Lexi Williams

A competitor's ad shows what the competitor is saying; customers' words help decide what your ad should say.

• Research into customer language is the input, and creative volume is no substitute.
• Each concept should also come with its reasoning: who it is for, what it tests, and why it could work.
• That way, the next ad does not start and end in the founder's head or depend on copying a competitor.

The tactic is deliberately small: take one customer review describing the problem the product was meant to solve, then put the customer's exact words at the top of the next ad. Each concept gets a named audience, expressed as persona x problem x awareness level, and a written hypothesis stating what will be tested and why.

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Finding the opportunity means digging into customer conversations, spotting patterns, and distilling them into angle territories nobody has used.

• Building the creative means turning each angle into hooks, statics, scripts, and briefs across personas and awareness levels.
• Testing means stating what each concept is testing before launch, then reviewing spend, ROAS, CPA, CTR, hook rate, and hold rate to see where it loses people.
• Results feed the next cycle.

The post says the system yields at least three to five fresh angles and 40 or more testable concepts a month without adding headcount, and estimates a 10 to 20 percent CPA reduction.

• These are self-reported campaign claims, not verified results.
• Williams says they had been watching six- to eight-figure DTC wellness and supplement brands for at least 342 days before writing the post.

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They rely on the same one or two winners until fatigue sets in and acquisition costs creep up, then produce more variations.

• The post's explanation is specific: Meta's Andromeda system treats the same angle or look with different wording as one creative, so additional variations waste spend instead of refreshing it.
• The proposed remedy is new strategic territory, not more creative volume: an audit to find the angles a brand has missed.

The offer is a free angle-gap audit, requested by sending the message GAP, to find the VOC (voice-of-customer) angles a brand is missing. The deliverable is fresh strategic territory and creative briefs to test it, not finished ad assets.

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The post refers to Cattoni as she.

• Williams describes starting out surrounded by aggressive marketing, growing tired of pressure-heavy sales tactics, and questioning whether direct response could feel ethical.
• They credit that training with three principles: start with the problem the customer already feels, describe it back to them in their own words using consumer psychology, and lead with empathy before persuasion, because when someone feels heard, the sale stops feeling like a sale.
• Williams says those principles shape how they strategize and produce every ad, email, and page.
• The post attributes the empathy framing and career details to Cattoni; they are not Williams's original formulation.

Williams says Cattoni personally trained and mentored them, and that they joined Cattoni's high-level mastermind group Reign.

• They later thanked her over WhatsApp.
• In the same post, Williams reports generating over $2 million for clients and managing over $1 million in ad spend — figures they cite themselves, not verified elsewhere in the posts here.

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They aim to help wellness brands turn better customer research, positioning, messaging, and creative strategy into ads and funnels that move the business forward. The shift is a priority, not an exclusive specialty: Williams says they still serve coaching and personal-brand clients and lists positioning and messaging work alongside ad production.

The return post lists what changed over those eight months: a month in Sri Lanka, starting and shutting down a home health care business, losing 40 pounds, taking up gouache painting, helping clients generate more than $700,000 through funnels, ad copy, and email, and completing four months of intensive creative strategy training under strategists described as having generated more than $250 million for their clients. The post closes with an invitation to send direct messages.

This is the clearest statement of a change in direction across the posts. Earlier posts present general direct-response and creative strategy work; this one sets a focus on wellness, supplements, and functional food and beverage while retaining coaching and personal-brand clients.

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Start here for the method rather than the résumé.

A full description of the process Lexi Williams calls INSIGHTS.

• Find the opportunity by digging into customer conversations and distilling patterns into unused angle territories.
• Build the creative by turning each angle into hooks, statics, scripts and briefs across personas and awareness levels.
• Test the hypothesis by defining what each concept is testing, then reading spend, ROAS, CPA, CTR, hook rate and hold rate to see where it loses people.
• Kill, iterate or scale, then feed the results into the next cycle.
• The post describes a team with plenty of capacity to make ads but no fresh angle, leaning on one or two winners until fatigue sets in and CAC creeps up.
• It argues that Meta's Andromeda system treats the same angle with different wording as one creative, so more variations do not solve the problem.
• The post claims the system yields three to five fresh angles and 40-plus testable concepts a month without hiring, and lower CPA by 10 to 20 percent.
• It says they had been watching six- to eight-figure DTC wellness and supplement brands for at least 342 days before writing it.

For brands planning a campaign

Treat this as the shape of the engagement: pay for a defined set of new angle territories and briefs to test them, not finished ad volume. Ask for the testing hypotheses and kill, iterate or scale criteria in writing; they make the output reviewable after the work ends.

It is the shortest, most portable example in the set.

Advice for DTC founders running their own ads.

• Take one customer review that describes the problem the product was meant to solve and put the customer's exact words at the top of the next ad, keeping the phrasing intact.
• For competitor ads, Williams says to look for the strategy behind them and the angles they missed rather than copying the ad itself: a competitor's ad shows what they are saying, while a customer's words help decide what your ad should say.
• Give each concept a named audience (persona, problem, awareness level) and a written hypothesis stating what will be tested and why.
• Putting the reasoning on the page keeps the next ad from starting and ending in the founder's head or depending on copying competitors.

For brands planning a campaign

A cheap first test of fit: send a stack of customer reviews and a product category, then ask for a brief template and two or three filled examples. That shows how the strategist handles a client's raw material before anyone commits to a larger engagement.

A tribute to Alex Cattoni, described in the post as a well-known marketer who worked with Mindvalley, won several Best Marketer awards and built a seven-figure education brand around empathy; the post refers to Cattoni as she.

• Williams says they first came across her on YouTube while starting out and surrounded by aggressive marketing, questioning whether direct response could feel ethical.
• Cattoni later trained and mentored them personally; they became a friend in her high-level mastermind Reign and later spoke with her to say thank you.
• The principles credited to that training: start with the problem the customer already feels, describe it back in the customer's own words with a heavy dose of consumer psychology, and lead with empathy before persuasion, because when someone feels heard the sale stops feeling like a sale.
• Williams says those principles shape every ad, email and page, and reports generating over $2 million for clients and managing over $1 million in ad spend.

For brands planning a campaign

Useful for judging the school of practice: empathy-first direct response rather than pressure tactics. It also names the mentor network (Reign) a brand could ask about when checking references or looking for comparable strategists.

It is the clearest statement of their current focus.

A return post after about eight months away, listing what changed: a month in Sri Lanka, starting and then shutting down a home health care business, losing 40 pounds and hitting a goal weight, taking up gouache painting, helping clients generate more than $700,000 through funnels, ad copy and email, and completing four months of intensive creative strategy training under strategists described as having generated more than $250 million for their clients.

• Lexi Williams says they have returned to healthcare roots with creative strategy for DTC and e-commerce wellness, supplement and functional food and beverage brands, while still serving coaching and personal-brand clients.
• They focus on helping wellness brands turn customer research, positioning, messaging and creative strategy into ads and funnels that scale to $1 million months and beyond.
• The post invites direct messages and offers to chat or help.

For brands planning a campaign

Confirms the wellness and supplement focus is deliberate and shows the practice also covers coaching and personal brands. Buyers from other categories should ask whether their vertical is in scope and whether positioning and messaging work, not just ad production, are part of the deal.

In one post they describe digging into customer conversations, spotting patterns, and simplifying them into "angle territories," and in another they give a concrete tactic for founders running their own ads: pick a customer review that describes the problem the product solves and put the customer's exact phrasing at the top of the ad. The stated premise is that a competitor's ad shows what the competitor is saying, while the customer's words help decide what your ad should say.

Start with customer reviews and conversations, preserve the phrasing, then turn the pattern into an angle tested against a named persona, problem, and awareness level.

The customer-review tactic targets founders running their own ads, not brands hiring an external strategist; the two situations have different execution needs.

For brands planning a campaign

A brief can require a documented angle-discovery phase built on customer language before ad concepts are written, rather than treating research as optional.

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The sequence behind those steps is research, insight, strategy, creative, testing, and optimization. Concepts should carry a stated hypothesis and be judged after launch on spend, ROAS, CPA, CTR, hook rate, and hold rate, with results feeding the next cycle.

Define what each concept tests before launch. After launch, use performance data to cut, develop, or scale it, then feed the learning back into research.

For brands planning a campaign

A campaign brief can require a documented test-and-learn cadence that names what each concept tests and which metric determines whether it is killed, iterated, or scaled.

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The proposed response is new strategic territory, not more ad volume: an angle-gap audit to surface untested angles.

• Williams claims the framework produces at least three to five fresh angles and 40 or more testable concepts a month without adding headcount, and estimates a 10 to 20 percent CPA reduction.
• Ask for supporting campaign data before relying on those self-reported figures; they have not been independently verified.

For brands planning a campaign

Before proposing new concepts, ask for a diagnosis of which angles are already saturated in the account. Treat the CPA and volume figures as the creator's claims, not validated benchmarks.

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They joined Cattoni's mastermind group and adopted the principle of starting with the problem the customer already feels, then describing it in the customer's own words.

• The lesson is to lead with empathy before persuasion and treat specificity as proof.
• Williams also describes becoming tired of "bro marketing" and pressure-heavy sales tactics, which they cite as the reason for that emphasis.

Open with the customer's felt problem, reflect it in their language, and hold the sales push until they feel understood.

For brands planning a campaign

A creative brief can specify hooks that lead with customer understanding rather than urgency or pressure. The brand can then assess whether that style fits its category and compliance constraints.

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The post also lists prior work across funnels, ad copy, and email, and states a goal of helping wellness brands scale to seven-figure months. It is the clearest statement of current positioning and the only post that sets out a deliberate change in direction.

Williams still names coaching and personal brand clients as ongoing work, making wellness a priority rather than an exclusive specialty.

For brands planning a campaign

Williams explicitly identifies wellness and supplements as a current focus, making the category a fair-fit assumption for DTC wellness brands. Brands outside it should confirm fit rather than rely on the older general copywriting history.

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Recurring patterns include the hashtag #Kleo30, direct calls to action inviting a message or comment, and short offers such as free angle-gap audits and discounted campaign work. Ask for samples to assess experience with long-form articles, talks, or video.

For brands planning a campaign

The material supports evaluating written frameworks and tactical content, but not long-form, video, or live formats. Ask for samples in those formats before assuming they are part of the offering.

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Tactical LinkedIn posts walk through landing-page headlines, email sequences, and ad hooks, repeatedly tracing results back to customer research and the audience's exact language.

Malik applies the same craft across conversion copywriting, email marketing, and landing-page rewrites for clients including coaches, course creators, and a men's lifestyle brand, presenting results as per-campaign case summaries. Williams focuses on Meta angle discovery and creative testing for wellness and supplement brands, packaging the method as a named multi-stage system rather than individual copy deliverables.

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Taylor's diagnostic of a $1M-per-month Meta account stuck on one dying angle closely parallels Williams's creative-fatigue argument.

Taylor's material helps agencies decide how to hire and structure creative roles — customer-language translator, angle strategist, format executor, performance analyst — for Meta advertisers spending $30K or more per month. Williams's posts address brands and founders working on their own angle gaps and creative briefs, with a stated wellness and supplement focus.

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Both also draw on several years of DTC Meta ads and creative experience.

Shakoor shares shorter, broader DTC and e-commerce advice, alongside a career-reflection post about pausing and rethinking direction.

• Their posts don't set out a named multi-step system or declared category specialization.
• Williams offers a structured research-to-scale loop and a specific wellness, supplement, and functional food and beverage focus.

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The posts show landing-page rewrites, email sequences and Meta ad copy for DTC, coaching and course clients, built around message specificity: one person, one problem, and exact customer wording rather than a headline addressed to everyone.

• A wellness brand with a copy problem — a page speaking to no one in particular, or an email sequence that never names a specific pain point per message — gets something concrete and inspectable sooner this way.
• For a DTC brand seeking better Meta creative, the difference is the deliverable: finished pages, emails and ad hooks from a writer, rather than a defined angle-generation and testing sequence for the brand's team to run.

The tradeoff is repeatability and a documented system.

• The posts report individual results — a landing page moving from 2.1% to 8.4% conversion, an email campaign at a 55.6% average open rate with 22 calls booked in four weeks, and a men's lifestyle test at 3.87x ROAS — rather than a named process the brand can keep running after the engagement ends.
• If the team cannot generate fresh angles on its own, buying finished assets treats the symptom; the next fatigue cycle brings the same dependency.
• The posts are dated November and December 2025, so confirm current availability and category focus directly.

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The posts argue that agencies hire for portfolio quality instead of strategic learning and set out a four-role structure — customer language translator, angle strategist, format executor, performance analyst — designed to produce less volume but a higher hit rate as learning compounds.

• The second post examines a pet supplement brand spending $1M a month, whose ROAS slid from 1.2 to 1.04 to 0.87.
• It traces the decline to one angle being iterated repeatedly, with no record of what had been tested and no system beyond the founder's head.
• This is the alternative when the structure itself is the gap and the brand is prepared to staff it; a defined angle-generation and testing sequence better suits a team that already has the structure and needs new territory.

The tradeoff is that this is advice on organizing and diagnosing, not a delivered angle set.

• The brand must hire or reassign the four roles and run the performance feedback loop itself, keeping more execution in-house than with an engagement that includes campaign briefs and test plans.
• The posts discuss spend levels of $30K+/month on Meta and a $1M/month account, which sit above those of many mid-market wellness brands.
• Before proceeding, ask how the approach would adapt to the brand's spend level.

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The posts approach the buyer problem from the operator's side: an account built around one winning creative is fragile, so the work is to keep a pipeline of tests running across different hooks, angles, customer problems and formats, and spot CPA and ROAS drift early.

• For a brand that already has an angle process and needs someone to run day-to-day testing and read the results, this is closer to the work itself than a framework handover.
• The posts state three years of DTC brand work across Meta ads, creatives, campaigns, scaling and data.

The two posts are short-form and conceptual: one argues for a creative pipeline, and the other reflects on pausing after five years of work.

• Neither lays out a full method, client result or commercial offer.
• Before committing, ask for the scope, deliverables and proof of finished work.
• Compared with Lexi Williams's posts, there is less detail on how angles are found, briefed, tested and killed.
• A brand that needs the reasoning written down and handed to its team should weigh that against the value of a practitioner's day-to-day involvement.

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