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FACEBOOK
ADVERTISING
TURNING
THINGS AROUND.
We started as a social media agency. By listening to our customers’ requests, we’ve
expanded our agency business offerings to digital marketing in general. We create stories
and achieve goals together with our clients by providing full digital presence and online
advertising. Our team consists of experts with various skills, knowledge, and experience.
Each team member has its own specter of interests, a large number of executed projects
and gained knowledge in the field of Internet marketing, programming, designing and
public relations, and thus creates a synergy which provides best solutions and ideas.
We enjoy digital marketing and making your and our goals come true. Each one of
our results is accomplished through focused and hard work, but with an individual
approach to each project, as well.
Still, our work, blog posts and books tell the best story about us.
Services we offer:
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UPGRADE YOUR
ADVERTISING
SKILLS WITH
5 STEPS
UPGRADE YOUR ADVERTISING
SKILLS WITH 5 STEPS
This ebook is the follow-up to our “Beginner’s guide to Facebook Advertising.” We hope
that you’ve read it and that it was helpful. That guide was for the simpler campaigns,
and some will agree that that is all they need.
But for those of you who want to know more, who want to go further with their
campaigns, this is THE GUIDE. But I know what you are thinking, “Only five steps?!”. Yes,
only 5. But for every step, you need to put in time and effort to fully understand what
you can do. Take the time it took you to go through the first ebook and multiply it by 5.
Something like that.
Facebook has a lot of very helpful tools and options, and to get the most out of them,
you must use them, experiment and test. Testing is the basic rule when it comes to
advertising. You will never, ever have the 100% prediction of your audience, budget, ad
creation etc. This is why we have tools to help us.
If you follow and apply these 5 steps, your advertising game will definitely improve.
But note this; this is only a guide. And use it that way. Every campaign, page, business,
marketing strategy is different. This ebook will give you valuable tips and will give you a
great insight into what your advanced advertising could look like, but the real learning
comes from your campaigns.
When we talk about advanced advertising, almost every story begins with Facebook
Pixel.
Its importance lies in its ability to give you a great insight into your audience and the
performance of your ads. It helps you understand the actions people take on your
website, and that is something you should take into consideration when creating your
campaigns, ad sets and ads.
The menu will look like this and under Assets, choose Pixels.
Now, the standard way of creating a Pixel is the lower option “Copy and paste the
code.” But this is something you can’t do without a developer.
This method requires copying the Pixel base code and pasting it in the header code of
every page on your website. The code looks something like this:
But for Pixel to understand and distinguish actions taken on your website, you must
install the event code. Make a purchase, add a product to the basket, subscribe to the
newsletter, whatever you want to track, you can.
If none of the offered options are suitable for your needs, there is also an option for
custom events.
The event code is different for every event you choose to track.
The first option, “Use an integration or tag manager,” gives you the ability to install
your Pixel across a variety of platforms:
Tracking events on your website gives you an idea of your campaign and your website
performance. Clicks and engagement are not everything. This means that clicks and
engagement say a lot about the quality of your ads, but your campaign doesn’t stop
with Facebook. Low cost per click or low cost per post engagement means that you did
a good job attracting your audience to your website, but that doesn’t mean that they
will do what you want them to do – convert. Low cost per conversion means the better
performance of your overall campaign.
But let’s say you have a web shop and you want to track more than just a purchase.
You want to know how many people added items to the basket and compare that to
the number of people who purchased those items. Or you don’t even have a web shop
and purchases to track. You want to track the number of downloads, the number of
completed registrations etc.
Every purchase in a web shop has multiple steps. And you can track every single one
of them. First, a customer must visit your web shop, then add a product to the basket,
initiate check out, and, finally, complete the purchase. Of course, this is a simple
example. If you have some other stages, you can track them also.
Tracking all of these and comparing the numbers gives you an idea of what stage of the
buying process needs improvement.
In Facebook Business Manager drop-down menu (top left corner), under “Measure &
Report,” you’ll see “Custom Conversions.” When you click on that, you will have an
option of creating your custom conversions.
When you start creating one, you will see this window:
While creating your ad set, everything stays the same. Except this time, you will have to
choose your custom conversion (which you created before). You can also choose your
conversion window.
1 day or 7 days, it’s up to you.
Choose the best option for your campaign. The ad creation and the rest of the process
stay the same.
Conversion window is the amount of time that passes between someone clicks (or sees)
your ad and converts, takes a valuable action. Facebook uses this data to optimize your
advert delivery. If your conversion window is 7 days, Facebook will use the data from
conversions that happened within 7 days time frame.
UTM (Urching Tracking Module) tags allow you to define special links for every ad that
leads to the same web page. By clicking on the ad with the UTM tag, the data is sent to
Google Analytics, which tracks the visitor’s behavior on the website (session duration,
completed events, goals, conversions…). Also, to see which link (ad) visitors used to
come to the site and make conversions, you can also, for example, track on which pages
they clicked before they left the web or made a conversion.
This is very helpful because this way, you can see which campaign or web page needs
improvement, which content works better, and after all, make a better allocation of
your budget.
Think of them as an addition to conversion tracking and a way of connecting your
Facebook and Google data. You can compare Facebook ads that appear in the Newsfeed
to those ads running on the Sidebar or ads with a single image to ads with multiple
images.
THE REASON
Google Analytics provides data about website visitors. If a website achieves one of the
marketing goals, such as signing up for a newsletter, registering on a page, submitting
an inquiry for an offer, booking a flight, purchasing an item or service, it’s also important
to know which ads paid off the most and what their features are. To summarize, UTM
tags are very useful whether you are an advanced digital marketer and have a lot of
different campaigns, or just a beginner. Start using them as a beginner, and they’ll give
you a better sense of organization and optimization for every campaign you create in
the future.
Before creating ads in the classic interface of Facebook Adverts Manager or Power
Editor, you have to create a UTM tag for each ad you create and use that link for your
campaign. UTM tags are created using the URL builder – a tool where you add your URL
parameters and where you need to define the following:
1) Campaign_source: The channel where the ad is placed. In the example below, it’s
“facebook”. Make sure you always use lower case letters for “source” and “medium”
because the difference in one letter makes a completely new group in Google Analytics.
If you have one ad with source “Facebook” and all others as “facebook,” Google Analytics
will separate that ad from others.
3) Campaign_name: The name of the campaign that will contain multiple ad types, but
all of them with the same goal.
5) Campaign_content: The name or feature of the ad within the campaign, the content
that is used in the ad. In this example, this is an ad that uses image 1 and text 1, which
are parameters that are tracked or used for A-B testing. Basically, name it the way you
find it easier to remember which content is used for the ad. Every campaign should
have more than one ad.
Keep in mind that when creating the parameters you should be specific, have standard
ways of defining parameters, use only lowercase letters (that way you will always be on
the same page with Google Analytics), always create links using the URL builder, and the
final links should be as simple as possible.
LOOKALIKE AUDIENCE
This is really one of the fastest and simplest ways to extend your audience. If your
Page followers or some saved custom audience is responding well to your content,
lookalike audience could be a good idea to put to work when targeting people in your
next campaign. Here, Facebook finds people who are similar to the ones connected to
you in some way.
When you click on “Create audience” choose Lookalike audience, and you’ll get the
window below:
Location: area you want to target. You can choose continents, countries but also
different regions.
There are 4 region categories to consider in your next campaign: “Free trade areas”
(Gulf Cooperation Council, Commonwealth etc), “App store regions” (countries in which
Android and iTunes app stores are available), “Emerging markets” (for example UAE or
South Africa) and “Euro area” (countries that use euro as a currency).
The last one is the audience size, and it ranges from 1% to 10% of the total population
you choose. The larger the percentage, the less precise the audience will be.
If you click on the “Show advanced options,” you can create more audiences based on
the same population but with different precision.
Now, on to the big guns. These are all the ways you can create custom audiences:
APP ACTIVITY
Creating an audience using the people who interacted with your game or
an app in some way.
Downloaded it, installed it, launched it…
OFFLINE ACTIVITY
You’ll have to use Offline events for this. But you get the idea. Creating an
audience with people who visited your store, called by phone or anything
else that isn’t an online purchase or a click on a link.
Let’s say one of your clients had an event and 3k+ people said that they are
going or are interested in it.
And you know that your client will have another event in a few months’
time.
So, what’s the smart thing to do here?
It would be smart to put people who interacted with that event into an
audience with this option. Those are the people that are most likely to
come to the next event. But the next event is going to be bigger, and there
is no chance that all of these people will attend again.
1) Audience connected to your page (great way to understand your existing audience)
What you should keep in mind is that the number you see in Page Insights may differ
from the number you see in Audience Insights. Page Insights measures how many
people like your Facebook Page, while Audience Insights is based on the number of
people connected to your Page that have logged in to Facebook in the past month.
1) information given by users when they fill in their profile information, including age,
gender, relationship status, job title, location, Page Likes, etc. – Native Facebook data
2) a household income, purchasing behavior, and home value – data available through
third-party data partners.
(Please note that this data is only available for US audiences)
So, as you can guess, the idea here is to use this data and these filters to create the
audience for your next campaign.
I’m going to use our Facebook Page for this. Let’s say I want to understand our audience,
our followers and based on that, get an idea who I should target in our next campaign.
Under Connections, you can see Pages and there you can choose if you want to look
at your audience or the audience that is not connected to your Page in any way. If you
don’t choose anything, you are looking at everybody on Facebook.
Demographics Activity
Page likes Household*
Location Purchase*
*Household and Purchase are only available for the citizens of the United States.
As you can see here, we are reaching all the right people. The people we
want. And based on that we can study them and now know who to target
and with what. Considering the content we publish, this is expected. Also,
in the demographics tab, we can check out other basic features about our
audience like age and gender, relationship status, education level… Note:
in every chart, the blue color represents our audience, and the grey color
represents the overall Facebook audience.
LOCATION
Within this tab, you can see Top Cities, Top Countries, and Top Languages.
Let’s say that our next campaign is for American citizens only. The smart
thing to do would be to click on the USA and that way filter out everybody
else. This way, we can see the distribution of our audience in different parts
of the country.
But maybe you are not an advertising agency, maybe you are a local bakery.
You will want to reach people from your area, your city. Here, you can find
that out. If you are not reaching them, figure out what is wrong with your
content, your ads, your targeting. Then after some time passes, come back
here again.
ACTIVITY
This tab helps us understand the behavior and activity of audiences on
Facebook.
It is also split into two sections:
The Frequency of Activities: This data shows user activity in the last 30
days. Activity like the average number of likes of pages, alongside a number
Definitively the best thing this tool has to offer is saving your audiences and using
them later. You can find them in Power Editor, and you can use them in any of your
campaigns. To save the audience, simply click on save and you will have the option of
naming it. But, of course, every audience changes, so after saving your audience, you
can come back later and check out the situation.
When we’re creating a new Facebook campaign, we do our best in every step of the
process.
At least we think we do.
You can do a great job when setting the type of the campaign, targeting your audience,
editing placements, setting the budget… But the last part, the “easiest” part, we always
seem to overlook and do the same thing over and over again.
Single image, write some text, eye-catching headline and that’s it. You think that’s the
best you can do because you are not creative enough.
Well, my friends, lucky for you and everyone in digital advertising, Facebook is here to
help with Creative Hub. One of the best places you will visit.
GET INSPIRED
Creative Hub is a feature in which Facebook lets you look at strategies and ads from
others. And that includes large world brands. It gives you an opportunity to inspire
yourself from the work that was created with probably a bigger budget than yours.
Imagine checking out the work of Chevrolet, MasterCard or Tommy Hilfiger. It’s an
incredible resource.
You can see great carousels, slideshows, all kinds of videos, Instagram stories and so
on. Every possible ad format.
I know what you are thinking, you probably don’t have that kind of budget, but that
doesn’t mean you can get inspired and create something better with what you have. It
will probably be better than what you have been doing so far.
After you have been inspired, it’s time to put that to work.
Go to the “Manage mockups” tab and create one or two.
You should see this:
Take some time, experiment, and with the previous inspiration, you’ll definitely create
something better. And when you do, other ideas will start flowing in, so stay on this tab
and experiment with different ad formats.
You know that frustration when your ads keep getting disapproved because of too
much text in the image?
I mean, you can never evaluate good enough if it’s going to be disapproved or not, so
you just go for it.
Yeah, don’t do that. Facebook remembers everything. Too many of these situations and
you could get your account suspended.
To prevent that, before you create an ad, go to “Image text check” tab.
It does exactly that. You upload your image and Facebook will tell you whether it will be
approved or not.
When you are done creating your ads, Creative Hub gives you an opportunity to share
your work with others. Maybe you want to send it to your coworkers that are working
with you on the same project. Or maybe you need to send it to the client you are doing
this for because it needs to be approved before it is out.
Smart thing to do before sending it to anyone would be to view how it looks like on
When the “Delivery” is enabled, anyone who has the link below can purchase your
mockup as an advert. Open that link in a new tab.
Choose the advert account you want to use it in, and click the green “Import” button.
And that is it. You have a new Facebook ad.
Facebook Creative Hub is a great opportunity for everyone who is involved in Facebook
advertising, but especially for freelancers. To have that kind of chance to view so many
creative works from big brands is amazing. But that doesn’t mean that others can’t use
it too. Remember: this is only for inspiration, so don’t go and copy others work.
So, every time you are creating a new Facebook ad, come here for a quick scan. Maybe
something will trigger your imagination.
We said in our last ebook that simplicity, meaning, goals, and creativity are key
elements to successful advertising. This is and always will be true.
But if you are looking to upgrade your advertising game and explore, these are the
steps you must make. There is much more to the Facebook world of advertising, just
like we said in the intro, and therefore, why should we use only a part of it?
While going through all of these steps, think about how you could apply them to your
business or one of your clients’ business.
Every Facebook asset is powerful and to learn how to use all of them can’t be done over
night. So, take this ebook, use it as your guide and slowly start to experiment, learn and
analyze.
We hope it will help you.
CONCLUSION 37.
By
with love,
February, 2018
https://kontra.agency/