There are few things stranger than relying on the same old school marketing tactics for your business. We're no longer living in the 80's, where it's acceptable to rely on radio communication to connect with your audience. Facebook advertising is a great way to create brand awareness, increase traffic to your site and generate leads and sales for your business. If you're already investing time and energy on Facebook, expanding into Facebook advertising should be a no-brainer.
Let’s face it—it’s hard to keep up with the social media landscape these days. As soon as you finally have a solid strategy for marketing your brand on Facebook, then you start wondering, “should I be on Snapchat? What about doing Facebook Live? Instagram stories?” And suddenly, your head is spinning in feeds and ads and content, and you’ve lost sight of your marketing strategy altogether.
On February 17, 2015, Facebook flexed its influential muscle and showed us once again how and why it stays at the top of the marketing heap by rolling out their multi-product ads. While retailers were giddy with anticipation at the idea of being able to show as many as 5 products, services, or promotions in one ad in members’ news feeds, content marketers looked on, the gears turning as they thought “how can we utilize this?” Here’s the outcome of that query – and it’s quite brilliant.
Remarketing in the Facebook platform has been limited at best for some time. Now don’t get me wrong, growing page likes and serving ads to people who have already liked your page has some merit, but this was only groundbreaking in the 2000’s.
Facebook boasts more than 1 billion active users as of the third quarter of 2014. The social media giant has transformed from a communications platform between a few businesses and people into a huge empire capable of connecting businesses to millions of people without an extreme cost. For the past few years, businesses have had the luxury of endlessly promoting themselves without worry about fall-out from Facebook. However, Facebook has revealed some major changes coming in 2015 that will impact the manner in which businesses use digital marketing through the site.
Over the last month or so there been millions of impressions on thousands of creative videos, and social media has helped raise $100 million and counting for ALS research through the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge social campaign.
Last week we wrote about how to use Instagram for business marketing. This week we're going to dive into some great ways you can target ads on Facebook.