14 top tips for Instagram Advertising

Top Tips for Instagram Advertising

If you’re already running Facebook Ads, you’ll know that your ads will automatically show on Instagram unless you untick a few boxes in your placement settings. However, when was the last time you set up specific ads just for Instagram? According to Hootsuite, 50% of users become more interested in a brand after seeing an … Read more

Less work, better results from dynamic remarketing on Facebook Ads

Dynamic Remarketing with Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads provide a wide range of advertising options, depending on your business goals. In this article, we’re looking specifically at ecommerce businesses, looking to sell more products through their online shop. If that’s you, dynamic remarketing is something you definitely need to be doing. Here’s why… First things first – get your pixel in … Read more

Does boosting Facebook posts work?

Boosting Facebook Posts

Facebook Business Pages have become widely used by small businesses to reach their audience, engage and build a community. However, as Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm has evolved to favour posts from personal profiles (and not from business pages), the reach small businesses are likely to receive on their posts has been dramatically reduced with reports of … Read more

Custom audiences, tailored audiences, matched audiences

Custom audiences, tailored audiences and matched audiences

Using customer data for your paid social campaigns Paid advertising on social media can be a bit of a minefield to say the least. Designing your campaigns for different ad placements, deciding on your messaging and calls-to-action as well as planning and managing an advertising budget can be time consuming, confusing and frustrating. Then we … Read more

Lead generation campaigns on Facebook & LinkedIn – what they are and how to use them

Lead generation campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

Who doesn’t want to generate leads for their business at times like this? There’s lots of ways to go about acquiring new leads, but some social media platforms make it even easier with built-in features that let you collect data as part of your advertising campaign. Yes, that’s right, it’s part of their paid-for service, … Read more

What’s considered a good click through rate (CTR) on Google vs. Facebook?

What's considered a good click through rate on Google vs. Facebook?

Google Ads and Facebook advertising are two very different platforms, but when you’re advertising on both, it’s tempting to compare metrics to see which is performing better. Here’s a quick overview on why you should be very careful about comparing the two and what kind of results you should expect from each. One of the … Read more

Which advertising platforms are the best to use for my business?

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[This article is a chapter from our book “Essential Online Advertising: Spend Wisely, Get Results”, available on Amazon] Much of this may be common sense, but it’s never safe to assume everyone thinks this way especially when it comes to social media and areas of marketing that are new to them. With this in mind, … Read more

Facebook Ads – 5 terms you need to know

With the fall in organic reach on Facebook, it’s no wonder more and more businesses are using Facebook Ads to promote their products and services. If you’re new to the Ads Manager, there’s a few terms you’ll need to be familiar with in order to interpret your reports and assess the success of your campaigns.