Create target groups in Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads is awesome. Not only because you have ridiculously many segmentation options and because you can also create a need with Facebook Ads, unlike Google Adwords based on an existing need. You also have wonderful opportunities to appeal to all kinds of interesting new target groups with Facebook Ads. Based on your newsletter file. You can learn how to create your customized target group in Facebook with this 'hands-on' blog.
I assume that you already have a Facebook Ads account, access to Excel and work with MailChimp or similar mailing program. The starting point is this: newsletter readers are open to receiving your messages by e-mail. So they would also be positive can about your posts via Facebook.
Have you already read how you more readers for your newsletter gets? Connect nicely with this. We are going to pick up your newsletter file. I give MailChimp as an example because I work with it myself. You can also do a selection on the quality of your newsletter readers in this way. If you do not want to do that, or if you do not have so many newsletter readers to filter (minimum 100 is required), skip this step and go directly to Create custom audience in Facebook Ads.
The standard rule is that if you want to read mail addresses, it is best to do that in TXT format and not in CSV format. We will now read the CSV file into Excel, filter for quality and transfer to a TXT file.
You have now successfully imported your MailChimp list into Excel. You not only receive e-mail addresses, but also all kinds of extra information:
Interesting? Uh, yes. Because column D gives you the member rating: the extent to which the newsletter reader also reads your newsletter. That is a good indication of the extent to which a similar person would be interested in your Facebook advertisement. Provided that you hit the same string of course. I recommend to member rating 2 filter out: those people don't even open your newsletter yet. For this you need a minimum number of Member rating 3+ of around 200 people (Facebook needs 100 profiles, and not every email address corresponds to a Facebook profile).
Each Facebook account is linked to one or more e-mail addresses. If that e-mail address matches an address in your newsletter file, you can then set up a Facebook campaign on it. Please note: you will never be told by Facebook that dus@niet.nl is linked to a 'Peter Jansen'. And that's a good thing too. This is how you create your customized audience in Facebook Ads:
Go to you Facebook Ads account and click on at the top Utilities and then on Target audiences.
Then click Create target group and choose Create custom audience.
A new window with options appears:
App activities is therefore for readers with an app or game, which I do not cover here. Website traffic is covered by the Facebook Ads Pixel below. We will now start with Customer list. Click.
You have the following options:
I explain File Upload and Import via MailChimp:
You use MailChimp and you do not want to make filtering according to the quality of your readers? (perhaps because your newsletter file would otherwise be too small) Then use this option.
click on Import via MailChimp.
Your custom audience has been created. And you immediately get even more options offered by Facebook:
In English: look-a-like audience. Facebook looks on the basis of a source, which other Facebook profiles are comparable to as a target group. And that is interesting: Facebook therefore gives you a target group with similar profiles based on your customer list. The only point of course: you only get that in Facebook. The challenge is to convert that target group into profiles (newsletter readers) and customers. In short: at achieve conversion.
You now see the two new target groups that you have created:
You will receive a notification from Facebook when your target groups are ready. You can then use them in your ads.
The possibilities with Facebook Ads go one step further. You know you are with Google Analytics can set your conversion goals? You can also do that with Facebook Ads ... and you can then create it again as a Custom Target Group. What does that mean:
When I say 'target', I mean:
A restaurant owner in Amsterdam South has a mailing list of 200 regular customers. Based on this, he creates a comparable target group of 10,000 potential customers. With this he sets up a Facebook Ads campaign focused on reservations, and he also installs the Facebook Ads Pixel. This results in 300 visits to his website and 15 reservations. With the Facebook Ads Pixel he can create a Custom target group of the 300 people who clicked through to his website, and exclude the 15 reservations. With this he can with a different message that 285 interested people might still be tempted to make a reservation. (retargetting).
In addition, he can create a comparable target group based on those 300: a target group based on click behavior on his advertisement and his original mailing list. And after a while he can also create a Custom target group based on people who reserve in response to his Facebook advertisement, and create a comparable target group with it.
After the Facebook Ads Pixel is set up, you can then create a Target audience and make Conversion. I first explain how to set up conversions. You can then set your Ads to achieve those conversions. Facebook will use it to optimize your ads for your conversions ... and yes, that is very useful. Go to the Pixel section Make conversion.
You get 2 options:
The first option, Track Conversions With Standard Events, is, as I mentioned above: conversions for which you also have to adjust the code. Does it matter more complicated, while you can do most things with Track Custom Conversions.
You can also do the explanation of Facebook read about it yourself. You will then find the conversion under Custom conversions on the right under the name you gave it. If no custom conversion has yet taken place, Facebook is happy to give you tips and help. You can now adjust your running ad and set the Custom conversion as a goal.
Do you remember that example of that restaurant? You do that as follows:
In the Pixel section, click Create target group:
With a custom combination you have the most options:
click on Create target group and your new Custom Target Group is among your other target groups. And as explained below Create comparable target group, you can create a comparable target group based on your Custom target group. Yes it is a bit of a puzzle in the beginning. But once you run Facebook Ads Pixel, and you collect information about the behavior of your target group with your campaign, you can address a more appropriate target group every time. And that's just awesome.
45-minute telephone 1-on-1 in which we can discuss everything about Facebook marketing: page problems, growing likes, creating interaction and coming up with content, creating / collecting and scheduling. After this session you can better use Facebook as a business asset.
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