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How to Use Facebook Ads to Get More Leads and Reach Your Best Prospects by Andrea Vahl
1. How to Facebook Use Ads to Get More
Leads andReachYour BestProspects
Andrea Vahl
@andreavahl
2. Today…
• Understand the differences between
ad types, bidding optimizations, and
placement
• Fine tune your targeting to reach the
best possible audience
• Understand how the Facebook pixel
works for tracking and retargeting
• Split test your ads and dive into the
reports so you save more money
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6. A Little MoreABOUT ME
Co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies
Community Manager for Social Media Examiner for 2 years
Creator of Facebook Advertising Secrets online course
Cofounder of Social Media Manager School
Used Grandma Mary – Social Media Edutainer to start my blog
Stand up comedian
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8. What is changing?
• EVEN LESS Organic Reach for
Pages – “Facebook Zero”
• More focus on posts that
spark conversation
• Pages should consider
Facebook Live and video
• Ads are becoming CRITICAL!
18. Facebook Leads with Ads
1. Develop a free “Lead Magnet” (ie. Coupon, ebook, checklist)
2. Set up a Landing Page to offer the freebie
3. Install Facebook Pixel on Landing Page and Thank You Page to track
conversions
4. Drive targeted traffic to your Landing Page with Facebook Ad
21. Giveaway Ideas
• eBook
• Training series delivered via email
• Webinar
• Audio session
• 3-part video series
• Cheat sheet, guide or worksheet
• Discount/promo code
• Telesummit
• Free chapter to a book
• 15 minute phone call
• Contest for a freebie
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23. Map Your Funnel
Ad Website Thank You Page
Website includes:
Facebook Ad Pixel (PageView)
Page includes:
Facebook Ad Pixels
(PageView) and (Lead)
OR Use Facebook
Custom Conversion
24. Multi-stage Funnel
Ad Website Thank You Page
Website includes:
Facebook Ad Pixel
(PageView)
and Google Analytics
Page includes:
Facebook Ad Pixel
(PageView) (AddtoCart)
Google Analytics
Add to Cart
Page includes:
Facebook Ad Pixel
(PageView) (Purchase)
Google Analytics
28. One Pixel
• A bit of code you add to your website
• TWO JOBS: Tracks Page views and
conversions
• Place the basic code one time
• Each account gets one pixel
• Track multiple websites with the pixel
30. Boosted Posts – Not always the best ROI
Boosted Posts are Facebook “Lite”
Advertising
More advanced techniques in the Ads
Manager
Use Boosted Posts to re-engage your
current Fans or connect to your warm
audience
32. Switch to Engagement Rate
Engagement Rate is the percentage of people who
interact with your post of those who have seen it.
Interaction over Reach.
34. Goal of Content: Awareness
KPI: Video Views and Link Clicks
• Video - Business Manifesto
• 3811 Video Views
• 92 Link Clicks
• 10,734 Reached
• 4350 Organic (5x higher
than average)
• 6384 Paid with $13 boost
• $0.01/video view
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35. Goal of Content: Traffic
KPI: Link Clicks
• Start with Engaging content
• 7% Engagement Rate Organically
• Boosted the Post with $20
• 882 Link Clicks total
• $0.06/link click from boost
• Popup on website for Optin
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39. Top 3 Facebook Ads to Run for Travel Sites
1. Traffic (to your landing page)
2. Boosted Post (to warm audience or targeted local audiences)
3. Conversion (only if you have the pixel installed)
Could also do a Lead Generation ad – traffic stays ON Facebook and you
create a pop up “Form” that people fill out
Get people OFF of Facebook and
ON to your EMAIL List
40. Ad Set Level
• Targeting
• Placement
• Budget and
schedule
43. TargetingandTestingTips
Use very similar groups of keywords in 1 ad.
Test ideas together: job titles, Fan Pages, behaviors
KeepAudience Size large to start 500K – 2 million if possible
(exception – Local Targeting)
Only run one ad at a time under each Ad Set (more
control over testing)
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47. Budget and Schedule Best Practices
• Run the ad at least 3-4 days to give
it time to optimize
• Keep the optimization for ad
delivery in the Default settings
• Spend about $25 per ad to be able
to get significant results (may vary
depending on your location
49. AdCreationTips
Test at least 2 different images when starting
Add pain points the audience relates to
Images with people do well
Text can be longer in Headline and Text area
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56. Custom Audience to Retarget
• Video Views can easily build a
“warm” Audience
• Combine Audiences to enable
retargeting with smaller website
traffic
58. Split Test Demographics First
Ad Set #1
Behavior
demographics
Ad
Image #1
Ad
Image #1
Ad
Image #1
Ad Set #2
Interest and Fan
Page keywords
Ad Set #3
Job Titles
Campaign
59. Split Testing Ads – Local Business
Ad Set #1
Local area +
demographics
Ad
Image #1
Ad
Video
Ad
Image #2
Ad Set #2
Local Area +
demographics
Ad Set #3
Local Area +
demographics
Campaign
66. Key Takeaways:
1. Get people OFF of Facebook
onto your List
2. Test at least 2 different ads.
3. Watch your key
performance metrics to
determine your success.
I’m going to tell you a little more about how I get started than I usually tell. Most people don’t know this about me but I actually started out as an engineer. Not the train kind but the geeky kind And I was actually working as a systems engineer for a telecom company when I had my first son. About 9 months after I had him, my whole department got laid off when the Telecom bubble burst. But I was actually happy because we hated day care. We just couldn’t stand dropping our sweet little baby off every day and we never really knew what they did. So we decided to try and make it work with me staying home but it was hard. And I couldn’t sit still for very long and wanted to earn some income. So I started an in-home-wine tasting job which was like my dream job – drink wine while I work, go to parties. It was great. And that’s when I discovered social media. I was using it to connect with people online and using Twitter, Facebook and it was so much fun. I was growing my business and then the wine company where I got my wines went out of business.
So I decided that I would never tie my fortune and hard work to another company again. As I was learning about social media, I noticed a hole in the market. There weren’t any entertaining video tutorials about how to use social media. I wanted to have fun while I was learning. So I also did Improv comedy for about 8 years and I decided that I would take one of my characters – Grandma Mary – and she would do my blogging for me and do fun interviews and so Grandma Mary – Social Media Edutainer started her blog. Her motto is If Grandma Mary can do it then you can do it too.
She grew a great following online and made some great connections. One of the connections was Phyllis Khare and she was pitching a Dummies book to Wiley about Facebook Marketing. They wanted a co-author with a big platform and they took a look at the number of my Facebook Fans and Twitter followers and offerd me the book deal. So you really can see the power of growing your platform and making new connections.
You also want to figure out your giveaway platform. What I mean by that is your content has
to go into something. Is it going to be an eBook, a training series delivered via email, maybe a
webinar, an audio session, three-part video series, cheat sheet guide, or worksheet, or a
discount or a promo code, as well? All of these platforms are a great way to deliver content in
the form of a giveaway.
I tend to do webinars, recorded webinars and live webinars. That’s truly how I’ve built my
email list over the years, but I know other people that have done really well with eBooks. My friend Kim Garst has several ebooks she gives away including some really valuable ones on Twitter and she does really well with those.
Your first step is to create the conversion pixel. You can do this within the Facebook Ads Manager area, you don’t need to use the Power Editor.
Then select Conversion Tracking on the left sidebar.
Engagement Rate is one of the big stats to pay attention to. If you do nothing else on Facebook Insights, monitor your Engagement Rate of Facebook posts so you can see what types of things actually drive engagement.
Here’s an example of how I might go about split testing my target demographics. First I know my audience and I see that I typically connect more with women. I love you guys out there but when you are getting serious about getting the cheapest clicks, you have to focus on who responds best.The targeting is set up a the Ad Set Level. The ad underneath each of these campaigns is going to look exactly the same.
Here’s an example of how I might go about split testing my target demographics. First I know my audience and I see that I typically connect more with women. I love you guys out there but when you are getting serious about getting the cheapest clicks, you have to focus on who responds best.The targeting is set up a the Ad Set Level. The ad underneath each of these campaigns is going to look exactly the same.