Ever Try A Facebook Ad?

Bryce Wilson

I was curious if anyone has tried a facebook ad in an attempt to drive sittings and what the results were.

Questions I would have are:

How much did you spend?
How many sittings did you get?
Which demographics did you target?

Anything else that might help with the decision to give it a try.

Thanks!

idiotabroad

I personally ignore all ads on my FB. I think they are annoying, I'm there to converse with friends NOT be sold something. And if the same one pops up multiple times and I remember it I normally make it a point NOT to buy anything from the company. Just my pennies.

Mark Dickinson

idiotabroad wrote: »

I personally ignore all ads on my FB. I think they are annoying, I'm there to converse with friends NOT be sold something. And if the same one pops up multiple times and I remember it I normally make it a point NOT to buy anything from the company. Just my pennies.

I have one consistently running, about 200this month clicks at .25. One booking for 250.oo shoot, one request for booking for wedding but I was not available.

Start low, then if you get no traffic then bump it up 10 cents...

It's hit or miss but I know get fans from it, and potentials

Pupator

idiotabroad wrote: »

I personally ignore all ads on my FB. I think they are annoying, I'm there to converse with friends NOT be sold something. And if the same one pops up multiple times and I remember it I normally make it a point NOT to buy anything from the company. Just my pennies.

Don't forget that you're using someone else's idea, someone else's servers, and someone else's employees so that you can have a place to "converse with friends." If you choose to punish the companies who advertise on services you use, and thus punish the service company itself, you pretty much ruin any chance at survival or innovation in the future. Just my pennies as well.

idiotabroad

It's FB Pupator, it will never die as long as there are people like Bryce willing to pay for space. I'm against the machine in this case.

idiotabroad

Ohh and BTW were almost at a nickle... We could almost put our own ad up.

ThatCanonGuy

idiotabroad wrote: »

It's FB Pupator, it will never die as long as there are people like Bryce willing to pay for space. I'm against the machine in this case.

I think FB is a fad, and I believe it will die. I realize it can be useful, but seriously... you can't go anywhere in public these days without people staring down at a cell phone. Oh well. Just my pennies

idiotabroad

6 pennies. Cannon guy that was my point, it's a fad. But it will continue as long as people are putting ads on there. I still like the pounding pavement method and networking face to face. In the cell phone age it's wise to make sure your webby loads in mobile devices. 2 more pennies, up to 8 cents.

Mark Dickinson

My 10 dollars: facebook wont die as fast as myspace did because look at how many people dont have friend pages of 3000, 4000, etc. Google + is as facebook was in the beginning so both are trying to keep their users on their sites so they dont have to go anywhere.

fotoluv1220

FB ads can be a great way to get fans, especially if you are using it in tandem with a marketing campaign (like a contest) and a landing page. If you can set up the landing page so that people can sign up there for an email newsletter, you can keep marketing to them even if Facebook fades out of favor.

Although I love Google+, I think that a lot of people who have signed up for Facebook aren't tech savvy. They aren't going to move over to something else unless they have too. I think FB will be relevant for quite awhile and probably will become better with the competition from Google. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

Jill
http://jillsfotoluv.com

zoomer

Better question to ask yourself:
Have you ever read a Facebook add. I never look at them.

idiotabroad

YES Zoomer

Mark Dickinson

I bet subconsciously you have seen them. I see them and laugh since they are all about 'photography' to me