How to Build a Rich Facebook Sales Funnel

Facebook ads are no longer set-it-and-forget-it way to attract leads. Facebook is now a crowded space where you need to pay thousands of dollars to get your brand noticed. If you want to thrive and beat your competitors, you need to develop an excellent Facebook sales funnel.

The first thing you need to keep in mind is that Facebook users generally aren’t actively looking to buy things when they’re on the platform. After all, it’s not an ecommerce site. So, the first time they see your ad, you can’t expect them to take out their credit card.

You need to gradually put them from the awareness stage into a buying mindset. Before we get into the details, it’s essential to know how a sales funnel functions. Let’s take a closer look.

What Is a Sales Funnel?

A sales funnel describes a customer’s journey before they buy a product. The top part of the sales funnel is all about making people aware of your product and brand. You want to make people interested in what you have to offer.

The middle part of the sales funnel focuses on showing consumers how you are unique. You could provide free trials or samples so that consumers can get a feel for the product.

The last part of the process is to convert your leads into customers. It’s all on you to lead people to the end of the sales funnel from the first stage.

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A good sales funnel can nurture good prospects and prevent them from leaking out of the funnel. If you want to grow your business, designing a good sales funnel is crucial.

4 Steps to Build an Effective Facebook Sales Funnel

Now that you know how important a sales funnel is, let’s move on and take a closer look at how a Facebook sales funnel works.

Facebook offers brands an opportunity to reach out to a broad base of customers. Plus, the options to target your ads are numerous. But the sheer number of options also gives rise to a dilemma. How can you reach out to the right people and convert them into customers?

Let’s go through, step-by-step, how to set up a Facebook sales funnel that will help you get more customers without draining your budget.

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1. Create Different Types of Content

Content is at the gist of any digital marketing strategy. The first step to building a productive Facebook sales funnel is to produce different kinds of content.

Blog posts, slideshows, infographics, ebooks, podcasts, and videos are some examples of different kinds of content you can produce.

Of course, it takes a lot of time and resources to create new content. If you have a limited budget or are short on time, you can repurpose your old content.

Multiple types of content will help you reach out to different segments of your target audience.

It doesn’t matter which type of content you choose to produce as long as it is engaging and relevant to your product.

Also make sure that you upload content to your website. It’s a crucial step that will help you, later on, narrow down your Facebook sales funnel through retargeting.

2. Promote Your Best Content

Before you get too far into your Facebook sales funnel strategy, you need to test the water. An excellent way to see what your audience likes is to promote your best content to people who are aware of your brand.

This means you need to promote your content primarily to your Facebook fans. Additionally, you can also include those people who have previously visited your website but haven’t taken any action.

These are people who know about your brand, products, or services already. So, you don’t have to work too hard to create awareness. Instead, you need to gauge how engaging they find your best content.

Look at how they react to your content and determine the content that gives you the most conversions. To do so, analyze your engagement and conversion rates.

Take note of the content that performs well. You can promote this content to reach out to cold audience as well. Odds are if your fans like it, cold leads are likely to react favorably to it as well.

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