Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site, with almost 2.9 δισεκατομμύριο συνδέεται απρόσκοπτα σε οποιαδήποτε παρουσία στο διαδίκτυο. It’s only natural that entrepreneurs worldwide are wondering how to advertise a business on Facebook.
Ωστόσο, beginner sellers often get overwhelmed when figuring out a new advertising platform. Καταλαβαίνουμε: social media ads can be complicated. That’s why there are almost infinite tips on social media marketing, and the Facebook Help Center has thousands of pages for people to navigate. Καταληπτώς, it can be intimidating.
Μην ανησυχείτε, we are going to help you through the process of advertising on social media. Σε αυτό το post, we will explain how to advertise products on Facebook and set up your first ad campaign.
Why Advertise on Facebook?
The great thing about Facebook advertising is that when you run an ad, it can not only appear on Facebook, but also on Instagram, Δίκτυο Κοινό, και το Facebook Messenger. With a single campaign, you can reach people on all their favorite platforms.
Facebook is an effective method to promote a small business for many reasons:
- It’s budget-friendly. Facebook prioritizes ads that perform well and shows them more frequently for cheaper.
- It’s beginner-friendly. Even if you’ve never set up an ad campaign before, you can launch yours in a couple of steps.
- It’s effective. Flexible targeting settings allow you to reach potential customers easily.
- It doesn’t take much time. Creating an ad campaign on Facebook will usually take less than 15 λεπτά.
- It fits different marketing goals. Whether you want to attract new customers or give a special offer to loyal ones, Facebook helps you do it all.
- It can be automated. You don’t have to closely monitor your campaign because most of the work is done automatically.
εντάξει, now let’s see how all these things work.
Ways to Advertise on Facebook
There are two main ways you can promote your business on Facebook:
Boost Your Posts on Facebook
When you post organic (aka not paid) posts on your Facebook business page, you can see a blue Boost Post button at the bottom of some of your posts:
The Boost Post button allows you to quickly create a Facebook ad from one of your existing posts. This ad can appear in different places on Facebook, and you can show it to the people you choose.
Boosting a post is a quick way to share your business with people who might be interested. Promoting your page with boosted posts helps to grow your followers and increase engagement, such as getting more likes or comments.
Run Facebook Ads
While boosting posts can drive engagement and grow your page, running ads on Facebook helps you attract potential customers and encourage people to shop in your online store.
There are different Facebook ad formats you can use:
- Photo ad. It is a simple format that works better with engaging photos and copy.
- Video ad. It allows you to show off your product or brand using a video. The format comes in a range of lengths and styles.
- Ads in Stories. As you could probably guess, this format is used to run ads in Facebook and Instagram stories.
- Messenger ads. Use it to promote your business on Facebook Messenger. You can add interactive elements to it.
- Carousel διαφημίσεις. This format allows you to display up to ten images or videos in a single ad, each with its own link. Great for spotlighting different products.
- Slideshow ads. These are video-like ads made of motion, ήχος, και κείμενο. They allow you to advertise across various devices and connection speeds.
- Συλλογή διαφημίσεων. They display a primary video or image with three smaller images below in a grid-like layout. A great option that allows customers to browse what you offer.
Collection ad on Facebook
Should You Boost Posts or Run Ads?
Not sure how you should promote your business on Facebook? Should you use boosted posts or ads? Πρώτα, you need to figure out what you want to achieve.
If you want to increase audience engagement on your Facebook business page or improve your brand awareness, consider boosting your posts. It is a great way to gain visibility and grow your audience.
If you have specific business goals in mind, such as getting more website visitors and purchases in your store, it’s better to go with ads.
Ads are also the best choice if you want to create more advanced ad types and campaigns. Για παράδειγμα, there are various creative and formatting options available in Ads Manager that aren’t available when boosting a post from your page.
Facebook ads can also provide you with more advanced tools for audience targeting.
Όταν ενισχύετε μια ανάρτηση, you can choose to place it on Instagram in addition to Facebook news feed. But with Facebook ads, you can choose placements in Facebook newsfeed, Messenger ads, Ιστορίες Instagram, instant articles, και Δικτύων Κοινό.
Deciding whether to boost a post or run an ad really depends on your goals, but it is an important decision nonetheless.
How Much Does It Cost to Advertise on Facebook?
It’s hard to report the average cost to advertise on Facebook because you have to decide how much you want to spend on your ads. στην πραγματικότητα, you can set a limit for each campaign.
Facebook uses an ads auction system. It means that you inform the platform how much you’re willing to pay to have your ad shown to your target audience. Then the platform gets you as many results as possible for that amount.
To make sure you don’t spend more on ads than you planned, you can set up a campaign spending limit and an account spending limit.
A campaign spending limit is a limit on the overall amount your ad campaign can spend. An account spending limit is a lifetime limit on the amount your Facebook ad account can spend across all the ad campaigns you’re running from the time the limit is set.
Prepare for Advertising on Facebook
There are a few things you should consider before putting up your first advertising campaign.
Study Advertising Policies
Did you know that you are not allowed to entice likes in your ads? Or that you can’t use images with weapons pointed at the person who sees the ad? Or that there are restrictions to advertising subscription services?
Before you start coming up with an ad campaign, make sure your business is eligible for advertising on Facebook. Read their advertising policies closely to ensure you can advertise your products or services. Be aware of possible restrictions.
Set Up Facebook Pixel
Facebook Pixel is an analytical tool that helps you understand the actions customers take on your website. Για παράδειγμα, how many site visitors saw a certain product page, or added that product to a cart.
Facebook Pixel provides you with data about your customer’s behavior. This is invaluable for creating effective ad campaigns. Για παράδειγμα, some people visited a certain product page in your store but left without a purchase. Using Facebook Pixel data, you can create an ad offering a discount on that product and show that ad to those customers only.
There are many ways to use data collected by Facebook Pixel when creating your ads. Για παράδειγμα, you can find new audiences to attract. Ή, you can measure conversions (points at which your site visitor completes the desired goal) και τις πωλήσεις έτσι ώστε να γνωρίζουμε ακριβώς πώς οι διαφημίσεις σας αποδίδουν.
If you want to run more effective ad campaigns and track their results, it makes sense to set up Facebook Pixel as soon as possible.
με Ecwid, installing Facebook Pixel to your store is as simple as copying and pasting. No tech knowledge required! εδώ είναι πώς να το κάνω αυτό.
Εάν δεν έχετε κατάστημα Ecwid, you can manually set up a Facebook Pixel. You need to be more tech-savvy for that, but you can use this εντολή.
Μάθε περισσότερα: Facebook Pixel στρατηγικές για να σας βοηθήσει να τρέξει πιο στοχευμένες διαφημίσεις
How to Set Up Your First Facebook Ad
Facebook ads are created in Ads Manager. It is a Facebook tool that lets you create and manage your Facebook ads. It also tells you how your ads perform so that you can adjust your ad campaigns if needed.
If you have never advertised on Facebook before, you should begin to familiarize yourself with the structure of Facebook ads.
Your Facebook ad consists of three parts: a campaign, an ad set, and an ad. Campaigns are made up of ad sets. Ad sets are groups of ads that use the same settings for when, όπου, and how they will run. And your ads are creative visuals made up of engaging pictures, Βίντεο, και κείμενο.
At the campaign level, you set your ad objective (για παράδειγμα, driving more people to your website.) At the ad set level, you choose your strategy by setting up targeting, budget and schedule. At the ad level, you choose creative visuals that drive the audience to what you’re trying to promote.
Τώρα, let’s learn how to run a Facebook ad campaign:
Βήμα 1: Create a Campaign
To launch your first ad campaign, παω σε Διαχειριστής διαφημίσεων, βρες το Διαφημίσεις tab and click Δημιουργώ. You’ll be asked to choose your advertising objective.
To choose the right ad objective, Ρωτήστε τον εαυτό σας: “What’s the most important outcome I want from this ad?” That could be attracting visitors to your website, increasing visits to your physical store, or growing orders in your online store.
Σε αυτό το παράδειγμα, we’ve chosen Φθάνω as an objective. It will maximize the number of people who see our ad—handy for building brand awareness.
After you choose your objective, you’ll see a page where you can edit the campaign name and declare if your ad is related to special ad categories (πίστωση, εργασία, housing, social issues, elections, or politics.) As long as you’re making an ad for an online store, you don’t need to declare those categories.
You can also check campaign details and set a campaign spending limit on that page (this is optional):
There is also an option to create an A/B test for your ad. This test allows you to try different images, κείμενο, and audiences to see which combinations perform best. It’s a helpful tool but unnecessary, especially if this is your first ad.
Turn on the Campaign Budget Optimization if you want to set up a daily budget for your ads:
Κάντε κλικ Επόμενο to proceed to creating your ad set.
Βήμα 2: Create Your Ad Set
Now it’s time to create your ad set. Στην επόμενη σελίδα, enter a name for your ad set and choose the Facebook page you want to promote from the dropdown menu:
You can turn on the Dynamic creative σύνθεση (this is optional). You’ll be asked to provide creative elements, such as images and headlines, and Facebook will automatically mix and match them to generate combinations optimized for your audience.
Βήμα 3: Set Your Budget and Schedule
Βρες το Προϋπολογισμός & πρόγραμμα section on the page to define your daily or lifetime budget. The daily budget is the average amount you are willing to spend on a specific ad set per day. The lifetime budget is how much you’re willing to spend over the entire run-time of your campaign or ad set.
Σε ΑΥΤΗΝ την ΕΝΟΤΗΤΑ, you can also set up the time period during which you want your ads to run. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο, you don’t keep ads going for longer than they are relevant.
Βήμα 4: Choose Your Audience
Βρες το Κοινό section to define who you want to see your ads.
Choose the demographics, τα ενδιαφέροντα, and behaviors that best represent your target audience by combining what you know about them. This can include age, τοποθεσία, Γλώσσες, τα ενδιαφέροντα.
Σε αυτό το παράδειγμα, we created an audience of English-speaking young people living in the US who are interested in fashion:
Κάντε κλικ Save the audience to use it in your future campaigns.
Βήμα 5: Choose Ad Placements
Με απλά λόγια, decide where to run your ad. This includes Facebook, Ίνσταγκραμ, Αγγελιαφόρος, Δίκτυο Κοινό, or all of them.
Βρες το Placements section and choose Automatic or Manual placements. Automatic is recommended as Facebook will allocate your ad set’s budget across multiple placements based on where they’re most likely to perform well.
You can also choose where to show your ad manually. Here you can add or exclude some placements via a simple checkbox:
After you finish choosing ad placements, scroll down to the Optimization & διανομή Ενότητα. You can set a cost control if you have a specific spending goal. If you don’t set one, Facebook will spend your entire budget to get the most results.
Όταν τελειώσετε, Κάντε κλικ Επόμενο.
Βήμα 6: Choose Your Ad Format and Ad Creative
We discussed Facebook ad formats a bit earlier, and now it’s time to choose which one you want to use. Για παράδειγμα, carousel and collection ads work best if you want to showcase your online store’s product range.
Select images or videos for your ad in the Ad creative Ενότητα. Enter your ad headline and call to action. Don’t forget a link to your online store!
You can see how your ad will look in different placements in the Προεπισκόπηση section on the right:
Βήμα 7: Set Up Tracking
Remember we talked about Facebook Pixel earlier? Now it’s time to put it to use!
Για αυτό το βήμα, Facebook Pixel must be installed in your online store (πάλι, here’s the streamlined process for Ecwid stores, and here’s how to do that χειροκίνητα.)
Βρες το Παρακολούθηση section and check the Website Events κουτί (website events are actions that people take on your website):
Βήμα 8: Publish Your Ad
When you’re satisfied with your settings and ad format, Κάντε κλικ Δημοσιεύω. After you submit your ad, it goes to Facebook’s ad auction to get it to the right audience.
Συγχαρητήρια, you’ve just launched your first ad campaign on Facebook!
Βήμα 9: Measure Your Campaign Performance
Your advertising adventures are not yet done! Τώρα, you need to track your ad performance in Ads Manager. Check if your ad is being delivered efficiently, and edit your campaign if needed.
We can’t stress enough the importance of measuring your ad performance. Not only does that help you see which ad formats work best for your business, but it also helps you discover more about your target audience and improve your ads over time.
Για παράδειγμα, beginners often want to know the best days to advertise on Facebook, or the best time to advertise on Facebook. Δυστυχώς, articles answering these questions are often oversimplified and potentially misleading. Just because a specific time slot worked for one business doesn’t mean it’ll work for yours.
But you have ways to collect data to get a better understanding of your target audience. You can track sales with Facebook Pixel, set up other analytics tools on your website (σαν Το Google Analytics), and look into Πληροφορίες για το κοινό στο Facebook. Better data will allow you to create more effective and budget-friendly ads.
Make the Most of Facebook Ads for Online Stores
We’ve explained above how to create Facebook ads from scratch yourself. Even if you are a business owner who doesn’t have any experience with advertising, you can create a Facebook ad if you put enough time and effort into it.
If you don’t have the time to do everything from scratch yourself, or if anything ad-related overwhelms you, there are some alternative ways to advertise your online store on Facebook—especially if you use Ecwid by Lightspeed! If you sell on Ecwid, you can set up Facebook ads without much work at all.
Ecwid sellers can create Facebook ads through κλίκα, a marketing tool that simplifies the process of purchasing, δημιουργώντας, and targeting your advertising campaigns.
Kliken drastically simplifies ad creation and setup compared to direct setup on Facebook. Your ad campaigns will be automatically optimized. Kliken will also provide you with campaign statistics.
Καλύτερο από ολα, you don’t have to create ads featuring your products from scratch. Kliken will use your product catalog information (product titles, περιγραφές, τιμές) να κάνω ads that spotlight your products:
Here are some other benefits of running Facebook ads with Kliken:
- Easier than manual ad setup and management. If you don’t have much experience with ads or don’t feel comfortable running ads without any help, Kliken is the tool for you.
- Brings back customers who showed interest in your products. When implementing a Facebook ad campaign, Kliken uses information about previous customer activity, like what products shoppers viewed in your store or added to their cart. They will then show those products to past visitors to bring them back to your store.
- Cheaper than outsourcing. As with most marketing tools, Kliken charges a fee. Ωστόσο, it is much lower than hiring an ad specialist.
Kliken will run your ad campaigns on Facebook and Facebook Audience Network, excluding Instagram and Facebook Messenger.
Follow the instructions from the Κέντρο βοηθείας to launch your first Facebook ad with ease. Ή, watch our video below that explains the process step by step. It also shares tips for running a more effective ad campaign with Kliken.
Οπως βλέπεις, advertising on Facebook is much easier when you’re an Ecwid seller.
Εάν δεν έχετε κατάστημα Ecwid, σκεφτείτε creating one. Apart from simplified Facebook ads setup and management, Ecwid allows you to set up a shop on Facebook and Instagram so that customers can buy your products without leaving their favorite apps.
Many Ecwid sellers benefit from advertising their products via Facebook, so don’t hesitate to test out this ad platform. Here’s what Laraine Craig, an Ecwid seller and the owner of the clothing brand A Little Lacey, says about using Facebook ads:
“Facebook Ads has been one of the main drivers of growth for our business over the last 12 months with increased traffic and sales through ad campaigns.”Laraine Craig, owner of A Little Lacey
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Start Advertising on Facebook
Now that you understand a little bit more about how Facebook advertising works, it’s time to put what you learned into practice.
Για να ξεκινήσετε, we suggest creating a few test campaigns and seeing how they perform. Be sure to track your results so you can learn what works for your business. Once you have a good idea of what is successful, και τι δεν είναι, you can start scaling up your advertising efforts.
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