My Facebook Ad Stats
So far, not much success. In fact, none.
I am not giving up though. I’ll get clicks at some point. I may have to change my ad and copy. It’s not particularly compelling.
But what’s interesting to me is that there’s a better way to get fans on your business’ page on Facebook. Get someone with the right audience to link to it. Then it will spread virally through the news feed on Facebook as people join. Here’s our stats for the past couple days since I did that.
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Fred – please keep us posted on the CTRs, etc. I’ve heard one data point about Facebook widget ads running at 5% plus CTR.
I will do thatThat’s the reason to do stuff like this. To learn and educatefred
This is sweet. I’m setting up my pages + ads right now. Thanks.
I must congratulate you on actually using something you talk about. I despise the number of bloggers out there who only comment on press-releases and mis-information from other blogs but don’t actually take the 5 seconds to try the real thing.I would love to see a follow up post to this once you have used the system for a few days to see what you think in terms of stability and functionality.
Fred…I’m of the belief that online advertising is in the beginning of a major shift. I’m surprised that Facebook put out a “google-like” system. I wish they would have put out a much more permission based targeting system. I mean really targeted, not just keyword which really just invites spam that has a budget. I hope they do something special with the power they’ve received…I’ll be watching.
Thx – really interesting and please report any observations about follow ups from the ads. However at this low spend you can’t really generalize about “conversions” unless you get several, which seems extremely unlikely.
The low numbers when you get to targeting keywords seems really bad for this ad model. The promise was precise targeting based on profile information, yet when you try to get precise, the numbers fall off a cliff. “Technology” might have been too odd a word to be in many folks profiles, but I tried “Beer”, “Music”, and “Cars” to get more mainstream and got very similar results.It seems to me there is either something not quite working right yet on the system, or there just isn’t that much valuable information in the profile. You can see more of these breakdowns in my blog:http://smoothspan.wordpress…I’d encourage anyone to try it. Facebook makes it extremely easy.Best,BW
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I’m going back to work soon, you know what that means. Maybe I’ll look into this Facebook thing. Most likely it will be over when I get there, but hey, it could be fun I suppose…….
Hi Fred. Word of mouth seems to works better in the second case than in SocialAds. Maybe there aren’t any new entrepreneurs on Facebook. Or, your advertisement skills aren’t very good, or.. (although it might be a bit early to draw such conclusions ;-)) But honestly, I am a bit of a skeptic towards SocialAds. It is aimed at the advertiser who would like to have the “word of mouth” principle available for his advertisements. But the “word of mouth” process in the physical world is quite different from the on-line world. Users might just see the SocialAd for what it is, a personalised billboard, instead of what it was meant to be (“an advice from a friend”). Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn’t provide friends with a lot of value. I feel it will turn out to be quite difficult to monetize Social Graph information within the network itself (people might distrust that).
Fred,We performed a similar experiment at Youlicit a few weeks ago testing Facebook Flyers as an advertising platform and got dismal click through rates as well (http://youlicit.wordpress.c… . We do think copy and creative play a big part and are working on a new campaign with a more targeted message (for each demographic targeted) and design to see what effect that has on CTRs. Will post our results as soon as we get them. I also however do agree that there are more effective (and viral) ways to get exposure on Facebook through creatively designed and engaging groups, applications (if applicable) and business pages.Nihaar GuptaYoulicithttp://www.youlicit.com
fred. i think its more about making it more visual. i’ve had much better success on it than i expected.what are you trying to gain from it? more bplan submissions?
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Why would people click on that ad? I think you are right – it’s not very compelling.Who on facebook would click through? Who are you targeting?
Fred, i’m surprised you don’t know this by now. You know that every time you wrote about someone’s blog, or someone writes about your blog that you drive traffic to each other’s pages. It’s more personal and legit that way. I go to restaurants and gothamgal recommends because I think she has good taste (except for the asian foods…but that’s just b/c I’m asian). But if one of your banner or skyscraper ads read, “go to Tasca. The Tapas are great!” I probably wouldn’t go because of. But I would go because gothamgal said it was good (which she did a bunch of months ago). I have been there. And it’s pretty good, by the way. =) But yeah…Ads are a hard sell, they’re not as engaging. Maybe the future of ads are really more of an affiliate/rev-share model in combination with “church and state” separation…ok…later!
Yep – damn ads need to work in order for Facebook to be successful. I’m a contrarian on them for this very reason — I don’t think they’ll get the ad system right because the user intent is so damn thin on the site. This will lead to lackluster ad performance, making their ad play a volume game not a high CPM game like Adwords. As such, they’ll be unable to export the system because the CPM’s will be too low. Give this some thought.
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Social Ads and Flyers on Facebook don’t work for a reason:People are on Facebook to communicate with people they know. Anything else is a distraction.In my opinion, the most effective way to advertise on Facebook is to create a group focused on a particular topic and to target that group to a specific demographic.The topic need not be named after the product or service being advertised, necessarily.Provided the group is well moderated and features relevant and up-to-date information; people will have a reason to hang around and share their opinion. And you’ll get instant feedback…Kind of sounds like a blog, actually…Personally, I reckon Facebook should consider offering a monthly subscription for people who don’t want to receive Social Ads. At least they are guaranteed some monthly revenue that way.Here’s the open letter I wrote to Mark Zuckerberg regarding this:http://http//www.realfresh.tv/hey-facebo…I would consider paying…
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are you sure?
I saw you post on Valleywag… here’s a thing to try.I just started a campaign (seconds ago) with a max of $5 per day… and $1 per click…So far 156,779 impressions 5 clicks, $0.37 per click…Try it.
If Facebook is clever, they have a eCPM system, so cpc campagin compete with cpm campaign.With click rate so low, the CPC campaign will be suspended sooner or later
That’s if they are smart. Right now it doesn’t look that way. Here’s a link to my follow-up post detailing the results to my tests:http://productiveblogger.co…
I ran ads targeting 25-45 yr old moms. Same thing. Thousands of imps, no clicks. ZERO. I ran an ad network for 4+ years – zero clicks is actually hard to do. Even with the worst possible ad you can imagine, someone usually clicks by accident. It almost makes me wonder if their tracking is broken.Our internal stats did show one click from the ad. Worth a try, and nice free branding. But right now I dont think people are interested in clicking or even know why they would click.Next we’ll try the business pages.We will be trying the
Fred – Your journey through this new world of business possibilities in FB has guided much of my experience thus far in FB’s world of ads and business pages. I have made many changes and additions to our page (http://www.facebook.com/pro… and I blogged about it as well. (http://blog.giftgirl.com/20… We’re taking the Beacon thing a bit more slowly to see how it develops – both side make very good arguments. Our biggest fear is that Fb lets pages go the way of the group and everything devolves to a sort of lame fan club/destination that no one visits but loves the status of joining a club with a zillion members.Please don’t stop posting. You’re my best consultant!Mike PrattCOO, Gift Girlhttp://www.giftgirl.com
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I wrote a post comparing facebook social ads vs google adwords here. Basically, the roi for facebook social ads is nowhere near google adwords, yet. But as you said in this post, they do have great demographic filters that google don’t have, in addition to the social connections and word of mouth potentials.Google Adwords’ success wasn’t overnight and facebook social ads and beacon are still in development stage so only time will tell. My bet is that social ads will be just as successful as adwords assuming their user base will continue to grow, because without a large user base, social ads won’t work.
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