How to Triple Your Facebook Advertising Profit in 2019

 

 

Do you have an online business and want to know how to boost sales? In this blog, we are going to talk about advanced tips on how to sell on Facebook, the leading social network in terms of the number of users, with an impressive segmentation capacity.

By the time you have finished reading this blog, you will be ready to triple your Facebook advertising profit for 2019 and make the most of this extremely lucrative platform.

 

 

 

 

Create an Online Store on Facebook

 

While you most likely already have your online store, creating a shop on Facebook is a great way to boost your sales.

 

Facebook wants the user to stay on their platform, not leave it. If you want to be in favour of Facebook’s complex advertising algorithms, creating an online store on the platform can be a brilliant option for getting the most out of Facebook as a selling platform.

 

Tools like Ecwid facilitate the creation of the online store on Facebook, so you don’t even hire a web developer! You can also create your store directly, with a Shopify link to Facebook.

If your eCommerce site hasn’t been built on Shopify, do not fear. Simply head to the “Shop” format in the tabs of your Facebook page. As soon as you activate it, Facebook will tell you your next steps:

 

1. You must accept the conditions to start putting products on sale and manage deliveries, returns, claims and user data through the Facebook store.
2. Select your payment method; either through messages to agree on the purchase or by redirecting the user to another website to complete the purchase.
3. Enter the currency that you will accept.
4. A description (in 200 characters) of what is sold in the store.
5. Create your Facebook Product Catalogue.
6. Besides creating your product catalogues on Facebook you can use the Facebook Pixel to boost sales. This works on both Facebook and Instagram. It’s an essential step if you want to tag your products on Instagram.

 

 

 

Focus on mobile users

More and more brands are using Facebook to sell products directly from the platform. If you also want to join this trend, it is essential that you notice the changes that the social network is applying. Most of them are focused on capturing the mobile user rather than the one that connects from via desktop.
Many brands have already realised this, which is why most of Facebook’s investment in advertising is focused on mobile users. If you want to sell on Facebook, make sure that you’re going to optimize for mobile!

 

 

 

 

 

Use customised Facebook audiences

 

The Website Custom Audiences (WCA)tool is an excellent choice for e-commerce sales. Through these customised audiences, we get a segmentation that allows us to create retargeting campaigns aimed at users who have visited our website before.
It is an excellent way to display customized ads that are tailored to the journey that each user has made on the web. Facebook allows you to retarget your potential customers by offering the specific product that was viewed, or potentially a complementary product.

 

In addition to increasing sales, this type of advertising on Facebook allows you to attract relevant fans (since they have been interested in our brand) and increase web traffic (as we will increase recurring visits).

 

 

Also, if you are looking for a conversion, do not forget the importance of having a well-structured product landing page for the user who has browsed your website. This is your second opportunity to sell, and you cannot waste it!

 

 

 

 

Take advantage of Dynamic Product Ads

 

 

The Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) feature allows you to promote all relevant products in a catalogue dynamically and automatically. Thus, you can easily promote the most relevant products to those users that access your catalogue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The advantages of the Canvas format

 

In line with the above, the Canvas format of Facebook has helped to further enhance ad visibility and user-friendliness from mobile devices. It‘s about its native size, a new form of advertising in full screen, that makes it so effective at showing a wide range of products in your catalogue.
It is an immersive advertising format adapted for Android and iOS with the purpose of helping the user to easily see the catalogue of products before going to the web to buy them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other upward trends in Facebook

 

In addition to all this, it is essential to consider the trends and new tools that Facebook makes available to enhance our business.

 

As you may have noticed, video is taking more and more of a front seat on social media, so it should be exploited to the fullest. If you do not have the budget or equipment to create great videos, remember that there are always options such as the generation of videos through presentations, for example.

 

On the other hand, although Google remains the leader in these terms, Facebook already generates 2 million searches a day. Keep that in mind! Keep an eye on trending keywords in your industry to see what terms your target audience is searching for.

 

 

 

 

Strong bet on Instagram

Finally, it is essential that once you have everything well-organised on Facebook, you start promoting more and more Instagram, as it’s the social network where the new generations flock to. What’s more, its favourite shoppable post, which allows the direct sale of products from the platform, is fully integrated with the product catalogues of Facebook.

 

 

 

 

Invest in advertising, and you will notice the difference!

 

We often think that social networks are free, that the only thing we need to invest in is our time to get results. However, we can not forget that time is money and, even more critically, that Facebook is getting more and more complicated when it comes to getting our publications seen by our fans organically. For this reason, and because we want you to know how to maximise the effectiveness of your campaigns, we recommend that you invest in Facebook Ads.

 

 

However, this does not mean that you need a large advertising budget, you can start with small tests to see what really works, so that your campaigns are streamlined and proven to work.

 

 

 

 

Other Advanced Strategies

By employing the 5 steps that we set out below, you can create an advertising strategy appropriate to your business and, therefore, possibly triple your profit!

 

 

1. Analyse the Current Situation

The first thing you have to do before starting any campaign is to analyse your current situation. Ask yourself the following questions:

 

 

1. What do I need at this time?
2. In what area of my business do I need to grow?
3. Is there something I need to strengthen?

 

Or, you could find out by listening in on what your target audience is saying.

 

Some of the answers to your questions could be:

 

1. I am a startup, and I need my potential clients to know me.
2. Of course, I need to bring more traffic to my website so that they can see my entire catalogue of products in my e-commerce store.
3. I need to increase sales.
4. Ideally, I want people to install my app.
5. I need to interact with my potential clients and offer them a personalised service …

 

Let’s give a concrete example, so we can refer to it throughout this explanation:

 

“We’re a travel agency, and we want to increase our sales. We have verified that our newsletter has a very high rate of conversions, so we want to improve our database. We also know that the conversion in our physical premises is still high, so improving our notoriety for the summer/high season will also help us.”

 

Starting from here, we already have a more precise context and solid objectives, so now we can begin to define our campaigns. In this case, the most appropriate goals would be:

 

1. Notoriety
2. Generation of leads
3. Web conversions

 

2. Define the basics

 

1. How are we going to measure the effectiveness of our campaign? Here, your answer could be “We have to fix or define the appropriate KPIs.”
2. How much can I spend? You have to set a budget that works for your brand.
3. How long will my campaign last? You have to mark start and end dates consistent with the objectives set.

 

 

3. Define the content

 

You have already established:

1. Your objectives, which has helped us to select the campaigns that are going to be the most effective for us.
2. The budget.
3. The duration of the campaign.

 

Now, you have to think about the type of content that will ensure that these goals are met. To determine the content, we recommend that you have the following information at hand:

1. Buyer persona: who are they, where are they, how much do they buy, how many times, what interests them? Having the distinct profile of your buyer persona will serve us to be able to segment appropriately.
2. Your digital presence: why does my potential client follow me on social networks? It will help to ensure that the content is aligned with our value proposition and brand identity.
3. Small benchmark: what is my direct competition doing on Facebook? This will help you to have a reference for your creativity.

 

 

We are going to set out a case study, continuing with the previous example of our travel agency:

 

1. Buyer Persona: A “young backpacker” of 18-30 years, is located in Spain and is interested in everything related to travel (destinations that are a trend, tips to save, cheap hotels, and more).
2. Segmentation: for notoriety segmented by interests.
3. Lead generation and web conversion: here, we segment with a similar audience look because we are interested in getting customer data identical to those in our database.
4. Digital presence: Our brand’s message is “We are an adventurous brand that encourages you to escape your routine”, so all our content should be aligned with this concept.
5. Benchmark: By examining the competition and knowing the above, we can give an idea of what kind of content would work to attract our users/potential customers.

 

 

4. Start with the configuration

 

Now we can define the content and create a set of ads for each of our campaigns. Each ad has its own copy and creative elements.
Facebook recommends that your ad sets have 4 to 6 different creatives. Then, we can start the configuration of our campaigns in the ads administrator for Facebook ads.

 

To define which platform our ads will appear on, we recommend choosing the ‘automatic placement’ on Facebook. This is a Facebook-powered AI algorithm, which optimizes and determines the combination of platforms that will display the advertisement.

 

Once you have results from running the automatic placements, we can identify which platform is more profitable and then, after careful analysis, manually choose and distribute the budget for each of them.

 

 

For example, they could be:

 

1. Announcements of notoriety. These could be videos explaining what we do, who we are, crisp images, quality information for the traveller, and more.
2. Generation of leads. As we’ve seen in our examples, the call to action prompts the user to subscribe. In order for this to work, we must offer something attractive in return, such as our newsletter, a benefit program, or even perhaps a contest. In this campaign, the user does not leave Facebook to go to your website. Instead, a person will fill out the form on Facebook and then Facebook will provide you with the data in an easy-to-read report.
3. More ads for our web conversion campaign. Here, the best option would be to make attractive offers that prompt the user to go to the website and convert or leave their data.

 

 

 

5. Analyse results and keep optimizing

 

Finally, it is essential to optimise campaigns from day one. See what works and what doesn’t, so that you can optimise every single element of your campaign and maximise your ROI. As always, we recommend performing different tests until you find the formula that fits your brand best since each one works differently. Always be testing!
Do your Facebook ads perform well? Let us know in the comments below. We can possibly help you on this, so don’t miss out on the opportunity!

 

 

 

 

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