Facebook marketing has changed, as more brands now want to be able to track sales motivated by ads on the social network. Compass Labs, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in ads and insights, launched its conversion tracking and measurement solution Wednesday, allowing companies to see just how successful their campaigns are, based on impressions and clicks, all the way through the conversion funnel.
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Wondering how to optimize your Facebook advertising campaigns for business-to-business? We’ve broken down the process into eight essential steps.
Facebook Exchange has been taking a beating on Wall Street, but the real-time-bidding ad-purchase platform has made a believer out of Adobe Systems, which reported strong results from a beta test with its Adobe Media Optimizer integrated advertising platform.
Webtrends, a digital marketing firm, has been stepping up its Facebook services over the past couple of years, and the results have been evident. In the past year, Webtrends has seen 153 percent growth in usage of its Facebook analytics. The product Webtrends formally announced Tuesday at its Engage conference in San Francisco — Webtrends Streams — helps marketers see customer behavior as it happens.
For a majority of brand marketers, when it comes to creating Facebook strategies, nine times out of 10, the most popular is the one that generated the largest amount of Facebook likes for brand pages. The conventional wisdom went that the larger the community on Facebook, the greater the chances of promoting whatever the brand wanted to do, whether it was a new product, campaign, etc.
Ever since Facebook went public last year, the company has been looking for ways to monetize, especially on mobile. Jason Spievak, CEO of RingRevenue, has an idea that could be a game-changer for businesses (especially local ones) on Facebook — a call button on mobile ads. If customers have questions or want to make purchases based off ads they see on their mobile news feeds, they can contact businesses with one touch.
In an effort to help marketers better track sales, Facebook launched a new conversion measurement Tuesday, allowing advertisers to measure the return on investment of their Facebook ads by tracking user actions such as registrations and shopping cart checkouts motivated by people seeing the ads. It allows marketers to track when someone sees an ad on one platform and switches to another to make the purchase.
