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<\/span><\/p>\nFacebook Retargeting is a potent ad strategy and it can ramp up your sales and take your online business to the next level…if and only if you have enough traffic to build a retargeting audience from in the first place. <\/p>\n
I can already hear you groaning in frustration at the mention of having to generate traffic to your website. <\/p>\n
Don’t worry, what I’m going to show you is a cheat code to get around this frustration (and many others). <\/p>\n
Today, you’ll discover how to generate extremely relevant cold traffic to your website using the Facebook platform itself. <\/p>\n
When you have extremely relevant cold traffic seeing your ads, you will:<\/p>\n
- \n
- Spend less money in Facebook<\/li>\n
- Have more conversions on your website<\/li>\n
- Generate relevant traffic (warm leads) to build a retargeting audience later<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
To show you anybody can do this from scratch, I will take an area I know nothing about and use a few tricks within Facebook to learn everything I need to develop an extremely relevant custom audience I could then use to level up my online business.<\/p>\n
Your Facebook Targeting MUST Be Focused – Here\u2019s Why<\/h2>\n
Unlike other advertising platforms like Google Adwords, where ads are based on keywords people actively search for, Facebook targets ads based on demographics.<\/p>\n
This means you\u2019re showing ads to people who aren\u2019t necessarily looking for a solution to a particular problem. That\u2019s why showing relevant ads to a relevant audience is essential to a successful ad campaign.<\/p>\n
The Goal Here Is Two-Fold:<\/span><\/h4>\n
- \n
- Target the most relevant audience you can <\/span>Again, this is because a highly focused audience means more conversions and more sales from your ad.<\/li>\n
- Building extremely relevant traffic to your website<\/span>People who click your ad are interested in what you\u2019re promoting, even if they don\u2019t convert on the visit. If you run the ad campaign long enough you will build up enough traffic to your site to take advantage of Facebook\u2019s retargeting. You can then create a retargeting campaign to try to convert the warm leads into customers later on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
To show you how you can do this for your own industry, I’m going to pick a random topic I\u2019ve never done research on\u2014woodworking\u2014and take you through the process step-by-step.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nBuilding a Focused Audience From Scratch<\/h2>\n
Normally, to really<\/span> understand what your potential customers\u2019 interests are you need to do a lot of time consuming research to create an accurate buyer profile.<\/p>\n
This involves things like: lots of brainstorming, customer calls, support calls, live chats, surveys, social media conversations, etc.<\/p>\n
These are extremely valuable activities to do, but we’re going to shortcut our way past all that for right now, if you don’t mind…<\/p>\n
Step 1 – You Gotta Start Somewhere<\/h3>\n
Most of you will already have a general idea of your competition and the relevant Facebook pages in your industry. But, since I know nothing about woodworking, I will be starting with the Facebook search bar to help me find a relevant page to begin.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nIn the Facebook search bar I simply put \u201cwoodworking\u201d and hit search.<\/p>\n
After results are loaded, I make sure to select \u201cpages\u201d at the top and then note down some relevant and popular pages (pages with > 100,000 Likes).<\/p>\n
In this case I note down \u201cWoodworking Enthusiasts\u201d and \u201cWoodworking for Mere Mortals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Note: If you can’t find a decent amount of pages with >100,000, scale it back and look for pages with >50,000 likes.<\/span><\/p>\n
Step 2 – Find Other Relevant Pages<\/h3>\n
Now, after going to go to the \u201cWoodworking Enthusiasts\u201d page I want to find their unique Facebook Page ID. To do this, I right click on the page and hit \u201cView Page Source.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nA new page will open with lots of code. Hit \u201cCtrl+F\u201d (\u201cCmd+F\u201d for the Mac users) and in the search bar type \u201cpage_id:\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Facebook Page ID will be the number following. Copy this number.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nFacebook has updated, so now you need to search for “page_id:” instead of “profile_id=” to get the right number.<\/em>\u200b<\/em><\/p>\n
Now, you\u2019re going to use: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/?frompageid=ID and paste the number you just found for \u201cID\u201d in the URL above.<\/p>\n
For \u201cWoodworking Enthusiasts\u201d the URL becomes: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/?frompageid=254934824680430<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nThis will give you pages similar to \u201cWoodworking Enthusiasts\u201d like you see above.<\/p>\n
Again, note down relevant and popular pages and then pick a new page and do this process a few times to build a list of relevant and popular pages in your niche.<\/p>\n
After going through this process a few times, here\u2019s the list of pages I\u2019ve found:<\/p>\n
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- Woodworking Enthusiasts<\/li>\n
- Woodworking for Mere Mortals<\/li>\n
- The Family Handyman<\/li>\n
- Woodcraft<\/li>\n
- Daily Craftsman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- The Wood Whisperer<\/li>\n
- Bob Vila<\/li>\n
- WoodWorkers Guild of America<\/li>\n
- The Outdoor Option<\/li>\n
- HouseLogic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Step 3 – Learn More To Create An Ultra Focused Audience<\/h3>\n
Now it\u2019s time to really dial in on an audience by using Facebook\u2019s Audience Insights Tool, found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The first step is to enter the pages you found in step two into the Interests section of the tool.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nSearch for the pages you found in Step 2 and add them in the Interests section.<\/p>\n
After inputting the interests, I get an audience size of 3-3.5 million people, which is still too large. So I\u2019m going to use some of the information the tool provides to narrow down the audience even further.<\/p>\n
Note: Not all of the pages you found will be listed as an interest, but the hope is some or most of them are. This is why you try to pick popular pages with over 100,000 likes.<\/span><\/p>\n
First, I\u2019m going to look in the Demographics tab and see what I can find.<\/p>\n
The tool will compare the audience you\u2019ve input with the rest of Facebook, which you can use to learn about the type of people in your industry.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nUsing the demographics tool to find out information I can use to target my audience further.<\/p>\n
For example, looking at relationship status: 52% of the people who like the woodworking pages I input are married, when you look at ALL of Facebook, only 17% of people identify as married (a difference of 35%, seen in green).<\/p>\n
Now compare this with the single column: 26% of the people who like the woodworking pages I input are single, when you look at ALL of Facebook, 59% of people identify as single (a difference of 33%, seen in red).<\/p>\n
It seems people interested in woodworking tend to be married. Noted.<\/p>\n
You can do this type of analysis on the other sections found in Demographics. I\u2019ve boxed what I found interesting for the woodworking industry above.<\/p>\n
Next, I move on to the Page Likes section. Facebook will show (and categorize) you even more pages resonating with the audience you\u2019ve input.<\/p>\n
Many of these will be similar pages you found using the related pages technique discussed in step two. But sometimes you\u2019ll find pages you missed in areas you didn\u2019t think about.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nUse the page likes section to learn more about what your audience likes. It can give you great ideas for other areas to target later.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve highlighted some other pages that could be added to your targeting above. If anything, these will give you more insight into what your audience is interested in for more targeting later on.<\/p>\n
Finally, I\u2019ll look at the location section to see where the majority of these people are living to get a good idea on what locations to start my targeting with.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nStep 4 – Create Your Highly Targeted Audience<\/h3>\n
Putting it all together, I\u2019ve used the Insights tool to learn the following and can add it to my targeting arsenal:<\/p>\n
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- Age and Gender<\/span> \u2014 Male and Female 35-54<\/li>\n
- Relationship <\/span>\u2014 Married<\/li>\n
- Job Title<\/span> \u2014 Veterans; Cleaning and Maintenance; Military; Farming, Fishing and Forestry; Installation and Repair; Government Employees; Construction and Extraction<\/li>\n
- Location<\/span> \u2014 Ireland, USA, Thailand, Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I can put these new parameters into the Audience Insights tool to reduce the audience size from the 3.5 million we started with down to 80k-90k.<\/p>\n
Note: Depending on your budget and the area your product is in, this might still be too large. If that\u2019s the case, eliminate some parameters (for example, change from both male and female to only male) to narrow down the audience even further.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\nThe final targeted cold audience I can use to serve relevant ads to <\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve performed all of the steps you now have an extremely relevant and highly targeted audience for your industry.<\/p>\n
You can now save this audience (at the top of the audience insights page there is an option to save) so you don\u2019t have to input all of these parameters again in the Facebook Ad Manager when you\u2019re ready to create\/publish your ads.<\/p>\n
This is Where The Opportunities Start to Get VERY Interesting…<\/h2>\n
Once you have some ads ready, you can apply this technique immediately to start sending relevant traffic to your website and start leveling up your online business. <\/p>\n
Not only are you sending relevant cold traffic to your website\u2014meaning more conversions\u2014you’re also creating massive opportunity for your business down the line when it comes to Facebook ads!<\/p>\n
Check this out:<\/p>\n
Option 1: Continue To Hone In On Your Target Audience<\/h3>\n
There\u2019s two ways to do this:<\/p>\n
- \n
- Rinse & Repeat<\/span> \u2014 Create a new audience using different pages and parameters found using this technique or from the results from this first ad campaign.<\/li>\n
- Create A Lookalike Audience<\/span> \u2014 Use Facebook to create a Lookalike audience from all the new traffic to your website. Once you have the Lookalike audience created, you can use the information you already know about your target audience (demographics, jobs, locations, etc.) to selectively target the lookalike audience even further.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Option 2: Start A Retargeting Campaign<\/h3>\n
Not everyone who visits your site is going to convert. So you can create a retargeting campaign to serve ads to the visitors who didn\u2019t signup\/buy. It\u2019s an extremely effective strategy and you can learn more about how to do it effectively from this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Pro Tip:<\/span><\/h4>\n
It’s best to create a Lookalike audience from people who have actually converted on your site, instead of creating a lookalike audience from people who have only visited. <\/p>\n
If you’re selling a product, it might take a long time to build up enough conversions to build the Lookalike audience. It’s also much harder to get cold traffic to buy something without building rapport first. <\/p>\n
Here’s a more effective strategy: <\/p>\n
- \n
- Create an irresistible opt-in offer<\/a><\/li>\n
- Build a landing page<\/a> for the opt-in offer<\/li>\n
- Create ads to promote the irresistible opt-in offer<\/li>\n
- Use this post to send relevant, cold traffic to the landing page<\/li>\n
- Get conversions and build your list (to sell to later in emails)<\/li>\n
- Create a lookalike audience from the conversions<\/li>\n
- Serve ads to the lookalike audience (with targeting) to get MORE conversions<\/li>\n
- Create a retargeting campaign<\/a> for the people who saw the landing page but didn’t sign up<\/li>\n
- Create a different retargeting campaign for the people who signed up but haven’t bought yet<\/li>\n
- $$Profit$$<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Now, go be Bruce Lee with your new Facebook nun-chucks!<\/p>\n
If you have questions leave them in the comments below and if you have successfully tried this technique, leave those stories in the comments as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Build a landing page<\/a> for the opt-in offer<\/li>\n
- Create A Lookalike Audience<\/span> \u2014 Use Facebook to create a Lookalike audience from all the new traffic to your website. Once you have the Lookalike audience created, you can use the information you already know about your target audience (demographics, jobs, locations, etc.) to selectively target the lookalike audience even further.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Relationship <\/span>\u2014 Married<\/li>\n
- Age and Gender<\/span> \u2014 Male and Female 35-54<\/li>\n
- Building extremely relevant traffic to your website<\/span>People who click your ad are interested in what you\u2019re promoting, even if they don\u2019t convert on the visit. If you run the ad campaign long enough you will build up enough traffic to your site to take advantage of Facebook\u2019s retargeting. You can then create a retargeting campaign to try to convert the warm leads into customers later on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
- Target the most relevant audience you can <\/span>Again, this is because a highly focused audience means more conversions and more sales from your ad.<\/li>\n