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Furthermore, you can create and manage your adverts using Facebook Business Manager and Facebook Adverts Manager. For more information, use the webinar dealing with Facebook advertising.



In the following, you fill find instructions of how you can boost single posts to increase reach of a certain post, i.e. to make sure that the post is shown in the News Feed of more people who would not see the post due to Facebook algorithms without it being boosted.



Create the post as usual and publish it. After the post is online, the “Boost Post” button appears below it.




When you click on “Boost Post”, a window opens. You can now define the audience for the post, define the advert and set budget and runtime. Furthermore, you can add a “Call-to-action” button to your post. It includes a request, such as “Book Now”, “Contact Us”. If possible and adequate, such a “Call-to-action” button should be added to an advert because it can largely influence the click rate. At the beginning, in particular, you should not choose a budget that is too low. Then it might take too long until you have significant figures for measuring your success and decide on whether the audience is right, for example.



After having set all parameters, click on “Boost”.


Under your post, you can now see how many people have been reached by it – divided into organic and paid reach.

When the campaign ends, the scheduled term ends or the budget is spent, you can display the results and metrics to measure your advertising success. Important coefficients are reach, i.e. how many people have seen the post in their News Feeds, and number of interactions, e.g. how many people have interacted with this post, have clicked the link, liked the post or page and shared the post. Here you can also increase the budget and boost the post again or extend advertising. During the campaign, you may always interrupt it and optimise it any time.

The Adverts Manager provides further statistics and insights in the success of your advertising campaign. For example, you may see among what part of the audience the ad was particularly successful, which can be used to define another audience for the next advertising campaign.



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ADVERTISING ON FACEBOOK


On Facebook, there are three options where to place your adverts:

  • In the Desktop News Feed
  • In the Mobile News Feed
  • In the right column of the desktop Version




Furthermore, you can place advertisement in the so called Audience Network. In doing so, you can also reach people who do not have a Facebook account. Additionally, the advertisements will then be spread on other websites and apps.

You can also place advertisement on Instagram. Depending on their format, they will be displayed as image, video or “carousel” in the user’s feed or as a stories ad in their Instagram stories.

There are various possibilities to place advertisements. On the one hand, you can advertise directly on the Facebook page, for example if you click on “Promote”.




You can choose among several options. Ask yourself: What do I want to advertise or how do I want to promote it?


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Define your marketing objective right in the beginning in the Facebook Adverts Manager so that you will be offered a custom-fit format.




The most interesting options for you are probably advertisements that raise the engagement and the range of posts as well as adverts which target the increase of traffic for your website and therefore contain a link to your website.

There are many different advert formats on Facebook for each pursued marketing objective. Basically, every existing post format can also be supported by advertisements respectively is also available for advert format.


AUDIENCE

After having defined your goal, it is important that you identify your audience. Who is the audience for your ad?



Facebook gives you the following three possibilities to select and specify your audience:

  • Core Audiences: Manually select the people according to their age, location etc.
  • Custom Audiences: Spread advertisement to existing contact lists (i.e. existing clients, website visitors, app users etc.)
  • Lookalike Audiences: Spread advertisement to people who resemble your own clientele respectively your own fans


The following factors respectively criteria are available for manual targeting:

  • Location: Do I want to address people everywhere or just the people living in my region, who actually can become customers? As travel agency, how do I benefit from fans at the other end of the world?
  • Demographics: What age has my target group? What language are they speaking? Do I want to address only men or women or both?
  • Interests: What interests does my target group have? Should I focus on those who are interested in travels or certain types of holidays and activities? Do I want to exclude certain people?
  • Behaviour: Do I only want to address people who are noticeably researching travels and, therefore, are maybe planning a trip? Do I just want to reach people on their smartphone?
  • Networking: Do I want to address my fans only or also people, for example, whose friends are fans of my company? Or just the people who are actually my customers? Or people who do not know me yet?
  • Retargeting: Do I want to reach people who have visited my website and looked for information about a certain destination or travel with my ads?

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5.1 FACEBOOK ADVERTISING


Facebook advertising is a relatively inexpensive and simple method to advertise online. Facebook advertising has the following benefits, for example:

  • High reach thanks to high user numbers on Facebook
  • Precise targeting and definition of the audience that should see the ad and be addressed
  • High flexibility (ads can be optimised or stopped any time, there is no minimum duration or minimum budget)
  • Precise cost control by specifying a daily and total budget. If the budget is spent, the campaign immediately ends.
  • High transparency and measurement of success
  •  Organic Posts often possess limited range because of the Facebook News Feed Algorithm (Edge Rank) -> Facebook advertisement can increase the range of your posts


5.1.1 WHAT IS IMPORTANT WHEN ADVERTISING IN SOCIAL MEDIA?


Before advertising on Facebook or LinkedIn, you should consider the following.

WHAT GOALS DO I HAVE?

Before you publish ads, make sure you know which kind of goals you want to pursue, since this will affect the ad’s format.