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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and I'll run this batch again. I'll do it again next week.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: He's gonna find out real quick what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: So, alright, so we're done on this and then he just needs to do that because us doing it won't work. Alright, sounds amazing.
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827 — This Isn't a Solar Ad
829 — Name One Other Electricity Option
830 — How Much Have You Paid PG&E
831 — You Didn't Get Burned by Solar
832 — 10 Years of PG&E Bills, In One Picture
833 — 15 Locations. We're Still Here.
834 — Pay Your Power Bill Once. Then Never Again.
835 — Your Pension Doesn't Grow. PG&E's Rate Does.
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Speaker 1: This is the kind of shit I like to do. And then, and then next week after that runs, we'll have data on all those ads, and I'll go ahead and I'll run this batch again, and we'll do it again next week. So, I mean, he's, he's gonna find out real quick what wins and what doesn't, so.
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North Valley Solar Power — Media Buying Analysis
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- Preliminary Discovery
- North Valley Solar Power — CASH Analysis (ad teardown)
- North Valley Solar Power — Observations & Hypotheses (PPA vs GridGen)
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[Document Content]
North Valley Solar Power — Media Buying Analysis
The trajectory is concerning. January through mid-February the account was spending $200/day between Sacramento and the VC campaigns. After February 11 it dropped to $100/day and has stayed there for three months. The account is not growing. It is shrinking in real terms as CPMs rise. The same $100/day buys fewer impressions and fewer leads every month in a rising auction environment.
The risk of running the whole account on $100/day of test campaigns is real and specific. Two failure modes: First, if VC GridGen continues to fatigue and CPL climbs past $80—90, there is no backup. The account has no other active campaign to absorb that spend. Second, VC PPA's fresh audience (frequency 2.48) is only fresh because the budget is tiny. At $50/day in Northern California solar, the algorithm is barely touching the available audience. That low frequency is not a sign of a large untapped pool — it may simply reflect that $50/day can only reach so many people before the budget runs out each day. The "freshness" could evaporate quickly if the campaign is not structured correctly when scaled.
The deeper pattern: this account has demonstrated it can generate leads at $38—68 CPL across two distinct angles in the current environment. That is the signal. The problem is not creative or angle — it is budget allocation and campaign structure. The account is under-investing in what works.
OBSERVATIONS
01. VC PPA is the best-performing lead-gen campaign this account has ever run. $38.62 CPL beats the lifetime SSW PPA floor of $53.10 and the Sacramento "12.11" result of $52.23. This is not a small improvement — it is a 27% lower CPL than the previous best comparable campaign.
02. VC GridGen's frequency of 4.03 on a $50/day budget is a more serious signal than it looks. It needs new creative now, before CPL starts climbing.
03. The event tracking is inconsistent between campaigns. The Sacramento "12.11" campaign tracked "actions:lead." The VC campaigns track "actions:leadgen.other."
04. The two VC campaigns together have spent $6,943.22 over 4.3 months. PPA generated 73% more leads on the same spend compared to GridGen.
05. The CPM gap between the two live campaigns ($84.39 PPA vs $69.55 GridGen) is counterintuitive. PPA is paying more per thousand impressions but generating cheaper leads, meaning PPA's conversion rate from impression to lead is substantially higher.
06. The Sacramento "12.11" campaign ran at $55.05 CPM — cheaper than either current VC campaign.
07. Copying the "12.11" campaign showed that even a short-run test of the same structure underperformed the original, confirming the original was not just lucky.
08. There is no retargeting or warm-audience layer active anywhere in the account right now.
09. The account is generating approximately 142 leads over 4.3 months from the two live VC campaigns (90 PPA + 52 GridGen), roughly 1 lead per day.
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[Chat Transcript]
# north-valley-solar-power
Michael Meino 4:51 PM
Working on this still but it came out after a 3 hour run, one thing is I really suggest on the location landing pages you use only the tracking number from the GMB....
Dynamic call swap + GMB number can be done but the way its set up on your site I used to do that then I just went with GMB number only and rely on UTM Tags to know where the traffic came from.
Can you send over call tracking log ins when you get a chance.
Michael Meino 7:22 PM
Hey, Kurt, thank you, bro. And yeah, just so you know, also I forgot to mention that site is set to no index, so it won't, you know, show up and shit...
Dan 5:04 PM
@Kurt Happy Friday! I've uploaded the three ad campaigns to the account. I'd need you to go in and approve the ad budgets at the Ad Sets level for each campaign, and then activate them, it seems like our access to the account doesn't let us activate the campaigns from our side. Let me know if you get stuck or it doesn't work and we'll hop on a call. We can hit it on Monday. Enjoy the weekend!
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll send you the campaign.
Speaker 2: Word. Okay, awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So all he has to do is check it out and then click apply.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Fuck yeah. All right, great.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of... that's the kind of shit I like to do.
Speaker 2: Word.
Speaker 1: And then... and then next week after that runs, we'll have data on all those ads.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a couple of them, like just turning stuff on and off, upping budgets, things like that. So we'll go ahead and do those on Monday, but I just want to make sure that all that stuff is in the account for him now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, yep, that's the kind of—that's the—
May 15, 09:05 PM
Speaker 1: Okay, so did that say it should be tweaked or give any suggestions?
Speaker 2: It's... there's a couple of them, like just turning stuff on and off, upping budgets, things like that.
Speaker 1: So we'll go ahead and do those on Monday, but I just want to make sure that all that stuff is...
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[Document Content]
North Valley Solar Power — Media Buying Analysis
Current-state analysis (PRIMARY): Meta Ads Manager export, campaign-level, 2026-01-01 to 2026-05-11 ($15,798 spent). Historical context (APPENDIX): 12-month export, 2025-05-09 to 2026-05-11 ($59,753 spent).
TLDR — What's Actually Happening Right Now
The account has effectively been rebuilt from scratch in 2026. Everything that generated volume in 2025 is off. The current live footprint is $100/day across two test campaigns. VC PPA at $38.62 CPL is the best cost-per-lead this account has ever produced in any window. It is sitting at $50/day with a fresh audience (frequency 2.48) and has never been scaled. This is the most important fact in the dataset.
VC GridGen is fatiguing (frequency 4.03 on a $50/day budget is a real signal — that's a small audience being hit hard). CPL of $66.68 is consistent with GridGen's historical floor but will deteriorate without a creative refresh.
The Sacramento "12.11" campaign ran for ~6 weeks, produced 163 leads at $52.23 CPL, and ended. Nobody has replaced it. That structure worked and is currently sitting dormant.
There is no warm audience layer. The Sacramento VV video-views campaign that cheaply built a warm pool in 2025 is dead and hasn't been rebuilt. Both live campaigns are running cold.
CPM is rising: $56.56 lifetime average to $63.20 YTD 2026. The two active campaigns are running at $84.39 and $69.55 CPM respectively — expensive for a $50/day budget in a competitive solar market.
At $100/day the account is generating roughly 2—3 leads per day combined. For a residential solar operation in Northern California this is not a pipeline. It is a trickle.
The path to more leads at lower CPL is not complicated: scale VC PPA immediately, refresh GridGen creative, and rebuild the Sacramento structure. The data supports all three moves. Nothing is being done because the account is in a holding pattern.
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Website: https://docs.google.com/document/d/lZy7t7bxbqtW6qlVHLFgZ1j6sF9N7dzq677aJ
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Everything we should be doing to the account is in here. So, current state, what's going on, changes that need to be made, patterns we're noticing, like everything's in here.
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Website: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zy7t7bxbqtW6qIVHLFgZ1j6sF9N7dzq677aJSfbikjw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.a0h4cy8f9ykr
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North Valley Solar Power — Observations & Hypotheses
North Valley Solar Power — Media Buying Analysis
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Meta Ads Manager - North Valley Solar Power
Account Overview: North Valley Solar Power (1071572478173595)
Campaigns:
- VC I GridGen I FB Lead Forms (Active): 2 Leads, 100% results
- VC I PPA I FB Lead Forms (Active): 6 Leads, 14.3% results
- NVSP-BillAudit-batch03 (In draft)
- NVSP-PrepaidPPA-batch03 (In draft)
- NVSP-BilIAudit(re-taggedstandalonesolar)-batch03 (In draft)
Performance Summary (Last 7 days):
- Total Leads (Form): 8
- Amount Spent: $710.03
- Cost Per Lead (Form): $88.75
Status: Publishing 1 of 6
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