The Cold Conversion System
🥶How to Sell to People Who Weren’t Even Looking
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🥶 The Cold Conversion System: How to Sell to People Who Weren’t Even Looking
Most brands chase warm leads. But performance gods know the real unlock is converting the unaware, the skeptical, the accidental viewer. Not by warming them, but by disarming them.
That’s the art of Cold Conversion, and in 2025, it’s the only funnel that scales fast.
🧊 Introducing the ICE Funnel
The ICE Funnel compresses awareness, trust, and curiosity into a single, creator-led moment.
Unlike traditional funnels, ICE happens in 7–15 seconds, before a scroll can become a skip.
📽️ Top Performing Formats for Cold ICE Ads
Want to brief your creative team? Use these formats:
Skeptic POV: Creator leads with disbelief (“I usually hate…” → product shift)
Story Fragment Hook: Mid-sentence entry: “The weirdest thing happened when I tried…”
Reaction-Reveal Loop: Creator shows face → product → returns to expression
Before-Failure Hook: “This was me last month…” (instantly creates tension and inversion)
Each of these leverages Meta Partnership Ads (MPA) to land better, because the ad runs through a trusted creator handle, not your brand’s.
📣 Why MPA Is the Cold Conversion Engine
Meta Partnership Ads (MPA) let you run paid ads from a creator’s handle. That means the cold viewer sees a human they trust, not a logo they ignore. It blends authenticity with performance, fast.
Insense makes MPA scale-ready: you source creators, manage permissions, and launch cold conversion loops directly in Meta Ads Manager, all in one place. You can book your free demo and get $200 toward your first campaign before July 25.
🧪 Case Study Snapshot
A fitness brand ran this creator-led cold loop:
“I’m not a gym person. I hate working out.”
[visual result] → [product shown] → “Got it from TikTok. Try it if you want.”
No intro. No explanation. Just ICE.
Performance:
2.8× CTR vs warm retargeting
$17 CPA from cold traffic
17% view-to-click ratio
The ad didn’t educate. It invited curiosity and made action frictionless.
Most brands waste time trying to warm up cold audiences. But in today’s scroll-speed economy, the real winners are those who can earn trust instantly and invite action before interest even forms.
You don’t need a funnel. You need a feeling delivered by someone your buyer already believes. That’s what Cold Conversion unlocks. Fast trust. Frictionless action. Scale without hesitation.
Partnership with Eko
Shoppers Leave Clues. Your Product Gallery Captures Them. But Are You Looking Over Them?
You’ve optimized your ads and landing pages, but what about your PDP gallery, where purchase decisions actually happen?
This guide from Eko shows how every tap, pause, and scroll in your product gallery reveals exactly what shoppers want or what’s holding them back.
These overlooked micro-movements reveal why customers convert or abandon your PDPs.
Discover how brands like Mockingbird and Andie Swim turned overlooked gallery insights into high-impact PDP updates.
From quick wins to advanced PDP strategies, this guide helps you build product pages with more clarity, more confidence, and more conversions.
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🚀Quick Hits
🛠️ Updating your PDP? Managing returns? Training CX reps? Guidde records your task once and auto-generates a video guide you can reuse forever. Install the free extension and stop explaining the same thing twice.
🎶 Meta’s Edits app just got a creative boost: royalty-free music discovery, improved keyframe editing on iOS, and 10 new voice effects helping creators fine-tune videos, add licensed audio, and play with sound personality.
📊 LinkedIn’s new study reveals that authentic storytelling, cultural cues, and real voices in B2B video ads can boost engagement by up to 129%.
📈 Google Search Console now lets you compare the last 24 hours of performance data week-over-week or against the previous period.
🛍️ FreeCast launches Test Drive Live, a shoppable TV channel with unboxings, demos, and expert reviews, streaming on Roku, Fire TV, and more, offering direct-to-consumer deals below retail prices.
📞 Google AI can now call local businesses for you to check prices and availability, just hit “Have AI check pricing” in Search, and get a full summary without lifting the phone.
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