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June 21, 2023

Should You Turn on Advantage+ Creative for Facebook Ads?

Should you turn on Advantage+ Creative to automatically adjust your Meta ads? I know most advertisers are resistant to the changes that Advantage+ Creative can provide, but let’s discuss it. After you’ve added your creative, you can get a preview of the types of changes that can be made to…

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June 20, 2023

The Byproduct of Having an AI Chatbot

This is the amazing byproduct of having an AI chatbot. In order to make it as valuable as possible, you'll improve your website in the process... I’ve been testing a chatbot for the past few weeks. My goal is for it to be an extension of me and my content.…

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June 19, 2023

There Is No Better Motivation Than Desperation

There's no better motivation than desperation... More than 12 years ago, I was laid off for the second time in two years. I created a website and just started writing. I had no idea what I was doing or what I should do. But I knew that I had to…

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June 18, 2023

How Advantage Expansion Targeting Works

Here's how Advantage expansion targeting works with Advantage Detailed Targeting, Advantage Lookalike, and Advantage Custom Audience. If you enter detailed targeting in your ad set, you may see this message... “Advantage Detailed Targeting: Reach people beyond your detailed targeting selections when it's likely to improve performance.” If you turn this…

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June 17, 2023

Which Facebook Ad Gets Credit for a Conversion?

Which Facebook ad gets credit for a conversion? There’s often confusion about how Meta handles conversion reporting when someone is served multiple ads prior to converting. Do all ads get credit? Do some ads get credit? This is often the claim, that Meta inflates conversion numbers in this way. But…

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June 16, 2023

What Are Multi-Advertiser Ads?

What are multi-advertiser ads? Let me show you... When creating an ad, you’ll see a checkbox for multi-advertiser ads. It says: “Enabling this may increase your ad’s exposure to people in a shopping mindset by allowing this ad to appear alongside ads from multiple businesses.” This applies only to Facebook…

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June 15, 2023

How to Publish One Video Per Day

Here's how I publish a video every day... I know it sounds difficult, but I’m telling you, it’s not. I know some people batch record once per week, but I don’t do this for a lot of reasons. Mainly it overwhelms me even thinking about it. Typically, I’m one day…

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June 14, 2023

Beneficiary and Payer Requirements for European Union

Beneficiary and Payer requirements are coming for all new, edited, and duplicated Meta ads targeting people in the European Union. If you target any countries in the EU, you will see a message in your ad set requiring additional information. This is due to regulatory requirements in the European Union…

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June 13, 2023

Use the 80-20 Rule to Determine Your Remarketing Budget

How much should you spend on remarketing? People love round numbers and rules of thumb, so let’s start with one: Use the 80-20 rule. Dedicate 80% of your budget to prospecting and 20% to remarketing. But these things impact that approach… 1. Your budget. If you’re spending $10 per day,…

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June 12, 2023

The Aggregated Event Measurement Tab is Gone

It finally happened, my Aggregated Event Measurement tab went away... Meta made it official nearly four weeks ago, but my Aggregated Event Measurement tab in Events Manager is finally gone. My Events Manager did get a new look in the meantime, but it took a while to get this update.…

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June 11, 2023

How the Attribution Setting Works in Meta Ads Manager

Here's how the Attribution Setting works in Meta Ads Manager... The Attribution Setting is found within the ad set under your performance goal. By default, attribution is set at 7-day click and 1-day view. This means two things: 1. Meta will optimize to deliver to people most likely to convert…

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June 10, 2023

Big Update to Columns Dropdown Menu in Meta Ads Manager

The Columns dropdown menu received a big facelift in Meta Ads Manager. Here's how it works now... The Columns dropdown menu in Ads Manager is where you get access to column presets, the ability to customize columns, and the compare attribution feature. The old Columns dropdown menu was just one…

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June 9, 2023

Should You Use Advantage+ Placements?

Should you use Advantage+ Placements or should you manually select the placements that work best? When you create your ad set, Advantage+ Placements is on by default. This makes all placements available for your ads. I know some advertisers will manually turn off placements to focus on those that perform…

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June 8, 2023

Is Detailed Targeting Dead?

Is detailed targeting with Meta advertising dead? We could be heading in that direction... The argument to abandon detailed targeting grows stronger by the day. Meta has removed far more interests and behaviors than they’ve added over the years. And studies have shown that interests are not only incomplete but…

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June 7, 2023

Pick Which Delivery Recommendations Meta Can Automatically Apply

You can pick which Delivery Recommendations Meta can automatically apply. But should you? Here's a walkthrough... If you toggle on "Automatically Apply Delivery Recommendations" in your Account Overview, you'll get the ability to turn this on for specific types of changes. Campaign Structure: This seems to apply to combining campaigns…

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June 6, 2023

Instagram Reels Bug Related to Meta Business Suite

It looks like there's a bug related to publishing and scheduling Instagram Reels from Meta Business Suite that is impacting delivery and views. Here are two examples... I scheduled a video a couple of days ago through Meta Business Suite that has received only about 10 views. About four hours…

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June 5, 2023

The Problem with AI Chatbots

This is what worries me about AI-powered chatbots... When you create a chatbot, you provide the content to train it on. You can provide files, text, or website URLs. You can have it crawl the entire sitemap of a domain or submit links individually. The potential issue is that you…

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June 4, 2023

Republish Underperforming Videos to TikTok and Reels

You should republish underperforming videos. Here's an example... Recently, I published a video that did surprisingly little on TikTok and Instagram Reels. A normal video has a few hundred views within a few hours. This video had close to 0 views on both platforms. Around four hours later, I republished…

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June 3, 2023

Why Can't Some Meta Ad Reviews Be Instantaneous?

Why does it have to be this way? These two ad sets are part of a leads campaign promoting my Bot Beta Test. The first ad set was approved a couple of days ago. It's been running successfully with no issues. The second ad set is a duplication of the…

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June 2, 2023

Automatically Apply Delivery Recommendations

Should you automatically apply delivery recommendations? Let's dig in... You may have seen this message in your Account Overview: "Automatically Apply Delivery Recommendations." Meta's documentation says this about Delivery Recommendations: "Delivery recommendations are suggestions in Meta Ads Manager to help improve the performance of your active campaigns. They're based on…

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June 1, 2023

AI-Powered ChatBot with Chatbase

This is the latest iteration of my AI-powered chatbot. I've experimented with seemingly every possible app, but this is likely the direction I'll go. This time, I'm using Chatbase. I've trained this bot on more than 140 pages of my website. My hope is that it will be able to…

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May 31, 2023

Don't Restrict Your Facebook Lead Forms

This Facebook ads setting is limiting your leads. When you create a Facebook lead form, do not forget to go to the Settings tab. There's an option there that most advertisers don't even know exists. It's "Sharing," and by default it's set to Restricted. This means that "by default, only…

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May 30, 2023

150 Days of Videos

This is what 150 days of videos looks like... Beginning January 1st, I started publishing at least one video every day, with today marking Day 150. These videos mostly covered Facebook ads topics, but also some video creation and entrepreneurship tips sprinkled in. It's a bit surreal seeing all of…

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May 29, 2023

Extend Attribution Uploads to 90 Days for Meta Offline Events

Events Manager has changed recently, so I've been poking around to see if anything important has changed. I spotted this within the Events Manager Settings. First, Extend Attribution Uploads: "Allow attributions on impressions that are 90 days old by extending the number of days your ad can receive credit for…

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