Ask me anything about Facebook Ads 2019

[SellOnlineee]

Hi OP. Some of my few questions are
1) Have you targeted Sweden, Norway and Denmark for selling women products ($10-$20) ? or even sold general products to these countries. What is your feedback?
2) I am a manufacturer and can sell stuff for very cheap - women's niche. I have seen a particular facebook video that got a lot of attention and 80% of the comments are bad reviews. Can I just launch my facebook page and put the competitors name as a Interest . Does this work or I won't be able to pull their customers?
3) Facebook or Instagram for women niche cheap products ?
4) Cheap ecom products price strategy e.g $4 product+ $6 shipping. $6product + $4 shipping. $10product and FREE shipping OR $0+$9.95 shipping...which amongst this types converts well? (target demographic female 18-35 age) Want to establish a flash sale kinda...not a brand.
5) Does this work like I list the stuff for $29.95 on insta and run a contest like tag 5 of your friends and follow us on insta and we will DM you $19.95 coupon OFF. Just to make it go more viral and gain traction.

 

[Drought]

How is budget on campaign level performing for you? Does it work better then budget on adset level?

I've had mixed results with it. Though Facebook is campaign campaign-level budget the default forced default soon: https://www.jonloomer.com/2019/02/04/facebook-campaign-budget-optimization-default/

Hi OP. Some of my few questions are
1) Have you targeted Sweden, Norway and Denmark for selling women products ($10-$20) ? or even sold general products to these countries. What is your feedback?
2) I am a manufacturer and can sell stuff for very cheap - women's niche. I have seen a particular facebook video that got a lot of attention and 80% of the comments are bad reviews. Can I just launch my facebook page and put the competitors name as a Interest . Does this work or I won't be able to pull their customers?
3) Facebook or Instagram for women niche cheap products ?
4) Cheap ecom products price strategy e.g $4 product+ $6 shipping. $6product + $4 shipping. $10product and FREE shipping OR $0+$9.95 shipping...which amongst this types converts well? (target demographic female 18-35 age) Want to establish a flash sale kinda...not a brand.
5) Does this work like I list the stuff for $29.95 on insta and run a contest like tag 5 of your friends and follow us on insta and we will DM you $19.95 coupon OFF. Just to make it go more viral and gain traction.

1. I personally haven't, no.
2. You can, but competitors are not always going to show up as an Interest
3. Instagram (generally) but no reason not to test both
4. $10 product + free shipping or $0 + $9.95 shipping.
5. Instagram doesn't allow these contests to be run anymore (telling people to tag your friends. There are tools that let you get around it though like https://vyper.io/

 

[SellOnlineee]

I've had mixed results with it. Though Facebook is campaign campaign-level budget the default forced default soon: https://www.jonloomer.com/2019/02/04/facebook-campaign-budget-optimization-default/



1. I personally haven't, no.
2. You can, but competitors are not always going to show up as an Interest
3. Instagram (generally) but no reason not to test both
4. $10 product + free shipping or $0 + $9.95 shipping.
5. Instagram doesn't allow these contests to be run anymore (telling people to tag your friends. There are tools that let you get around it though like https://vyper.io/

Hi. Thank You for answering. About the last answer #5. Is there any rulebook where it states (telling people to tag your friends) has been banned ? If, yes then please share a link to official rules laid down by instagram

 

[Zakaria atattou]

People are banking hard from the health niche, do u have any idea how they avoid FB ban? Because whenever I promote weight loss or cancer articles i end up banned from FB Ads

 

[djw1606]

I'm trying to promote a website that is relatively new (several months old). Would you suggest a post on a forum or Facebook ads?

Brilliant! Love it

 

[JohnnyWOW]

Hi, Thank you for the responses....

I would like to get audience similar to another person that runs facebook ads...for example let's say Dave Ramsey....can I do that? Get the type of audience they have? Maybe even copy their ads?

 

[JohnnyWOW]

One more question, rather basic, how can I make a video facebook ad quickly with some slides???

 

[mpikxfx]

No, new ad accounts created off brand new Facebook accounts would raise a lot of red flags with Facebook. Also Facebook has started adding in a lot of new precautions to prevent people from making fake Facebook accounts.

Thanks for your response. How about some main reasons for Ads Account Bans so that I could take note and prevent them in the future?
Hope you could share with us some main reasons that will get your entire ads account ban which i would greatly appreciate.
Thanks

 

[mpikxfx]

Hi Drought, may I ask another question?

How about contest ads? Is it high risk to run such ads campaigns?

For eg:
We are giving away $100 food vouchers to one of our lucky winner on our Page!

Just provide us your name, phone and email to enter.

Participants are also required to:
1) Share this post publicly
2) Like our page

Winners will be randomly pick via random.org website on 5 March 2019.

 

[life2ifeless]

Here's another question for you:

1) When you are looking for clients, do you tend to target people who are already running their own fb ad campaigns, or businesses that are still stuck in the yellow pages era?

If it's the ppc or marketing savvy business crowd, how do you pitch to them?

 

[bunty28]

I've serious Question Regarding Fb ads. can we PM ?

Thanks

 

[zneve08]

Hey OP I'm back with another question...
1. So I've heard if I've had success with ads and now have a sample size of 100 purchasers for my e-com product, I just transition straight into look alike audiences from here and continue to run the original ads that got me to 100 purchases. Then as more purchases come in keep making the look alike audience bigger with that data. My question is how do I scale this? Once I have a winner, once I have a profitable campaign of 100 purchases and ads going that are still hot, how do you scale it?

 

[decornmo]

Hi,
i am running FB that have more than 15,000 real flowers. i am selling baby bedding sets. i try to increase my sales with FB ads but I only pay money to FB but not making any money from these ads. i have pixel install on my Magento site and i can track the traffic and i see no sales at all.
please help me understand what I am not doing good.


Thanks

 

[Drought]

Hi. Thank You for answering. About the last answer #5. Is there any rulebook where it states (telling people to tag your friends) has been banned ? If, yes then please share a link to official rules laid down by instagram

I don't remember where I saw it, but I know for a fact that Facebook and Instagram do not allow you to explicitly ask for engagement.

People are banking hard from the health niche, do u have any idea how they avoid FB ban? Because whenever I promote weight loss or cancer articles i end up banned from FB Ads

Pre-landers and building email lists rather than going direct to offer.

Hi, Thank you for the responses....

I would like to get audience similar to another person that runs facebook ads...for example let's say Dave Ramsey....can I do that? Get the type of audience they have? Maybe even copy their ads?

One more question, rather basic, how can I make a video facebook ad quickly with some slides???

If they appear as an Interest, then sure. Use the Audience Insights tool to find people similar. You can also copy their ads by going to their page and clicking on the 'Info and Ads' tab on the left.

Facebook has a built in slideshow video function:

Thanks for your response. How about some main reasons for Ads Account Bans so that I could take note and prevent them in the future?
Hope you could share with us some main reasons that will get your entire ads account ban which i would greatly appreciate.
Thanks

I've personally never have an ad account banned so can't really answer that one.

Hi Drought, may I ask another question?

How about contest ads? Is it high risk to run such ads campaigns?

For eg:
We are giving away $100 food vouchers to one of our lucky winner on our Page!

Just provide us your name, phone and email to enter.

Participants are also required to:
1) Share this post publicly
2) Like our page

Winners will be randomly pick via random.org website on 5 March 2019.

This would be risky to run in the ad copy. It would be better to use a tool like Vyper which encourages the sharing for you.

Here's another question for you:

1) When you are looking for clients, do you tend to target people who are already running their own fb ad campaigns, or businesses that are still stuck in the yellow pages era?

If it's the ppc or marketing savvy business crowd, how do you pitch to them?

I don't really seek out clients, but I would never work a yellow pages era business. Ideal client is someone that is doing significant revenue/ad spend but has been burned by a few crappy agencies before.

I've serious Question Regarding Fb ads. can we PM ?

Thanks

Yeah send me a PM

Hey OP I'm back with another question...
1. So I've heard if I've had success with ads and now have a sample size of 100 purchasers for my e-com product, I just transition straight into look alike audiences from here and continue to run the original ads that got me to 100 purchases. Then as more purchases come in keep making the look alike audience bigger with that data. My question is how do I scale this? Once I have a winner, once I have a profitable campaign of 100 purchases and ads going that are still hot, how do you scale it?

100 purchases is way too small for a lookalike audience. But for scaling I duplicate the budget until I reach a significant budget ($100-$500) and then go slower, 20% increases.

Hi,
i am running FB that have more than 15,000 real flowers. i am selling baby bedding sets. i try to increase my sales with FB ads but I only pay money to FB but not making any money from these ads. i have pixel install on my Magento site and i can track the traffic and i see no sales at all.
please help me understand what I am not doing good.


Thanks

There are a lot of reasons why you're ads aren't working. Are you using a lookalike audience?

 

[decornmo]

There are a lot of reasons why you're ads aren't working. Are you using a lookalike audience?

yes i am .

 

[Drought]

yes i am .

Within your ads manager on the right side you will see a dropdown that says 'columns'. Change it to the one that says 'Performance and Clicks'. What are your ads CPCs, CPMs, and CTRs?

 

[zedaenk]

hi @Drought , thanks for this ama fb ads.

So this is my question;

01. I'm trying to promote real estate, how chance people from facebook will interested about real estate and willing to buy?

02. how I target people?

03. how much adset I need?

04. initial budget per campaign?

 

[Mane.D]

Hello
Can you answer 1 question to me.
I was making ads for my online store for my contry its not dropshipping.
And apparently i violated their ad policy and my own acc that i was using for the ads get blocked and now i still i own 20-30$ but i need to make promotion to instagram how can i start promoting on instagram ? my instagram is connected to my blocked ads acc?
How can i run again promotions on instagramm ?

 

[Drought]

hi @Drought , thanks for this ama fb ads.

So this is my question;

01. I'm trying to promote real estate, how chance people from facebook will interested about real estate and willing to buy?

02. how I target people?

03. how much adset I need?

04. initial budget per campaign?

1. Target real estate buying sites (Trulia, Zillow, Apartments.com, etc.)

2. Don't do any demographic targeting to start, just use the interests above

3. 3-5 is enough to start, put each interest in it's own ad set

4. Up to you, I start most ad sets at $10-$20/day

Hello
Can you answer 1 question to me.
I was making ads for my online store for my contry its not dropshipping.
And apparently i violated their ad policy and my own acc that i was using for the ads get blocked and now i still i own 20-30$ but i need to make promotion to instagram how can i start promoting on instagram ? my instagram is connected to my blocked ads acc?
How can i run again promotions on instagramm ?

You can link your Instagram to a new ad account, try and find a friend that will let you use their account for an ad account

 

[selcor]

question- i sell software to small businesses (to manage the calendar and scheduling of clients\customers)-- having a challenge finding the right audience