--- name: ad-performance-best-practice-explainer-generator description: "Generates a concise, audience-calibrated explainer for a specific ad product feature or campaign best practice — structured as a hook, plain-language explanation, why-it-matters case, step-by-step setup guidance, benchmark expectations, common mistakes, and a talk-track summary. Use when writing enablement content for a new ad product launch, training sellers on a feature, or explaining a best practice to advertisers, agency partners, or internal sales teams." argument-hint: "[feature-or-practice] [audience]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Ad Performance Best Practice Explainer Generator ## Purpose Produce a single, ready-to-ship explainer that translates one ad product feature or campaign best practice into language a specific audience can act on — with the mechanics, the performance rationale, setup steps, benchmarks, and a talk track. Eliminates the gap between what the product team ships and what sellers, advertisers, and partners actually understand. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Write an explainer for a new ad product feature or beta being launched - Create seller enablement content for a campaign best practice - Explain a targeting, bidding, creative, or measurement capability to advertisers - Build a partner- or agency-facing one-pager on how a feature drives performance - Turn a dense product spec or release note into a usable field explainer - Prepare a talk track or objection-handler for a sales team on a specific optimization ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Feature or practice**: The specific ad product feature or best practice to explain - **What it does mechanically**: How it works — the underlying capability, in plain terms - **Primary audience**: Advertisers / agency partners / internal sellers / a mix — and their sophistication level (novice, intermediate, expert) - **Performance outcome**: The metric or result it improves (ROAS, CPA, reach efficiency, completion rate, conversion lift, etc.) - **Platform context**: The ad platform or product suite it lives in - **Setup reality**: Where it's configured and any prerequisites or eligibility requirements - **Known benchmarks**: Any performance data, typical lift ranges, or expectation-setting numbers available If benchmarks or exact setup steps are missing, note the assumption and produce directional guidance rather than fabricating precise figures. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Set the Hook Open with 1–2 sentences that name the problem this feature or practice solves — framed for the specific audience. - For advertisers: lead with the performance pain (wasted spend, plateaued ROAS, weak reach) - For sellers: lead with the pitch opportunity or the account problem this solves - For agency partners: lead with the client-outcome angle they can carry into their own decks - Do not open with "In today's landscape" or restate the feature name — start with the tension the audience feels ### Step 2: Explain It in Plain Language Describe what the feature or practice is and how it works, calibrated to audience sophistication. - **Novice audience**: one analogy plus a two-sentence mechanic; avoid platform jargon - **Intermediate audience**: the mechanic plus one layer of "how the system decides" - **Expert audience**: the mechanic plus the signal or optimization logic underneath - Keep this to 3–5 sentences. If a term is unavoidable, define it inline in a clause. ### Step 3: Make the Why-It-Matters Case Connect the feature directly to the performance outcome provided. - State the specific metric it improves and the mechanism by which it improves it - Contrast the "without this" state against the "with this" state in one comparison - Avoid vague claims — tie the benefit to a countable outcome (lower CPA, higher completion rate, more efficient reach) ### Step 4: Give the Setup / How-To Provide the concrete steps to activate or apply it, in order. - Number each step (3–6 steps typical) - Flag any prerequisites or eligibility requirements up front - Note where in the platform each step happens - Call out the one setup mistake that most commonly breaks results ### Step 5: Set Benchmark Expectations Tell the audience what "working" looks like. - Provide the typical performance range or lift if benchmarks were supplied - Provide the timeframe before results are reliable (e.g., learning period, minimum conversion volume) - Set a clear "don't judge it before X" guardrail to prevent premature abandonment ### Step 6: List Common Mistakes Give 3–5 specific ways people misuse or under-leverage this feature. - Each mistake in one line, with the corrective action attached - Prioritize the mistakes that most directly suppress the target metric ### Step 7: Provide a Talk-Track Summary Close with a 2–3 sentence summary a seller could say out loud or an advertiser could repeat internally. - Written in spoken register — no bullet points, no jargon - Leads with the outcome, names the feature, states the one action to take ## Output Format - **Structure**: Seven labeled sections in order, scannable, with the setup and mistakes sections as numbered/bulleted lists - **Length**: 450–700 words - **Format**: Structured explainer document — headed sections, short paragraphs, lists where noted - **Sections**: Hook → What It Is → Why It Matters → How to Set It Up → What Good Looks Like → Common Mistakes → Talk Track - **Tone**: Enablement-clear and confident — direct, jargon-controlled, calibrated to the stated audience sophistication; never hypey, never a spec dump ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] All seven sections are present and in order - [ ] Language is calibrated to the stated audience sophistication level (novice/intermediate/expert) - [ ] The why-it-matters section names a specific metric and the mechanism behind the improvement - [ ] Setup steps are numbered and include any prerequisites and the most common breaking mistake - [ ] Benchmark section includes a timeframe guardrail, not just a lift figure - [ ] Common mistakes each pair a specific error with a corrective action (3–5 total) - [ ] The talk track is written in spoken register and leads with the outcome - [ ] No fabricated precise benchmark numbers where none were supplied — assumptions are flagged ## Notes - The single most common failure in ad enablement content is explaining the mechanic without connecting it to a metric — Step 3 is the section that makes the explainer usable in the field - For internal seller audiences, weight the talk track and common-mistakes sections; those travel furthest into live conversations - For advertiser and agency audiences, weight the benchmark and setup sections; those reduce support tickets and premature churn on new features - If the feature is in beta, add a one-line eligibility caveat inside the setup section rather than burying it at the end --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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