If you haven’t explored the power of Facebook advertising recently, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the depth of their product offering. The platform is much more than boosting posts and buying likes.
Think about it – other than the NSA, who has more data on you than Facebook? They know what websites you visit, who you work for, where you grew up, your favorite football team – there’s an endless amount of data open to advertisers.
So if you’re still just boosting posts, you’re leaving some of the lowest hanging fruit in the orchard. To really turbo charge your Facebook advertising, try these three Facebook ad campaigns. They’re sure to boost your marketing efforts. After you watch the video, you can get a deeper look into each of our favorite types of Facebook advertising below.
Social Media Marketing is the most cost effective way to reach a targeted audience, however, recent data shows that a clear majority of small businesses aren’t seeing positive return on investment (ROI), specifically from Facebook.
A study of over 4,700 US small businesses with fewer than 10 employees found that only 24% were seeing positive ROI. This makes me sad considering there's a wealth of information online that can help you piece together a social media marketing strategy that drives business results.
Facebook ads offer significant opportunities for brands to reach highly specific, targeted audiences. But the key to success is in the detail - while there are a wide range of options to utilize, this means there's also a huge array of variations to consider, which can make the process confusing for those unfamiliar. In some cases, this can lead to less than optimal targeting, while some people simply choose the basic options and hope Facebook will automatically generate results.
This is not the best approach.
To truly maximize your Facebook ads, you need to understand the purpose behind each campaign, the intent, and the measures you'll use to calculate their success (or failure).
Creating new campaigns on Facebook at scale, and ensuring that the tracking works properly, can be repetitive and time-consuming. Launching and managing Facebook campaigns typically involves performing several manual tasks in Ads Manager or Power Editor, tasks which eat into your valuable time, which may be better spent analyzing results and focusing on strategy.
Having a checklist is necessary to keep from overlooking an important step, but often, a comprehensive Facebook checklist can turn into multiple pages of bullets and sub-bullets. Surely, every social media professional dreams of editing that list down.
One of the top questions that are asked when discussing Facebook advertising is, How much does it cost? Unfortunately, there is really no answer, one size doesn’t fit all!
But all is not lost! There are two things that can be said definitively about the cost of Facebook advertising.
Facebook is opening up Audience Network to enable marketers to deliver ads to consumers who don't use its platform. The company is also enabling non-Facebook users to opt out of receiving ads.
Facebook is giving its advertisers a better way to understand which campaigns are most effectively helping them meet their goals. The social networking company is making updates to its Conversion Lift measurement tool that can evaluate and compare multiple Facebook Ads.
Just as Facebook continues to add more users, so too are more advertisers flocking to the platform to tap into that audience.
This week, The Social Network has reported that there are now more than five million active advertisers on their platform. For comparison, Instagram reached its first million advertisers last month, while Facebook itself reported that it had reached four million advertisers only six months ago.
Facebook wants to help marketers get more juice for their squeeze according to an announcement from Facebook Business this week.
Facebook ads have a couple new options for us -- specifically, a new value optimization tool and an updated value-based lookalike audiences tool. Both features draw on the capabilities of Facebook’s pixel, which mines data about audience behavior and interactions to help businesses understand and optimize their targeting ads.
In their book Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising, online marketing and Facebook ad experts Perry Marshall, Keith Krance and Thomas Meloche explain the game-changing tactics of paid Facebook Ads and how you can gain more on your investment—in clicks, customers and profits. In this edited excerpt, Krance and Meloche offer tips on using images in your Facebook ads to attract attention.
In Facebook ads, the picture is flat out more important than the text. Perhaps 80 percent of the click-effectiveness of your ad will be determined by the image you choose and the headline you provide for that image, with 70 percent coming from the image alone.
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Facebook is opening up Audience Network to enable marketers to deliver ads to consumers who don't use its platform. The company is also enabling non-Facebook users to opt out of receiving ads.
Facebook is giving its advertisers a better way to understand which campaigns are most effectively helping them meet their goals. The social networking company is 
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