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Adding a Facebook Fan Page for Your Business

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Now that we talked about landing pages for your Facebook ads, I wanted to show you how to build a Facebook fan page.  Remember, people have profiles and friends.  Businesses have pages and fans.  In addition to using a fan page as a landing page (as we discussed in my last post), a fan page [...]

Facebook Landing Pages – the Important Piece!

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The final, and by far the most , important piece of advertising on Facebook is what we will call the landing page.  Creating an ad is easy and not nearly as important as where the ad points to.  On Google, the ads point to you website, driving traffic directly to the site that sells your [...]

Bidding for Ads on Facebook

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Today, let’s discuss budgets and bidding for your Facebook ad campaigns.  We have already looked at creating an ad and targeting your ad for maximum results, and the third step in the process, as defined by Facebook, is to deal with the financial elements. There are several financial advantages of advertising on Facebook versus Google. [...]

Targeting with Facebook Ads

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Now that we have an ad ready to run, its time to target who will see the ad. This is all -important, because, as you know, showing your ad to the wrong people is a waste of time and money. Facebook does a great job of helping you refine your target audience.  The screenshot below [...]

Creating Winning Facebook Ads

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As we continue with our series on Facebook advertising, today we start to dig in a little more with ad creation.  Facebook ad creation is different from GoogleAds and there are some super-important differences and rules we must be aware of. You can access Facebook ads from several places in the site. On almost every [...]

Facebook Ads Are Old School Display Ads

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Below, is a screenshot from my Facebook page.  There is an ad on the far right, in the red box.  The ad is for “Cities I’ve Visited” – some sort of app that let’s you mark the cities you have visited and share that with your friends.  I was on a normal, spy on my [...]

Facebook Ads Better than Google Ads?

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Is Facebook now better than Google for running ads?  It’s a big question with lots of implications.  How you present your business to the world and drive traffic to your site is one of the most important questions for your business.   Every time I lecture on Google, I ask the question, “Do you click on [...]