This is embarrassing but I don’t know who else to ask.

Been selling silicone baking mats since like March or April. Started because my neighbor kept asking where I got mine and I thought maybe other people would want them too. Was making decent money just posting in local Facebook groups – not amazing but enough to feel good about it.

Then everyone kept saying I needed to do “real advertising” if I wanted to grow. So I started messing around with Facebook ads maybe 6-7 weeks ago.

What a shitshow.

I’ve spent close to 3 grand and have 3 sales. My mats cost 25 bucks so yeah… not exactly profitable. The weird thing is people click on my ads all the time. Like yesterday I had 140 something clicks. But then nobody buys anything. I don’t understand what’s happening. Do they click by accident? Is my website terrible?

I spend way too much time staring at this stupid ads manager thing trying to figure out what all the buttons do. There’s so many settings and I honestly just guess most of the time.

My husband thinks I’ve developed a gambling addiction because I’m always checking my phone to see if anything sold. He’s probably not wrong.

The worst part is I used money we were saving for redoing our kitchen. So now instead of new cabinets I have… 3 baking mat sales and a lot of regret.

Maybe I should just go back to posting in mom groups and forget this whole ads thing exists. At least that was free when it didn’t work.

Anyone else completely fail at this or is it just me being an idiot?