3 Lessons Learned From Spending Over $400k on Facebook Ads

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I've spent a ton of money on Facebook ads, hopefully you can learn from the EXPENSIVE mistakes I've made.

Do you know what the most popular advertising network out there is? Google AdWords. You know what the number two most popular ad network out there is? Facebook ads.

But running Facebook ads isn't as simple and easy as you think. I spent a ton of money on Facebook, and I'm going to show it to you, my mistakes, so that way, hopefully you can be much more successful than I was.

Hi everyone, I'm Neil Patel, and today I'm going to share with you three important lessons learned from spending over $400,000 on Facebook ads.

The first lesson I learned is, don't spend money on buying subscribers. A lot of the money I spent was to build up my fanpage of over 900,000 fans. Algorithms keep changing, yes, they may restrict how much viral your post or your video content can end up going, and a lot has to do with your content. If your content's not amazing, you're not going to get a lot of reach. But if you're going to be spending money, make sure there's ROI in it.

The second thing I learned when you're doing ads, the best performing ads are videos by far. No one wants to create videos. Everyone wants to do banners because they're the easiest, but if you take the time to do videos, your cost is a lot less and your conversions are a lot higher. When you're optimizing for videos, make sure the text, there's a transcription, and it automatically starts playing, because video ads, the sound doesn't automatically show up for people. You want to have the transcription going there, so people can read, they're going to be much more likely to convert. With your video, it needs to convey emotions, it needs to be a good length.

You need to get really people hooked, tell a story, because if you don't and you just try to get people click through to your site, and have the cheapest amount of clicks, it won't necessarily generate you the most amount of revenue. Don't optimize just for spend reduction, optimize for ROI. It's okay to be spending an extra dollar per click if you're making more money. Don't focus on how much you're paying per click. Focus on how much revenue you're generating for how much you're spending. That's the key with Facebook ads.

The third tip I have for you, and this is what most people don't tell you, especially if you're running banners, in Facebook's algorithm, they look at hey this is a new ad, we're gonna push it, give it priority, and see how it does within the first few minutes or hour of it being up there. So what we started doing is, we would throw up ads, and within an hour of them being up, we would keep changing up the creative and the text or stopping them and running new ones.

By doing that, we were getting much cheaper impressions and premium placements, and we were generating a much higher ROI in our ads. Most people won't do this, because they're like oh this is too time-consuming. But I kid you not, that one little thing during our peak was reducing our spend by over 30%. That's over 30%. If you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's a huge savings.

Now eventually, as we kept scaling it out, we couldn't keep doing that, but we still do it with a lot of our campaigns, and still, to this day, when we're selling products for our clients, we're rotating up their creative so often, it's generating a much higher ROI. They think we're crazy, but hey you've got to do what you have to do if you want to compete in this competitive landscape, especially when Facebook ads continue rising in cost.

So hopefully you've learned from my experiences and my mistakes, and best of luck with your Facebook ads. If you're not sure on what you should do with your campaigns or your landing pages are off, you know what, leave a comment below. I don't want to just give generic landing page feedback because it's really different for every product type or business type. Leave a comment below, ask your questions. I'll be there, I'll respond, and I'll help you through the process. And again, if you liked the video, comment, like, share, tell other people about it. Thank you for watching.
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The third tip is absolutely gold Neil! I already experienced that but couldn't figure out the logic behind having more engagement on new ads compared to ads that has been running for like 10+ hours. I can not thank you enough for all the content you share with us for free. You said you believe in karma, I believe in it too, the good things you do and the positivity you spread will definitely came back to you, cheers!

Wolfin
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Hi Neil, just wanted to say thanks. I learn every single day from you. I have found so many new tools n found about other people from your blog. If you recommend anyone I blindly believe it because you have earned my trust. That is the biggest compliment I can give anyone.

RuchiSinghTalks
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Thank You Neil!. The first thing you said was "don't spend money on buying subscribers". I tell my clients that all the time BUT they don't believe me? I have even quoted YOU!! Thanks for sharing your story.

EvieDiazSpeaks
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Hi Neil! I just started my eyelash extension business, made my website, created a facebook and instagram page for the business. Next step is actually finding clients. How do I stand out from the crowd and all the competition? Where do I even start when it comes to marketing with a tiny budget and not being very tech savvy? Thank you!!

athenaashleybates
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Just got new on the "Landing Pages" category when I searched for Facebook Ads your video was one on the top.

estocadevittorio
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Some great tips in here, I completely agree with #2. I think a lot of people just want to run banner ads when in reality videos can help you reach your goals a lot faster. Sure they may take a bit more effort to create, but I think the rewards in return from video ads out weigh the effort you need to put in - Volkan

revenuetakeoff
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You know I notice one thing u r getting good day by day...
First u started ur videos like today am gona teach u
but
now a days u say today am gona share wid u.
it seems friendly

surajjadhao
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Hey Neil, thanks for the video. The thing I really like about you is that you are humble with your mistakes and want to offer them up as a learning experience for the rest of us! Our company is new and we just got into Facebook advertising. My question for you is, what is the best way to convert a Facebook advertisement to a consultation? I've been able to convert people to our website but have had no consultations booked which is our big Call to Action. Any advice would be appreciated!

linkedlivinghomes
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Hi Neil, Thanks so much for the awesome info! Curious about two things: 1) I was told that if you leave an ad on Fb (e.g. 7 days) it gets optimized over time to better target audience for conversions, but if you change it repeatedly as you suggest in Tip 3, do you lose this benefit? 2) Does repeatedly changing the copy, images, etc. for the same ad over a period of days interfere with A/B testing? Trying to understand how they could work together. Thanks again!

alineh
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Hey Neil! Great video once again! I had a quick question that you might be able to answer for me. When trying a new product, how much do you think I should spend on an ad to see if it is a winning product or not? Should I start email marketing with less than 50 emails or should I wait until I have a bit more. Thank you!

espluguiproductions
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Hey Neil,
I have been blogging from 2 months now.
- Have published 16 articles(2000+)
-Getting min. 10 FB shares within 24 hours of publishing.
-Seo score as per your SEO analyses is 75+ on every post.
But still my organic searching is 0 per day. Am I doing something wrong?

avneet
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Completed 52 videos in just 2 days. I think now I am far better in SMM. Thank you Neil!

shekharsaini
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Neil, I also hear other marketers say that you need to give ads at least 5 days for the algorithm to determine what is performing and what's not and optimize for that. I agree that you can tell easily which ads are doing well and which aren't right away, but wouldn't changing an ad withinn 24 hrs of being live be too early?

melocha
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Hi Neil! Does your last tip of this video still apply? I've always learned that you shouldn't touch an ad in the first 48-72 hours because FB is in the learning process (testing to see what works). So, this one is really new to me. Thanks! Btw, I Loooove your content.

fabmarketing
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Hi Neil just love the way you explain, please show us practically that would be more beneficial for users ... thanks

DeepakArya
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Hey Neil, you really give quality info in these vids. THANK YOU

guselijahgeldman
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Hey Neil, please tell me What button will be beneficial for affiliate marketing to boost sales "Buy now" or "Add to cart"!!!!

mayanktyagi
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Hi Neil, thanks for this video it was very informative. One quick question, yesterday I ran an ad and after 30 minutes I tried to change the text but facebook told me that I can't do that after the ad starts running so how do you change the creative to get cheaper impressions?

cozmicsev.
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Hey Neil, thanks! 👍
One question about first tip:
we don't need to start campaign for ''page likes''?
and we need to start promoting our posts with good content and send people to our site? (compane ''for Traffic'')

Did I understand you correctly or not? ⁉️

marketstartuper
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Hi Neil! Thanks for the video. Great insights. Look, I've got a question about tip number 3. When you say keep changing the creative you mean edit an ad which is active? Example, Ad1, first hour, change title, third hour, change image, and so on? Or do you suggest to active a whole new ad inside the same ad set every hour or two? And how many changes do you do per day? It does look a great strategy but could you be more specific to help me? Thanks a lot! You're great mate! Wish you the best!

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