—The Saturday Brief
Issue
001.
MKTGSat · This week·9:01 AM ET
Subject
“Why your Meta CPL is climbing — and the 90-second fix.”
Editor
Doug Crasto
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FromDoug Crasto <doug@crastomedia.com>
SubjectIssue 001 — Why your Meta CPL is climbing (and the 90-second fix)
DateSaturday · 9:01 AM ET
Three weeks ago, one of our Tampa estate-firm clients saw cost per consult jump 47%.
Same audience. Same offer. Same creative. So what changed? A single setting in Advantage+ that Meta had quietly flipped two weeks earlier — auto-expanding the lookalike seed to include lower-intent profiles. Here's the 90-second fix, and the auditing prompt I now run every Monday morning to catch it before it costs you a week of spend…
~ 5 min read · One actionable fixRead full →
The format never moves.
One thesis. One example. One thing you can act on by Monday morning. No round-ups, no link salads, no “5 ways to grow your business” slop.
- A real campaign or workflow we ran this week
- What we changed and why
- The result, in dollars or hours
- A 60-second action you can copy
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Editorial calendar · Next six Saturdays
Six issues already lined up.
We plan the next six Saturdays a quarter at a time, then leave room for whatever the week makes us write. Subject lines are indicative — the thesis shifts when the campaign data changes.
Issue 001MKTG
Sat · This week
“Why your Meta CPL is climbing (and the 90-second fix)”
Next
Issue 002AI
Sat · + 7 days
“The two prompts I run every Saturday before I write this”
Planned
Issue 003AUTO
Sat · + 14 days
“n8n vs Zapier for sub-$1K-a-month operators”
Planned
Issue 004MKTG
Sat · + 21 days
“The landing page test that doubled consult-rate for an accounting firm”
Planned
Issue 005AI
Sat · + 28 days
“Claude vs GPT for ad copy: a real campaign, side by side”
Planned
Issue 006AUTO
Sat · + 35 days
“A six-step CRM lifecycle we built in an afternoon”
Planned
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How the rhythm works
Saturday morning, Monday shipping.
- 019:01 AM ET
It arrives.
Saturday morning. Subject line, sender doug@crastomedia.com. You see it before the coffee's done.
- 02+ 5 min
You read it.
One thesis, one example from real work, one action you can take by Monday. No round-ups, no link salads.
- 03+ a day
You try it.
Sunday or Monday morning. You ship the fix. By next Saturday you have data. We tell you what we did with ours.
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Three territories. One per Saturday.
Marketing. AI. Automation.
We rotate through the three things compounding right now. Each issue picks one, goes deep, and leaves you something to use.
01 / 03 · MKTGTerritory
Marketing.
Sample issue
“Why your Meta CPL is climbing — and the 90-second fix”
What's working in paid acquisition right now. CPL benchmarks, creative diagnostics, funnel teardowns from real client work.
02 / 03 · AITerritory
AI.
Sample issue
“The two prompts I use every Saturday morning”
The models, prompts, and workflows quietly producing real revenue. New tools that earn their keep — and the ones that don't.
03 / 03 · AUTOTerritory
Automation.
Sample issue
“n8n vs Zapier for sub-$1k operators”
n8n, Zapier, Make. Workflows we built this week. The 6-hour Saturday rebuild that gives you back 30 hours by Friday.
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The byline
— Editor
Doug
Crasto.
- Role
- Founder · Crasto Media
- Based
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Writes
- From client work
- Format
- One idea · Saturday · 5 min
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“Every Saturday I write the brief I'd want to read while my coffee gets cold. One idea, tested in real campaigns, in plain English — before the lessons fade.”
Crasto Media is a performance marketing studio for white-collar firms — finance, accounting, medical, consulting. Everything in The Saturday Brief comes from current client work: the same playbook we charge for, on the record.
The brief isn't a marketing newsletter that occasionally talks shop. It's the shop, talking.
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