While most of us are familiar with Facebook for personal purposes, there’s a lot to learn if you decide to use the platform to advertise your small business.
Advertising on Facebook is a great local advertising strategy for small businesses because it allows you to reach your target audience quickly and easily on a social site where they spend a lot of time. All you need is the right Facebook advertising planning, creativity, and execution.
Want some help getting your Facebook advertising off the ground? Check out these tips:
- Define Your Campaign Objective
There are many ways to advertise on Facebook and they are designed to fit specific purposes. First, define what it is you want to achieve with your campaign. Once you get started, you’ll find the attributes that Facebook has available which correspond to that objective.
For example, if your business is social commerce, your main objective is to sell a product or service. And, if your Facebook Page is part of an inbound marketing plan, your objective will likely be to generate leads with your ads.
Objectives for a Facebook campaign depend on the content you have on your page.
You’ve set your objective, now you need to create your ad! Facebook has evolved the advertising paradigm with its modular and dynamic ad platform.
You can design your Facebook Ad in different shapes and forms depending on the assets you provide. The basic criteria for a Facebook Ad are an image and some text. You can also incorporate videos, create a slideshow, and a call to action.
- Define Your Target Audience
Hopefully, you already have your target audience in mind when choosing your type of campaign and ad assets. You can target your ads based on location, age, gender, and interests.
OR you can target your ads based on conditions such as if they follow your page or if they’re a friend of one of your followers. Much more complex audience targeting is available for large-scale campaigns.
As you narrow down your ad settings, you see the estimated audience size with each change.
The last step before the campaign goes live is setting the budget and payment option. You can allow a campaign to run consistently on a daily budget, but you must first set a specific time frame and a precise budget for it.
You can start small, letting your ad run a short time (you can always prolong the number of days later) or you can let it run for some days from the beginning.
- Review, Publish and Modify
Once you’ve submitted your ad campaign, Facebook reviews it before it goes live. For a straightforward campaign, the review can be very quick, but in some cases, a word in your copy, or an image can raise a red flag regarding Facebook’s advertising policies. In that case, the review will take longer.
With the right ad, Facebook is a powerful tool to help you grow your business. The process is simple once you get started. What are you waiting for?
If you’d like to learn more, reach out to us at Dynamic Marketing Consultants. We’re here to help!
