In this month’s lesson we’re going to take a look at Facebook’s new ad platform and get everyone up to speed on using Facebook advertising in 2015. Over the last few years I have created a number of lessons related to different aspects of Facebook advertising. But with so many recent changes to the ad platform I thought it was time to create one, comprehensive and current lesson that walks you through the process of creating an ad campaign from A – Z. If you are new to advertising then this lesson will teach you everything you need to know to get started. If you have experience with Facebook ads then you’ll learn about a number of new and important changes to the platform.
You can find the lesson by clicking here.
If you have any questions or comments about the lesson, please leave them below.
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Again, being completely new to this whole system, everything you show in the creation of the audience and all the images you show on your screen and how to set this up are nothing of what I am presented with in Facebooks pages. How am I to know what to choose or how to approach this system if I can not see and have explained what it is I am doing for each section. First the menu is on the left and from top to bottom I see a panel that states “Campaign” with a sub text of “objective”, the next panel is “AD ACCOUNT” with a sub text of “create new”, the third panel is “AD SET” with two sub texts of “audience”, which is not the same screen you are showing, and “budget & schedule”. The last panel on the left is “AD” with two sub texts of “format” and “creative”? I don’t know exactly what I should enter in any of the panels and they again do not look anything like you demonstrate in you lesson.
The “Campaign – objective screen displays a set of options, which are, Boost your posts
Promote your Page
Send people to your website
Increase conversions on your website
Get installs of your app
Increase engagement in your app
Reach people near your business
Raise attendance at your event
Get people to claim your offer
Get video views
The rest of the panels are locked until you enter additional information “URL to promote”
I originally enter just the main webpage for the squeeze page that is how I saw the additional panels to see that I was not seeing what you were showing in your lesson. I have since deleted that URL until I receive additional instructions of if that is how I should proceed and how to enter all of the additional panels information. Please advise. Thanks
Hi Allen,
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, what you describe is exactly what I show in the lesson. All of those options on the left are visible when I am pulled out with my screen view, and I discuss them before zooming in. That said, accessing those areas of the ad from the left panel is not the best way to go about it. Your better off following my instructions in the video. That video was shot this week and is 100% current with the way the FB ad dashboard looks.
My advice is to go back over the lesson. It sounds like you have just missed something. This lesson is a complete step by step of the current ad dashboard.
If you're certain something is different in your ad dashboard then your only other option would be to film the screen so I can see what you're seeing. You can do that for free with Jing: https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html and post the video here and I'll happily take a look.
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Thanks John, I admit I did not watch the video in complete. It's just that where you start off in the video at the screen of selecting an audience felt a little like walking into the middle of a movie and not knowing the plot. I will watch the entire video and then go back to the beginning if need be to set up what you explain in the start of the video. Thanks for your patience, I have just never done any of this and am completely clueless about marketing. I will try to be more patient and watch all of it and review places of the lecture that I need more clarification. Thanks.
No problem. If you open up your ad manager in one tab, and open up the video in another, you should be able to do everything side by side and it should line up exactly.
I zoom in on certain things so you can see things better and it may be that you just missed the shot before I zoomed in, so it looked different. The whole reason I created this lesson was so that everyone had something that would line up exactly with the current ad manager 🙂
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I think I'm ok, I'll let you know if I have any other questions. What I did is, first there are 4 panels and yours only shows three. There is a second panel originally that has a table of "Ad Set", but what I did was click a tab at the bottom that has me cancel the screen that you go to after you set up the audience and it then takes me to the first screen you show in your video that allow me to set up an audience and schedule to obtain that pixel code that you show. I am in the process of doing that right now and will then go back to the first screen I was presented, which is where you go after you set up the audience and place that code on our Splash page. Again, I will let you know if I have additional questions or if that 2nd panel shows up and your video does not explain. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Thanks for you prompt responses to my questions.
My apologies the panel tab that is missing in you example that I see in mine is call "AD ACCOUNT"
Hi Allen,
Sorry for the slow response. I took a little time off for Christmas.
I'm a little unclear about what you are referring to, but it sounds like you got things sorted. By your description it just sounds like you needed to create your ad account. If you're still having issues please provide a screen shot so I can see what you mean. All the best,
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Hi John,
Thanks so much for this great, very detailed video! I get how to make ads from scratch, but I was intrigued by your comment towards the beginning of the video that lately you prefer using an existing FB post as an ad.
If I'm not mistaken, you mentioned that you'd show us what you mean when you cover re-targeting later in the video, but I don't think you got back to that subject. Is there another place where you teach us what kinds of posts are the best to use as ads, and show us the same kind of step-by-step instructions on how to set up a campaign around an existing FB post?
Maybe it's within a re-targeting lesson that I missed? (I don't totally understand re-targeting yet, but sometimes I need to view these videos a couple of times for all of the more technical points to click.)
Thanks again,
Ali
Hey Ali,
Glad you liked the video. I believe I did show you what I meant, right around the 1:26 minute mark, although I don't go into too much detail as there isn't really that much to it.
It's basically just a matter of creating a post that looks just like an ad you would create, but posting it as an organic post that lives on in your feed, rather than as an ad that disappears the second your ad campaign is turned off. It makes managing the ad for the long haul easier, and it ads a bit of additional social proof to your FB page.
Let me know if you have any additional questions about the process.
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