After 3875 Days of Digital Marketing | Why performance marketers should learn DIY designing tools.
Many times, it becomes important to tweak the ad copy in your ad creatives for various reasons: – Ad fatigue has set in. – You want to test a new idea that popped during campaign optimization. – A recent market trend has started, and you want to capitalize on it. – Data analysis suggests a need for testing a new ad creative. I recall the frustration of having to wait in a queue for even a minor punctuation change, not blaming the designers—after all, they are busy with their work, and random requests disrupt their creative flow. However, as a performance marketer, this was a HUGE ISSUE for me because I was not ready to see extra monies go to waste on an underperforming ad. So, I took the matter into my own hands and started teaching myself some basics of DIY designing tools. After adopting this approach, my life as a performance marketer has become much smoother. The key is simple: request both the ad templates along with the final set of ad creatives from your designer. Ensure you have the necessary tools/software installed on your computer (unlike platforms like Canva, where being added as a team member suffices) That’s it! Create as many variants as needed for testing. I can’t emphasize enough how important A/B or multivariant testing is in performance marketing. I have witnessed campaigns failing before my eyes, knowing that a minor change in the ad creative copy could save the campaign. No more feeling powerless. Learning these DIY designing tools isn’t just an added advantage for a performance marketer. It is a necessity.