Refactor remaining skills for progressive disclosure
Phase 2 refactoring of skills >500 lines and medium-sized skills: - paid-ads: 553 → 297 lines - Extract ad-copy-templates.md, audience-targeting.md, platform-setup-checklists.md - analytics-tracking: 541 → 292 lines - Extract ga4-implementation.md, gtm-implementation.md, event-library.md - ab-test-setup: 510 → 264 lines - Extract test-templates.md, sample-size-guide.md - copywriting: 458 → 248 lines - Extract copy-frameworks.md (headline formulas, section types) - page-cro: 336 → 180 lines - Extract experiments.md (experiment ideas by page type) - onboarding-cro: 435 → 218 lines - Extract experiments.md (onboarding experiment ideas) All skills now use progressive disclosure with references/ folders, keeping SKILL.md files focused on core workflow while detailed content is available when needed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Audience Targeting Reference
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Detailed targeting strategies for each major ad platform.
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## Google Ads Audiences
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### Search Campaign Targeting
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**Keywords:**
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- Exact match: [keyword] — most precise, lower volume
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- Phrase match: "keyword" — moderate precision and volume
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- Broad match: keyword — highest volume, use with smart bidding
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**Audience layering:**
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- Add audiences in "observation" mode first
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- Analyze performance by audience
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- Switch to "targeting" mode for high performers
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**RLSA (Remarketing Lists for Search Ads):**
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- Bid higher on past visitors searching your terms
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- Show different ads to returning searchers
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- Exclude converters from prospecting campaigns
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### Display/YouTube Targeting
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**Custom intent audiences:**
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- Based on recent search behavior
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- Create from your converting keywords
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- High intent, good for prospecting
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**In-market audiences:**
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- People actively researching solutions
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- Pre-built by Google
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- Layer with demographics for precision
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**Affinity audiences:**
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- Based on interests and habits
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- Better for awareness
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- Broad but can exclude irrelevant
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**Customer match:**
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- Upload email lists
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- Retarget existing customers
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- Create lookalikes from best customers
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**Similar/lookalike audiences:**
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- Based on your customer match lists
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- Expand reach while maintaining relevance
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- Best when source list is high-quality customers
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---
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## Meta Audiences
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### Core Audiences (Interest/Demographic)
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**Interest targeting tips:**
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- Layer interests with AND logic for precision
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- Use Audience Insights to research interests
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- Start broad, let algorithm optimize
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- Exclude existing customers always
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**Demographic targeting:**
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- Age and gender (if product-specific)
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- Location (down to zip/postal code)
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- Language
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- Education and work (limited data now)
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**Behavior targeting:**
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- Purchase behavior
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- Device usage
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- Travel patterns
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- Life events
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### Custom Audiences
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**Website visitors:**
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- All visitors (last 180 days max)
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- Specific page visitors
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- Time on site thresholds
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- Frequency (visited X times)
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**Customer list:**
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- Upload emails/phone numbers
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- Match rate typically 30-70%
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- Refresh regularly for accuracy
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**Engagement audiences:**
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- Video viewers (25%, 50%, 75%, 95%)
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- Page/profile engagers
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- Form openers
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- Instagram engagers
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**App activity:**
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- App installers
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- In-app events
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- Purchase events
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### Lookalike Audiences
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**Source audience quality matters:**
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- Use high-LTV customers, not all customers
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- Purchasers > leads > all visitors
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- Minimum 100 source users, ideally 1,000+
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**Size recommendations:**
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- 1% — most similar, smallest reach
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- 1-3% — good balance for most
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- 3-5% — broader, good for scale
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- 5-10% — very broad, awareness only
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**Layering strategies:**
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- Lookalike + interest = more precision early
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- Test lookalike-only as you scale
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- Exclude the source audience
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## LinkedIn Audiences
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### Job-Based Targeting
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**Job titles:**
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- Be specific (CMO vs. "Marketing")
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- LinkedIn normalizes titles, but verify
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- Stack related titles
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- Exclude irrelevant titles
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**Job functions:**
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- Broader than titles
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- Combine with seniority level
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- Good for awareness campaigns
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**Seniority levels:**
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- Entry, Senior, Manager, Director, VP, CXO, Partner
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- Layer with function for precision
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**Skills:**
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- Self-reported, less reliable
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- Good for technical roles
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- Use as expansion layer
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### Company-Based Targeting
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**Company size:**
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- 1-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1000, 1001-5000, 5000+
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- Key filter for B2B
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**Industry:**
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- Based on company classification
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- Can be broad, layer with other criteria
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**Company names (ABM):**
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- Upload target account list
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- Minimum 300 companies recommended
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- Match rate varies
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**Company growth rate:**
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- Hiring rapidly = budget available
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- Good signal for timing
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### High-Performing Combinations
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| Use Case | Targeting Combination |
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| Enterprise sales | Company size 1000+ + VP/CXO + Industry |
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| SMB sales | Company size 11-200 + Manager/Director + Function |
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| Developer tools | Skills + Job function + Company type |
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| ABM campaigns | Company list + Decision-maker titles |
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| Broad awareness | Industry + Seniority + Geography |
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## Twitter/X Audiences
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### Targeting options:
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- Follower lookalikes (accounts similar to followers of X)
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- Interest categories
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- Keywords (in tweets)
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- Conversation topics
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- Events
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- Tailored audiences (your lists)
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### Best practices:
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- Follower lookalikes of relevant accounts work well
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- Keyword targeting catches active conversations
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- Lower CPMs than LinkedIn/Meta
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- Less precise, better for awareness
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## TikTok Audiences
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### Targeting options:
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- Demographics (age, gender, location)
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- Interests (TikTok's categories)
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- Behaviors (video interactions)
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- Device (iOS/Android, connection type)
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- Custom audiences (pixel, customer file)
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- Lookalike audiences
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### Best practices:
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- Younger skew (18-34 primarily)
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- Interest targeting is broad
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- Creative matters more than targeting
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- Let algorithm optimize with broad targeting
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## Audience Size Guidelines
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| Platform | Minimum Recommended | Ideal Range |
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| Google Search | 1,000+ searches/mo | 5,000-50,000 |
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| Google Display | 100,000+ | 500K-5M |
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| Meta | 100,000+ | 500K-10M |
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| LinkedIn | 50,000+ | 100K-500K |
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| Twitter/X | 50,000+ | 100K-1M |
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| TikTok | 100,000+ | 1M+ |
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Too narrow = expensive, slow learning
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Too broad = wasted spend, poor relevance
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## Exclusion Strategy
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Always exclude:
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- Existing customers (unless upsell)
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- Recent converters (7-14 days)
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- Bounced visitors (<10 sec)
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- Employees (by company or email list)
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- Irrelevant page visitors (careers, support)
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- Competitors (if identifiable)
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