2. i iz maybelle;;;
i iz nala
we’z knowz fazebuk reel guud!!!
we’z make mewjestik purrpoint.
it starz best kind pet evurr: space cats!!!!
3. dis iz scary man!!
him’z knowz fazebuk adz
(we’z knowz moar)
we’z makes him sneeez;;
we’z no go hims bedrum
him’z gotz crappy soot
Him’zHim’z
dum!!!!!!!
dum!!!!!!!
4. basik assumshunz
understanz basik fb adz
we’z start adz july ’14
start to success program
we’z show u our lernz
yu have asks??? raize
paw any time
NO DOGS ALLOWED!!!
21. low ad relevance
score
cost moar dollerz
+ dropz in viewz
yur adz stinx
time fer mew adz!!!
i smellz stinkz. not shure if dis box or yur adz;;
prolly yur adz!!!!! hahahahaha!!!!!
Test ur adz!!!
36. native: 719 hits, 40% views, 11% :30’s
youtube link: 150 hits, 6 clicks
video
burritocat is best video evurr!!! him’z delishiss!!!
37. coordinate posts & adz
dedicat resourcez
set & meowsure goals
integrate with other meowdia
bettur landing pagez
moar sleeps
moar meowdience turgeting
moar treets!!!!!!!!
Ourz goalz
38. timez to fly away on
majik bacon ship to
sleepy wurld!!!!!!!!
Editor's Notes
Nala and Maybelle.
Mother/daughter duo
We live in perpetual détente.
Jeff Ebbing
SCC Dir of mktg 10 years
NCMPR Marketing Guy
To keep things moving, I will assume you understand fb ad basics
I used fb’s start to success ad program - $50/day, 30 days
Now it’s facebook go: $25/day, 30 days
https://www.facebook.com/business/go/
This is stuff we’ve learned since starting ads in July, 2014.
Growing fans
Good reach and engagement
Life was good
Hey, we got this crap figured out
2 million advertisers
Only getting more crowded
Ads are getting more sophisticated, better tools & tracking
Less groping around in the dark – people starting to figure this all out and build it into their mix
kitteh’s pro tip: buyz fb stockz!!!!
It’s still crazy-cheap to advertise on fb.
Even a 1% - 2% budget line item will go a long, long way
But -- it takes time to learn and even more time to do it right.
This is where real you match your marketing goals to your fb marketing goals:
You want to get them to do something (conversion) in real life: click to site, inquire, apply, visit
So… set a measurable goal actions within fb: likes, comments, shares, clicks, conversions
To see how these help you achieve your REAL goals: inquiries, apps, enrollments, registrations
You can track some of this in fb BUT
Just go old school: “how did you find out about us?”
You can try promo code but unless it’s tied to actual monetary incentive (enter promo code at checkout) people may not remember to tell you.
We’re way past just running ads just to run ads
Might be ok to cut your teeth (like we did) but it can get expensive quick: $$ and time
Clicks – don’t send them to your page. Send them to your SITE.
Request info, apply, view schedule
Register for classes
FB people are increasingly lazy – we don’t leave. We skim the newsfeed and click on pix and articles but most go back to their feed w/o ever leaving.
So… if you want people to leave fb, you better make it easy and worth their time.
Goal ticks: alerts fb when someone visits in 24 hrs of seeing or by 28 days after clicking (as long as they’re logged into fb)
Fb analyzes converters to then decides whether to serve ads to people similar to your target audience
Conversion pages for tracking pixel:
Home page, event or promo landing page (req info, apply, register, etc)
Ideal: purchase/registration/form completion page – this shows that someone went through ALL the steps
fb pixel helper Chrome extension – I pretty much just use chrome now (former firefox user)
Campaign – objective (click, like, download, whatever)
Ad set – audience, budget, schedule
Ad – creative and message for ad set audience (different creative for each audience to get them to complete your objective)
Ad set – audience, this is where you enter your demo & geo filters to sort audience
this is also how you do ad split test audiences
Ad – creative and message for ad set audience (different creative for each audience to get them to complete your objective)
You can set budget at the ad level – daily or lifetime. Turn on/off as you want.
This lets you be very specific with your messaging for the particular audience (ad set) that you want to perform your desired action (campaign goal)
Must be approved
Takes 15 minutes
Primarily authorizes image content
20% text – but you can put a lot on there if you are design well
Best reach = pix of actual students!
Visuals & creative – pretty stock lady fail
Purrrty lady, ugly performz
Stock pix = too pretty, sanitized
Is it relevant to your audience?
Too ad-ish = low relevance
Need some quick-n-dirty ads for fast turn
Good standby campus & student pix
Brand your flag if you can, but if it’s visibly recognizable, might not even need that
Think about how your ad will be viewed? Desktop? Mobile?
The ad will display differently
Nobody recommends right side display ads. Crazy-low CTR – maybe good for macro-large audiences (6-digits)
newsfeed ad: avg 2.0 - 3.0% CTR right side ad: avg 0.1% CTR
FB Ad network pushes ads to mobile apps – Huffpo, games, developers and resellers (you can see them in ad preview window)
I’ll be honest, I don’t know how effective these are or if it’s best to focus on newsfeed & mobile
Scholarship promo.
Best ads: pic of students. It got shares and comments. That helped it with organic reach – which fb loves to see.
A low ad relevance score means poor targeting or creative (or both).
Make sure your ad is targeted to the most relevant audience, uses clear language, has a strong CTA, and has an eye-catching image.
Fb saves you from yourself – it penalizes bad ads (but it’ll still take your money)
Ad fatigue= some sites say 6 others 8 – either way, change em up.
Ad relevance score – still figuring this out
If you really want your ads to perform, you need to understand your audience.
Here’s where you go to research any audience to learn what makes them tick. Get insights on any audience or sift through your own audience to see what there is to learn.
You can get there from within ads manager or just type this
Fb go wanted 250k to start - waaay too big for us. In fact that’s twice the population of our entire district, but we played along to figure it out (sorry neighbor schools )
After digging through this, some of my target audience as small as 700 for a professional development class
Custom audience (import contacts XLS) con’t ed, alumni, whoever
Most of us won’t have an audience deep enough to get a lot of data about likes & pages.
Fear not though: Birds of a feather flock together!
Bigger audiences show better insights, so go macro and spot trends that pare down to micro for your target audience
Truckers ad audience mining
Compares our audience with fb aggregate audience.
Target an audience, then copy it
Truckers in the midwest
High school grads
Demographics & page likes
Then…
Then take what you learned from doing research on truckers at macro level and plug some of the keywords into users in your target district
Ogilvy article: http://social.ogilvy.com/facebook-zero-considering-life-after-the-demise-of-organic-reach/
March 12 – lost 150-ish fans. Reach is dropping. Considering weekly budget ($20) for posts.
April review, decide in May.
Pull some recco’s from the whitepaper
Via page insights
Can you tell when we started advertising???
Organic reach is still there but it’s hard to tell if we’d have what little we do if we weren’t already advertising. ???
Page likes don’t mean timeline views
You can see when we started advertising.
You can also see the great Purge of March that happened a few weeks ago.
Even with all our boost in page likes, people aren’t visiting our timeline. That’s ok though. The newsfeed is where it’s at.
Status updates are a little skewed b/c of snow days and other alert announcements that get a lot of shares & likes.
Practically every post is photo or link or video. Rarely do we just run a text-only post.
Time online
Knowing devices being used is huge for determining image and copy
Helps big time with audience & goal.
Will a person use their phone to complete a scholarship app? No. So consider diff ads with diff goalls (app link to desktop, promo to mobile)
Watch conversions and dig through the device ad report– if you get/need big mobile numbers, don’t expect conversions for form completers
Don’t forget SCC site analytics for browser. Inbound referral links? How much traffic is fb sending you?
MUST USE CHROME to use power editor tool
Link to scholarship app on Sat nite? Nope.
Should you even run ads on Sati nite? Maybe.
Tailor to demo, monitor
To select dayparts, you have to select lifetime budget (not daily).
Different demos surf differently. Consider quasi-split testing ads and posts by daypart to speak to different audiences
Wall calendar pic inset
Google spreadsheet inset
Really helps you plan and integrate with other marketing, budgeting helps too (you can get a lot of $$$ out there if you’re not careful)
Landing pages help a lot – be kind to your peeps
segue from fb ad, to landing sell, to click action
Coordinate visuals when you can – logos, pix, copy
THIS TAKES TIME AND COORDINATION!
Stop linking/embedding youtube – stay native – but maintain yt channel too
Play with placement & autoplays
Native: 719 hits, 40% views, 11% :30’s
Youtube link: 150 hits, 6 clicks
We’re starting Fb shorts in April
After effects templates
Geico pre-rolls
We haven’t paid for video plays
Better coordination posts & ads
Toy with paid posts (paid & unpaid)
Build better budget, dedicate resources to support it – ads, time to do it, set & measure goals
Further integrate with other media
Better landing pages
Better audience insights & targeting
Parse our current and former student demos, import emails into audience insights tool to find more trends to improve targeting