Tag: facebook marketing

As your competitors scale back or abandon Facebook Ads, now is the best time to take advantage of less competition, and here’s how!

Struggling to attract new clients using Facebook Ads? Check out this more “personal” approach to messaging that’s working for businesses that embrace it.

Is it time to trash that under-performing Facebook business page? If so, what happens next? And what are the alternatives? 

Success starts with the advice of Facebook Group guru Bella Vasta, who stresses the importance of starting with a clearly defined goal for your Group.

Let's say you've already heard about the benefits of Facebook groups from other business owners and now you want to try your hand at using it to promote your brand, products, and services as well. Once you decide why and how you'll use the group, it's a good idea to set up some rules and parameters for potential members to adhere to. You can even require they answer a series of questions before you determine if they're a good fit for the group. Proper vetting is important because the success and growth of your Facebook group really depends on consistent engagement in the group.

Businesses and brands are going to have to pay more attention to what they're posting and make sure they're creating content that invites and encourages real, meaningful conversations. Gone are the days of link dropping. It's time to explore other avenues such as Facebook Live, increasing the ad budget, and utilizing Facebook Groups.

Facebook groups offer many options to suit a particular Groups needs; you can make it public, private or secret, you can make admission limited or open, you can set guidelines for admission as well as for the Group members themselves. With the impending changes looming with how marketers can utilize Facebook, the Groups aspect offers another way to direct traffic to your other platforms, and even monetizing

There is a whole lot more to Facebook ads than just "boosting" a post. Just throwing money at Facebook isn't the answer. Your business should have an end goal, and then a strategy in place for how to reach that goal, including where within that process to use Facebook ads. Otherwise, you're just wasting money.

Learn how Techsmith is using video ads on Facebook to target only their ideal customers and generate more sales. It's a campaign, and there are things all of us can take from it.

A few weeks ago, leading up to the Agents of Change Digital Marketing Conference, I did a "Twitter Chat" with the help of my friend Madalyn Sklar, as well as a number of other digital marketing experts. We answered 12 digital marketing questions and had a rollicking good time!