5 Facebook Ads Tools and Strategies to Beat Your Competition
The first strategy and tool is to spy on your competitor's ads.
What works for your competitors probably will work for you. But, how do you know something's working for your competitors? How do you even see their ads? Did you know Facebook tells you every single thing that your competitors are advertising on?
Just go to their page, click on info and ads. Right, go to their fan page, click on the info and ads button. It'll show you all their ads, their campaigns, the landing pages they're driving to, the webinars that they're running.
The Second strategy for you all to makes it hard for people to spy on your ads.
You're already spying on your competitor's ads and taking their strategies. Do you want them to do the same for you? Of course not!
What I want you to do is switch your page template to a video template. Because what you'll find is, yeah, they can still figure out what ads you're running, but it makes it so much harder and people tend to give up because it changes the layout of the page. So, when you switch to a video template, they typically won't be seeing what you're advertising on because they won't know where to go.
To change your Page's template:
- Click Settings at the top of your Page.
- Click Templates and Tabs in the left column.
- Below Templates, click Edit next to your current template.
- Click View Details next to the template you want to apply.
- Review the new buttons and tabs for your Page and click Apply Template.
- Click OK.
The third tool I want you to do is to check out bigspy.com
You can put in keywords in there in anything. So for me, I may put in keywords related to marketing. It'll show me all the ads related to those keywords. Because you may have other people in your space that are buying ads that you don't even know about that are doing really well. Big Spy will show you this. It's a great tool and it shows you this is one really simple to use interface.
The fourth tool I want you to do is to check out Facebook Audience Insights
It's a tool that Facebook gives you. You may not already have a big community, a big email list that you can upload into Facebook. You may not be able to do look like audiences from day one, but Audience Insights will give you a lot of information. They even show you really cool nifty charts and you can adjust them and put dead against each other and start doing comparisons. But, Audience Insights will help you a ton. Especially when you're starting off. You don't have lookalike campaigns, you don't have a big customer base, you don't have a big email base. That's when you really want to look at Audience Insights.
The sixth thing I want you to do is to start re-marketing your own audience
Everyone when they're doing ads, all they think about is, oh, how can I keep driving new people? You have to do is, yes, drive new people. Some of them will go to your check out page. Some will go to your lead form page, but they won't fully complete. What I want you to do is for all the people that land on those pages and don't complete the purchase or don't complete filling out their information, re-market those people, show video ads on Facebook showing them what it would be like if they bought your product, signed up for your service. In other words, you're explaining the journey and why it's awesome to work with you or your company or buy your products or services. What you'll find is, your landing page typically has a pitch that's either emotional or logical. When you're re-marketing, you can use an opposite pitch. So, if your landing page has an emotional appeal on why they should be buying your product, then your remarketing video should have the opposite pitch. And then by doing this, you'll find that you'll convert more people Because sometimes, your copy doesn't appeal to every single person. So, this gives you two shots at the same person and you'll notice that this will be our highest converting ad campaign.
