Did you know that a staggering 90% of Facebook ads fails to meet their goals? It’s a harsh reality, but one that shouldn’t discourage you. Instead, it should empower you to learn from the mistakes of others and avoid the pitfalls that lead to underperforming campaigns.
1. Understanding Facebook Ads Failure
Let’s face it, Facebook ad campaigns can be perplexing, and sometimes they just don’t yield the desired results.
But what exactly constitutes “failure”?
It’s not just about a few unsuccessful campaigns; it’s about the frustration of wasted spend, missed opportunities, and the sinking feeling that your efforts are in vain.
A failed Facebook ad campaign is one that doesn’t meet your specific marketing objectives, whether it’s driving traffic, generating leads, or boosting sales.
2. The Psychology Behind Facebook Ads
Before we dive into the technical aspects, it’s crucial to recognize that Facebook advertising is as much about psychology as it is about technology.
Building a relationship of trust and understanding is key.
Just as you wouldn’t propose to your crush on the first date, you shouldn’t bombard your audience with sales pitches right away.
A staggering 98% of people react negatively to sales pitches on the first date, and the same principle applies to Facebook ads.
If you start selling your product in the very first interaction, you risk irritating your potential clients and losing them forever.
3. Reasons Why 90% Facebook Ads Gets Banned
Mostly people blindly run the facebook ads unaware of the reasons their facebook accounts got banned. Before we dive into the solutions, let’s explore the reasons why 90% Facebook ads fails to perform or get banned.
3.1. Do Not Start Sales Campaign on New Facebook Account
3.2. Do Not Mislead: Always Provide Same information throughout platforms
Facebook can easily find out if your ads and final pages are unrelated or misleading and ban your account.
3.3. Do Not Use Single Payment Method
3.4. Always Adhere to Meta Policies
3.5. Key Points to avoid Facebook Ad Bans
- Always run your ads in a way that Meta approves. If you go against the policies laid down by Meta, your Facebook account will get banned.
- Visit your Facebook ad policy pages to understand the reasons why ads get banned.
Now that you are aware of the various reason why 90% of facebook ads fails, lets learn how to avoid it and generate results.
4.How to Generate Results from Your Facebook Ads
4.1. Optimize Your Ads Creatives
The very first thing the audience notices is the visual appeal of your ad page.
If its boring the client would already skip it. Facebook gives you multiple option of ads like video ads, carousel ads, graphic ads etc. But you need to understand first which type of ad resonate with your audience.
Better the ad creative more is the return on your ads because people should find it visually appealing.
Better the ad creative more is the return on your ads because people finds it visually appealing.
Protips to optimize Ads Creative on Facebook
- Graphic, carousel are good, but user generated content or memes ads are trending.
- You can create memes ads for brand awareness and engagement of your brand , so that audience could connect with your brand,
- secondly you can use influencer to promote your product and use it for brand awareness and engagement ads, because its obvious people trust an influencer more than any graphic or carousel ad.
You should create you ads as per your campaign objective.
- you can start with memes ads or influencers ads to build awareness and engagement.
- when you come to a space where the chances of viewers converting to clients increases, you can start with carousel and graphic ads.
Make sure your campaign objectives aligns with you ads creative.
4.2. Thoroughly Test Your Ads Creatives
Say you want to promote you one product. Don’t settle for mediocre results. Create multiple variations of your ads (e.g., 5 graphics, 5 carousels, 5 videos) and run them concurrently with the same budget eg Rs.100 for 5 days each.
The above method would generate a data based report on
- Which video ad performed best among all video ads, same for graphics and carousel.
- Secondly you will be able to determine which method of advertising performed best overall.
Thus you could get your winning ads.
Now you can choose the winning ad and plan your ad budget according and run the same for longer period of time for engagement and optimize it further.
4.3. Run Ads for Longer Period of Time.
That is one of the biggest mistakes that you should avoid at all the costs.
If you started an ad campaign and closed it after 3-4 days, you actually didn’t give facebook enough time to determine your precise target audience, which audience is actually clicking on the link and converting, who should see the ads based on that conversion.
So until and unless facebook determines based on these observations it would not be able to optimize the ads and generate desired results for you.
So make sure whenever you run an ads, keep it active for at least 5-7 days. Let facebook decide your deserving or potential viewers. in case your adds doesn’t work even after 7 days you can move on to the next ad.
4.4. Create a marketing strategy for your ads.
Create a proper strategy – AIDA, create brand awareness, get them interested in your products, pull engagement, then alone should you start sales ad campaigns.
The very first accomplishment should be that people know and recognise the name and logo of your brand.
4.4. How to Create a Marketing Strategy for Your ads.
In order to create advertising create AIDA funnel
1. Genaerate Awareness: Generate awareness about your brand to attract customers.
2.convert cold audience to warm audeince.
3. Convert Cold Audience to Warm Audience: When they convert to warm audience, offer them something exciting, eg. new collection, discount on first purchase, freebies, this would make them interested and they would click on the link to go to your website and interact.
4. Convert Warm Audience to Potential Customers: Next the moment the warm audience comes to your website you have their data. Now you have a potential client.
5. Generate Sales: In the last stage you would try to generate sales and convert them to loyal customers
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5. Wrap Up: Stop Loosing and Start Winning Through Facebook Ads
Accepted that creating facebook marketing strategy is difficul, but by adapting step by step strategy for top of the funnel audience (awareness), middle of the funnel audience (interact)and bottom funnel audeince (convert), you can crack the code and start achieving success.
Facebook ads can be a powerful tool to drive sales and grow your business. However, it's essential to avoid common mistakes that can get your account banned or fail to perform. By understanding the psychology of your clients, creating engaging ad creatives, testing your ads, running them for a longer period, and creating a marketing strategy, you can generate results from your Facebook ad campaigns.
So, Now that you know why 90% of Facebook Ads Fails and how to avoid them and generate sales through some winning strategies; what are you waiting for? Step into the world of 10% who succeed.
Article Contribution by – Sapna Garg