How To Drive a $221 ROI Using Promoted Content on Facebook

How To Drive a $221 ROI Using Promoted Content on Facebook How would you like to make $22 on every $1 spent promoting content? Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, let’s find out. Today, we’re talking to Freyja Spaven and Daniel Daines-Hutt, authors of How We Drive A $22:1 ROI From Cold Traffic, Using Facebook And Promoted Content. They share secrets to their success when it comes to researching, planning, designing, copywriting, and testing to promote content via paid ads on Facebook. AmpMyContent helps small business that have funds, but are time poor and unable to leverage content Tweaking content to make it 10X more effective Paid Ad Process: Ad goes to cold audience Drives them to piece of content Presents hyper-specific, next-step offer with a highly efficient lead magnet Over-inundation of content; 83.6 million new posts are published every month Facebook ads allow you to get a lot reach, without spending a lot of money Research: Push traffic to good, not bad content; determine if ad is profitable; and interview readers regarding a problem that needs a solution Avoid creating a lot of content that doesn’t highlight your expertise about a topic Ads start at a loss; use bottom-up testing to make ads profitable Create an ideal audience for your content to make an ad that resonates with them Supply and Demand: More specific your ads, the more Facebook charges How people consume a newsfeed ad; on auto-pilot with their attention, interest Use Facebook machine learning to your advantage to obtain user data and create an algorithm to achieve conversion goals Branded Solution: Ad content should educate readers about specific systems and processes that reduce stress and solve relevant problems Getting people into a room, but not offering them anything; every piece of content should have a call to action Email is an effective channel to make sales Links: The Definitive Guide to Paid Content Promotion: Facebook Edition How to Create Killer Content That Gets Results In Any Industry AmpMyContent Freyja Spaven on Twitter Daniel Daines-Hutt on Twitter The 10X Marketing Formula by Garrett Moon Mad Men Machine Learning Facebook What topics and guests do you want on the Actionable Marketing Podcast? Send me your suggestions! If you liked today’s show, please subscribe on iTunes to The Actionable Content Marketing Podcast! The podcast is also available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and Google Play. Quotes: â€Å"There are so many benefits to promoting content, rather than just writing new stuff all the time.† Daniel Daines-Hutt â€Å"It’s a very simple process. Like everything when it comes to marketing, it’s the subtleties.† Daniel Daines-Hutt â€Å"Marketing really is connecting someone from A to B, from their problem to the solution.† Daniel Daines-Hutt â€Å"One of the big mistakes that we see is people creating a great breadth of content and not really showing their expertise in their content by going deep into a subject.† Freyja Spaven