Even on a little budget, a business of any size may make use of the tremendous platform that Facebook has become to drive demand.

Unlike traditional marketing mediums like television, radio, and newspapers, Facebook advertising does not have to be expensive. Further still, instead of picking a specific time and trying to reach customers during a commercial break, you can tailor precisely who and when your audience will be.

By expanding your audience of followers and continuous reach on social media, you may improve brand recognition with a Facebook Business Account. You may guide traffic to a certain product, service, or campaign on your website. Local, regional, national, and worldwide audiences can all be targeted using these campaigns.

But how?

Over several months, here is a six-step plan to help you get familiar with your Facebook business page, executing advertising, and generating audiences for less than $50.
Why is there such a tight budget? You may increase your traffic and visibility while gaining unique insight and solid statistics on your audience for less than $50 each month. Once you have this, you will be able to spend more—and spend more wisely.

Identify Your Facebook audience:

First, determine who your ad campaign’s target audience is. What is the best way to define your target audience? Make a list of your buyer personas.

If you have already developed buyer personas for your business, you will use Facebook advertising to reach out to them when they are in the consciousness and contemplation stages of the buying process.

There are several advantages to integrating your buyer personas with your Facebook advertising audiences. Primarily, Facebook is an excellent medium for increasing brand, product, and service awareness. Second, Facebook is an excellent medium for creating and promoting content that is beneficial to your buyer personas.

Your Facebook advertising objective should be to enlighten your buyer personas so that they can discover more about how your company can solve their problem and progress them through the evaluation stage of the buyer’s journey.

If all of that seems like Greek to you, it is time to brush up on your inbound marketing basics. Begin immediately to improve your internet presence and make it simpler for prospective customers to locate your company.

My company is looking to reach out to people in three separate states. What should my initial Facebook advertising budget be?

It is essential to keep your spending low as you customize your audience’s identifiers. If you are just attempting to expand your company’s presence throughout a broad geographical area, a $50 budget could be spent a little more rapidly. Increase your Lifetime experience Budgets to $10 or $15 per ad during the same 5-day ad campaign if your company has a high marketing budget and wants to collect many data rapidly.

Build an Effective Ad:

The ad creativity and the ad title are the most crucial aspects of a good advertisement.
A Facebook user will only like, click, or share an ad if it catches their eye, and the headline and ad concept are the first things they see.

Before stepping into Facebook, create three or more distinct variations of an ad in a document or spreadsheet. Find three alternative photos that are related to your content and change the title.

Consider using a headline that asks a question, is obvious about the ad’s goal, and is quite similar to the image connected to it. You are now ready to build your ad in Ads Manager or Power Editor.

Here is an example of a successful commercial from a technological security firm. It is a “traffic” ad that was generated in Ads Manager, and there are two additional variations in the same ad package with different pictures.

The engaging graphic material informs the reader about the issue the firm is tackling on its blog. The message in the post informs the reader that clicking on the link will take them to additional information. The phrase “learn more” in the ad content also informs the reader that you are leaving Facebook and going to a website.

If you are not using an article on your website, rather find one published by a thought leader in your field, link to it to further promote yourself as a reliable resource for your rapidly increasing audience.

Get a blog for your company’s website if you do not already have one.

Boost the efficiency of a post:

You may add a tiny ad spend to a produced piece that is connected, has a compelling image, and great text, and send it out to your audience as is.

The blue button, as seen in our example below, indicates that a published post is entitled to a “boost.”

First, double-check that your article is free of mistakes. Make sure your spelling, links, and any creative aspects are all correct. Then, to enter an abridged advertisements editor, click “Boost.” You will be able to establish a new, relatively limited audience or utilize one that you have already stored.

Finally, make a budget. You will note that you don’t have as much control over placements, ad kinds, or bidding as you would with a complete Power Editor or Ads Manager. This is OK for minor campaigns. Starting small helps you to gradually expand your following while learning about the kind of material they enjoy (as evidenced by their “likes” or clicks) and which articles aren’t as stimulating as you anticipated.

Create a budget plan. Set aside $1.00 every day that your campaign is active. Facebook will provide pre-selected choices for 1, 7, or 14-day campaigns, but you may change the duration by clicking the date.

Click “Boost” after you have defined your target demographic, budget, and campaign time. You cannot make any changes to a post once you have boosted it.

In Ads Manager or Power Editor, how do I know whether to “boost” a post or create a new ad?

Here are some elements to consider while selecting an ad campaign:

Boost a post: if you already have a high quality, more people should see the post than you think. You will be able to construct your audience by selecting identifiers or by selecting a stored audience. When you “boost” a post, you will get more likes initially, and then more clicks. Create a new ad for additional forms of collaboration.

Create a new ad: If you wish to run a rotation (many pictures), a video, or another sort of more dynamic ad. When you create an ad in Power Editor or Ads Manager, you may create, modify, or save audiences in a full-screen manner.

Cost approximately to $5 on a single ad campaign:

Advertising on Facebook costs $1.00 per day. Make it a practice to choose a Lifetime Budget for each campaign right away to help keep expenses low.

You may establish a customized ad spend maximum using Lifetime Budgets. To begin started, set aside $1.00 to $3.50 each day to spend on your initial campaigns. This modest daily expenditure is critical since you will be able to identify which advertisements are the most productive and adjust your ad budget appropriately.

With a lifetime budget of $5 for each post; plan to promote four distinct posts (1 every week) for only five days. Start one on Monday, the second on Tuesday, the third on Wednesday, and so on.

After spending $5-10 on two advertisements for the first two weeks, you will have some insight into whether or not the advertising you are pushing is effective. To assess performance, keep track of reach, impressions, clicks, and other forms of interaction.

Why do not I run the same advertisement for a month to expand my audience?

Frequency is an essential statistic for Facebook advertisements. This figure indicates how many times your ad was seen by a single user. The greater the periodicity rate, the longer you run an ad to the same audience. We have all had that one ad follow us around for days, and it may have a detrimental impact on the effectiveness of your ads and, over time, your overall brand. You will get greater engagement rates if you keep your ad campaigns brief (post likes, page likes, or link clicks).

Characterize what works:

While all businesses and sectors may benefit from Facebook, various industries have varied costs and returns on investments over time. This occurs for a variety of reasons, including a concentration on local vs. national markets, competitiveness within those markets, demographic split based on desired customer personas, and so on.

Considering how your advertising compares to those of other firms in your sector may also aid with cost and budgeting.

WordStream, one of our friends, has gathered data over the years to create industry-specific standards that may be used to assess the performance of Facebook advertising.

Delta Computer Security Force, our instance firm, had an average cost-per-click of $1.80 for their first ad and $1.15 for their second ad. Based on the leading technology reference, their first campaign had a greater cost than expected, but their second campaign fared better with a lower cost per click.

Emphasize what works:

Look at which sorts of advertisements or enhanced posts generated the most interaction from your buyer personas or audiences when you enter your second or third month of advertising.

Sending visitors back to your website may be quite beneficial, particularly if your ad or article is about a solution about which the audience wants to learn more.
Posts without links can still be instructive provided the content and visual aspect additionally contain a brief lesson or information for the readers. In the case above, the technology security firm earned over 35 post likes and 6 pages of likes/follows.

If you are going to spend money on advertising, make sure it is a useful or instructive source of equipment.

What is the maximum amount of text I may include in my advertisement?

The duration of the text in the ad’s original comment will vary depending on the sort of ad you are executing and where it is being shown. The best practice for any creative images in your ad is to keep any text components in the image under 20%, otherwise, you risk having your reach restricted by Facebook itself. Although the site recently lifted its text restriction, it nevertheless recommends that you use as little text as possible.

Keep Things Simple in the End:

Concentrate on generating high-quality advertising that explains your company and its solutions to your target demographic. There is no point in publishing every day; instead, focus on making your advertising efforts entertaining for your target audience. Integrate each ad campaign with your objectives after you are certain you comprehend the voice and style of the articles that communicate most with your audience.

As you can link prospects or sales objectives to your efforts, you may be able to raise your Facebook advertising budget over time. Just keep in mind to be cautious when upgrading.

You do not need to spend $1,000 per month on Facebook in most situations – for any number of campaigns. With a limited budget, you can make your money work harder and go further.