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Section 03 - Lessons 16 | Creating Facebook Ads

Notes

facebook page -> facebook ads

  • page and ads are seperate from personal profile
  • profile is only needed to create a Page and Business Manager

    • business manager is linked with personal account login
    • not published with friends unless invited
  • you have to create Page before creating an Ad
  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/creation

facebook ad creation levels (steps)

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  1. CAMPAIGN level set your objective
  2. AD SET level

    • set audience/ targeting
    • set budget/ schedule
    • set placement
  3. AD level create your ad

step 1 - campaign objective

  • where you select what you want people to do when they get to your ad
  • when you create ads, choose your objective
  • using the correct CAMPAIN OBJECTIVE will help convert customers at each step of the funnel
consider ADs as a giant set of funnels
top of the funnel
  • building awareness about your brand
  • finding new potential customers
as they work down the funnel
  • direct them to take action

    • make a purchase
    • sign up for XYZ

step 2 - ad set

  • editing ad set will change Estimated Audience Size of ad campaign

    • smaller audiences cost more, but are more relevent
    • broad audiences will be lower cost, but are better for top of funnel ads

step 3 - the ad itself

  • create actual ad

    • select media
    • format
    • links
    • call to action
ad formats
format description
image ad specs and facebook images guide
video/slideshow ad specs and facebook video guide
carousel ad specs and facebook carousel guide
collection ad specs and facebook collection guide
instant experience ad specs and facebook instant experience guide

how to create Facebook ads

  1. navigate to Ads manager http://business.facebook.com/adsmanager
  2. click create button

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  3. choose buying type and campaing objective

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campaign objectives

awareness
  • show ads to people who are most likely to remember them
  • good for

    • reach
    • brand awareness
    • video views
    • store location awareness
traffic
  • send people to a destination, like your website, app, instagram profile or facebok event
  • good for

    • link clicks
    • landing page views
    • instagram profile visits
    • messenger, instagram, and whatsapp
engagement
  • get more messages, purchases through messaging, video views, post engagement, Page likes or event responses
  • good for

    • messenger, instagram and whatsapp
    • video views
    • post engagement
    • conversions
    • calls
leads
  • collect leads for your business or brand
  • good for

    • instant forms
    • messenger and instagram
    • conversions
    • calls
app promotion
  • find new people to install your app and continue using it
  • good for

    • app installs
    • app events
sales
  • find people likely to purchase your product or service
  • good for

    • conversions
    • catalog sales
    • messenger, instagram and whatsapp
    • calls

example using objectives to incrase sales

engagment objective
  • create posts with

    • offer coupon
    • discount
    • etc
  • increase engagement of Facebook page posts
app promotion
  • increase installs of your mobile app
sales objective -> conversions
  • increase website conversions

    • sales
    • sign-ups
  • retarget warm audiences (users that have interacted with site or ad)
  • close the sale
  • example

    • promote an expiring coupon code to urge warm audience to make a purchase
leads objective -> messages
  • connect with customers
  • answer questions
  • drive them from interest to purchase

first three steps of campaing objective

  1. select objective
  2. always choose manual setup
  3. name the campaign

    • e.g. CE-Traffic-men1830-USA

      • CE: Course Envy
      • Traffic: campaign objective
      • men1830: targeting men of ages 18-30
      • USA: country targeted
  4. campaign budget

    • type

      • daily
      • lifetime
    • optimization

      • distributes across ads to get more results

help menu

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budget

  • start between $5 to $10 daily budget
  • when you see a high Return on Marketing Investment

    • shut off losing ads
    • continue testing winning ads

winning metrics

  • ad relevance: greater than 60%
  • cost per click (CPC): greater than 2%
  • Cost Per Lead (CPL): less than $1 (ONE dollar) (depends on industry)
  • Lead Capture Page Conversions: greater than 10%

scaling budget

  • must have winning budget
  • highly converting ad runnig
  • at that point scale up by 25% every 3-4 days

how to create each type of facebook campaign

awareness

purpose increase awareness for brand
targets facebook, instagram, messenger
formats single image, single video, carousel slideshow
goal
  • increase Brand Recall Lift (number of people likely to remember your ads wihtin two days)
  • emotinally resonate with target customer
  • DO NOT SELL
  • AWARENESS ONLY
purpose
  • this is a touch point with a customer

    • a customer needs on average 7 touch points (visually seeing brand) before remembering and purchasing from your business
  • introduction / ongoing "remember me" ad
best practices
  • subtle uses of brand

    • associates talent and skill to brand
  • emotion provoking stories with brand
  • if no story or logo, then promote for FREE to learn more about brand

    • pillar blog post
    • service
    • trial
    • newsletter
    • ebook
    • webinar
audience
  • make audience wide
  • we are in discovery phase
  • to find your current audience

    1. go to facebook page
    2. professional dashboard
    3. click on Audience
  • if you can't find Audience controls

    1. got to Advantage+ Audience
    2. TURN IT OFF
    3. you got back your audience controls
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placements
  • generally leave it on Advantage+, but it's a good option to SPLIT TEST
  • but if you want to go to MANUAL, then you have to TURN OFF ADVANTAGE

    1. first move the mouse over to where it says Advantage+ placements
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    1. this will show highlight the 'Edit' button
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    1. click 'Edit'
    2. if you want, you can now select 'Manual placements'

mobile test website

  • open your website or Facebook AD landing page URL in gogle chrome browser.
  • right click anywhere on the page
  • select inspect in the menu
  • click desktop mobie view toggle button

AD level

naming ad

  • use a name that describes the following:

    • ad identity
    • media
    • call to action
    • text
    • links

ad identity

  • select facebook page
  • instagram account
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media

  1. Go to Ad Creative Section
  2. click on 'Set up Creative'
  3. pick either image or video

    • video is best
    • otherwise test three image options

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call to action

  • in the case of a Traffic or Engagement add you can send someone somewhere

    • under destination

Detailed targeting

  • found in Ad Set
  • in the audience section

    • specify interests in the detailed targeting section

Carousel Ads

  • with a carousel you can identify which ad has the most clicks
  • take that ad and use it in a new campaign

Engagement Ads

  • to engage people with facebook page or post

    • boosting posts
    • getting page likes
    • event responses/attendance

ad formats

  • single image
  • single video
  • slideshow

best practices

  • very little organic reach

    • less than 10% are organic
    • you must create post engagement ads
  • before you do that

    • get clients to aminimum of 1000 page likes

      • so when a new customer sees the page they will be impressed

Create Post Engagement Ad

New Campaign
  • choose engagement objective

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AD Set
  • Set Conversion Location to "on your ad"

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  • set Engagement Type to 'Post Engagement'

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  • set Performance Goals to 'Maximize Engagement with Post'

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  • set Performance Goals to 'Maximize Engagement with Post'
  • make sure to exclude people who already like your page

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  • leave placements as Advantage+
New Ad
  • split test using a single image AND a single video

    • you want lowest cost per page like
  • give users an instant reason to like your page

best proctices for Post Engagement

  • this is meant to boost a specific post on page
  • facebook will target users more likely to engage

    • like
    • comment
    • share post
  • if you want traffic to a site, such as a link, use a Traffic of Conversion objective

Post Engagement Split Test

  • create 3 campaign split tests

    1. target a looklike audience of current facebook page followers
    2. go broad and target competitors facebook page (or similar)

      • enable "advantage detailed targeting" option
    3. target just current facebook page followers via custom audience
Lookalike Audience
  • in Ad Set
  • Go to Audience and select create new -> 'lookalike audience'

    • select lookalike source
    • choose small lookalike at 1%
Competitor
  • good top of funnel ad
  • good for making lookalike audiences
  • add interests in detailed targeting
  • click on "advantage detailed targeting" option

    • allows you ta add competitors you forgot to add
Current
  • if you have 1000 followers its enough