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Beginner’s Guide to Meta Advertising

Jon Loomer

Much of my content is catered to intermediate to advanced advertisers, but I’m often asked where those who are new to Meta ads should start. Consider this your beginner’s guide to Meta advertising. When Meta unveiled “Advantage” in 2022, most advertisers didn’t fully appreciate what we were in for.

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6 Tools to Fine-Tune Your Social Media Advertising Strategy

Convince & Convert

Social media advertising is a great way to quickly generate new customers and create a social media buzz around your (new) product. Apart from the obvious tools (like Facebook and Tweet/Analytics), here are five tools to help you come up with new social media advertising tactics: 1.

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Competing with Free

Direct Marketing Observations

How do other companies compete when Nike, Gatorade and AE give stuff away for free? I remember asking a small business owner once why they kept advertising in magazines and newspapers when the results were so poor and their answer was that they had no other options. So how do you compete? Do they just give away free stuff too?

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Is It Just Me?

Jon Loomer

This drives me crazy… An advertiser shares their frustration on social media. You and I aren’t competing in the same auction. You’re guaranteed to get validation because other advertisers want to blame Meta for their bad results, too. The life of a Meta advertiser is littered with adversity and bumps in the road.

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Should You Duplicate Ad Sets when Scaling?

Jon Loomer

That said, ad sets with identical targeting and optimization could also hurt performance due to auction overlap — which is why creating unnecessary competing ad sets isn’t recommended. I get why advertisers do this, but it may be an outdated strategy.

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How Competition Impacts Facebook Ads Costs

Jon Loomer

Competition will become a bigger issue for most advertisers during the final quarter of the year. All ads on Facebook compete against each other in this process, and the ads that our system determines are most likely to be successful will win the auction. When are more advertisers participating in the auction?

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What is Most Important Now?

Jon Loomer

Meta advertising has changed, and you should redirect your time and energy to make an impact. You can do this by spending more or by consolidating and limiting competing campaigns and ad sets. Don’t obsess over things that don’t matter as much as they once did. Here are the four things to focus on… 1.

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