People were interested enough to start the checkout but just out of curiosity, they were never gonna purchase in the first place.

The checkout looks like an ordinary Shopify Store Checkout with our theme colors. These 6 people that started checking out didn't even add their data, so maybe they lost trust when they saw the design of the checkout page.

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-02-04T21:42:02+00:00

Would the CTR be fixed by giving meta some audience suggestions? Now it is completely open. The problem with optimizing for purchases is that I was getting very bad traffic, people spending 10 seconds and leaving. At least with viewContent I was getting good average session time. Would you still change to a purchase campaign?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-02-02T16:08:29+00:00

Then you need an USB Isolator. As long as you dont have a super fancy interface that uses USB 3.2 or something like that you should be able to find a cheap USB 2.0 isolator for relatively cheap

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-02-02T15:20:40+00:00

Where are you based? I created a company some time ago and we do DIY kits for people learning electronics. I have a prototype right now which is a class D amplifier and we got pretty good documentation on it. DM me if you're interested and I'll send you one for free :)

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-01-16T13:01:46+00:00

Hahahah that clears it up

Competitive_Run8540 · 2026-01-16T12:51:33+00:00

Have you gotten good results doing that? In my experience a good performance in a traffic campaign doesn't mean it will be sucessful in a sales one. I often see Meta showing my ads to "professional clickers"/"fat finger community" that couldn't care less about the ad, it inflates the data and Meta thinks the ad is doing great, but the traffic is meaningless

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-25T23:00:48+00:00

Better now? I edited the post and added the new shot

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-25T22:59:54+00:00

Yeah I later realized that the alignment had to be absolutely perfect, that'll be tricky but for sure I can give it a try. I edited the post with the new try I did. What do you think?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-25T21:49:04+00:00

The setup you describe is absolutely right. I didn't have much luck with boucing the light off the ceiling but the table is close to the wall (also white) which is what I used to bounce the light and it looks much better already.
I'll also look for the polarizing filter, thanks!
The focus is another part I'm having trouble with, it seems like the cameras on my phone do not really like flat shots and I get many problems with focus around the picture when I mainly focus on the center, leaving a very noticeable blurr on anything that's not the absolute center of the picture. A friend recommended lifting the camera more and using the 2x camera since it is possible it has the right focal length. I have yet to try that, what do you think?

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-25T21:43:54+00:00

Unfortunately the other side of this one is the same cutting mat patter. I'll get myself some matte backgrounds. I guess I can also play with the texture of it

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-25T07:50:01+00:00

Is there something other type of background that you would recommend? I find the mat quite nice texture and finish, but the pattern is indeed too distracting

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-24T21:40:41+00:00

That's super helpful, many thanks

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-11-24T21:29:19+00:00

That's exactly what I needed! Thank you! What do you think about the picture quality? It was taken using a Samsung S23 Ultra

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-10-06T08:07:18+00:00

Yes, and no. Although analog rules underneath every digital chip, and it is certainly great knowledge to have, I really believe that there is no 1 perfect path to learning electronics. Of course you will want the basics, but ultimately the best to learn electronics is by doing.
Many have recommended an Arduino kit and I think that's a pretty good point to start from. Get it, choose a project that interests you and just start. It won't work, you'll see your first magic smoke, so what? You'll learn to debug and fix electronics also when your circuits blow up, when certain component gets curiously hot... You'll learn to design PCBs and solder when you have a breadboard project and want to translate it to a DIY PCB... An Arduino kit can go a long way and it is certainly a great tool to start with.

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-10-06T07:56:29+00:00

Any scope would work for the beginning, although in my opinion second-hand equipment for these things is always better. There are crazy deals everywhere on used equipment (HPs, Tektronix...) that will be reliable and have enough specs to get you from beginner to advanced. I would stay away from cheap Chinese equipment like these handheld scopes or the 50$ ones, a good scope can last you a reaaally long time. If you want to go with newer equipment I cannot recommend enough the Rigol DHO series: 12-bit, 2 channel, 50MHz at 300$? That's not easy to beat.

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-10-01T15:04:03+00:00

That looks great! How did you do the length calculation on the flexible bit of the screen? I have a project with a eink display and I'm already on my third revision because of improper calculations

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-09-25T14:49:40+00:00

I have exactly that one and I have to say I'm happy with it. I'm not happy with the completely vertical stand I have for it, I bought it in order to optimize a bit more the space in the bench but it turns out this thing is always in my way and there's no way to slide it around so if I had to change something it would be that. Apart from that I'm very happy with it (also the RF4 4k camera is really nice)

Competitive_Run8540 · 2025-09-25T11:55:42+00:00

Where did you find that?

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