6 Facebook Ad Tips

by admin on May 17, 2012

 

1. Get your target audience right
List the groups you want to target or make sure you ask your client. If your client hasn’t profiled their customer base just ask them to describe their typical client.

2. Build your first ad
If you are planning to test multiple versions (which we recommend), just submit one version for each campaign, wiat for it to get approved, then create variations.

3. Ensure you have a great landing page
Whether you are sending traffic to your website or a Facebook app, ensure it relates to the ad and has a clear call to action.

4. Spend time on creative
The image is the most compelling part of a Facebook ad, so spend time finding (www.shutterstock.com) or developing the right images.

5. Build multiple ads
We find ads become stale after seven days. This, along with the fact that you should be testing ads against each other means you should have two new ads to run per week, per campaign.
By creating the ads upfront so can simply login weekly, and pause existing and enable new ads.
The ad title, image, and body need to be reasonably related to pass editorial review. Again, choosing relevant images and writing compelling ad copy are critical to receiving higher click through rates.

6. Measure response by demographics and geography
You campaign might be targeting all Kiwi women 25+ but you might find women based in Auckland aged 35-45 respond best.  You can then allocate more budget to the best performing groups.

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New Facebook Ad Options

by admin on April 29, 2012

Hot on the heels of introducing Timeline for Business Facebook are planning on new ad formats.  Here’s a quick summary:

Offers

For businesses with physical locations you can create a coupon which your fans can print and redeem in-store.

 

 

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Reach Generator

With posts only reaching around 16% of your fans Reach Generator guarantees a 75% reach by creating a permanent sponsored story for your fans.

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Premium Ads

With this option your ad can feature:

  • As a page post
  • On mobile devices
  • As a sponsored story for your fans

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Need help with Facebook Advertising?  Call Steer 09 579 4269 or results@steer.co.nz

Learn about Timeline Changes for Business Pages

 

 

 

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20 Online Marketing Ideas for 2012

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Get a Google+ Page Now!

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Social media is influencing search results both visiby (e.g. seeing which results your friends favour) and invisibly through their impact on Google’s Ranking algorithm. Here are some tips to improve your social influence: Social results will be accompanied by a heading that says “Results from your social circle”.  If you can get into these results [...]

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Does AdWords help sales in other channels?

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Journeys leading to sales/conversions are never straight forward process i.e. many people will have multiple exposures to your brand before they convert. For example, they might receive a flyer in the post, search for your brand, click on an AdWords to visit your site and bookmark your website.  Suppose this person does not purchase in [...]

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Images can help your SEO.  Because Google can’t interpret images it relies on other indicators. Here are tips for optimising images and driving traffic to the images themselves. Include alt text/tags on all images Alt text is the text that displays in place of an image.  Often email programs prevent images from showing so you [...]

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