Coach, consultant, course creator, expert, author, speaker, lawyer, wealth advisor, home services: any business that runs on high-quality leads is feeling it. It's the marketing roller coaster: one month you're riding high, the next it's going down.
One ad account. One Instagram. One platform carrying the whole business. Ask yourself: what happens to your business if that platform shut you down tomorrow? This isn't theory. It happens all the time.
One platform means one single point of failure, and that's a massive mistake.
Chasing volume fills your funnel with junk. In the static funnel, 100 mixed-quality leads come in, nothing filters them, and you end up with a couple of clients, but you paid for all 100.
The algorithm is only as good as the data you feed it. Feed it every lead and it brings you junk. Feed it your best leads, train it with AI, and it brings you more high-quality clients.
Organic alone burns entrepreneurs out: you post, you hope it gets traction, it fades within 24 hours, and the cycle repeats. But the polar opposite isn't the answer either: with ads alone, the minute you turn spend off, everything stops. You're renting your business instead of building a foundation.
The ads bring the leads. The leads train the AI. Better leads come back in, again and again. Combined, these three strategies get you the best results.
We're in a trust recession: people don't trust online marketing the way they used to. Video builds know, like & trust in the eyes of your ideal client. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million.
"Do you have this problem? Buy my thing" is dead. Teach something real first. For expert & service businesses, it produces dramatically better results.
People go to YouTube to learn. They're literally searching for the exact problem you solve. Reach them at the moment of intent and you get higher-quality leads and higher ROAS.
Meta works great, Google Search too, but YouTube is the anchor platform, with targeting based on what people are watching & searching right now.
Everyone is fighting in the red ocean (Meta) while attention stays cheap in the blue ocean. Right now, that's YouTube. Go where other advertisers aren't.
Then use Alpha AI Targeting: set up audiences & split tests that feed the platform's AI, training the algorithm to find more of your ideal clients.
The most valuable list in your business is the one you're ignoring. Of every 20 people who watch your videos or hit your landing page, maybe one becomes a lead. The other 19 already know you. That's a gold mine. They just need to keep seeing you.
Take one YouTube video and repurpose it cross-platform: shorts, reels, everywhere. When people see you on ads and content, you stay top of mind and become the only choice they want to work with.
Nobody watches 200 individual testimonials. Compress the best clips back-to-back into one rolling ad of client wins and people actually watch it. Here's ours. Model it for your business:
This is what the best businesses run right now, in secret. It's the funnel behind most of the 7 & 8-figure businesses you see, and almost nobody talks about it. Build with the end in mind, add an application with real qualifying questions (revenue, budget, challenges), then let the funnel do the sorting.
Your funnel sorts and filters the leads, then you send the platform data on only your highest-quality leads and say: "I want more leads like this." The algorithm stops learning from junk and starts hunting your best clients.
This isn't just YouTube. It works with Meta, LinkedIn, really any ad platform. It's the single biggest thing most businesses get wrong.
Sure, AI tools are valuable, and they're free or really cheap. What they lack is the training data that makes ads convert. It's AI plus years of experience, thousands of clients & millions in ad spend that produces the outcome. We leverage AI at every single step:
You'd be surprised: most agencies sell ads while growing on word of mouth. We spend millions on our own ads. You've probably seen them. It's very likely an ad brought you here. Now you know the machine behind it.
Your budget starts with the millions we've already spent, and everything learned installing this across thousands of businesses in hundreds of niches. Every client feeds the patterns. Every application trains the machine on who to find next.
Founder & CEO of AdOutreach, based in Austin, Texas. Aleric started on YouTube in 2009, at age 12, with the app review channel AppFind, growing it to 500k+ subscribers and the #1 app review channel on YouTube.
In 2015 an app developer asked, "How can we get more people to see the apps in your videos?" His answer, "What if we run a YouTube ad?", became AdOutreach: ads for thousands of businesses, and #60 on the Inc. 5000 with 6,052% three-year growth, on the list three years in a row.
Fair warning: figuring this out alone usually takes months (sometimes years) of testing, burning budget, rebuilding, refilming. There's a faster way. ↓
The application takes two minutes. On the call, we map out the full system, regardless of whether you work with us. The game plan is yours to keep.
Twelve months from now you're in the same place: a year behind, with the gap compounding against you.
Doing nothing is still a decision. And it's often the most expensive one.
Two to six weeks from now, a system is live & compounding inside your business, bringing in consistent, high-quality leads & clients that get better every month.