Capstone slidedeck for my capstone project part 2.pdf
Give Your Facebook a Boost
1. Give Your Facebook a Boost: What
You Need to Know to About
Advertising on Facebook
November 19, 2015
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2. About Me
• Building professional websites for
10 years
• Practicing digital marketing for 5
years
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4. Why You’re Here
•Difference between Boosted posts vs.
Advertising
•How to boost posts
•How to create ads
•Tools and Tips
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5. Before You Get Started
•Set a goal for your ad
•Determine your target audience
•Set a budget
•Be ready to be wrong
•Try again
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6. Boosted posts increase your reach on
already published posts and stay in your
feeds longer.
Ads offer more capability on targeting and
the content you’re promoting – including
(CTA).
Boosted Posts vs. Ads
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14. Facebook Ads
Ads are made using
the Ads Creator or the
Power Editor.
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Ads can have a call to action
Show up as
sponsored
15. Why use a Facebook ad?
Facebook ads are great for
getting your target audience
to engage with your Page on
more personal/dynamic levels.
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16. Different Objectives of Ads
•Page post
engagement
•Page Likes
•Clicks to Websites
•Website Conversions
•Video Views
•App Installs
•App Engagement
•Event Responses
•Offer Claims
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17. Ad Creator vs. Power Editor
Facebook Ads Creator is a simpler
approach to creating ads.
The Power Editor provides more tools
and options to create the perfect ad.
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Editor's Notes
It’s a lot easier to boost a post or create an ad if you follow these steps.
Set a goal
Figure out your target audience
Set a budget (you don’t have to set much)
Be ready to be wrong – it’s not necessarily a bad thing – your campaigns can be changed at any time – but you have to be ready to change things up
Try again – don’t give up
Boosted posts require you to have an already publish post – this is great to increase your reach on your existing content.
Promoted posts and advertising don’t require published posts – so you can create something specific that won’t show up on your page’s timeline. This also allows you more targeting options to get to the people you need to reach.
The post on the left is a post that hasn’t been boosted yet. It shows it’s general reach and gives me the option to click and boost the post. It looks like all other posts you see on your timeline.
The post on the right has been boosted. It shows you a basic graph to show you its general reach. The lighter color is the number of users reached through organic reach and the darker color is paid reach. You can also get more details on your boosted posts with the View Results button.
Content could be a picture, blog post, video, or something else you want more of your audience to see.
Look through your content and get to know what typically engages your audience. This is great content to be boosted first.
Always boost your own content. Don’t boost posts for someone else’s work.
The best content to boost is visual: videos, pictures, blog posts (with pictures). Pictures!
People who like your Page and their friends is a common boosted post method – this is typically because boosted posts are to reach more of your already established audiences. If you’re looking to choose through targeting – consider an ad.
You can set your total budget from premade values given by Facebook or enter your own.
You can set how long you’d like the ad to run – don’t go too long because you’ll limit your daily reach during the time it’s run.
Facebook currently allows a primary and secondary payment methods. Your primary is always used unless it’s unavailable. So make sure you set your primary to an account you don’t mind being used.
Facebook ads, like boosted posts, show up in your news feed as “Sponsored.” The easiest way to spot the difference is the call to action. This one uses Download as the CTA.
Ads are created in the Ads Creator or the Power Editor.
There are many different objectives your Facebook Ads could fulfill.
Page Post Engagement – promoting your posts
Page Likes – get more page likes and grow your brand audience
Clicks to Websites – get people to visit your website
Website Conversions – get people to perform an action on your site (requires a Facebook tracking pixel)
Video Views – get people to watch a Facebook video
App Installs – get people to install your desktop or mobile app
App Engagement – get people to use your desktop app
Event Responses – increase your Facebook event attendance
Offer Claims – create offers to redeem at your store
There are many different objectives your Facebook Ads could fulfill.
Start at www.facebook.com/ads/manager. If you haven’t created an Ads account before, you will need to create one. Facebook walks you through it.
I traditionally like to name it something that I’ll be able to scan a list of campaigns and know what it is.
We’re assuming you haven’t created an audience before, so here’s what you need to do early on.
First, select the location(s) you want to target people. You can be very, very specific. Something that is a bit hidden is the “Everyone in this location” dropdown below the map. You can select “people who live in this location” or “traveling in this location.” So be specific
This is where you can get really creepy – I mean specific – about your audience. You can select as many different things you want.
As you’re building out your audience demographics, Facebook will give you an estimated number based on what you select.
When setting your budget, you get a lot of options. So take your time to explore. Facebook provides a lot of tips to help you through the process.
You can choose between a single image ad or show multiple ads at once (up to 5). These carousel ads give you flexibility in how your ad looks.
You can browse your library of already uploaded images, select free stock images, or upload new images. Pay close attention to the recommended image specs on the right. This can help your ad look great.
Images should have no more than 20% text.
Connect your Facebook page to the ad. This is important for helping users to see who is promoting this ad.
Fill in your headline, text, a CTA button, and news link description.
On the right, you can see how your ad looks on all devices.
Now available – not shown here – Instagram ads.
At the bottom, you can review and place your order.
Facebook Grid Tool: www.facebook.com/ads/tools/text_overlay
All post and ad images should be less than 20% text. You can upload your image before creating your ad and find out how much text you have. The goal is to get it less than 20%. This example is 40%.
Facebook Ads Manager: www.facebook.com/ads/manager
Review your performance regularly – especially for long term campaigns. You can adjust them at any time. But you can also pull reports for performance based on goals.
When reviewing your ad performance, start with your engagement goal and find out cost per engagement goal. If you had a website conversion goal, this is where a Facebook pixel is useful, but Google Analytics can help you decipher this.
Look at how many clicks, comments, and shares (depending on your goal) you got. What was that compared to reach. Then how much did you spend to earn that exposure and results.
Now you know more about Facebook advertising – you might be thinking this.
Facebook provides a video tutorial and more info.
I liked Sprout Social’s full breakdown. Pretty good stuff. Covers much of what I did here and goes into more detail on many topics.
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