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Facebook Ads Storytelling Framework

Reusability

A narrative structure for Facebook ads that disrupts users by addressing pain points, casting future vision, and positioning product as the bridge

How It Works

Uses storytelling to shift users from their current mindset into a buying mindset by creating emotional connection through shared pain and aspirational outcomes

Components

1

Hook: Call out target audience with specific behavior or role

2

Pain point: Describe current frustration or challenge in vivid terms

3

Vision: Paint picture of desired future state or outcome

4

Bridge: Position your product as the solution connecting current state to future

5

Call to action: Simple next step to enter your funnel

When to Use

For Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and other social media advertising where users aren't actively searching for solutions

When Not to Use

For search advertising where users already have clear intent and just need to see the solution

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

Being too transactional like search adsSkipping the emotional/story elementsMaking the hook too generic or broad

Example

Ad starts 'If you do influencer marketing, listen to this...', describes frustration of manually extracting emails from recaptcha, envisions effortless bulk email extraction, then presents tool as the bridge to that reality

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