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10 Steps To Optimize Facebook Ads

16 Oct Facebook Bidding

1. Choose to set a daily budget or a lifetime budget for a campaign.

2. Submit bids on your ads. Submit high and low bids for your ads, higher bids result in higher CTRs.

3. Target your audiences by: interests, gender, age, location, education and other variables that describe your ideal prospects/customers, use graph search to help you indicate these interests of your target market, below are examples of who your ad can target:

  • Fans of what type of business pages?
  • Your Email List Subscribers
  • Non-Fans Based on Interests
  • Non-Fans Based on Lookalike Audiences
  • Past Visitors to Your Website (Retargeting)

4. Create ‘Saved Target Groups’ using the Facebook Power Editor and market to them consistently. Power Editor is a great free plugin on Chrome that allows you to manage your Facebook advertising more efficiently.

5. Play around with narrowing down your audience. While a large audience means equally large budgets, any audience that is too small will not give you the results you want. Keep the audience numbers in at least a few thousands to get measurable results.

6. Track conversion of your Facebook ads using Offsite Tracking Pixels. These are also called conversion pixels and tell you exactly how many fans went from your Facebook ads to your website and eventually made a purchase. Reconfirm this number using Google Analytics.

7. Optimize and recalibrate your Facebook ads regularly. There is a chance that with the changing audiences that Facebook attracts every day, your older campaigns maybe languishing in their performance. Any campaign that shows CTRs under 0.035 needs to be re-calibrated ASAP.

8. Create Facebook Ad Reports for your different campaigns that will show spends, likes, cost per like etc…

9. Reach out to subscribers of your email newsletters via Facebook Ads. You can do this by creating a custom list that can be uploaded into Facebook via a simple CSV file or through your email service provider and that does not include your current Facebook fans.

10. Rotate the creative for your Facebook ads on a regular basis. You can upload up to 6 images per ad to keep them fresh and interesting to your readers.

Taking your Facebook presence from a handful of disengaged fans to a flourishing community that contributes directly to your bottom-line is not rocket science. All it takes is a pinch of dedication, a dash of hard work and a big helping of creativity.

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FACEBOOK HASHTAGS MEANS MORE BRAND ENGAGEMENT ON FACEBOOK

13 Jun

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 Facebook hashtags are finally here!!! It will start making star appearances on Facebook News Feeds on a NewsFeed Near You! LOL Clicking the hashtag will pop out a feed that shows others’ posts that have the same hashtag. All hashtags on Facebook will be clickable and searchable hashtags. Facebook announced all users to have this feature in the next few weeks.

More Conversations Found To Continue Online Discussions

 

Facebook users can search for a #hashtag from the search bar and write posts directly from the #hashtag feed. Hashtag feeds are chat threads, they help continue the conversations in real-time, just like in Twitter. Did I mention how EXCITED I am?!?! LOL

ALRIGHT YOU KNOW THIS WAS COMING—MORE TOOLS to keep you sane 🙂

 

Gets a monitoring tool to be able to monitor conversations surrounding your brand in real-time, which adds another layer of metrics and numbers to better perform for increased success. Most likely Facebook will have this function for you.

 Hashtags are meant to participate in a conversation, NOT to #Hashtag words that are not a part of the Hashtaged conversation thereby not contributing to the thought stream.

 Listening

 Brands should be listening to conversations about their products, positive or negative. Now this is possible through following the #hashtag feed. This gives valuable knowledge to brands about the success or performance of their products, services or marketing efforts. These conversations are highly valuable to be able to talk to customers’ needs and wants based on what they are saying on Facebook. Customers will feel like you are reading their minds and be able to address the specific benefits they are looking for.

Social media management platforms will be developing monitoring tools for hashtag feeds. Just like they have to provide analytics for your Facebook Pages.

 

Facebook Hashtag Limitations

Feeds not on mobile

Mobile apps don not support the hashtag feeds. Mobile users can type a hashtag phrase in their posts from their mobile phones but cannot click-through to read the hashtag feed.

 

Facebook Revenue Opportunities

 More adverising dollars. Facebook says they are not offering #hashtag targeting for Facebook advertising. Advertisers can still use hashtags in their ads, but only the ad hashtags that appear on a desktop News Feed will be clickable.

Brands have an opportunity to contribute to popular conversations that are not about their brand, but use social etiquette do not start talking about your brand, remember your social graces offline still pertain to the online world. Nobody likes spam or a brand stuffing their business down their throats. People like to come to you by you earning their interest and awareness through your awesomness not spamness. J

 Facebook does state that “Creative best practices on Facebook still apply—compelling copy and photography that is in the brand voice tend to garner better response and engagement rates.”

 How will you start using Facebook #hashtags? Have any ideas on how to incorporate it into your posts?

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