Facebook ads are one of the most powerful external traffic sources for Amazon sellers. If you set up a successful Facebook ad campaign, your Amazon listing will benefit from increased sales velocity, which leads to a higher BSR, better rankings and more profits.
Not only that, but you’ll also get an edge over your competitors. The vast majority of Amazon sellers never use outside traffic sources, such as Facebook.
Best of all, setting up your first campaign is actually pretty easy.
Reviewing the basics
As discussed in previous chapters, make sure you drive your Facebook ad traffic to a landing page, instead of straight to your listing.
Sending Facebook traffic straight to your product listing massively decreases the chance of your campaign being a success.
You’ll want to use a sales funnel such as this:
Making your landing page compliant with Facebook’s terms
To make sure your landing page is compliant with Facebook’s terms, we recommend the following:
Host your landing page on your own website.
Include a link to your privacy on your landing page.
Include navigation elements that link away from your landing page.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, we will walk you through setting up your first Facebook ad campaign.
Setting up your first Facebook Ad campaign
Step 1: Setting up a Facebook Page
First, you’ll need to set up a Facebook page for your business. Without a Facebook page, you won’t be able to run Facebook ads. Before you proceed, invite a couple of friends to like your page for some extra social proof.
Step 2: Setting up a Facebook Ad account
Next, it’s time to set up a Facebook ad account. Go to facebook.com/business and click “Create an Advert”.
Choose Conversions, and give your ad campaign a name.
Now you’ll need to select a conversion event. If you use LandingCube, choose “Lead.” LandingCube triggers this event when your customer enters their email address. (If you don’t see any events here, make sure you’ve set up your pixel and requested a coupon at least once, so Facebook knows of the event.)
Step 4: Targeting
Now you want to define your audience targeting. This is the most important part of your Facebook campaign setup. The more you know about your target market, the easier this will be.
Creating an audience essentially lets you target people based on a number of characteristics, including age, location, interests or behavior. It’s really powerful.
Here are a couple of things to consider when building your audience:
Create an audience of at least 10,000 people. The more people exposed to your ad, the better.
Be as specific as possible. Use detailed targeting, as you shown in the image below.
Interest targeting is particularly powerful. Make sure you include “Amazon.com” as an interest to ensure they’re enthusiastic Amazon customers, and try to find as many interests relevant to your product as possible.
If I wanted to sell bodybuilding supplements, I’d probably target like this:
Or, if I wanted to sell a “Happy Birthday” plush cat, I’d target people like this:
As you can see, I’d target Women aged 18-40 who have an upcoming birthday, and who are interested in Amazon.com, cats, and stuffed toys.
Step 5: Setting your budget & schedule
Set a reasonably low daily budget to start ($5?), and make sure you set an end date that matches the expiration date of your landing page.
Leave most of the other settings to default, and continue to ad creation.
Step 6: Setting up your creative & launching your ad
Once you’ve created the ad, just hit Confirm to launch your ad.
Step 7: Tracking results
It’s important you track your campaign’s performance. If you don’t stay on top of your campaign stats, you could end up spending a lot of money on something that doesn’t work.
In the early days of your ad campaign, make sure to check your results daily. You can check your results by following this guide.
Image source: Facebook.com
Conclusion
As you can see, setting up a Facebook campaign isn’t that hard. It’s important, however, that you check your stats often, and that you improve & optimize your campaign further.
This article only scratches the surface on how to run Facebook ads. As you get more experience, we highly recommend you continue learning more about Facebook ads. Here are some great resources:
