Targeted Facebook Ads: How They Work and How to Make Them Work for You

For small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs), targeted marketing is a powerful tool for better customer connections.

Targeted marketing

“Sending relevant marketing messages on topics that matter to your audience is a proven formula for success—and a fast track to a return on your marketing investment. We see that every day with our SMB clients,” says Bob Fabbio, CEO and co-founder of eRelevance Corp., a marketing automation service for SMBs.

You may be familiar with targeting and segmentation for email marketing, but it should be part of every campaign, across all channels, including social media advertising.

Targeted Facebook ads can help nurture contacts by displaying your marketing message directly on their Facebook Newsfeeds or other position on their Facebook pages using the custom audience feature.  …

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Customer Knowledge Leads to Targeted Marketing

The basics of marketing include having a memorable and distinctive brand, including your logo, colors, slogan, and so forth. But a successful marketing campaign requires more than just a great image or even a great product.

The best that Madison Avenue can dream up for you is worthless if it doesn’t reach the people who are most likely to buy your product. That’s why targeted marketing is so important to your success.

Sometimes the process of placing things in front of the right eyes is easy. If you sell diapers, you sponsor children’s television shows. Sports gear promotes well on baseball field fences, and it makes good sense for a locksmith to apply a sticker nearby while installing deadbolts.…

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