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6 Targeting Mistakes Advertisers Make

Jon Loomer

Meta advertising has changed rapidly the past few years, and that leads to several common targeting mistakes. I admit that I miss the old days of Facebook advertising — before it was Meta advertising. It’s a step that’s often missed by beginner advertisers. Nonexistent or incomplete use of exclusions.

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Promote Facebook Groups with Ads in Meta Ads Manager

Jon Loomer

Meta advertisers have long asked for the ability to promote Facebook groups with ads. Instead, advertisers found workarounds to accomplish the same thing. Meta is rolling out built-in solutions for promoting Facebook groups within Ads Manager. Your primary goal may be to drive more group signups. That is changing.

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Audience Controls for Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns

Jon Loomer

Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns offer advertisers powerful results using machine learning and special features. After reading this post, you’ll have a better idea of how targeting works with Advantage+ Shopping, how to use audience controls, and how this approach could be helpful for other types of campaigns in the future.

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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. Each group has a different level of usefulness. There is no need to prioritize any metric over this group. Be careful.

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Create an Advantage+ Shopping Campaign

Jon Loomer

If you’re an e-commerce brand that utilizes Meta ads to promote your products, you’ve either experimented with or heard about Advantage+ Shopping campaigns. For months, I’ve heard advertisers rave about the results, and I could only live vicariously through them. Advantage+ Shopping combines them in one campaign.

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Introduction to TikTok Ads: Campaign Creation

Jon Loomer

That’s what made Facebook advertising so insanely profitable in the early days. Well, the first thing you’ll notice if you dive into TikTok advertising is that the TikTok Ads Manager is obviously inspired by Facebook Ads Manager. I’m not going to claim to be a TikTok advertising expert. Campaign Creation.

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Meta Campaign Objectives: Best Practices

Jon Loomer

Meta campaign objectives represent the first step advertisers need to complete when creating a campaign. Advertisers often overcomplicate, if not misunderstand, the importance of choosing a campaign objective. They are also the first opportunity to make a mistake that will impact the remaining steps.

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