Facebook Ads Targeted Marketing
There are a whole lot of people on this earth, and there are around 150+ million of them that are Facebook users. If we were still working in the old advertising world, we’d pay someone a boatload of money to blast a weight loss product ad link out there to that 150+ million people. Of course, we’d be presenting our ad to skinny people, children, and millions of others who could care less about losing weight.
It’s like the newspapers and T.V. stations tell us: we’re going to get your product in front of a very large audience. The problem is that they don’t or can’t tell you how many in that huge audience actually have a need for or an interest in weight loss. It’s far fewer than the whole group. You’re paying for exposure where no interest exists, and that’s expensive advertising.
Let’s use our “weight loss” example to see how today’s world is far different for Facebook advertisers who know how to do it right. When placing a new example ad on Facebook, the first step in targeting the ad shows a possible audience of 155,677,660. That’s a lot of people! However, we have some example data concocted just for this experiment. We know that we want to target women (men need to lose weight too, but they’re less interested), aged 25 to 49, and they’ve listing “Weight Loss” in their profile as an interest.
Suddenly, we’re narrowing our pool of prospects dramatically, and it’s precisely what we want to do. Now the number displayed by Facebook that fits our target market is down to 276,580. That’s a whole lot better. We’re now only going to show our ad to those who fit this profile, the very best prospects for our products. Even better, we’re not going to pay unless they actually click on the ad! Of course, they still might not buy, and many don’t, so there is an expense in this type of advertising that must be considered.
Now you know what you want to accomplish, a highly targeted pool of prospects who are most likely to respond to our products. However, our ad must have the right advertisement characteristics, such as a super headline, the right call to action in the text, and an image that will catch the eye of the prospects on a crowded Facebook page. Then it’s critical that we take our prospect to a page that sells the product. Without all of these components done right, we’ll spend money but not make enough to justify our ad.
You see, just knowing how to place an ad in front of only the best prospects isn’t enough. Wording the ad well and using a great image so that our prospects see it still isn’t enough. We must have selected the right products in demand in the marketplace, and we must take our prospects to a page that does the selling job so well that our conversion rates are high. That’s how we’ll make our affiliate commissions and happily pay the ad click costs.
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Comments
Great Post. I liked how you gave the advice on breaking down your targeted audience. I don’t think i would of thought about cutting out one of the sexes. Thanks.
Thanks Anthony this is very usefull advice
Very great and i will try it in future.
Good advise! Thanks!
thanks for your advise on FB
You are Good! The computer and all the different “links” and avenues are confusing to a person like me. I’m definitely not a computer geek! But it’s starting to make sense…slowly. Still appreciate your hard work and keeping all of us motivated to learn.
Thanks Anthony!
This is very interesting! I like this idea! Thank you Anthony
Great blog. I see how targeting and fine tuning to a precise audience, hot product in demand and the correct ads gets results. Can’t wait to receive the CPV Dominator software:)
It is a wonderful and meaningful analysis of the the advertising strategy…
Hi Anthony,
This is a great article on weening down your target market. I am learning so much from you and Adrian. My head swims some days, but I know that this is all going to be second nature in a month or so (wishful thinking).
Thanks for sharing!
Summer
Sounds great hope to get there soon.
Anthony I would really like to try internet marketing. How do I get started in your program?
Thanks for another great article.