Get Started to Advertise on Facebook with Facebook Ads | Step-by-Step Guide | 2023
Get Started to Advertise on Facebook with Facebook Ads | Step-by-Step Guide | 2023
Aug 22, 2023
Matt Gemi
Facebook Ads can be an excellent way to reach a large number of potential customers. With Facebook Ads, you can target your ads at people who are interested in the things that you have to offer.
What You Will Get from This Guide
This guide will give you an overview of how to create a Facebook ad campaign and get started with it. You will learn how to choose the right target audience, craft engaging copy and add images that complement your message.
I. Create your first Facebook campaign.
To get started, you need to go to the Create a Campaign tab and then choose the objective of your ad. There are three types of objectives:
Promote your Page - This option is best for when you want people who don't know about your business or product yet to like or follow it. For example, if someone searches for "social media marketing" on Google and clicks on one of our ads there, they might end up liking our page because we've shown them useful content in their feed that answers some questions they had about how we do what we do! This can help build trust with potential customers down the line when they eventually decide whether or not they want to work with us.
Get more website visitors - Similar but slightly different than promoting pages--Getting more website visitors helps bring traffic directly into an online store (or landing page). Again though if someone clicks through from Facebook directly onto an eCommerce site's homepage without interacting with any other parts of social media platforms outside those channels themselves first then this won't necessarily work well at all since there won't be much context surrounding why exactly this person came here versus another site across town where no one else knows either place exists yet."
II. Design your ad.
Now that you've got an idea of what kind of ad you want to create, it's time to start designing it. The first step is choosing the right ad type for your campaign. There are two main types:
Promoted Posts - These are posts that appear in people's newsfeeds and can be targeted by age, location, gender and so on. You can also choose whether or not these ads should appear only on mobile devices or both desktop computers and mobile phones. This is useful if you want your message to reach specific groups of people (e.g., mothers with young children).
Boosted Posts - Boosted posts are similar to promoted ones except they don't appear in anyone else's newsfeeds unless they're connected through mutual friends with the person who created them (unless those connections have opted out). This helps ensure that only people who care about what you're saying will see your content--and increases engagement rates by as much as 25%.
Once you choose what kind of ad you want to create, all you have to do is design the advertisement itself.
III. Set up the targeting and optimization options of your campaign.
In this step, you will be able to set up the targeting and optimization options of your campaign.
Let's start with targeting. You can target users based on their gender, age and location. The more specific you are about your audience, the better results you will get from your ad campaign. For example, if you want to reach out to women aged between 18-35 who live in New York City then select "Female" as a demographic option under "Age & Gender". Similarly, if you want to target people living in the USA then select the country as the United States of America under "Location". Once done with selecting these options hit the save button at the bottom right corner of the window which pops up after clicking on the save button.
IV. Launch your ad on Facebook
After you've created your ad, it's time to launch it. To do this, go to the Facebook Ads Manager and click on "Campaigns" on the left side of the screen. From there, select "Create New Campaign."
You'll be prompted to name your campaign (we recommend naming it based on what type of business or product you're promoting).
Next, you'll need to select if this is an existing audience or a new one by clicking 'Create Audience':
If creating an existing audience, enter all relevant information about who exactly they are so that Facebook can target them more effectively in their ads:
Name: This will appear as text within each post made by people included in this group when shared with others through social media sites like Twitter or Instagram--you can change this later if needed but should try sticking with something simple at first!
Website URL: Entering an address here will allow users visiting those pages to see related content such as posts shared by other members.
Now you know the Basic of Facebook Ads
If you have read through this article, then you should now have a basic understanding of how Facebook ads work and what they can do for your business. We hope that it's also given you some ideas on how to get started with creating your ad campaigns! As always, feel free to leave comments or questions below--we're happy to help out where we can!