Advergent

We buy attention.We deliver knowledge.

Advergent is a portfolio company of information products. We publish online education with expert creators and scale every title with paid advertising.

Desire holds still.Everything else moves.

Nobody wakes up wanting a course. They want respect, freedom, security, a place in the room. Those desires are older than any market and they never move, so the angle, the mechanism and the offer all bend toward them. We meet people at what they want. We hand them what they need.

What we publish
Online courses, cohort programs, live intensives, memberships and digital guides.
How it sells
Every title runs as its own brand, direct to the customer, on paid traffic.
How it scales
One team provisions the copy, the funnel and the media, so every number has someone who can move it.

New rails. Old math.

The internet calls this new money. The math is a century old: what a customer costs and what a customer is worth. We read it on three clocks, each at the speed the number can actually change.

Every dayCreative calls

Hook rate
Share of impressions that reach three seconds of video.
Hold rate
Share of those viewers who keep watching.
CTR
Clicks per impression, read next to hold rate.
CPA
Cost per purchase, creative by creative.

Every weekBudget calls

MER
Total revenue divided by total media spend.
nCAC
Full media cost of each new customer.
AOV
Average order value, with bumps and upsells included.
EPC
Revenue earned per click sent to the page.

Every cohortCapital calls

Payback window
Days until a cohort has returned its acquisition cost.
LTV
Revenue per customer at 30, 60 and 90 days and beyond.
Refund rate
Share of sales returned, traced to the creative and page.
Completion
Share of students who finish, lesson by lesson.
“Ultimately, the business that can spend the most to acquire a customer wins.”Dan Kennedy

A better product is a bigger media budget.

Students who finish rarely ask for a refund. Students who get a result buy the next program. Both raise what a customer is worth, and what a customer is worth is the most we can bid to win one. On paid traffic, quality is a buying advantage.

Move the numbers. Watch the ceiling.

Most we could pay for a customer and still break even

$192

Front end $73Backend $119

Illustrative arithmetic, assuming 15% for payment processing and delivery.

What a title needs before it gets a budget.

Every title sits on a ladder.

  1. Front end

    Guides and workshops

    The first purchase. Priced to recover the cost of the click.

  2. Core

    Courses

    The complete method, taught start to finish.

  3. Backend

    Cohorts and intensives

    Live teaching, direct feedback and a fixed group of peers.

  4. Continuity

    Memberships

    Continuing education, updated tools and a community that stays current.

Three crafts. One P&L.

Direct response writes the promise. Performance marketing builds the path. Paid media buys the reach. Most companies split those across three teams, and each one gets to blame the other two. Here, the writer sees the CAC, the buyer reads the sales letter and the funnel team owns the refund rate.

  • The hook is the targeting.Delivery systems read the ad and find the people it speaks to. The first three seconds decide who sees the rest.
  • The page is the signal.Every purchase teaches the algorithm who buys. A page that converts trains the platform to find more buyers like them.
  • The offer is the bid.Bumps, upsells and backend set what a customer is worth. That number sets how hard we can push in the auction.
  • The product is the margin.Refunds and completion decide how much revenue stays. What stays funds next month’s spend.
  • The buyer is the brief.Comments, surveys and refund reasons write the next angle, in the buyer’s own words.

When a number breaks, we know whose desk it lands on.

  • Falling hook rateThe opener stopped touching the desire.Creative cuts new openers on the same body.
  • Strong hook, weak holdThe body never pays off the opener.Copy rewrites the script from second four.
  • Strong CTR, weak pageThe ad and the page are telling different stories.Funnel rebuilds the first screen around the ad’s promise.
  • Strong front end, rising refundsThe promise has outrun the product.Copy and curriculum close the gap together.
  • Strong ROAS, falling MERThe platform is claiming sales it didn’t create.Media moves budget from retargeting to cold.

Bring the expertise.We run the rest.

You bring

  • Real-world expertise
  • A method that works
  • The time to teach it well

Advergent runs

  • Market research and positioning
  • Offer design and pricing
  • Curriculum design and production
  • Ads, sales letters and video
  • Media buying at scale
  • Checkout, delivery and customer support

Know somethingworth teaching?

We have the traffic. Send us what you teach, who it’s for and the proof that it works.

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