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Ad Objectives, Facebook Updates, Landing Pages

Coffee Break Guides Day Two: The Landing Page

Today’s 5 minute Coffee Break Guide is all about the landing page for your ads.

People tend to put lots of effort into what the ad itself says and who it is targeting, but then link it to a bad page. It doesn’t matter how freakin’ amazing your ad is if you’re sending the traffic to a dud page!

Here are our top tips for landing page success…

1. Focus on the Form

The idea of a landing page is to remove all distractions from the page and have one clear focus – getting the inquiry. You want the customer to click the ad and be drawn towards the inquiry form at the top of the page, where they will enter their details to get a free quote, a consultation call, a free eBook – whatever you told them about in your ad.

Even the best mobile optimised websites in the world can get fewer inquiries, as people read through the information, browse the site, then run out of time and have to go offline. Focus on a fast conversion from the ad to the inquiry form, with just a few other bits of content on the page that incentivise them to proceed, such as before/after photos for a landscaping business.

2. Mobile Optimisation

This one is SO important – over 90% of people clicking ads are likely on their mobiles or tablets, so the page they land on has GOT to look great on mobile. If you have ever clicked an ad and landing on a page that isn’t mobile optimised, you’ll know how little patience you had with it.

We use Instapage, but there are several other great tools to create landing pages that you can design separately for mobile devices. Many landing page providers charge around $100 a month – they are completely free including hosting with our packages. Contact us here for more details.

3. Add Your Tracking Pixels

If you click here, you can read all about the Facebook pixel and why it’s so important. Make sure when you design a landing page, you also add the pixels to the page in the same way you would add them to your website. You can apply the same pixel to both your landing page and your website. This way you can retarget traffic that visits both platforms.

You can also add Google Analytics and Google Adwords Conversion Pixels to a landing page – contact us if you need help with installing these.

4. Incentivise an Enquiry

Some of the best inquiry boosters for our clients are:

– Free Consultation
– Free Quote
– 10% off When You Enquire Now
– £50 off First Orders
– Limited Time Package Offers

These messages just above where you’re collecting their name and email address will help you to seal the deal. You can also apply countdown clocks to inquiry forms, which work well to add urgency alongside limited time offers.

5. Fast Follow Up

The longer you leave it to reply to an inquiry, the less chance you have of closing the deal. Our landing page forms are set to email our clients automatically when a new inquiry comes in. This way, they can immediately call or email the customer back to proceed with their booking.

If you need any help designing a landing page, drop us a message now! They are completely free with our Facebook marketing packages including monthly hosting: click here to send an inquiry.

Ad Creatives, Ad Objectives, Facebook Updates

Coffee Break Guides Day One: The Facebook Pixel

We get asked almost every day what the Facebook pixel is, why it’s important and how the hell you install it! That’s why today’s Coffee Break Guide is all about the precious pixel…

Coffee Break Guides

What Is It?

A pixel is a teeny bit of code that goes into the back end of your website. If you have built your website on a system like WordPress you’re in luck, as there are lots of great plugins that you can download for free such as Pixel Caffeine and Pixel My Site, then it’s just a case of putting your unique pixel code into it which takes seconds.

So what happens next? Well, if someone visits your website from anywhere, for example, a Google search, directly typing in your website address, an email link, your Facebook profile, the pixel will ‘fire’ and register that person’s visit to your website. You can also install ‘lead events’ which are extra bits of code that you ONLY place on certain pages. Here are some examples:

AddToCart – you can use this to track when someone adds something to their cart. This way, you can send abandoned cart messages to those who didn’t complete the purchase, and get them to come back.

InitiateCheckout – this will track who started the checkout process, you can then retarget people who didn’t complete a purchase with a discount code for example.

Lead – you could install this on the ‘thank you’ page after someone submits an inquiry, so you then know which of your ads led to an inquiry on your website.

How Do I Use It?

1. Retargeting
The pixel allows you to target people with ads based on actions they’ve previously taken on your website. So for example, you can create a custom audience in Facebook and say ‘show my ad to anyone who has been on my website in the last 7 days’. This is ‘retargeting’ and it is so effective when trying to convert clickers into enquirers.

They say on average someone needs 8 interactions with a business before they make a purchase – depending on the value of the item and decision-making process, it can be even more than this. It’s important to not only run ads consistently but be retargeting content to your website visitors, building that trust and increasing the chances of a conversion.

2. Lookalikes
Not only can you target people that have been to your website, you can also find people that are just like them! Facebook profiles each and every one of us, and it can take a look at your pixel data to find an audience that is just like the people visiting your website and taking action on it.

Lookalike audiences can have a 48% higher click-through rate than a general interest audience. One laser clinic we worked with said her phone was on fire the first day we switched from an interest-based audience to lookalikes, and we have similar results for many different industries.

3. Reporting
One great thing about the lead event pixels is that you can match back conversions from your ads, so you know which one worked the best. You can see in ads manager how many actions were taken on a pixel, for example, a fire of the lead event pixel on your inquiry form would show you how many people sent an enquiry after seeing a specific ad.

Sounds Great! How Do I Get One?

Facebook have made this process nice and easy, but if you need any help getting your pixel set up, you can send us an enquiry here. This step by step guide walks you through how to get the pixel from your Facebook ads manager account:

Have any questions? We’d love to help! Just drop us an enquiry here and we’ll be able to answer any questions you have.

READ DAY TWO: THE LANDING PAGE HERE

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Ad Objectives, Google Adwords

Who Gets the Credit? The Attribution Headache

How many times have you started researching holidays on your mobile on lunch break, then continued on the iPad at night? A few more searches on your laptop when you’re getting serious about booking, maybe even looked up YouTube videos on the destination on your Smart TV?

As you then take the next few days and weeks to think about it before booking, you’ll be retargeted with Facebook ads, Google display ads and more – everywhere you look you’ll see golden beaches and deck chairs staring back at you, until eventually you cave and book, but what channel closed the deal…and is that even the one that should get the credit?

This is where the attribution debate begins. Marketing budgets are precious, so we have to ensure you are putting money into the right channels.

Over 58% of markets use a last click attribution model, which assigns all credit to the last thing you clicked before you booked, but is this really fair? It’s a question we’ll never agree on I’m sure, but it’s good to take a look at how your performance report shapes up when you use the other attribution models too.

So what are the other options? Well, first click, last click and data-driven are the better-known options. Another is linear, where the conversion is evenly attributed across all touch points. There’s also time decay, which is sometimes criticised as it has a short 7-day window but can be good for more urgent services such as emergency window repair and dentistry.

The final option is position based, which was much-praised for fairness at the presentation. The position based model assigns 40% of the credit to the first and last click, the rest is split between the middle touch points. This is seen as a good starting point, so is worth exploring.

Attribution

However you decide to split your data, the most important thing to keep in mind is that there will almost always be multiple touch-points with your business before a person converts.

Each is important, as it is building brand awareness and credibility for your business, so use a blend of channels and placements as part of your marketing strategy.

Check out more insights from the Google NYC visit here.

Ad Creatives, Ad Objectives, Google Adwords

Google Ad Suggestions – Save Time, Increase Sales

At a recent visit to Google NYC, we learnt that over 44% of people only have 1 ad in each ad group, which is a rookie fail. Luckily, Google have just launched a cool new tool called “Ad Suggestions” to save us time and make us more money #win-win.

Research has shown that ad groups with 3 or more high-quality ads can get up to 5% to 15% more clicks or conversions than ad groups with only 1 ad, provided ad rotation has been optimised.

We are all so different, one or two good ads are not going to appeal to everyone. As an example, under 30s are generally more receptive to a 10% off message than a free shipping message. We’re all searching for ads that solve different problems, one ad cannot possibly keep everyone happy.

So with multiple campaigns and ad groups, who has time to create multiple ads for each seriously?!

Introducing auto Ad Suggestions, and they’re pretty damn good. We were shown examples of ads written by a human and some by a bot – it really was impossible to tell the difference.

Auto Ad Suggestions

How it works is, Google’s genius bots scan your existing ads, and re-phrase/re-order to create different versions of the ads. You can also apply some clever rules to personalise ads further, which are called ‘if statements’. For example, an ad that says “Stay at The New Yorker Hotel from $200 per night” could be personalised to include “10% off for Returning Guests” when the ad is shown to a previous booker.

Google is also working on ‘in market’ audiences for search, currently a feature open to display only. This uses past search and browsing history to nail down if someone is a serious searcher, and actually ‘in the market’ to book now. These are warmer leads so will be able to drive higher conversion rates.