If you were new working with paid ads, and wanted to get better experience physically running ads as well as a case study, what would you do to get that experience? Would you run local lead ads for a service niche and use that as a case study? Would you find an affiliate product and run ads to that? What other ideas do you have. I know working for free is what most will say, I will do that when I feel comfortable running ads on the backend of Meta Ads manager. Im looking for something to work on prior to offering free services. TIA!

How would you go about getting more hands on experience running ads before you offer it to clients? Ive ran extremely small ads for myself years ago before I had any idea what I was doing. Now im looking to apply what ive been learning, but im trying to figure out how I can get that experience before working with a client. TIA