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#GrowYourAudience – Drive High Brand Awareness Through Lead Strategies in Facebook

For anyone with a product to sell one of the first things on our list of strategic action items is to build brand awareness. The question is, what’s the best way to do that? Luckily, there is one tool out there that is right at your fingertips. In fact, you are probably already using it—Facebook. The question is, how do you get started?

One of the quickest ways to use Facebook to help build brand awareness is to adopt the same tried and true techniques that are used for generating leads. Here are five common lead generating ideas that can be effectively applied to creating brand awareness.

  • Post Compelling Content: If you’ve been working with social media for awhile then you know that saying you will post compelling content is easier said than done. The good news is that it can be easier to create content that is all about image than it is to sell a particular product. Blog posts, stories, and other narrative posts can all do an excellent job of telling the story of your business and your brand. Keep it personal and post consistently. You want to engage your audience as well as educate them.
  • Use Facebook Live: Live streaming to your audience can be quick, cheap, and extremely effective in helping you get your brand name out there. You can stream from an event, educate your audience on how to use a product or have an employee talk about themselves or their job. Pro Tip: Practice before you go live.
  • Run a Contest or Giveaway: A contest such as a scavenger hunt or a free sample of your product can be very engaging if it is well managed. Plus, you’ll be able to beef up your mailing list with verifiable data.
  • Run Targeted Ads: If you haven’t used Facebook advertising then now is the time to learn all about it. With the help of the platform’s targeting features, you can reach a whole new set of potential customers. Depending on your particular situation, boosting that compelling content you’ve been creating can be just as effective as traditional ads.
  • Create Special Landing Pages: Combine a strong call to action with a custom landing page, and you can help your audience learn all about you. While you’ve got your audience’s attention, present your case for why you are the best in the business.

Like all sales and marketing tactical efforts, using lead strategies to drive high awareness of your brand will take planning and work. Before you get started, decide how you will measure success. Then put your plan in place, watch the results, and adjust as you need to. With a well-executed plan, you’ll find your brand garnering a whole new level of attention.

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#MarketingTrends2018 – Using Facebook Boosting and Facebook Ads

 

It might surprise you to hear that Facebook ended 2017 with 2 billion monthly active users and is still growing. That’s a lot of people. So it’s no wonder that 93% of social media advertisers use Facebook advertising. That’s not even close to the next most popular platform for ads, Instagram (owned by Facebook) which weighs in at 24%.
 
If you are a social media marketer with an advertising budget, you are probably already on Facebook. But are you meeting your goals? If not, maybe you aren’t focusing on the right tool to get your Facebook content seen and, even better, converting.
 
When it comes to advertising on Facebook you have two choices—news feed ads or boosted Facebook posts. Understanding the difference between the two can be a little tricky, but it’s SO important to choose the right type of advertising!
 
Knowing which route is best for your business objectives means you’re using your money wisely, and your advertising is in front of the right people.
 
What’s the Difference?
Simply put, a boosted Facebook post is a type of ad that takes content that you have developed for your news feed and shares it with a larger audience. Status updates, photos and videos, and special offers are all popular types of content that people choose to boost. When you boost, you are paying to have the content you posted show up in people’s news feeds. You go through Facebook’s ad manager to do this and you have the option of selecting the audience you want to target.
 
Facebook ads work the same way except you have more options for narrowing down or expanding your audience. You also have the ability to include a call to action. Depending on your goals you can have users “Like” your page, visit your website, or take some other action. Since you can target users by very distinct characteristics such as age, gender, and hobbies, ads can be more effective than boosted posts for a planned campaign with well-defined goals.
 
A key difference between boosting a post and placing an ad is that with boosting, you can only focus on visits and engagements. If your objective is simply to build a greater awareness for your brand, then boosts may be just what you need. If, however, you hope to do more than that, your investment will be put to better use with ads.
 
For most social media managers, developing a plan that incorporates both boosting and ads is the way to go.  But if you are trying to accomplish something a bit more specific, like sell a certain product or push the audience toward engagement with your page, then your dollars will work harder with ads. The exact combination will depend on your objectives and your business but both have a part to play.
 
Much like traditional advertising, Facebook is a sandbox where – if you haven’t built up a loyal community yet – you’re going to need to pay to play. Thankfully, Facebook ads are affordable and their targeting system so refined that, if done properly, the financial investment is worth it.

If you want help navigating Facebook ads, or simply want to hand the process over to an expert, schedule a Discovery Session call with me at hollieclere.youcanbook.me.
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Hollie Clere of The Social Media Advisor is a “#BeAwesome” Developer, Social Media, Brand Builder, Content Manager, Trainer and Author in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Google+,YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and the tools to manage them.
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