We started testing ad angles on the page before paying to run them

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Our organic and paid work used to live in separate folders and barely spoke to each other. a few months ago we changed that.

Now most ideas go on the page first. if something gets real comments or shares, it gets a closer look for paid. if it goes nowhere, we don't force it into an ad just because somebody already spent time making it.

This hasn't produced some overnight drop in cac. it softened gradually over a couple of months, and part of that may simply be the page looking more active when someone clicks through from an ad. i can't separate that cleanly from the creative testing benefit yet.

Also, organic isn't free. the cost just sits in content time instead of ads manager. that's become more obvious as we've tried to keep the schedule consistent.

The workflow is still worth keeping for us. i'm less sure what it looks like with a larger team where paid and organic are handled by different people again.
 
Our organic and paid work used to live in separate folders and barely spoke to each other. a few months ago we changed that.

Now most ideas go on the page first. if something gets real comments or shares, it gets a closer look for paid. if it goes nowhere, we don't force it into an ad just because somebody already spent time making it.

This hasn't produced some overnight drop in cac. it softened gradually over a couple of months, and part of that may simply be the page looking more active when someone clicks through from an ad. i can't separate that cleanly from the creative testing benefit yet.

Also, organic isn't free. the cost just sits in content time instead of ads manager. that's become more obvious as we've tried to keep the schedule consistent.

The workflow is still worth keeping for us. i'm less sure what it looks like with a larger team where paid and organic are handled by different people again.
this is a good method to employ bcz it allows the creator a chance to test the post without the exppenditure of money. however, there is one thing i would separate, which is people who liked the post from something that will sell. there r many posts that receive many comments but have no conversions whatsoever, whereas a low key post could convert into a very successful adverttising tool.
 
Our organic and paid work used to live in separate folders and barely spoke to each other. a few months ago we changed that.

Now most ideas go on the page first. if something gets real comments or shares, it gets a closer look for paid. if it goes nowhere, we don't force it into an ad just because somebody already spent time making it.

This hasn't produced some overnight drop in cac. it softened gradually over a couple of months, and part of that may simply be the page looking more active when someone clicks through from an ad. i can't separate that cleanly from the creative testing benefit yet.

Also, organic isn't free. the cost just sits in content time instead of ads manager. that's become more obvious as we've tried to keep the schedule consistent.

The workflow is still worth keeping for us. i'm less sure what it looks like with a larger team where paid and organic are handled by different people again.
but what i have discovered is that organic engagement can show me whether the content has enough power to attract attention before i start paying for it. but just the likes will not be a criterion for this choice. at times posts get many reacttions but low quality traffic from them.
 
the tricky part is figuring out if a lower CAC came from creative or just a stronger page. that's hard to untangle without testing.
 
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