Orange County Service

Meta Ads Built for Orange County Founders

We fund the team running your Facebook and Instagram campaigns. You fund the ad budget. Revenue share over 24 months.

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Meta's ad platform—Facebook, Instagram, Advantage+—moves fast. Creative burns out. Audiences fragment. Testing cycles compress. Most founders either hire an agency on retainer or try to manage it in-house between product builds. Both models leak margin.

We take a different approach. MarketStra funds the operational costs: strategists who map your funnel, designers who build creative, media buyers who run the campaigns, analysts who pull attribution. You fund the media spend itself—the budget that goes directly to Meta. We get paid when you do. 24 months, revenue share, no retainer.

We run this service across eight Orange County cities. Click any city below for local market specifics. This page covers how the partnership works at the county level.

Why Orange County

Orange County's consumer base fragments across income tiers and geography. A Balboa Island wellness brand doesn't run the same Meta strategy as a Santa Ana logistics company. Creative that works in Newport Beach often falls flat in Fullerton. Audience segmentation matters here more than in most metros.

The county also skews older and wealthier than California at large. Meta's targeting has gotten dumber post-iOS 14, but OC's concentrated purchasing power still lets you fish in a smaller pond. Your CAC can stay reasonable if you're disciplined about creative rotation and you don't treat Instagram like a billboard.

We've run Meta campaigns for OC founders in e-commerce, local services, B2B software, and direct-to-consumer products. The platform rewards speed. You need someone watching daily, not checking in once a week during a status call. That's what we fund.

How We Partner

Here's the structure. We deploy capital to cover the people and systems running your Meta campaigns. That includes strategists who build your funnel architecture, creative producers who test ad formats, buyers who optimize bids, and reporting infrastructure that ties spend to revenue. You cover the ad budget—the dollars that go into Meta's ad account each month.

We don't take a percentage of spend. We take a percentage of the revenue those campaigns generate. If a campaign drives $400K in attributed revenue over 24 months, we get our share of that $400K. If it drives $80K, we get our share of $80K. The model aligns. You're not paying for activity. You're paying for outcomes.

Partnerships run 24 months. We don't do month-to-month. Meta campaigns need time to season, creative needs rotation cycles, and attribution models need data. Short-term thinking kills performance.

What's Included

Campaign Architecture

We map your funnel from cold prospecting to retargeting. Advantage+ for top-of-funnel volume, manual campaigns for mid-funnel segmentation, dynamic product ads for cart abandonment. Each stage gets its own creative strategy and bid logic.

Creative Production and Testing

Static images, carousels, video, UGC-style content. We build assets in-house and rotate them on a weekly or bi-weekly cadence depending on spend. Creative fatigue is the silent killer in Meta campaigns. We treat it like inventory management.

Audience Segmentation

Broad targeting for Advantage+ discovery. Layered interests and behaviors for manual campaigns. Lookalikes seeded from your best customer cohorts. Custom audiences built from CRM uploads, web traffic, and engagement signals. We don't guess. We test, then scale what converts.

Retargeting Flows

Site visitors, video viewers, page engagers, add-to-carts. Sequential messaging based on how far they got in your funnel. Retargeting is where Meta's ROI lives if your site traffic is decent. We build these flows first.

Bid Strategy and Budget Allocation

Lowest cost, cost cap, or bid cap depending on your margin structure and conversion volume. Budget shifts weekly based on what's winning. We're not married to any campaign. If it stops working, we kill it.

Attribution and Reporting

GA4, Meta Pixel, server-side tracking where applicable. We tie revenue to campaign, ad set, and creative. Monthly reporting shows what drove dollars, not just clicks. You'll know where your money went.

24-Month Outcomes

  • Profitable customer acquisition within 90-120 days as creative testing cycles stabilize and audience segments clarify
  • 15-30% improvement in cost per acquisition as we kill losing creative faster and scale winners harder
  • Attribution clarity tying Meta spend to revenue, broken down by campaign and creative format
  • Creative refresh cycles every 2-4 weeks to prevent fatigue and maintain engagement rates
  • Retargeting flows converting 2-4x higher than cold prospecting, layered across site behavior and engagement depth
  • Audience segmentation refined monthly based on CRM feedback and conversion data
  • Repeatable playbook by month 18 that you can scale or hand off internally if partnership sunsets

Common Questions

Do you fund the actual ad spend or just the team running it?

We fund the team. You fund the ad spend. Our capital covers strategists, creatives, media buyers, reporting systems. Your capital goes into the Meta ad account. We get paid on the revenue those ads generate, not a percentage of what you spend.

What if my ad spend is too low to justify a partnership?

If you're spending under $3K/month on Meta, the model probably doesn't pencil. Our revenue share only works if there's enough volume to generate meaningful returns over 24 months. We'll tell you upfront if the math doesn't work.

How do you handle creative production?

We produce in-house. Static ads, video, carousel formats, UGC-style content. You provide product shots, brand assets, messaging direction. We handle scripting, editing, and iteration. Creative isn't outsourced to a contractor you've never met.

What happens if Meta's algorithm changes mid-partnership?

We adapt. iOS updates, targeting restrictions, bid strategy shifts—these are table stakes. The 24-month structure exists because platforms change. If we can't adjust when Meta moves, we don't deserve revenue share.

Do you run campaigns in Spanish for bilingual markets?

Yes. Santa Ana, Anaheim, parts of Orange—Spanish creative and copy matter. We'll build bilingual flows if your customer base warrants it. Just flag it during the Scout diagnostic.

How do you attribute revenue when Meta is one channel among many?

Multi-touch attribution where possible, last-click when not. We're transparent about what Meta actually drove versus what it gets credit for in-platform. You'll see both numbers. We don't inflate our own performance to protect rev share.

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