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Effective Meta Advertising: Key Metrics Simplified

Jon Loomer

Meta gives advertisers seemingly limitless metrics that can distract us. Simplify the key metrics that are most important. While there may be a couple dozen or so metrics that are interesting for a given campaign, prioritize them into groups. There is no need to prioritize any metric over this group. Be careful.

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How Meta Automation Rewrites the Rules for Advertisers

Jon Loomer

Has Meta advertising become so turnkey that they could easily complete it internally? Or have the roles and responsibilities of an ad agency evolved — and are both companies and advertisers slow to adjust? Some advertisers, consultants, and agencies are failing to evolve. Are ad agencies no longer needed? Anyone can do it!”

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The Facebook Ads Metrics That Matter

Jon Loomer

How did your advertising campaign perform? Part of the battle is knowing which Facebook ads metrics actually matter. Facebook does a good job of surfacing metrics that are relevant to your objective, but that’s not good enough for me. I currently have 30 metrics in this setup. Metrics: Clicks. The staples.

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Are You Using Link Clicks Wrong?

Jon Loomer

One of Meta’s most prominent metrics is Link Clicks, and most advertisers have no idea what it means. This also applies to CPC and CTR related to link clicks. Make sure you follow the right metric based on your needs. That doesn’t mean what you think it means! What you probably want is Outbound Clicks.

CPC 173
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CPA: A Viable Alternative to CPC

Idaconcpts

When a business starts investing in online media for the first time, the first step for its digital media specialist is to educate company management in cost per click (CPC, also known as pay per click or PPC) as a benchmark to establish the effectiveness of purchased media channels. The Usual Scenario.

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How Meta Could Leverage Outbound Clicks

Jon Loomer

Even the simplest application could be a huge help for advertisers looking to send traffic to their stuff — whether it’s on a website they own or a third-party website. There are a couple of groups of advertisers who could benefit from an expansion of Outbound Clicks. Advertisers who sell on a third-party website.

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The Art of Social ROI: Choosing the Right Metrics for Your Goals

Hootsuite

See, there’s no one metric that determines your success on social. Instead, it’s a collection of metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) that are shaped by your organization’s purpose, structure, and business goals. These are also your social media metrics. They can be granular and may even be mistaken as “vanity metrics.”

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