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FACEBOOK
ADS MANUAL
Everything
you need to know
to get started
Mojca Mars
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 2. Pick an objective
- What now?
- Conclusion
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- Bonus chapter: RESOURCES
“Facebook pixel”)
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Introduction
Just a few years ago you had zero chance of reaching such a narrowed down
target audience at the other part of the country for such a low price. The mar-
keting tools we have at our disposal today are more powerful than ever be-
fore.
You can target your perfect audience with a surgical precision. You can
buy ads for an incredibly low price, and if you know the rules of ad-creation,
ever created.
A lot of it has to do with their precise targeting. They collect all sorts of
data from their users (they also have other partners who provide a portion of
data for them) which means you can make your targeting so precise you’ll
reach just 100 specific people. But those 100 people will be insanely respon-
Here’s an example: You can target an 18-year-old male, living within a 10-
mile radius of San Francisco, who likes Gary Vaynerchuk, uses an iPhone 6
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Creepy insight for an average user? Maybe. But just think about all the
targeting possibilities you can tackle! Maybe you don’t need a well-defined
audience like the example above. (That was a little too much, right?) But you
Are you a freelancer who would love to sell a service to small E-com-
merce businesses? No problem — you can target people who own a small
Want to get traffic to your blog post? Target people who are reading
about that particular topic already and are apparently actively thinking about
it.
Want to promote your iPhone app? Just target people who own the latest
Are you selling products for young moms? Create a campaign that will
powerful advertising tool, it’s not all there is to it. What’s a great targeting
without a compelling copy and eye-catching design that will make people
stop at your ad. And a campaign isn’t complete without an optimised budget-
ing system developed in a way to provide you best results for the lowest
price.
The best thing of all — everyone gets a chance here, from small compa-
nies with tiny budgets to the “big boys” with thousands of dollars investing in
one. And the guys with the big bucks don’t always win. The smart ones do, no
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So sit tight as you join me on this journey through Facebook’s Advertising
do. And trust me, by the end of this book you’ll be an excited explorer your-
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Data about Face-
book Ads
who were unaware of how big Facebook actually is. Here are a couple of data
lion.
advertise on Facebook — there are 2.5 million advertisers now using Face-
Those aren’t just big companies like you would’ve expected. Even the
small ones are generating incredible results such as 4.8X return on invest-
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Sayidaty.net, over 40% of new customers that came via Facebook by Total Im-
mersion Israel.
Ad Campaign looks like, you can achieve similar outstanding results as Bren-
nan Dunn, and Kurt Elster did. (Note: Detailed case studies coming soon!)
The beauty of Facebook Ads is in the fact that nothing is stopping you
from not trying it out but yourself. Invest a couple of dollars into testing it out
for yourself and see what happens. A month from today, you can be nothing
more than 30 days older — or you can be on your way to having a successful
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What will you
learn from this
book?
When you’re done reading this book, you’ll have a list of actionable items of
what you need to do next. You will know how to reach the results you’ve been
trying to achieve before but failed because you weren’t comfortable with
Facebook’s Advertising system. You will be more than comfortable now be-
you’ll also get familiar with all the tricks of the trade professional marketers
use. You will learn how to prepare a goal-oriented campaign and use that
I’ve been working with more than a dozen companies over the last couple
of years, and I can assure you’ll be quite a few steps ahead of them after read-
ing this book. 95% of the companies I’ve worked with had not done Facebook
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You’re getting a unique chance to learn from their mistakes, avoiding do-
ing them yourself. You’ll be left with the good stuff only and improve every
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The foundation of
your Facebook Ad-
vertising Strategy
Great, you decided to join me on this journey! We’re going to have lots of
knowledgeable fun, trust me! But before we dive into all details and techni-
calities Facebook Advertising system has to offer, you have to answer some
Ads Strategy. You’ll finally GRAB² the attention of the right customers or
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will serve you as an excellent and efficient roadmap that will help you and
If you ever ended up sitting in front of your computer, not knowing where
to start your new Facebook Advertising Campaign, those days are finally over.
You’re now armed with a specific technique that will kickstart your campaign’s
creation in just a few minutes. But let’s not waste any more time. Here’s the
These 5 words are extracted from the 5 key questions you have to ask
some product purchases on the side” is not the right answer. It’s important to
stay focused at this point. We’re looking for your primary goal here that will
created around that goal. Your goal depends on what Campaign Objective
we’re going to choose later when we get to the part of creating your Face-
Your #1 goal could be anything from creating awareness for your new
product, increasing traffic to your blog post, getting new subscribers, increas-
ing purchases of your product or even increasing the number of app down-
loads.
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But make sure to focus on 1 goal. Sure, your brand awareness will in-
crease even though your primary focus will be on increasing signups to your
newsletter, but brand awareness will be a side a side-effect. The main focus
Page Likes Campaign, how will you know you’ve reached that goal? By mea-
suring results.
Based on the goal and the budget you’ll set up for your Campaign, you’ll
probably already have a particular outcome in mind. 20 Page Likes might not
do it for you, but you would be totally happy with 50 Page Likes.
would be satisfied with. That will enable you to track the course of the cam-
ence, the ad quality won’t matter because the audience that would engage
Imagine you’re a successful business owner and you see ads like “Looking
for a stable job?” by an employment agency in your news feed. A thing that
could easily be avoided with a precise targeting plan can cause the same
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agency quite a bit of trouble. Oh and we shouldn’t forget that a whole lot of
Define your target audience. Who are they? What are sparks their inter-
paid campaign with a budget of $0, that’s not possible and you’re aware of
sell $19 ebook for $1 invested in your Facebook Ads. At least not at the be-
ginning.
yourself. Don’t say you want to grow your email list for 500, throw $5 into ads
and walk away from Facebook Ads later, saying they’re not effective.
all start with higher cost-per-click rates but lower the price along the way as
we get to iterate the ads and get more familiar with our target audience. The
more you polish your campaign, the better your chances of achieving incredi-
But you can’t polish your campaign along the way if you invest 100% of
your budget in the first version of your ads, right? You’ll also be left without an
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in-depth knowledge about your audience which sucks since that knowledge
allows you to achieve better results with less money in the next campaigns.
That’s why you’ll implement The Ultimate Budgeting System in your Face-
right? But this plain and simple budgeting system is here to make campaign
using if you have a budget of $20 or more. If you have less than that, you’ll be
playing with pennies. If you have a smaller budget, you can go all in by all
means and reevaluate and modify your ads after the campaign is finished.
The Ultimate Budgeting System goes by the 20/30/50 rule. But every-
After you’ll create your ads and set your budget (we’ll go into full detail
about that in the following chapters), invest 20% of that budget in your Face-
book Ads. You’re just checking in with the campaign, testing your first ads out.
2. Turn off the ads with lower performance, invest 30% in best-perform-
ing ads
Because you’ll create different ads for the same objective, some ads will
naturally perform worse than others. After that 20% runs out, turn off the ads
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In that time and with that budget your audience will get better defined.
Maybe you totally nailed your target audience, maybe it was a miss. But that
doesn’t matter — you now have valuable data that you can use to your advan-
tage. You’re already ten steps ahead of your competition who’s not doing any
When 30% of your budget invested runs out, you’ll analyse the data (all
described in the following chapters) and see which people are most respon-
sive to your ads. Don’t worry, Facebook will show your ads to the target audi-
ence you will pick out at the beginning, but they will automatically optimise
the campaign within that limits for you to get better results.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami who are interested in web develop-
ment, Facebook would push your advertising message to all of the demo-
graphic groups, but they might find out that men from Miami are not re-
sponding to your messages. In that case, they might lower the frequency of
the ads appearing to that audience and push the ads to the audience that en-
But they still won’t exclude the non-engaging audience. Facebook works
for you. Facebook wants you to get the best results while still listening to your
orders. So what you’ll do when that 30% of the budget invested runs out is
you’ll optimise your target audience to get even better results with your Face-
book Advertising efforts. That means you’ll exclude the audience that is not
responding to your ads so you can reach more people who are interested in
By examining the analytics and narrowing down your target market, you’ll
also get to know your audience a little bit better. You’ll be armed with a price-
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less knowledge you can use over and over again when creating new Face-
Now the final budgeting step follows. After narrowing down your target
audience, you’ll spend the remaining budget (50% of it) in your campaign.
Your best message will get pushed to the right people. Your campaign is now
Now that you’re equipped with The Ultimate Budgeting System, you still have
to make sure your budget is realistic and in conjunction with your expecta-
tions. Expect to pay a little bit more for desired results from the beginning,
When was the last time you stopped scrolling through your Facebook
News Feed when seeing an ad? AN ad that was so great and different from
others, you just had to click and see what’s on the other side?
The ads that have an effect like the one described are not only accurately
targeted, but they have a unique brand voice that stands out from the crowd
Here’s the harsh truth - the vast majority of Facebook Ads you see every
day are too promotional and totally lack a unique brand voice. They fail to
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blend in with the updates you’re seeing from your friends which means you
can spot ads from a mile away. And people avoid ads. Mission failed.
But that’s what you can use to your advantage. Be different. Dare to show
your brand’s personality. Big corporate brand, personal brand, doesn’t matter.
Communicate that voice in a friendly and opened way. That enables you
It’s a beautiful paradox: When you blend in, you actually stand out for
your audience. Users don’t visit facebook.com to watch ads; they come to see
Act like a friend. Give value to the user (like friends do!), make them want
more.
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You were born
ready!
Woohoo, you are officially acquainted with the GRAB² technique! You know
what that means? No more staring at a blank screen with Facebook Ads Man-
You now have a solid foundation and a great roadmap for your Facebook
Ads Campaign. You have nothing to be afraid of, everything you need is right
in front of you.
We don’t want to waste any more time in theory, so let’s get down to prac-
PRO TIP: Is this your first time creating a Facebook Advertising Cam-
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satisfied with
(20/30/50 rule)
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How to create a
Facebook Adver-
tising Campaign
pretty straightforward! That’s why I set up an easy process for you to follow
along. You can come back to this step-by-step process every time you’ll want
But before we dive in elbows deep let’s just get ourselves familiar with
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goal we talked about. Each goal represents a different campaign. If you first
create Facebook Ads for getting new Facebook Page Likes but later want to
experiment with getting new email signups, you are going to have to create a
different campaign.
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Ad Sets are found within every campaign, each campaign can feature
multiple of ad sets. They can have it’s own budget, schedule and targeting.
Advertisers usually use different Ad Sets when they’re testing different audi-
ences. For example: When I created Facebook Ads for this book, I used two
ences, select a better-engaged audience later on and invest more money into
You can create different ads within ad sets. With creating multiple ver-
sions of your ads, you’ll be able to test the creative, select the ones that ap-
peal to the target audience the most and turn off the rest.
Now that we’re familiar with the campaign structure let’s get down to the
real deal and see what steps you need to take to create a professional and
2. Pick an objective
The first three steps are actually of creative nature. We’ll work on the creative
part before you start fidgeting and clicking around on Facebook. With taking
this approach, we’ll make sure that your creative process stays uninterrupted.
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Creating a brand new campaign is after all something that requires focus, and
we’d like to have it spot on for the job at hand if we want to create a badass
campaign.
I will teach you how to write a compelling copy. We’ll look into visuals and
When we’ll wrap up the creative part, we’ll dive into the technical aspect
of Facebook Ads. That’s when the actual clicking and fidgeting begins.
We’ll talk about defining your target audience online and list out different
targeting options Facebook offers. I will give you an insight into my recom-
topic we will tackle — how do you set up a budget and optimise it for better
performance?
We’ll create our whole campaign with Facebook Ads Manager you can
find on facebook.com. You might have heard of Facebook’s other tool called
Power Editor, but we won’t be using it because of its clunkiness and user-un-
friendliness. We’ll rather invest the time we would otherwise spend on getting
that will bring you and your business results you deserve.
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1. Decide which goal you want to
achieve
Your Facebook Advertising Campaign should be a reflection of a single goal
you wish to achieve. Not two different goals, I’m talking about one single
goal.
In fact, I want you to write your goal down on paper, now. Right this mo-
ment. Writing it down will help you keep that one single goal in the back of
your mind the whole time. So if you’ll have trouble sticking to it for some rea-
son or if you’ll get tempted to kill two birds with one stone (and totally flunk
your first campaign), you can always come back to that piece of paper.
Not sure where to start? Let me help you, here are a few goal ideas for you:
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- I want to get more subscribers.
Setting that goal in stone will help you pick the most effective Facebook Ads
Objective for your goal in the following step. As we’re finalising the details
like this one even before we start fidgeting with the actual Facebook Ads,
we’re just making sure you don’t get stuck along the way because this is how
most of the prospective campaigns fail. Don’t get stuck. Smooth sailing is the
best sailing.
This is it; we’re starting to build a solid foundation. Let’s move on.
single goal.
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2. Pick an objective
Let’s stay in this goal-setting mindset a little bit longer. We’re now armed with
a laser-focused goal we want to achieve. It’s time to pick an objective that will
Each and every objective is meant for helping you achieve a particular goal.
Let’s get familiar with these objectives so you can be confident in your deci-
sion about which one you should choose in order to achieve the goal you
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Page Post Engagement (Boost your post)
Do you have a Facebook page and would like to increase your engagement
rate (likes, comments, shares)? This is the objective you should use for achiev-
ing that.
If you choose so, “Boost post” will deliver your post to other people (for
who you set the targeting for), not just your fans. You expand your reach be-
yond Facebook’s limits. But if you want to reach just your audience in the first
place, you can also boost your post just to your fans.
Contrary to the popular belief, it’s not smart to boost posts that have an
overall lower engagement rate. The engagement rate is low for a reason and
Instead, you should use this objective with posts that have a higher en-
gagement rate than usual. That usually means the post is interesting to your
fans and will probably attract the attention of other people as well.
And here’s a neat (and short!) story that proves this. I had a client and one
moted. There was indeed a slight increase in engagement rate, but nothing
ication that lets you know when one of your posts is performing better than
the others. It also gives you an option to quickly boost that post later on. We
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After doing that, we noticed our engagement rate was increasing like crazy.
ranged from $0.00 to $0.05. This wasn’t even a one-time thing, we repeated
posts, this is the objective to choose. It’s also quite effortless to set this up,
Note: To make use of this objective you have to have your own Facebook
page, preferably with some good content already published. Businesses with-
Increasing your Facebook Page Likes with this objective will enable you to
grow your audience, meaning you’ll have a bigger group of fans to communi-
That said, you have to be truly careful with your targeting. For example —
targeting 3rd world countries can result in a dramatic increase of your Page
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Likes, but those people will not engage with your content. That nullifies what
you were trying to achieve with Page Likes Campaign and triggers all sorts of
other consequences.
Because those new fans from 3rd world countries will not engage with
your content, your engagement rate will drop, and Facebook will be position-
ing your page lower in the News Feeds of your fans. That’s because the infor-
mation Facebook will have regarding your Facebook page (your low engage-
ment rate) will tell them your content is not interesting for your users. And we
But the good news is you have nothing to worry about. You can prevent
that worst-case scenario with a badass targeting (which we will describe in the
upcoming chapters) and grow your audience in a way you’ll have a big group
Best thing of all? The ads will be automatically optimised to reach the
When creating ads within this objective, you’ll be asked to use a custom
URL. That might be the link to your online store, resources page, contact page
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My clients use this objective to promote and present their new products. I
This objective has one purpose only — helping you increase your conver-
The first thing that comes to mind is probably a purchase. But don’t forget
prospects sending you contact info through your webpage. Maybe even a
For this objective, you’re going to need to install a tracking pixel to your
purchase information page. You can read more about setting up your tracking
pixel in the bonus chapter at the end, but here’s what will happen next.
That tracking pixel will enable Facebook to track your conversions and
optimise ads in a way they’ll reach more people that are more likely to con-
vert. It’s a win-win situation you don’t want to pass — users get what they were
looking for, and you increase your conversions. It’s almost like magic.
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App Installs (Get installs of your app)
If you’re creating an advertising campaign for your mobile or desktop app,
you should look into this ad type. It allows you to promote and track installs of
will optimise ads in a way they’ll reach people who are more likely to install
The installation of your app gets pretty easy for the end user if you use
this objective. That’s why these ads are quite popular with app creators.
But keep in mind that if you’ll want to measure the success of your ads
and track installs (which is what you should do), you’re going to have to inte-
grate your app with the Facebook’s SDK. No worries, I got you covered. You
can read more about this in the bonus chapter at the end.
P.s. Don’t forget to update your app before running this campaign!
to increase engagement within the app? This objective is your perfect option.
With creating this type of ad you can send people to a designated area in
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The options are limitless, and everything depends on the nature of your app
If you want to track your ads success, don’t forget to integrate your app
looking to increase in-store sales or foot traffic. It will help you reach people
In this case, Facebook sets a radius around your business and helps you
target those in the proximity of it. That said you probably already figured out
that it’s not perfect for all businesses, especially not online ones.
But if you’re a hairdresser, dentist, coffee shop or any other brick and
mortar store that sells in-person, these ads are perfect for you to try.
A Facebook event has to be created in advance if you want to use this ob-
jective. Users can then respond to the invitation right from their news feed. It’s
very native and easy for users to respond to and, as a result, you’ll drastically
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Important Note: Using this objective does not guarantee people re-
sponding to your event ad will attend it. It just guarantees they will respond to
your ad, even if that means they’ll pick a “not coming” option.
But it’s definitely nice to know we have this type of ads at our disposal.
I’ve seen great things done with it by my colleagues, and I truly recommend
They were a big hit a while back, but the hype eventually wore off. You can
still find some companies using offers and getting great results from it! If
boost your results (get more people to claim it), you can use this objective to
You will create an ad for a coupon, discount or any special deal, decide
how many people can claim your offer, run it and see what happens.
This objective is great for any businesses with special deals they can offer.
Offers can be redeemed at your physical store, online or both, but it is vital
If you still haven’t tried posting a video directly to Facebook, you’re missing a
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ton. Engagement rate usually goes through the roof and with using this ad
Let’s say you post a video update and you really want people to see it.
You can rely on your organic reach and the fact that Facebook is pushing
videos higher in the News Feed than any other content or you can assure
yourself that video will get watched with using this ad type.
The ads created with this objective include an embedded video users can
This objective is perfect for you if you’re a business with lots of video con-
tent such as updates, funny videos, storytelling, etc. Don’t miss out and play
with it a little.
two objectives: Clicks to Website and Website Conversions. But this is going
going to enable you to collect email addresses with just a couple of clicks! No
Lead Ads are currently available only via Power Editor, but they’re soon
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I know what you’re thinking. There are so many ad objectives to choose from,
Before your head explodes from all the different possibilities you’re think-
ing of right now, let’s step back a little. Remember that goal you wrote down
in the previous chapter? Go back to it. That’s why we wrote it down in the first
place.
That goal is there to remind you which path you’re on. And right now it
should give you a pretty clear sense of direction or in other words — which
Your goal has to align with one of the objectives we talked about, such as
But while you were reading other ad types this thought probably crossed
your mind: “Wow, so many of them! What if I never put in use all of them?”
And that’s totally fine. Please keep in mind that there’s nothing wrong with not
using other ad objectives at all. To be honest, my clients never put all of them
in use. There are just several that fit their needs, and we play and improve our
game on those.
choose for your campaign? GREAT. Let’s move on and get our creative cells
going!
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- You can choose from different objectives, but focus on the one that
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3. Write copy and create visuals
This is it. This is your ultimate chance to grab users’ attention and make her
Excellent and, more importantly, effective copy and visuals are the result
of knowing your target audience well and the more you know them, the bet-
After reading this chapter, you’ll have a clear vision of what to do and not
to do in your creative process. There are so many things I’ve learned in the
past few years of working in this field and I’m happy to share all of my find-
We will also look into Facebook’s Advertising Policies and list out all the
The Fundamentals
Your ads will be different from one campaign to another. You will test and ex-
periment with different ideas, figuring out what works best. You will learn
along the way and adjust your future campaigns according to your newly
gained knowledge. That is how you will approach advertising from now on.
But there are some basics you should know and consider every time you sit
get new subscribers to your free email series. Your target audience are small
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and medium-sized enterprises. Because you’re good at what you do, you’re
familiar with your target audience and you know they want to start with Face-
book Advertising, but don’t know where to begin. There you go, that’s their
expensive problem.
Because you’re familiar with their problem, you already have a solution
for them — you created a short email course where you teach them how to
create their first Facebook Ads campaign over series of emails. There’s your
solution.
Here comes the important part: You have to communicate the solution to
Don’t beat around the bush, get straight to the point. Show them what
kind of value they’ll get if they do what you want them to do (sign up, like
“It sucks to work so hard on your FB page but gain so little. But there’s a
solution …”
And here’s an idea for your headline and text in the link:
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Start here
Here’s a short template for you to list out the expensive problem and the solu-
I’m a (occupation) who helps (target audience) that have a problem with
When you are be creating a new campaign, reach out for this template.
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You should fill out this template every time you’ll start creating a new
Here are 5 examples to help you get started along with the objectives
1.
I’m a social media consultant who helps small and medium-sized enterprises
that have a problem with setting up their first Facebook Ads Campaign. I’m
solving that problem with an email series to which they can subscribe through
my landing page.
2.
I’m a graphic designer who helps beginner designers that have a problem
with finding good resources on how to design mobile apps. I’m solving that
3.
young moms that have a problem with finding good deals on eco-friendly
shoes online. I’m solving that problem with regularly updating my Facebook
4.
I’m a WordPress consultant who helps small businesses that have a problem
with setting up their professional webpage. I’m solving that problem with a
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Objective: Increase conversions on your webpage
5.
I’m a modern barber-shop owner who helps local bearded men that have a
problem with finding a good local barber with quality service. I’m solving that
the time. But don’t make the mistake a lot of businesses do. Don’t be overly
promotional.
Being promotional is not thinking twice about your target audience, their
needs and the solutions you can offer. Creating value is the opposite — know-
ing and providing them with what they need when they need it the most. If
you follow the template used in the previous chapter, you have nothing to
worry about.
People don’t go to Facebook every day to see ads with “SALE! SALE!
SALE! 20% OFF!” written all over their News Feed. If they would want that,
Instead, they come to Facebook to connect with their friends and see
what’s happening. If they get significant value out of that visit (if you’re in the
Speaking of friends …
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Communicate your brand voice
Do you remember that paradox we talked about in the earlier chapters? Let
We already talked about being overly promotional, standing out from the
crowd, consequently making it easier for users to spot your ad from a mile
away and ignore you from there on. Blend in with the audience if you want to
attract the attention of the users. Make them say: “Wait, who is this?”
And that who is important. If you have a well-developed brand voice, you
PRO TIP: If you have an option, try using human faces in your ads.
were vastly better than the ones where I just designed a banner with
some fancy graphical elements. Using real human faces is a big step-
option to connect your Facebook page with your ads. You should totally do
this since this enables your ads being shown in the news feed (which is the
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That’s why it is crucial you have a good Facebook page presence. I could
write an entirely new book on how that looks like, but here are a few short
tips:
2. Create value. Yep, we’re at the value again. It’s all about the value.
Don’t try to close too quickly, don’t try to sell all the time. Create
entirely different level. We’re all humans after all, and we engage
them behind the scenes and share content they won’t find any-
5. Offer support. Does anyone need help? Offer a quick reply with a
crispy solution. Show that your customer service is stellar and that
Practice
Let’s be totally honest.
Writing copy and creating visuals is one of the most creative steps of mak-
ing a campaign. It is also a point where lots of people get stuck because this
process seems too complex for them. This is something advertising agencies
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But here’s the thing. You know your business the most, you know your
customers, clients and prospects. You are aware of their expensive problem
and you know how to solve it. You’re the perfect person to help them find val-
ue in what you do with writing a badass copy and creating eye-catching visu-
als.
There is nothing to be afraid of. What’s the worst it can happen? You can
lose a couple of dollars, but learn from your first mistake, make the second
If your first campaign is a fail or a win, remember this: You’ll get better
with every campaign. The very first campaign I did was totally awesome; the
results were stellar. The second one? Fail. But I knew where I missed, I knew
what I did wrong, and I never did it again. I just lost a couple of dollars but
You didn’t get better at your business by observing from the sidelines.
You experimented with different things, different approaches and got better
with practice.
that visuals play a significant role in campaign creating process. You have to
be able to attract the attention of the users while still not being obviously pro-
Here’s a tip that always brought good results from my advertising efforts
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That’s right. No matter how fancy my design was, faces always brought
the best results. And not just any faces, but my face. So if you have the oppor-
tunity to use that to promote your Facebook page, your product or anything
There’s just something about seeing a human face in your news feed. This
approach actually brings the best results if you advertise to the people that
know you — your email subscribers, page fans, website visitors, you name it.
But what you have to avoid at all costs are stock photos. Ugh.
Stock photos just scream “advertising” and that eventually turns people
Instead, if you don’t have the skills to design visuals yourself, you have an
ones is Canva.
Canva is a great online tool for creating eye-catching visuals for your mar-
Canva is an excellent way to put your foot out the door as soon as possi-
ble without getting stuck at this point. “I don’t know how to use design tools,”
is not a valid excuse anymore. Use Canva until you know how to make custom
designs yourself.
tioned this tool solely on the fact that I use it at times and comes in handy
when I don’t have the time to work on custom designs. I get 0 financial bene-
fits from mentioning them, same goes for every tool/resource mentioned in
this book.
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Facebook’s Advertising Policies
Facebook is a huge player in the advertising department. To keep everything
in order, they had naturally set up quite a few restrictions on what you can and
An entire book could be written about their policies; there are a lot of
them. But you only have to care about these (others are just edge cases you
ads. The majority of the core text can be just 90 characters long. That’s why
people were trying out different workarounds, one of them was a pretty obvi-
That’s when Facebook flashed a red light and introduced a 20% text rule.
From then on text on ad images cannot cover more than 20% of the image.
“Fine. Then I’ll just upload our logo and make it extra big, so we’ll attract
attention.” Stop right there. That policy also includes logos, watermarks or
But if you’re featuring a photo of a product that contains text on the actual
their policies.
PRO TIP: Not sure when more than 20% of your image is covered with
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No nudity or sexuality
This is an obvious one, right? True, Facebook is not a porn site, so any adult
shop. We used photos of a fit woman lifting weights in a sports bra for our
So let me be frank — if you have a fitness shop yourself, and you take a
similar approach I did, you might run into some trouble. It all depends on
what person will approve your ad. Read about how you can contact Face-
book’s support if you get into trouble in the final section of this chapter.
business.
Age-restricted material
If you have a liquor shop, you have probably already met all kinds of restric-
Ads that promote or even reference alcohol must comply with local laws,
industry codes, target only adults (age depends on the country you target;
there are some countries that you cannot advertise alcohol in) and comply
That doesn’t go only for alcohol either. You might have some problems if
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How to mention Facebook
You can mention Facebook in your ads, but there are certain rules you have to
You have to write Facebook with a capital “F”, but you cannot use Face-
book’s logo in place of the word “Facebook”, make Facebook plural or use an
No shocking photos
Stay away from images that are scary, disrespectful, shocking, gory or sensa-
Your ad also won’t get approved if you use photos of unlikely results such as
before/after images.
grammar or bad punctuation. You also cannot use two punctuation marks one
a sportswoman was wearing a sports bra, and they wrongly assessed that was
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nudity. Or maybe you showcased a screenshot of your app, and they mistak-
enly disapproved your image for containing more than 20% of the text.
Don’t give up. If you know you are right, do not throw in the towel, but
It never is fun knowing you’ll have to deal with this instead of reaping the
results of your amazing campaign, but I must say I have quite pleasant experi-
ence with their support. They are keen to solve your problem fast if you reach
Tips on contacting them and hearing from them back as soon as possible:
- Be polite.
check their official policies page for more detailed info. It’s very nicely ex-
relevant Facebook Advertising policies so you won’t get into trouble. But
there’s one more important aspect to the creative part of making your Face-
book Ads Campaign. And that’s image dimensions and text limits.
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Image dimensions and text limits vary, depending on which Facebook Ad
Don’t worry, I got your back. I’ll present you with a list of every ad objec-
But first, here’s the definition of some expressions we are going to use:
PRO TIP: When designing images for Facebook ads, always upload
the actual image. That image format will preserve the crispiness of the
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Page Post Engagement
There are no guidelines for this type of ad because you promote your pub-
Page Likes
- Text: 90 characters
Clicks to Website
Multiple images:
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 40 characters
- Description: 20 characters
Single image:
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 25 characters
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Website conversions
Multiple images:
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 40 characters
- Description: 20 characters
Single image:
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 25 characters
App Installs
Mobile app:
Multiple images:
- Text: 30 characters
- Headline: 40 characters
Single image:
- Text: 30 characters
- Headline: 30 characters
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Desktop app:
Multiple images:
- Text: 30 characters
- Headline: 40 characters
Single image:
- Text: 30 characters
- Headline: 30 characters
App Engagement
Mobile app:
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 25 characters
Desktop app:
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 25 characters
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Local Awareness
- Text: 90 characters
- Headline: 25 characters
Event Responses
- Text: 30 characters
Offer Claims
This type of ad promotes your Facebook offer (similar to a “boost post” op-
Video Views
- Text: 90 characters
can sound a little too overwhelming, right? But in reality it truly isn’t.
Let’s simplify it again, let’s reassure we’re on the right track. Take a look at
that goal of yours once again. You have the goal written down, laid in stone.
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You know which objective you are going to choose, you’re familiar with your
target audience, you’re aware of their expensive problem and the solution
you offer.
First, you know how a good ad looks like, you’re familiar with the guide-
lines. Create your first ad and do some variations of it. I usually test 3-5 im-
ages with 3-5 copies. Don’t overdo it, we have to be able to measure it later
When you’re done, come back. It’s time to get out hands dirty with Face-
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- Create ads that comply with Facebook’s image dimensions and
text limits.
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4. Open your Facebook Ads Manager
We’re familiar with our #1 goal and we know which objective to choose. We
have written our ads copy and created some neat visuals. We’re 100% pre-
pared to do this.
A lot of business owners come to this point unprepared. They stare at the
starting screen for minutes, thinking about what to do next and if there’s an-
other way of doing this. A more planned and strategic way. It is. Our way.
doing and which way to go next. You’re using a system I tested and improved
over and over again to the point it generated outstanding results for my
ing ads. It’s widely used and easy to navigate through, unlike other tools.
Account.
(Your advertising account still hasn’t been set? Read how to do that in the
advertise from (choosing is only necessary if you have more than one) and
If you’re using the “Boost post” objective, choose the post you want to
boost. If you’re using the “Promote page” objective, select the page you wish
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to promote. If you’re using the “Clicks to website” objective, choose the web-
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5. Target your perfect audience
If you don’t already geek over all the targeting opportunities Facebook has to
offer, you’re going to love this part of our journey. Not only you’ll get to learn
about all the targeting options available, but you’ll also walk away with a
bunch of immediately actionable ideas for your next campaign and the cam-
paigns that will follow. There are so many different things you can try and ex-
paid marketing as it is. They collect massive amounts of data from their users
they have, occupations, cars they drive, etc.) so marketers and business own-
ers like you and I have the opportunity to use them to our advantage. They
also don’t collect data solely on their own but have contracts with other part-
about them, but think of it this way. This is your chance to create ads with such
an advanced targeting that people will be thankful to see. You’ll bring them
value because you’ll show how you’re familiar with their current needs. In that
case, such a detailed marketing is desirable. If only you would see ads for the
FUN FACT: Want to know what Facebook knows about your preferences and
interests? Check them out here! P.s. You can also edit them for Facebook to
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ways discovering new targeting options and getting new ideas for narrowing
down my target audience even more to the point, where I’m targeting people
But before you begin with targeting, you have to get familiar with your
target audience. Since you’re a professional, I’m pretty sure you already know
some of their characteristics and interests. If your target audience is very well-
defined, even better. But if you have trouble with narrowing it down, Face-
PRO TIP: But what if you have absolutely no idea who your perfect au-
a great stepping stone to figuring out and narrowing down your audi-
ence. This way you’ll see where’s your target audience coming from,
what are their interests, what technology they use, etc. Work from
there on.
After every ended Facebook campaign, you’ll check the analytical results.
You’ll be able to break down your results based on gender, age, city and oth-
er data. After analysing your campaign, you’ll get a better perspective of your
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target audience which will help you with targeting in the future. It’s all about
But before we dive in all the nitty gritty and fun details, I have a task for
you. Go back to that #1 goal you have set up for your campaign and that tem-
I’m a (occupation) who helps (target audience) that has a problem with
Each campaign has a different goal. And each goal has a different target
audience. What target audience does your goal have? You can derive that tar-
You already have some data about your target audience (location, age,
occupation, interests). List them down so you’ll come back to that later.
Be as specific and narrowed down as possible. The more specific you get,
the better your chances are of reaching that perfect group of people that will
After you list those characteristics of your target audience, get back here.
I’ll show you other fun targeting options Facebook has to offer so you’ll be
self-explanatory.
You can target your audience based on demographic data, such as:
- Location
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- People who live in this location
- Age
- Gender
- Languages
- More Demographics
- Relationship
specified, Women)
- Education
- Undergrad Years
- Work
- Home
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- Ethnic Affinity (Options: African American, Hispanic, Asian
American …)
nials)
city, you can also choose between “Current city only” option and “Cities with-
We’re only scratching the surface of targeting here, but you’re probably
already getting the feel of the big advertising machine this is. Yep, you saw
that right, you can target friends of newlyweds. Or Expectant parents for ex-
ample. But this is only the surface. Imagine the good things coming next!
Targeting by interests
Here’s where stuff gets fascinating. Demographics is one thing. Targeting
those characteristics sure helps you narrow down your target audience for
starters, but the actual power of reaching the audience, interested in what
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Facebook lets you target your ads based on audience’s interests. Those
might be things that people share on their Timelines, apps they use, Pages
So the first ideas that might come up are (if we use the case of social me-
dia consultant again) targeting interests such as “social media”, “social media
But you can get even more precise. You can target people that had shown
competition) or even people. For example, that same social media consultant
can target other things, such as “Social Media Examiner”, “Gary Vaynerchuk”,
You can type just about anything in the placeholder and suggestions will
Keep in mind that these interests are not excluding themselves. So, in that
case, a social media consultant mentioned above is targeting people who like
Gary Vaynerchuk OR people who like Buffer OR people who like “HootSuite”
and so on. Same goes with any type of targeting — demographics and behav-
Now imagine the power of Facebook Ads you unleash if you combine the
Targeting by behaviour
Targeting by interests is one thing, but we’re entering an entirely new realm
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Maybe your target audience uses a particular operating system. Maybe
they post a lot of photos on Facebook. They can also be commuters or small
business owners. Whatever their so-called behaviour is, Facebook can target
- Digital activities
- Canvas Gaming
- Console gamers
- Event creators
- FB Payments (All)
- FB Payments (Recent)
…)
Primary OS Windows 7 …)
- Photo uploaders
Gmail Users …)
- Unity Plugin
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- Mobile device user
- Feature phones
- Smartphone Owners
- Tablet Owners
- Baseball 2015
- Cricket 2015
- Rugby (2015)
- Travel
- Business traveler
- Commuters
- Currently traveling
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- Returned from trip 1 week ago
The breakdown of this category is just staggering. You might get a little bit
creeped out knowing what information Facebook collects about you, but, on
the other hand, this opens up a world of possibilities. Now you finally have a
way of showing relevant ads to people who are genuinely interested in what
But there is another, a more promising audience who might just help you
overcome your potential and maximise your ads to the fullest. And targeting
them with Facebook is as easy as it gets. We’re talking about your audience.
Custom audiences
This is where the power of Facebook targeting lies. It’s the creme de la creme
your audience, whether those are your subscribers, website visitors, applica-
You already know that it’s easier to engage with or sell to the people that
already know you than to reach the same results with people who are seeing
you for the first time. You have already built a relationship with your fans/
users; you gave so much value to them. So when you appear in their News
Feed, they’ll be familiar with your story, and your message will resonate with
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It’s all about reaching the people that know and care about you and your
business the most. Let’s dive in custom audiences a little bit deeper.
There are a few audiences you can target with custom audiences:
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- Lookalike audiences (people that share characteristics with a spe-
cific audience)
Custom list
If you’ve been steadily building your email list, this might be the first and best
Custom list targeting is targeting based on the emails you provide Face-
book with. Facebook looks for those emails within their user database, match-
es them with emails you provided and delivers a new audience for you.
You can provide Facebook with your emails in three different ways. You can:
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- upload a file (has to be .csv format)
- copy/paste emails
Note: You have to have a minimum of 100 emails. Facebook isn’t able to
match all of your emails with their email database simply because some users
But let’s talk about results for a moment. That’s what we’re here for, right?
This is the moneymaker right here. These are the people that know you,
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they’re used to. When on Facebook, they’re in a different, more accepting
mindset. They’re virtually amongst friends, so they’re relaxed. Use that to your
own advantage.
users on our email list, like 300% ROI when we announced a new product on
The tool is here, ready for you to put it in use and reach those amazing re-
sults yourself.
Website traffic
Another thing Facebook Custom Audiences offer is targeting your website
visitors!
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By implementing a tracking pixel on your webpage, you can now reach your
website visitors outside your webpage. Those users might not be as familiar
with you or as engaging as your subscribers, but it’s better to do this kind of
targeting than to shoot blanks simply because you didn’t know where to be-
gin.
Keep in mind that your website visitors already made that first step and
showed interest in your offerings by visiting your page. If you keep them
close and create value for them through your Facebook Ads, you will slowly
but surely pull them towards that conversion point that you had set up.
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App activity
App owners, you are going to love this. Another thing you can do is target
Let’s say a user just started using your app. They played with it for the first day
but haven’t come back after 15 days. You can create an ad for those specific
users. Or maybe they have left the app without a purchase or without taking a
specific action you’d like them to take. With this type of targeting, you can
objective a little bit. But to use it, you have to add App Events to your app.
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Don’t forget to update the app before launching an advertising campaign
Lookalike audiences
Let’s say you have an email list that you uploaded to Facebook’s Ad Manager.
You created a new campaign that targeted those people, and the results were
astonishing. Unfortunately, you turned off those ads because the frequency
got too high. Maybe the list was too small, or you have been running ads for
quite a long time. Anyway, you didn’t want to annoy people that haven’t en-
gaged with your ad. They probably have a reason, right? You got what you
wanted out of that first step, but now you want more.
A next logical step would be to start targeting people that have similar in-
terests to the ones that bought your product or interacted with your app,
right? But you don’t have that information. Yes, you can analyse the data from
your ads and check who’s been interacting with them the most, but that’s a
hell of a lot of work. And you have to keep in mind that Facebook will only
But what if you can leave that part of the job to Facebook? What if you
can target people who have for example similar characteristics to people on
your emailing list with just a click, without analysing anything? That’s where
Remember, Facebook collects all sorts of data from their users — age, lo-
cation, interests, behaviour, etc. You might not have access to that data from
Lookalike audiences are just that. Facebook can automatically analyse the
audience you want them to examine and creates an entirely new audience
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that is similar to the one you have chosen by characteristics, interests, demo-
Targeting people who already know you and your business is one thing. But
when you want to reach new people that will engage on a similar level, it’s
istics. It’s hard to find them if you do everything by hand, but if you let Face-
book do the job for you with Lookalike Audiences, this becomes easy peasy.
Because Facebook collects so many data from their users, they’ll be able
to truly pinpoint the audience you’re trying to reach. Guessing times are over;
Let’s check how you can create your fist Lookalike audience.
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You’ll probably have some options you can choose from after clicking on
“Source”. You can select your Page, or maybe you have some conversion pix-
els installed which you can choose from or even an email list.
PRO TIP: You want to create a lookalike audience of people who con-
verted on your page based on your conversion pixel, but you don’t
see that option? Think again - you might not have a conversion pixel
set up. (Read about the conversion pixel in the bonus chapter of the
book.)
Choose the audience from which you want to create your Lookalike audience
from. Because Lookalike audience can only include people from one country
PRO TIP: Check the location of the people who interacted with your
ads the most and pick that country. If you haven’t advertised before,
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Next up you have to choose your Audience Size. It can range from 1% to 10%
of the total population in the chosen country. Choosing 1% will find people
Trust me, magic happens in the Custom Audience department if and when
you make good use of it. There are so many opportunities and ways of reach-
ing that highly-engaged audience that will find your message valuable. It’s a
win-win situation — you’ll get great results with your campaign, and your tar-
There are just a few steps separating us from finally finishing this cam-
we made at the beginning of this chapter? Now that you’re familiar with all
the different interests, behaviours and other things you can target, fill up that
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list in a way you’ll reach a very well-targeted audience that will engage with
your ad.
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But be careful and don’t get overwhelmed by all the targeting options. You’ll
be able to test and try out those options gradually so don’t make a mistake of
trying everything out at once. If you do that, you’ll have trouble with measur-
Potential Reach
Potential reach is the number of monthly active people on Facebook that
match the audience you’re trying to reach. That number gives you a pretty de-
cent evaluation whether your audience is too narrow, too broad or just right.
When the indicator is on the green colour, it means your audience is well-
very well narrowed down audience, I’m going to lower that number even
more. That way I’ll also be able to measure my results efficiently and come to
If you still don’t have your targeting audience ready, this is how I usually tackle
1. Define your target audience based on the goal you want to achieve.
(If your target audience are people you’re going to reach with Custom
Audiences, you can stop here. You know who your target audience is, you can
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2. Write down your target audience and note some of their key charac-
teristics.
Reach.
4. Go over the list of targeting possibilities and narrow down your audi-
This is a bulletproof system that makes planning the targeting for your
- Demographic data
- Interests
- Behaviour
- Plan on getting to know your audience with each and every cam-
paign.
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6. Set up and optimise your budget
How much should I invest in my Facebook Ads campaigns? Do I go all in? Do I
When it comes to budgeting, a lot of people get lost pretty quickly. It’s to-
digital (especially Facebook) advertising started to take off and became avail-
But this is the reality now, and we have to adapt. Budgeting isn’t that com-
plex. It’s all about adjusting your budget based on your results, not spending
it all at once.
ning of this book? That’s the system that will make your budgeting very sim-
ple from the start, and that’s what we’re going to use.
For a more detailed explanation, visit the chapter at the beginning where
we talk about our GRAB² technique and read everything there is to it. But if
you just need to refresh your memory, here are the basics examined in bullet
points:
3. After 20% runs out, turn off the ads with lesser performance
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5. After 30% runs out, analyse the data from your ads (the details
book)
We refreshed our memory. It’s time to talk about important stuff. We have the
system already figured out, but that first step in that system is the hardest.
How do you even define your budget? What should your budget be?
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Defining your budget
There is no ultimate answer, no “one-size-fits-all” tip when it comes to defining
your budget. But there is one rule you should remember and define your
budget upon.
You cannot expect to sell a $1,000 worth of consulting services with just $5 in-
that your budget should be higher than if you’re trying to get a few likes to
If you still have trouble with defining your budget, here’s an example of a
budget scale with a few different #1 goals in mind. You can achieve the first
goal with the lowest budget, but the budget gets higher for every next point.
(Note: This is just an example for you to get a better feeling for this; I used the
- Etc.
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Have realistic expectations and don’t go all in the first time around. It’s like dri-
ving a car — you’ll get the hang of it soon ,and you’ll be able to put it in auto-
mode later on, but you’re going to have some systems and procedures in
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Here’s where you’ll choose your budget type (Daily or Lifetime), the
You can decide between a Daily (how much you will spend per day) and a
works best for longer campaigns with well-defined daily spend. With setting
up a Daily budget, you can also choose between running your ads continu-
PRO TIP: Running your ads constantly for a longer period without
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ence will get used to your ads and consequently stop engaging with
them. In that case, get ready because the cost-per-click and other met-
rics (depends on which objective you chose) will go up. If you want a
steady stream of great results instead, I suggest you have shorter ad-
I mostly use a “Lifetime Budget” option. If you choose a Lifetime budget, you
will have to set up a start and end date for your campaign and Facebook will
try to distribute the budget evenly and in a way you’ll get the best results
After choosing the option that works for you best, you’re going to input
the budget you decided to go for and continue with optimising your ads.
2: OPTIMISATION
Here’s where budgeting gets fascinating. Facebook gives you all sorts of
options for optimising your ads. Your optimisation will determine how you’ll
pay for your ads and who your ads are going to be served to.
Boost post
- Post Engagement (serving your ads to the people who are more
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Promote your Page
- Page Likes (serving your ads to people who are more likely to like
- Clicks (serving your ads to people who might click on your ad)
your ad to people who are more likely to click the link in your ad,
- Link Clicks to Website / Pay per Link Click (Facebook will deliver
your ad to people who are more likely to click the link in your ad,
Website conversions
App Installs
- App Installs / Pay per Impressions (serving your ads to people who
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- Clicks (serving your ad to people who might click on your ad)
App Engagement
Local awareness
- No optimisation options
Event responses
- Event responses (serving your ads to people who are more likely to
Offer claims
- Offer Claims (serving your ads to people who are more likely to
Video views
- Video Views / Pay per Impression (serving your ads to people more
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- Video Views / Cost per view (serving your ads to people more like-
With every chosen objective, you also have two Pricing options. You can:
I would advise you to stick with the first option for the first couple of times just
to go a little more hands-off as far as Pricing options go and to see how good
of a job Facebook will do with your optimisation. Hint: They usually do a pret-
ty great job, and you can focus on optimising other aspects of your campaign
As you progress, you can start playing around with the second option as
well. The bidding system makes a little bit more sense when your campaigns
are well defined regarding budgeting — for example when you know how
much you can spend per signup to your email course because you have cal-
3: AD SCHEDULING
1. You can run ads all the time (Facebook will run ads according to
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2. You can run ads on schedule (you choose the days and times
I work most with the first option, but the second one comes in handy when
4: DELIVERY TYPE
The last optimisation is regarding delivery type. This is just a cherry on the
You can choose between two different delivery types: Standard and Ac-
celerated.
Standard Delivery Type will show your ads throughout the day while Ac-
time. But if you want to show your ads to your target audience as quickly as
possible instead of using the budget pacing control that comes with the stan-
dard delivery, Accelerated Delivery Type is the type you should choose. This
type works best if you have to align your ads with live events, special an-
ment with, but I don’t want you to get decision-fatigued in this phase. To
make sure that doesn’t happen I listed out all the best optimisation practices
1. Lifetime budget
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Lifetime budget works best with The Ultimate Budgeting System. It also
ensures you have short, but controlled advertising sprints with optimisations
in between that will help you achieve those great results you’ve been wanting
I advise you select a Lifetime budget and define the ad schedule (day and
time) that applies to your campaign. We’ll go into details about how to incor-
porate that into The Ultimate Budgeting System a little bit later.
book automatically pre-selects the type of optimisation for you. That default
selection Facebook makes, usually brings the best results for the objective
you chose.
Same goes for pricing optimisation. Let’s leave the default selection (“Get
most likes/clicks/conversion/etc. at the best price”) on for now. That will bring
you more of that what you want at best price. You can play with bidding later
on.
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To create as less friction as possible, I strongly suggest we move on with
the option “Run ads all the time”. Your ads will still get delivered to the peo-
ple, who are more likely to engage with them. You don’t need a separate Ad
Accelerated Delivery Type is meant for very specific campaigns with very
specific goals. Sticking to the default “Standard Delivery Type” option here is
Your ads will get delivered throughout the day, using the budget pacing
control.
Note: A lot of people may be thinking “Oh, I’ll just choose an Accelerated
Delivery Type to get my ads approved more quickly.” It doesn’t go that way.
You ads will go through the same exact process than the ads with Standard
Delivery Type.
combine them with The Ultimate Budgeting System to assure your success.
Be realistic when setting up your budget. Too many people get quickly
discouraged when they’re not able to sell a $1,000 worth of consulting for
$50 or less in the first try. “Delusional” is the word I would use for describing
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The Ultimate Budgeting System is founded on the 20/30/50 rule. Split
your budget according to those values. The first phase will include 20% of the
budget, the second one 30% and the third one 50%.
Create a timeline for your campaign. How long will you run the first phase
of it? The second? Third? When will you iterate the ads and how fast?
The timeline depends on the budget you have and the goals you want to
recommend you go hands-free on your ads. Forgetting about your ads for a
When you come to the point of setting the budget in your Facebook Ads
your ads. That is if you want to make full use of The Ultimate Budgeting Sys-
tem.
First, you’re going to use 20% of your budget so keep that in mind when
defining your budget in Facebook Ads Manager. Set the timeline for the first
5. Set a reminder
Based one the timeline you created in step 3, set reminders for each
phase of the campaign. Facebook will notify you when the first phase will end,
but I always create a separate set of reminders just to make sure I’m on top of
things 100%.
6. Iterate the ads and update your budget when the previous phase ends
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After each phase ends, you’ll iterate the ads just like we talked about, but
shouldn’t be something you’d want to cross over from your list as soon as
possible. Planning ensures you don’t get stuck during the process and makes
goal-tracking even easier. You have certain expectations now and you know
We’re just one short chapter away from finishing this Facebook Advertis-
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- You can choose from multiple optimising options, but you should
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7. Launch your campaign
Our objective is chosen, our targeting set and our budget all figured out and
planned. All we now need to do is to enter our texts and visuals that we have
prepared into our Facebook Ads Manager, and we’re ready to go!
Placement is a place where your ad will be shown. You can choose be-
- Desktop News Feed: Your ads will be shown in the news feed on
users’ desktop
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- Mobile News Feed: Your ads will be shown in the news feed on
the right
Users are used to seeing ads in a Desktop Right Column. That area doesn’t at-
I also played with Audience Network several times before, but never got
any tangible results. I turn that placement off as well and focus on the other
two.
I would suggest you choose Desktop News Feed and Mobile News Feed.
These two placements get incorporated into users’ news feed which means
you have the opportunity to blend in with the audience. Remember our para-
dox? That’s why the results are better with choosing these two placements.
P.s. When I launched the book, Facebook just released an update with an
additional placement - Instagram. You might find that in your Ads Manager.
However, we are focusing on Facebook Ads and I suggest you turn Instagram
as placement off.
Have you entered text and visuals into Facebook Ads Manager?
WELL DONE, MY FRIEND. Our work here is finished! Now press the big
green button and launch that campaign of yours that you have worked so
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NOTE: Every campaign, every ad you create goes through an Ad Review
Process. That means your ads won’t start running immediately after creating
That said, typically most ads are reviewed within 24 hours. My ads are usu-
ally reviewed within 1 hour. Facebook will let you know over email and notif-
ication centre if your ad has been approved and if it hasn’t been, it will notify
you which policy you haven’t followed and what you have to update.
- You should stick with Desktop News Feed and Mobile News Feed
placement by default.
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What now?
Congratulations!
You have launched your campaign, your ads got approved, everything
runs as smoothly as it can. What now? Does your work end here? Is this it?
This is only the beginning. The serious work starts after launching your
campaign.
First, you’ll have to optimise the campaign like we discussed, using The
Ultimate Budgeting System. And when that campaign is finished, your mis-
sion is to examine the whole campaign, results of it and learn from it so your
- Facebook also offers a deep insight into your ads performance, the audi-
ence that engaged with your ads the most and other important metrics you
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All of your campaigns, as well as analytics, can be reached at this link.
From here on you can see a bunch of data, broken down by ad sets and if
- Performance
- Audience
- Placement
Performance
In the Performance section, you’re able to observe general data, such as likes/
timeline, you can observe the progress of your campaign — did your results
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You can even customise your reports based on the metric you want and
Here are some of the key metrics you should be carefully observing:
- Reach
- Amount spent
- Actions
- Frequency
Audience
Gone are the days of guess-working your audience. You now have the perfect
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Which demographic group was the most acceptive to your message?
That information itself can give a pretty decent foundation for you to build
upon the next time you’re going to start a Facebook Ads Campaign or even a
The data can be found under the “Audience” section. They did a great job
of visualising those results as well! You can see very clearly who engaged with
your ad the most and who to target next. You can also adjust the metric you
Placement
Some placements always perform better than others, and you’re able to ob-
and “Desktop News Feed” placement works best for my audience. But we
section you have the opportunity to observe the actual results of your place-
ments so you can decide with which you should go next time around.
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Below these sections you can find the options for breaking down the results
- Performance (Default)
- Delivery
- Engagement
- Video Engagement
- App Engagement
- Carousel Engagement
- Cross-Device
But here’s what you can break down your ads by:
- By Delivery
- None
- Age
- Gender
- Country
- Region
- Placement
- Product ID
- By Action
- None
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- Conversion Device
- Destination
- Carousel Card
- By Time
- None
- Day
- Week
- 2 Weeks
- Month
Observing the analytics and making sense out of all that data is a science by
500% and your work and knowledge still wouldn’t end here. You learn the
most and get the best results by putting everything discussed here into prac-
tice.
Your work doesn’t end here. Soon you’ll realise that doing analytical ob-
Each time you’ll learn something new about your audience, about Facebook
Keep learning about your audience and how you should communicate
with them. Observing analytics is laying out a solid groundwork for all the
work you’re going to do in the future, not only in the Facebook Ads sphere
but Facebook Page Management and general social media marketing as well.
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A good marketer is a person who’s driven by a constant urge to improve
his/hers marketing skills. With Facebook Ads Analytics, you have a powerful
tool in hands. Unleash that urge and make outstanding things happen. You’re
a marketer.
- It’s vital for your success to keep learning about your audience and
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Conclusion
Word “Advertising” is met with disgust. People imagine you, the advertiser, as
a salesperson who goes door to door, selling vacuum cleaners for 70% off.
But what we’re doing here is completely different. We’re not trying to
force a product into the consumers’ hands. We’re finding people that need
our help; we’re focusing on that audience alone and bringing the solution
Advertising is about people. It’s about you, showing your human face and
communicating your unique brand voice when talking to your audience. It’s
about the people you’re going to advertise to — finding their expensive prob-
lem, helping them solve that problem, and creating a win for them and your-
self.
You’re a marketer now. This book has provided you with information on
everything you need to know about Facebook Ads. It has given you a blue-
print of the things you have to do and actions you have to take to finally reach
those amazing social media results everyone has been talking about. It re-
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campaign that is going to skyrocket you hundreds of steps ahead of your
competition.
What you’re holding in your hands is a map that has a starting and an
ending point with a planned out path in between. You know which steps you
need to take to get to that finish line successfully. And most importantly, you
have a step-by-step process that will help you plan the next, even more suc-
cessful trip.
Now get to work and finally reach the results your business deserves.
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Bonus chapter: RE-
SOURCES
them here!
actly to begin. Your idea machine (brain, doh!) has left you clueless. You need
Here’s a short list of a couple of ideas for your next campaign. Use it as
you wish!
book Page even though you’ve included the link to your page several times in
the newsletter you sent. A lot of them are just too lazy to click through.
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No worries! If you want to get more Facebook Page Likes for a very low
cost, advertise your page to your subscribers! They already know you and
left without a purchase. This is a very common occurrence. The funny thing is,
these people usually need just a slight nudge in the right direction, confirm-
You can give them that nudge with Facebook Ads. Set up a tracking pixel
on that product page and remarket your visitors. Find them on Facebook, of-
fering them your product again and giving them another reason to purchase.
them a quick access to your newly published blog posts via Facebook Ads?
My advice is you put a retargeting pixel on your webpage and target all
the people that visited your webpage before. It’s better to advertise to the
people that already know you, than to experiment with an unknown audience.
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Promote your info products to your subscribers
Launching new info products usually requires quite a bit of marketing. You
create all these email campaigns, reminding your subscribers to buy your info
But what if you could target those same subscribers on Facebook? You
just need to catch them in a different environment and remind them of what
I did that with this book, and the results were fantastic! The ROI was
+300%, I sold quite a few books and got some Facebook page fans as well!
fused, right? But trust me, once you’ll get to know these words, everything will
If you want to deepen your knowledge a little bit, Facebook has a handy
Read More
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How to set up an advertising account
If you want to play with Facebook’s paid advertising (and of course you want
to, you bought this book, didn’t you?), you have to set up your Advertising ac-
count.
Facebook makes this really easy for its users; you’ll be done just in a few
Read More
tracking pixel to your webpage. While this may sound like a tricky mission for
You can find a detailed explanation below. And if you still don’t know how
to do that yourself, call a developer to help you out. They’re able to fix it for
Read More
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How to integrate with Facebook for
your native iOS app with Facebook’s
SDK
Looking into and experimenting with Mobile App Install ads makes a whole
lot of sense for mobile app developers. Gone are the days of awareness cam-
But if you want to use this functionality, you’re going to have to download
and integrate your app with Facebook SDK and update the app prior launch-
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Fill out the form according to your situation and follow these guidelines
as possible.
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- Let them know how much you appreciate their work.
ple on support, they still care whether you’re polite or not. And trust me,
you’re going to get things sorted faster if you act like a reasonable person.
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Come say hi.
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