Jon Loomer

APRIL 5, 2022

The process of adding standard events can be confusing and overwhelming for some publishers. Automatic Events can help. Let’s explain what Automatic Events are and how you can turn them on. What Are Automatic Events? Facebook detects these events through contextual activity happening on your website.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But one of the most common points of confusion I see is understanding the differences between custom events and custom conversions. This became especially obvious recently as I’ve written more about custom events. Custom Events To understand custom events, we first need to define “standard events.”

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Jon Loomer

AUGUST 30, 2021

Thanks to a recent update, advertisers can now optimize for and track Facebook custom events — without needing to first create a custom conversion. If this doesn’t make sense to you, allow me to explain… What are Custom Events? There are two kinds of events: 1. But custom events needed another step.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If you create and promote a Facebook event from your page, it’s important to engage, remind, and re-engage those who showed interest in it. One way to do this is by running ads targeting Facebook event custom audiences. Let’s take a closer look… Overview of Events. Your event can be either online or in person.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you use custom events , you need to read this. Go to your Events Manager, and you may see this message to “Verify your custom website event(s).” Let’s discuss… What Are Custom Events? Verify Your Events As I write this, the requirement to verify custom events is rolling out.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 11, 2021

Now that we’re in the world of iOS 14 , Aggregated Event Measurement, and the 8-event limit , one of the biggest issues I’ve heard from consultants and agencies is an inability to access and optimize for a client’s configured Facebook events. How to Share Custom Conversions. It all comes down to access.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

For the past couple of years now, I’ve used Google Tag Manager to manage the Facebook pixel and events (both standard and custom events). In this post, I’m going to walk through exactly how I do that. I wish I would have started using GTM to manage my Facebook pixel and events sooner. Create Standard Events.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Facebook pixel events are critical for conversion tracking, optimization, and retargeting. The Pixel Event Setup Tool may not be sufficient (it’s not for me). The Problems with the Pixel Event Setup Tool. The Problems with the Pixel Event Setup Tool. Pixel Event Code. The Easy Solution: Pixel Event Generator.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

If you pass purchase events to Meta via the pixel and API, you may be aware of a challenge: What do you do when the value of the purchase is variable? The issue comes into play when we have to pass events manually by adding our own event code. Confirm that, but it’s likely the case. What did you do?

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The Social Media Hat

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The post How To Use AI-Based Programmatic Advertising To Promote Virtual Events appeared first on The Social Media Hat. Get the right message to the right client at the right time.

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Ever since ChatGPT made it into the mainstream, marketers have been scrambling to find creative ways to use it. Here’s a good one: Use ChatGPT to generate purchase event code for your Facebook pixel. When creating a purchase event, you’ll need at least the following information: Product Name. Value (purchase price).

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Jon Loomer

JANUARY 9, 2023

There’s a troubleshooting tool that can help diagnose and solve a lot of your problems related to conversion events. You can easily view where Facebook conversion events are firing by domain and URL. Let’s take a closer look at where this information is found and examples of how it’s so useful… Event Breakdown.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 20, 2023

You should use Meta events to track important actions that happen on your website. While there are standard events for your typical transactions (purchase, lead, contact), I also use nine custom events that fire when important engagement occurs. These events benefit Meta advertising. Create a separate event.

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Jon Loomer

JULY 24, 2023

If you dig into your Meta conversion events, you are likely to notice a problem: Conversion event data doesn’t match up. I’m not talking about your event data matching up with Google Analytics or other third-party reporting tools (these things will never match up). Browser vs. API Event Deduplication.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Facebook pixel events are critical for conversion tracking, optimization, and retargeting. The Pixel Event Setup Tool may not be sufficient (it’s not for me). The Problems with the Pixel Event Setup Tool. The Problems with the Pixel Event Setup Tool. Pixel Event Code. The Easy Solution: Pixel Event Generator.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

To make the most of the pixel, you need to utilize Facebook pixel events on your website. Not only must you utilize events, but you must do it right. This post is your introduction to Facebook pixel events. It will help you better understand what pixel events are and how to use them. What Pixel Events Are.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One way to do this is by creating an audience based on event frequency. In this post, we’ll walk through how to isolate your audience based on the frequency of events executed. But, I’ll also give you the tools to dig deeper and create audiences based on event parameters. Select an Event.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Whether you’re in PR or a Social Media Manager, knowing how to navigate online interactions is important. With fast-paced social feeds cycling from one event to the next, the internet can feel like the Wild West. In this guide, we will define social media moderation and how to leverage it to communicate during global movements.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 10, 2023

I’ve heard from a handful of advertisers recently who were experiencing issues with their Meta events not firing properly. In each case, the problem was caused by using “URL equals” when setting up events. Creating Standard Events with the Event Setup Tool. Third-Party Tool Integration.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Facebook pixel events and custom conversions are important tools that can amplify your marketing and advertising efforts. Given some crossover between the two, it may be challenging to understand the difference between them as well as when and how to use each. Likewise, you can’t select a custom event. Dynamic ads.

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Audiense

AUGUST 25, 2020

This is a guest blog written by Ryan Gould, vice president of strategy and marketing services at B2B agency Elevation Marketing. Ryan brings extensive experience with a wide range of B2B clients. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Last week, I wrote about how to create a custom event that fires when someone views a page of your website for 60 seconds. Now let’s create an event based on scroll depth. Like with the time on page event, I originally wrote about this three years ago but made it way more complicated than it needed to be.

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Jon Loomer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

If you have a big event coming up, Reminders Ads are a great way to make sure that your raving fans don’t forget about it. It doesn’t matter what the event is — whether it’s online or offline. It could be a sale, going live on Instagram, or a physical event. Watch Video I recorded a video about this, too.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If you create and promote a Facebook event from your page, it’s important to engage, remind, and re-engage those who showed interest in it. One way to do this is by running ads targeting Facebook event custom audiences. Let’s take a closer look… Overview of Events. Your event can be either online or in person.

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2021

While we have stepped into the new year of 2021, there is one trend that will not be going away anytime soon: social media live events. Live videos provide a way for an authentic connection to your target audience, and they are especially imperative with the world still battling COVID-19 and as a result, holding fewer in-person events.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 27, 2022

It has to do with unranked events. My custom report consists of about 30 metrics in all, from standard Facebook ads metrics to standard events and custom conversions. Ranked and Unranked Events. This, of course, assumes that you have ranked your events (you can rank up to eight). You aren’t alone. An Example.

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Jon Loomer

MARCH 14, 2021

As advertisers configure their Facebook web events in preparation for iOS 14, we’ve been hearing from many experiencing hidden Facebook events. As you can see in the example above, hidden events are grayed out and won’t allow you to see or configure them. And they may have configured specific events for each pixel.

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But I have a solution for you: A custom event that combines time spent and scroll depth. I also assume that you’ve already created tags for both the 60-second view and 70% scroll events. The easy solution is to create a custom conversion that maps to that custom event. Quality traffic with Facebook ads is the Holy Grail.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 6, 2024

When HubSpot asked social media marketers about their biggest challenges, “ reaching our target audience ” came in second place, only behind “ creating engaging content.” Understand Interests and Pain Points Now you know the basics of your audience — who they are and how many exist. This is a massive issue for many brands.

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Ignite Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Since COVID-19 hit, we’ve seen almost all major events move online and people scrambling to figure out how to make them work. By now, it’s likely you’ve sat through a conference or event yourself and have seen an array of ways these can be conducted; some informational and entertaining, some maybe not as exciting.

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Amy Porterfield

JUNE 2, 2022

My step-by-step process for pulling off an online event like a pro Lights… Camera…. Live events sure look a whole lot different these days than they used to, wouldn’t you say? When I first started my entrepreneurial journey 13 years ago, in-person events were really the only way to get your community together […].

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Jon Loomer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That’s why custom pixel events are so important. What I’m going to describe is done with custom events and Google Tag Manager. Once you create such an event, you can use this for reporting, optimization, and targeting. I wrote about these custom events nearly three years ago. Then paste your base pixel code.

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Jon Loomer

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You can create a custom Facebook event to track, optimize, and retarget them with Facebook ads. One of the reasons I do that is because of the ease of creating custom events like this one. For more on using Google Tag Manager for creating custom events, check out the following blog posts: Create Facebook Pixel Events for Scroll Depth.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Digging into your competitor’s approach through a marketing competitor analysis is critical to putting together or updating your brand’s marketing strategy. It is the key to your business’s future success because when you look more closely into your competitors’ marketing, you learn from their successes and mistakes.

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Jon Loomer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Late last year, Facebook added the ability for brick and mortar businesses to track the offline impact of their Facebook ads with Offline Event Sets. Now advertisers can target these customers through Offline Event Custom Audiences. Refresher: Offline Event Sets. You selected this offline event set for one of your ads.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. Do your research You need to be aware of the market conditions to allocate the right marketing budget.

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Jon Loomer

APRIL 24, 2019

A few days ago, I wrote about Facebook’s new Event Setup Tool that simplifies adding pixel events to your website. This is a huge development because Facebook pixel events aren’t fully utilized by marketers as they should be. Why do you need to use pixel events? How can events benefit your marketing?

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