Just wondering what people’s experiences with Facebook Ads were more recently.  I did a sponsored post that was a Facebook offer (for a free thing) and I got a few people posting that they didn’t want to see my spam.  But I think that’s due to Facebook pushing posts into the News Feed more often. I still had a very good result overall but just interesting quirks to deal with.

Then I read an interesting article by Jason Falls on Facebook Ad saturation:  http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/digital-marketing/facebook-saturation/  Just curious how things were going for your campaigns if you are running them.  

Two things:

1. This is hilarious! -> http://typicalbusiness.com/facebook-sponsored-story-haters-spammers/

2. I’ve been promoting posts on fan pages for my travel agency and also for my own personal Fan Page $5, gets me roughly 100 actions (40 odd pages likes, rest post likes and link clicks) on my personal fan page. The same $5 gets me only 10-20 actions on the travel agency brand fan page.

I think given that the posts are appearing in the feed more often, I’m getting much higher engagement on the personal fan page as it appears as if it’s an actual person over a brand.

Very interesting.

That is really funny @jake-hower – a lot of angry people over the sponsored posts.  

I think it makes a difference whether you are advertising to your fans only who know you (and hopefully like you!) rather than advertising to the friends of your fans who don’t know you and are irritated with advertising in general.  I think that these comments will deter people from using that advertising model!

You are right @annfurnivall  but you can run a Sponsored Story post that is similar to the promoted post but you can add targeting.  So the Sponsored Story post will go into the news feeds of people who may not be your fans – but have friends who are your fans.  I think it’s much more “intrusive” than a promoted post that goes out to people who already like you

 oh well…i hate it and   push the spam button….why  cant they just  stay on the right hand side?   i still see them..i hear you  facebook has a right to do whatever they want…. i  can still hate it….lol

..i have a store page too….and have been getting  some ads there too….  do ii want  to  send my customers somewhere else…NO..i delete…..  i have assumed these  ads’  were  someone  dropping links on  my page….

I’m working through this artical by Amy Porterfield 7 Tips to Create Facebook Ads That Convert http://goo.gl/1D9mx  where she states “I always choose both “Desktop News Feed and Mobile-Only News Feed” to get maximum exposure in the News Feed. Why do I not choose the right-hand column as well? Since making this shift to News Feed only ads, I’ve gone from about 0.1% Click Through Rate to between 4%-7%! To put it simply, ads in the News Feed get much more engagement than ads in the right-hand column on Facebook.”  - this is something i never knew – Just created my first ad with that configuration and will watch closely