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The Fastest Way to Scale Creator Ads in 2026
Before you redesign, answer these 3 questions
Your first 100 customers set the culture forever
Your launch needs more than one way in
Shopify and Meta Just Went Official on Claude
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The Fastest Way to Scale Creator Ads in 2026
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CRO
Before you redesign, answer these 3 questions
Riddle Oil was scaling fast. Traffic was coming in from Meta, Google, and beyond. Conversions weren't keeping pace.
The site looked fine. But customers were confused by the product line, didn't understand the layering system, and couldn't figure out where to start. The easy call was a redesign.
A redesign without knowing what's actually broken is an expensive guess. And it can make things worse — you might remove something that was quietly working.
Before changing anything, answer these three questions.
Where are people dropping off, and why?
There's a difference between someone leaving a product page because they're confused and someone leaving because they don't trust the brand yet. The fix for each is completely different.
Analytics show you where. Research shows you why.
What are your customers' actual objections?
Most brands look at heatmaps, see a drop-off, and start guessing. That's how you end up redesigning pages that didn't need redesigning.
Surveys and voice-of-customer research tell you what's actually in the way.
Is the problem the page, or the offer?
Sometimes the product page is fine. The confusion lives in how you've structured your bundles, your entry point, or your product lineup. No design change fixes a product education problem.
With Riddle Oil, the research came first. Behavioral analysis, heatmaps, journey mapping, customer surveys. Then targeted tests.
The result was $2.4M in additional revenue over 12 months, and a redesign built on data instead of assumptions.
Action Summary:
Pull your drop-off data and identify the top three pages where people leave
Run a customer survey asking what stopped them from buying
Map whether the problem is the page design, the product education, or the offer structure
Test one fix at a time based on what the research tells you
Credit: Raphael Paulin-Daigle
Retention
Your first 100 customers set the culture forever
Most brands treat their first customers as a numbers problem. Get to 100, then 1000, then scale.
The early days matter more than that.
Your first 100 customers set the culture of everything that comes after. The tone, the kind of people who feel like they belong, the way strangers talk about you online — all of it traces back to who showed up first and why.
Your job in the early days is to find the people who post about you without being asked, who bring others in because they want them to experience it, who would keep buying even if you went quiet for a month.
Those people aren't necessarily the loudest or the most followed. They're the ones who show up consistently and care about what you're doing beyond the transaction.
Who you actively recruit in the beginning is what you're building.
Action Summary:
Identify 10 customers who engage without being prompted — comments, tags, unpaid posts
Reach out to each one personally this week and ask them why they buy from you
Use their language and values to define who you recruit next
Make those 10 people feel like insiders before you go after anyone else
Credit: David Spinks
Organic Social
Your launch needs more than one way in.
LA Metro opened three new subway stations last week. The announcement video did fine.
The thing that took off? A shirt that says "Ride the D."
A Redditor suggested it. The team made it. It did a full year's worth of sales in under 24 hours and ended up on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Jane Ashley, who runs social at LA Metro, said the announcement post got completely eclipsed by something they barely promoted.
That's the part worth sitting with.
Even teams who do this well can't predict which piece lands. The video they planned for weeks or the shirt someone joked about on Reddit. You don't know until the audience tells you.
What you can control is how many shots you give them.
Matthew Stasoff calls these "on-ramps" — multiple ways into the same announcement. Several hero assets: a post, a comment thread, a meme, a merch drop.
Different formats reach different people in different moods.
For LA Metro, the on-ramp was merch. For your next launch, it might be a comment, a behind-the-scenes clip, or something your audience suggests before you even think of it.
Action Summary:
For your next launch, list at least 4 formats beyond the hero post (merch, meme, comment engagement, behind-the-scenes, etc.)
Ship at least 2 of them alongside the main announcement
Watch which format gets traction and double down on it within 24 hours
Credit: Rachel Karten
Shopify and Meta Just Went Official on Claude
You might be surprised to see an AI Launch Codes post today. But something exciting happened, and I just couldn't wait till next week to tell you.
Meta and Shopify have both launched official Claude connectors.
No third-party apps. No workarounds. No terminal commands. Just a simple login.
In fact, yesterday we published a post on connecting Shopify to Claude. That version only works inside Claude Code. Super powerful, but some of you found it intimidating.
Today it got a lot simpler.
Shopify quietly dropped an official connector in Claude's connector directory. Click connect. Log in to your store. Done.
And a few days ago, Meta also launched their official Claude MCP server.
If you have been following AI Launch Codes, you are probably already connected through one of the earlier setups we covered.
It is time to switch to the official connectors.
If you have been reading but haven't connected anything yet this is your sign.
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