Are you actually ready to find someone to run your ads yet?
If your business does something other than do marketing for other people, this is for you….
One of my readers asked me a question about outsourcing her Facebook ads the other day, and wanted some help on what she should look for, so I pulled together this little checklist to show what’s involved…
The ads themselves
Easy enough?
Oh, but here we go, there’s a lot more than that…
You notice how no-one really talks about that? That’s because they’re keeping their cards close to their chest.
Sure you can ad pixels to your site and retarget those people, or create “lookalike” audiences, but you need somewhere to start from and that can be EXPENSIVE. Like $$$’s per click.
Easy enough, as long as you know what a realistic benchmark is and how much you can really afford to acquire a lead, which brings us on to
How much is each ad making, not just today, but over the life of the customer. Facebook’s reporting won’t tell you that, or refunds, or cancelled payments.
Good marketers understand Lifetime Value and are even prepared to make a loss on the first sale. That’s what separates the men from the minions in paid ads.
OK, so now we have a lot of traffic at a decent price, from interested people.
Now the fun starts.
The best Facebook ad marketers agree on one thing.
They won’t trust the client’s website to convert.
They all need to go hand in hand with your ads and work as well as each other.
That means you need someone with skills in:
Life just got a lot harder finding the right person.
Don’t panic though. This isn’t hard as long as you’ve done your groundwork.
Where most campaigns really go wrong is picking tactical teams who can do these things, but leaving the overall strategy down to them as well.
Strategy means the big questions of:
Missing these steps is at the root of nearly all the failed campaigns we’ve seen, and yet the tactical teams get blamed for “not thinking it though”.
I designed the MAPPED method to make sure these steps don’t get missed before we start building out the tactical campaign assets.
If you want to see whether you’re ready t be handing over your advertising to someone else, you should take a look.