{"id":5767,"date":"2024-01-09T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T21:12:02","slug":"run-budget-facebook-ads-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/run-budget-facebook-ads-campaign","title":{"rendered":"How to Run a Budget Facebook Ads Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><img class=\"alignleft size-full remove-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/How-to-Run-a-Budget-Facebook-Ads-Campaign.jpg\" alt=\"How-to-Run-a-Budget-Facebook-Ads-Campaign\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/How-to-Run-a-Budget-Facebook-Ads-Campaign.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/How-to-Run-a-Budget-Facebook-Ads-Campaign-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>With the increasing cost of boosting posts and the lowering organic reach on Facebook, many marketers are shifting their focus more towards advertisements and Facebook&rsquo;s PPC.&nbsp; The danger of PPC, of course, is the cost.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s easy to nickel-and-dime yourself into far exceeding your returns.&nbsp; The way to keep your costs down is to put a lot of time and energy into planning.<\/p>\n<h3>Determine Goals<\/h3>\n<p>The first thing you need to do is determine your goals.&nbsp; Are you looking for new fans, new subscribers, traffic to your website, website conversions, app installs or something else?&nbsp; <strong><em>Different actions have different costs.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong> Jon Loomer has a few price guidelines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bringing in new Facebook fans is going to cost somewhere around $1 per fan, depending on a number of factors.&nbsp; The competition in your niche, the recognition of your brand and the keywords you target will all affect this.<\/li>\n<li>Bringing in new email newsletter subscribers is going to be about the same, with $1 for each new subscriber.&nbsp; The action of subscribing to a Facebook page or to a newsletter isn&rsquo;t all that different.&nbsp; You can lower this cost by hitting upon a high-converting landing page.<\/li>\n<li>Bringing a user to your website for a visit is relatively cheap, with $1 bringing you anywhere from 2-10 users.&nbsp; This will very likely vary depending on your content, your audience and the trending topics in the news that day.&nbsp; Record experiments for yourself and see if you can focus on the cheaper visits.<\/li>\n<li>Product sales have a widely varying cost, and part of that depends on the product you&rsquo;re trying to sell.&nbsp; Someone selling a cheap mobile app will have a much easier time getting you to purchase than someone selling a car.&nbsp; This will, however, be your most expensive form of advertising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Traffic is cheap, conversions are expensive, and every factor along the way can affect the expense.<\/p>\n<h3>Analyze Your Presence<\/h3>\n<p>The more established you are already, the easier it will be to grow.&nbsp; You have more information to go on when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/guides\/2010\/06\/defining-your-target-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">targeting an audience<\/a>.&nbsp; You have enough people to snowball into a larger audience with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5772\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Analyze-Your-Presence.jpg\" alt=\"Analyze-Your-Presence\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Analyze-Your-Presence.jpg 629w, https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Analyze-Your-Presence-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\"><\/p>\n<p>Your fans are an ideal target for your Facebook ads, unless you&rsquo;re trying to bring in new fans with your advertising.&nbsp; Even then, you can target lookalike audiences when you have sufficient data.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a larger, more established audience,<strong><em> that audience is going to feel better about clicking through to your website<\/em><\/strong>, and they will feel better about converting as customers.&nbsp; This means when you&rsquo;re established, you&rsquo;ll have lower costs all around for your ads.<\/p>\n<h3>Consider Your Niche<\/h3>\n<p>Your niche is important for determining the costs associated with your ads.&nbsp; Highly competitive,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordstream.com\/blog\/ws\/2011\/07\/18\/most-expensive-google-adwords-keywords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> general niches will be very expensive for individual clicks<\/a>, because there is a lot of competition.&nbsp; Just take a look at some of the most expensive niches to target.&nbsp; High value, high conversion necessities; in other words, niches where a single conversion can bring in a massively positive ROI, so the company can afford to spend more on advertising.&nbsp; You, as a consequence, needs to spend more to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>Your product has a similar effect, particularly on the cost of ads designed to bring in conversions.&nbsp; When your product is a high value item, your potential audience is going to be much lower.&nbsp; Very few people browsing Facebook are looking to buy a private jet, for example.&nbsp; On the other hand, when you sell one jet, you make a massive profit, so you don&rsquo;t need to worry as much about targeting those users with expensive ads.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s more of a problem in low and middling value items.&nbsp; These are the sales where you need to survive through volume, rather than individual sales.&nbsp; <strong><em>If you stray more than a few cents in one direction or another, it can wipe out your profit.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; You may need to increase the cost of your product, or manipulate other factors to increase the conversion rate on your ads.<\/p>\n<p>You can take <a href=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/facebook-retargeting-advertisements-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advantage of Facebook retargeting<\/a> to decrease the cost of your conversion ads as well.&nbsp; Anyone who clicks a conversion ad but doesn&rsquo;t buy is a potential target for a future, cheaper ad that will encourage them to buy.&nbsp; Plus, they were already interested enough to consider it, so giving them another chance is surprisingly effective.<\/p>\n<h3>Ways to Lower the Cost of Facebook Ads<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5774\" src=\"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Ways-to-Lower-the-Cost-of-Facebook-Ads.gif\" alt=\"Ways-to-Lower-the-Cost-of-Facebook-Ads\" width=\"629\" height=\"329\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>First, you can refine your audience.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; When you&rsquo;re targeting all of America, you&rsquo;re connecting with a huge number of people who don&rsquo;t care about your goals, company, brand or product.&nbsp; The more you can refine your audience targeting, the cheaper your ads will be.&nbsp; This is because a smaller, more focused audience is more likely convert, allowing you to spend less per conversion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Second, you can test variations on your image and text, your ad copy.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Sometimes, all you need to do is add a thin border to your image to increase your ROI through some subtle, subconscious factor.&nbsp; Sometimes a completely different image is in order.&nbsp; You can experiment with this with small budgets, so long as you keep those ads from running away with your entire ad budget.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"https:\/\/econsultancy.com\/blog\/65218-has-facebook-quietly-dropped-the-20-text-limit-for-promoted-post-photos#i.1n2g0v415l8f7e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">your ad text<\/a>, the same thing goes.&nbsp; Subtle changes in wording or entirely different phrases can help, or they can hurt.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s no way to tell what change might help without experimentation, however.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Third, you can turn your eye to your landing page.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; In the case of earning Facebook likes, this landing page is your Facebook page.&nbsp; In other cases, it&rsquo;s a landing page on your website.&nbsp; Much has been said about optimizing web landing pages, considering everything from button colors to coding to imagery.&nbsp; You have much less leeway in optimizing Facebook itself, but you can still make some changes.&nbsp; A better cover photo, a better profile picture, a better featured post, a better featured app; these are all contributing factors to your first impression.&nbsp; Put your best foot forward, for the sake of new users.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Finally, you can consider the freshness of your ads.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Even the best ad will begin to fail after too many people have seen it too many times.&nbsp; Small variations to the ad copy won&rsquo;t help you at this point; you need a total refresh.&nbsp; Keep your ads fresh and new to make sure the maximum number of people pay attention each cycle.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the increasing cost of boosting posts and the lowering organic reach on Facebook, many marketers are shifting their focus more towards advertisements and Facebook&rsquo;s PPC.&nbsp; The danger of PPC, of course, is the cost.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s easy to nickel-and-dime yourself into far exceeding your returns.&nbsp; The way to keep your costs down is to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Run a Budget Facebook Ads Campaign - Boostlikes.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/run-budget-facebook-ads-campaign\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Run a Budget Facebook Ads Campaign - Boostlikes.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the increasing cost of boosting posts and the lowering organic reach on Facebook, many marketers are shifting their focus more towards advertisements and Facebook&rsquo;s PPC.&nbsp; 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