Knowing the best objective for your Facebook campaign is the key to effectively bring your ad creative before your target audience.
Let this blog guide you in your ad decision-making process as we take a brief look at each ad objective.
Objective: To reach new customers to introduce to your brand and/or increase the brand awareness level of those who are already familiar with your product.
Objective: To send users to a specific page of your choice e.g. website, specific landing page, or app page. This typically links users to more information about your products and services. This can also be used as a lead magnet.
Objective: To engage users through your app which directly provides beneficial products and services.
Key Strategy: This is an excellent option if you have an app and you want more downloads to engage more customers through mobile. App installs require technical considerations in creatives and optimization.
Objective: This focuses on the user’s interactive engagement through post likes. Page likes or event responses.
Objective: Video ads can yield exceptional results since it is highly visual and engaging.
Objective: This objective is directly aligned with the lead gen ad format like auto-fill forms accessible in mobile and desktop. It also offers a free ebook, consultation, or in-person class as add-on value to new users.
Objective: This objective is a growing trend. It aims to take your audience from your ad to a messaging platform like Messenger or WhatsApp to engage a direct conversation with you.
Objective: Sales, email newsletter, sign-ups, and course registration counts specific types of conversion.
Key Strategy: Use Facebook Pixel to optimize the right conversions. You can add offers to your campaigns.
Objective: This objective directly showcases your product catalogs to relevant audiences to engage and drive sales.
Key Strategy: Optimize for link clicks, conversion events, and impressions.
Objective: This is a very tricky objective since it is harder to track since it is driving offline actions.
Key Strategy: You can add clickable maps in your carousel slides to which users can access to see where you are in relation to their location. You can also use Page Insights on Facebook to check “People Nearby Who Saw Your Ads” to track the accuracy of your ad campaigns. Store Visit Optimization is also the best and exclusive for this objective. It ensures actions from users who are most likely to visit your store in person.
What do you think of these 11 marketing objectives? Choosing the right one for you will result in a significant yield on your ad results. Be sure to run split testing early on to assess which ads work best.
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