$5/Day Instagram Ads → $10 Million+ Revenue: MetroBud NYC

The Challenge

MetroBud started as a single retail cannabis shop in New York City with an impossible advertising problem. Everything was getting restricted, shadowbanned, outright banned, or denied by Meta. The team had created no fewer than five Instagram pages, grown them to thousands of followers each — and watched every one get banned.

What We Built

We changed the entire process, starting with creative engineered to pass Meta's review — premium brand-side creative (the now-famous "We Don't Sell Clothes" campaign) bridging safely to the real offer, each creative running on just $5/day of ad spend, driving hundreds of customer visits to the website every day.

Then we built the full machine around it:

• Fully custom website with payment processing, delivery tracking and SMS order updates
• Customer and owner email automations + Slack alerts for staff
• AI chatbots handling frequently asked questions
• 2× daily blog posting with full on- and off-page SEO
• Label printing for products (strains, THC, terpenes) and shipping labels
• Newsletters and retention flows

On social: a permanent Instagram presence that can't get banned because it's built around Meta's restrictive policy rules — fully managed, posting daily, replying to customers in minutes, with extra promotion across Reddit, Discord and X.

The Results

• $10M+ in lifetime revenue — from a $5/day starting budget
• Expanded from one shop to three stores (including a lounge) with delivery across all of NYC
• Consistent first-page Google rankings via on/off-page SEO and PageSpeed optimization
• A stable, compliant social presence after five previous bans

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