The Performance Creative Workshop

Make ads that actually work

Twenty-nine lessons on how to write, structure, test, and iterate paid social ads. Built for creative strategists, and anyone learning to be one.

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$500 $197 one time · lifetime access
The Performance Creative Workshop
What you get

Everything in the course

29 video lessons

About two and a half hours. Watch at your own pace, one part at a time.

The workbook

A page for every working session and a script page for every ad type. Comes as a Notion template or a Google Doc.

Lifetime access

Pay once. Come back to any lesson whenever you need it.

What you walk away with

Actionable, not theory. Start making ads right away.

Your creative strategy playbook

Your personas, the problems your product solves for each one, and the messages that go with them, written for your brand in the workbook.

10 ad scripts, ready to make

One for each blueprint: 5 video and 5 static. Hand them to a creator or designer the day you finish.

A system for the next ones

A testing plan, plus the adaptation and iteration methods to turn every winner into the next round of ads.

What's inside

Six parts

  1. PersonasWho you are talking to, and the problems your product solves for them.
  2. CopywritingHow a working ad is built: headers, openers, features, benefits, reasons to believe, social proof.
  3. Ad types5 video and 5 static ad blueprints, each with a script page to write your own.
  4. Testing and metricsHow to test inside the creative, and the four metrics that show which part of an ad works.
  5. AdaptationTake an ad from the wild and translate why it works to your brand.
  6. IterationRead a winner's numbers, swap the one element they point at, and run it again.
What people say

From teams who took it

“Blaine’s workshop on performance creative was a game-changer for our team. He broke down the creative archetypes in a way that was approachable, actionable, and easy to understand. Since the session, our content has consistently outperformed benchmarks. It was one of the most impactful trainings we’ve had.”
Alexander McMastersSenior Project Manager, VaynerMedia
“A true masterclass for anyone developing social campaigns and assets that need to drive conversion. His program features great interactive exercises and takeaway materials that will equip every marketer with a literal blueprint for building effective performance creative on their own, long after the course is over.”
Brian ChinCreative Director, VaynerX
“The workshop was incredibly insightful when it came to simple tactics with large gains. Optimizing creative performance rather than taking shots in the dark or relying on subjective opinion led to taking more creative swings down the line.”
Peter SitomerAssociate Creative Director, VaynerMedia
Who teaches it
Blaine Nicholls

Blaine Nicholls

Blaine started at TubeScience, then built the performance creative team at VaynerCommerce as its first creative hire, and went on to lead paid social strategy as VP of Performance Creative at VaynerX. This is the workshop he built to train those teams.

Questions

Before you buy

How long does it take?

The lessons run about two and a half hours. Most people spread the course and the workbook over a week or two.

Do I need to be running ads already?

It helps to have one real product in mind. You do not need a big budget. If you run anything on Meta, you have enough to work with.

Is this the same thing you do with clients?

This is the craft half: how to think about and make performance creative. We also help brands build an in-house creative team and the system around it in 90 days.

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$500 $197, one time. Lifetime access, the workbook, and your playbook and first 10 ad scripts by the end.

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