May 18, 2017 | Blog, News
Facebook pixel – what you need to know
Facebook pixel is a tool that allows you to know or measure the effectiveness of your ads by understanding the actions that people take on your website. Facebook pixel is a small piece of code that is unique to your ad account of every page of your website and should be placed between the head tags. The pixel also allows you to create custom audiences based on general website visitors, or those who visit specific pages.
Without the Facebook Pixel you’re limiting yourself from the most popular targeting options. And you leave behind a whole lot of juicy data to work with for any future advertising you do.
How do you create a Facebook pixel?
It’s incredibly simple to get started, this is how:
- In your Ads Manager, go to your Facebook Pixel tab
- Click on Create a Pixel
- Enter the name of your pixel (Choose a name that represents your business, or even use the name of your Ad Account)
- By clicking on the box, you accept the terms
- Click Create Pixel
Make sure you email the pixel code to your web developer, so they can install the pixel for you. And let the pixel fire for a week or so, so that Facebook can understand audience behaviour on your website.
How will a Facebook pixel help you?
- Tracking. Facebook Pixels can be used in tracking on how many times an action has occurred. By knowing this, you will be able to ascertain, for example, how many products you have sold from a specific brand or you can also track how many leads are generated from a Facebook campaign.
- Custom Conversions. With the pixel is on your website, Facebook will know when someone visited and what page they visited. By using Custom Conversions, they will send a report back to you on who hit on your pages.
- Optimisation. You can use Custom Conversions to tell what you want. When you set up a Facebook campaign, it will ask what your objective is for the campaign. But how does Facebook optimize this? You simply tell them using the Custom conversions.
- Another thing that you can use to help you benefit from the Facebook Pixel is creating a retargeting audience. It is created under “Audiences in the Business Manager tab. You can target anyone who’s visited your website. You can also target people who visit a specific website. You can also target people who visit specific web pages but not others. You can also simply engage those people who haven’t visited your site for a while.
Have you tried the Facebook Pixel yet? The Facebook pixel may seem still a mystery for some advertisers. To some they use it but not knowing how to use it and what is its importance. As you can see with the benefits mentioned above, it is almost impossible to run a successful Facebook ad without using the pixel. Take advantage of the enormous opportunities that Facebook Pixel can give to you.
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May 13, 2017 | Blog, News
Branding consistency for social media
Consumers always purchase products from the brand that they know and trust. This means that as a business owner, you need to interact well with your customers and by doing this; your customers will identify you, primarily through consistent branding. When consumers know the identity of your brand, then they will build a relationship with you, they will trust you and then purchase from you. It’s what we know as the ‘know, like and trust’ factor.
Whether you’re a retail store, cafe, online shop, boutique or even non profit organisation, your brand needs to gain proper exposure and social media can help you in reaching your target market by spreading the message to your target audience.
Social media is a cost effective way of advertising a company’s products or services but you should consider the importance of consistency in branding. You don’t want your customers to be confused that’s why it is important to have consistency.
But why is consistent branding important?
- Brand consistency takes your product to the next level of marketing by bringing a level of professionalism to your business. Look at a name and slogan for your business so that your customers can easily identify you. When your customers see your logo, it should evoke emotion, and create the urge to purchase from you without even asking for them to do so. You should have a consistent display name on all your social media accounts, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This is important because having different brand names will have the notion of confusion to your customers and this can result to your customers questioning your brand’s official name.
- Brand consistency is about building trust. A customer buys and trusts the brand that they know and recognise. When consumers are trying to find a certain product, it is not just about the name but there is also an emotional decision that takes part so as business owners, you should engage your consumers on a personal level. With consistency in branding, it will engage to your customer’s emotions and through this, your brand will be trusted.
- When you have consistency in your brand it will not create any confusion to your fans. One of the reasons why you have a fan page is to promote your business and what you offer. The goal of social media is to reach your audience and other potential consumers so if you will be inconsistent then, this will lead to your customers to not follow you because they might find it confusing.
Developing a consistent brand may be challenging but once you know the importance in your business then you won’t find it hard and you will see that your efforts will have a positive outcome in your business.
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May 9, 2017 | Blog, News
Business Manager – the best way to manage Facebook
Business Manager for Facebook is a secure way of accessing and managing pages and ad accounts. This allows business owners to manage their ad accounts while keeping their personal Facebook profiles separate. And this can be a handy tool, if you use external agencies and consultants to help with your Facebook marketing.
Facebook Business Manager has been used for some time now and there are also some few problems regarding the tool, however Facebook has managed to solve most of these issues regarding its complexity and made the tool more user friendly over time.
But why do you need a business manager account on Facebook and how can you benefit from it? Here are some reasons why.
- Facebook Business Manager lets you manage multiple ad accounts. It will be easy to track your Facebook Ads that you run. It has been designed to help agencies or a company that requires managing advertising accounts and lots of pages. Thus, it means that you don’t have to go back and forth between pages.
- You can manage everything in just a single place. You can advertise accounts, audience, pages and even reporting when you’re using this tool. Talk about multi-tasking? The Facebook Business Manager can do that for you.
- This tool can also bring your team and assign different tasks to them. You have control on the things that they just need to do in the page. This tool lets you assign multiple tasks and keeping your personal profiles separate from your business. It means that it prevents the mixing of personal profiles from business tasks.
- Facebook Business Manager allows you to hook up with other businesses. It also provides additional functions that are not available on Facebook like uploading catalogues.
- This tool is also helpful to websites or blog that needs to share or use a custom audience from other websites. It also helps businesses in managing their business in multiple countries with different time zones.
- There is no need for you to be friends with the people you have assigned to do tasks in your pages and ad accounts. You can just use Business Manager to designate roles to them and they never have to see your profile at all.
And from an agency perspective, we can set up a Business Manager account and be given access as our business, and not as individuals. That way agencies can allocate pages and ad accounts to relevant staff.
If you want to request access to pages, you need more than one account and you’re working with a partner or agency then Business Manager is the perfect tool for you.
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