The document provides an overview of Part Two of a Facebook advertising training. It covers contests and promotion guidelines, ways to purchase ads including the ad auction, campaign and ad set structure, objectives, targeting options like core audiences and lookalike audiences, using the Ads Manager, and best practices. The training includes a live demo of the Ads Manager and reports. It aims to teach attendees how to effectively set up and optimize their Facebook ad campaigns.
2. What we’ll cover in Part Two
• Contests
• The Ad Auction
• Campaign Structure
• Ad Objectives
• Targeting
• Core Audiences Review
• Custom Audiences
• Lookalike Audiences
• The Ads Manager
• Best Practices
• Q&A
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3. Contests
You CAN:
• Hold a contest on your timeline OR use a third-party app.
• To collect entries, you can ask people to:
• Like or comment on a post on your page (“Like this post to enter!”)
• Publish to your page
• Send your page a message
You CANNOT:
• Ask people to use personal or friends’ timelines to administer
promotions (“Share this on your (friend’s) profile to win!” or or “Tag
your friends in this post to enter!”)
• Require people to “like” your page to enter
Full Promotion Guidelines can be found at
https://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php#promotionsguidelines
(Note these change often.)
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4. Ways to Buy Ads
• The Ad Auction
• Everyone can do this
• Facebook Marketing Partners
• Partnering with a Facebook-approved agency
• Insertion Orders
• Directly from a FB sales rep
• Have a guaranteed number of impressions
• Requires a minimum investment threshold
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5. The Ad Auction
• Any ad you place is given a score based on 3 factors:
Since you only pay for ads that Facebook users see (ads that win the ad auction
against competing ads), the ad score method ensures you won’t waste money on an
unsuccessful ad campaign.
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6. Bidding Options
• Cost per click (CPC)
• Average cost per click for ads, calculated by amount spent divided
by the number of clicks received
• Cost per 1,000 impressions (CPM)
• Average cost you’ve paid to have 1,000 impressions on your ad
• Optimized for conversion (oCPM)
• Allows you to set max bids based on your desired campaign
outcomes (e.g. form fills, engagement, app installs)
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7. Handy chart:
Note: FB will recommend what they think is best for your objective, AND you can
always change it.
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8. Campaign Structure
• Contains one or more
ad sets and ads
• This is where you
choose your objective
for each campaign
• Allows for better
organization and
optimize per objective
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9. Campaign -> Ad Sets
• Ad sets contain one or
more ads
• Set a budget &
schedule for each ad
set
• Where you define
audience, placement,
& bidding
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10. Campaign -> Ad Sets -> Ads
• Ads live within ad sets
• Where you define your
creative
• Creating multiple ads in
each ad set will let FB
optimize their delivery
based on variations in
images, links, video, text,
or placements
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11. Features at a glance:
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12. Ad Objectives
• Clicks to website
• Website Conversions
• Page Post
Engagement
(“Boosts”)
• Page Likes
• App Installs
• App Engagements
• Local Awareness
• Event Responses
• Offer Claims
• Video Views
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13. Targeting
• Core Audiences
• Custom Audiences
• Lookalike Audiences
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14. Core Audiences
• Pulled from data related
to demographics:
geographic
demographics, life stage
demographics,
purchase-based
demographics, etc.
• Pulled from info you
provide in your profile
and your behavior on FB
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15. Custom Audiences
• reaching people you
already know
• would need info from a
CRM such as an email or
phone number list, or work
with third party partners
such as datalogix
• need at least 1000 people
on these lists for them to
be effective
• Also uses “intent data” by
cookies on sites to see
what you were looking at
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16. Lookalike Audiences
• helpful for acquiring new
customers
• used to identify people with
characteristics similar to Custom
Audiences or people who Like
your page
• can be optimized for “similarity,
or “reach”
• Needs to include at least 100
people, these CAN be combined
with the rest of FB data targeting
to narrow down additional
graphics or interests
• Once set up, it takes between 6-
24 hours to become ready
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18. The Ads Manager
• View all campaigns, ad sets, & ads
• Stop or restart campaigns, ad sets, ads
• Make changes to your bids & budgets
• Access your billing summary to see payment history, payment info
• Access & export ad performance reports
• Basically, EVERYTHING ad related.
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19. Live Demo of Ads Manager
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20. Reports – Live Demo
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21. Ad Relevance Score
• An estimate of how relevant an
ad is to its target audience
• Visible after ~500 impressions
• Based on how ad is performing
& factors such as positive
feedback (clicks, shares, etc.) &
negative feedback (someone
clicking “I don’t want to see
this”)
• Demo ways to view Relevance
Score
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22. Best Practices to Improve Ad Relevance
• Be more specific with
your targeting
• Consider your ad’s
image/message – how it
resonates with your
audience and keep it
simple
• Refresh your ad with
new image/copy
• Learn from testing
• Avoid using offensive or
misleading content
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23. Campaign Best Practices
• Create one or more
campaigns within an ad
account
• Set up campaigns based
on advertising objectives
• Cap how much you spend
across all of your
campaigns
• Track spend on each of
your campaigns
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24. Ad Sets Best Practices
• Organize ad set by
audience segment
• Review ad set
performance and refresh
creative
• Review audience targeting
capabilities and utilize ads
reporting to find new
audience segments
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25. Ads Best Practices
• Understand which ad
types match your
campaign objective
• Ads within an ad set
should share the same
audience and bid type
• Create as many ads as are
relevant to your specific
audience
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26. Q&A
• What are your questions?
• How to reach us: stacy@logos-communications.com;
sue@logos-communications.com
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Notes de l'éditeur
Remind Sue to start recording
Tell people to mute phones and unmute when questions
CAN work well for big, giant brands
For smaller businesses, it’s hit or miss
Focus more on Ads, there’s better guarantee of engagement
Ad Quality – based on historical data, current user engagement in your target audience
Social Context – FB also considers whether or not the ad promotes something on FB like a FB page or something external
This way you control how much you spend on each audience, schedule when they see your ads, & measure their response
Create a “reach people near my business” ad
Also show how to set up a lookalike audience
Edit budget, schedule, targeting, bidding
Edit multiple campaigns, ad sets, or ads all at once
Create a similar ad
Turn a campaign, ad set, or ad on or off
Find a specific ad, ad set, or campaign
Other features to show:
How to edit ad set settings
Explore ad manager campaign summary page
Show summary by audience, placement
Measure reach, frequency and other key ad metrics in real-time across any date range for your ads, ad sets, campaigns or ad account
Break out your ad performance metrics by age, gender, age and gender, country or placement (where your ad shows on Facebook)
how to edit columns (drag and drop), how to set filters, create & save basic reports
Make sure you don’t go over the limits for number of campaigns, ad sets, and ads
(not likely, it’s 1000)