Marketing · November 2026

Your own ads.
Your own leads.

Market research, sample ads and a sample video, all made for Aus Energy Solar in one evening.

Prepared by Rebeca Lopes

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Meta ads running right now

Competitors are running 135 ads. Aus Energy is running 0.

Think Renewable74
Solar Incentives (referral site)44
Plico17
Aus Energy Solar0

Source: Meta Ad Library, active ads in Australia, 10 Nov 2026.

Proof

Straight from Meta's public Ad Library

Ad Library screenshot: Think Renewable, about 74 active ads
Think Renewable · ~74 adsCheck it live ↗
Ad Library screenshot: Solar Incentives WA, about 44 active ads
Solar Incentives WA · ~44 adsCheck it live ↗
Ad Library screenshot: Plico, about 17 active ads
Plico · ~17 adsCheck it live ↗
Ad Library screenshot: Aus Energy Solar, no active ads
Aus Energy Solar · no adsCheck it live ↗
What is working for them

Three playbooks, all running today

Think Renewable

Real installers on camera

40 different ad ideas. Selfie videos next to the battery, at real customers' homes. Offer: $0 deposit, 0% interest.

Plico

Rebate maths and a deadline

Adds every rebate into one big number ($8,147 saved) and pushes the 1 January rebate drop.

Solar Incentives

A 30-second price quiz

Not an installer: a referral site. 44 ads, one per suburb, all sending people to a quick "see your price" quiz. The leads go to partner installers.

Nobody in the market is using humour. That space is open.

Sample ads, made for Aus Energy

Four ads, built on the angles that stay live longest

Rebate deadline
Price objection
Social proof
Our own crews
Quick examples. Tap any ad to see it full size, in feed (4:5) and Story/Reels (9:16). If we go ahead, every ad gets refined with real install photos, real customers and the crew.
Sample video

Elia's idea, and an improved version of it

Elia's idea

Be smart like John

49 seconds. Follows Elia's story: $1,000 bills, the install, the $65 bill, the blackout.

Improved

Which John are you?

31 seconds, Reels length. Hook in the first second, two Johns on the same street, more motion and sound, and a question that gets comments.

Quick demos made with free tools. The voices and animation are placeholders. Final versions would use professional AI voice and animation tools (paid).
Another style

"Rebate countdown"

A 15-second motion-graphics ad. No characters, just the deadline, the offer and the proof: 4.8 stars, our own crews, four cities.

Short ads like this are cheap to make in many versions, one per city or per offer, and test against each other.

Quick demo. Rebate dates and eligibility wording get checked against current rules before any ad runs.
How it would run

Run the same machine and keep the leads

1

Ads

Meta and Google, many variations, tested every week

2

Your own form or quiz

Every lead belongs to Aus Energy only

3

Your sales team

Leads arrive straight to the team

4

Weekly report

Cost per lead, next to what bought leads cost

Plus organic content on Instagram and Facebook: installs, customers and the crew. Ads start on Aus Energy's existing ad account, with budget increased step by step.

Next step

A 90-day test

Step 1

Set up

  • Tracking on the website
  • Lead form and price quiz
  • Photos and filming with the crew
  • 20+ ads ready
Step 2

Test

  • Ads run alongside current leads
  • Cut what doesn't work
  • Put more behind what does
Step 3

Decide

  • Cost per lead
  • Lead quality and sales
  • Compared with bought leads

Bought leads keep running the whole time. Nothing is switched off until the numbers say so.

Let's test it.

90 days. Real numbers. Then decide.

Prepared by Rebeca Lopes