Not only in dropshipping business; be it choosing home delivery over go-n-bye or online movie ticket booking over the box office; we always love when our hands and arms are at rest. This is exactly what marks the most beneficial thing of Facebook Advertising for successful Dropshipping business.

Facebook is the perfect platform for showcasing your salable products to 1.23 billion monthly active users who are already on Facebook. They, without any extra effort, view, like and eventually click on your site’s link while stalking their ex’s best friend, even without their knowledge!

Viola! What else could you ask for?

Get set go with facebook advertising in your Dropshipping business

If you know enough about online marketing, you know that ranking in SEO is something that takes time. Facebook Ads can help you get up and run with your sales while your SEO game builds up.

When you’re marketing your AliExpress dropshipping business, your goal is pretty obvious- to create more and more traffic to your page and to maximize the number of the sold products. Once the goal of your advertisement is clear, once again Facebook wins the race.

Unlike other social media sites, Facebook allows you to post your sponsored and promotional posts both along with other normal newsfeeds and also as the separated sponsored advertisements.

So basically what happens here?

Even when you generate a paid advertisement for your site, as the ad is shown with the regular news-feed column, the users don’t scrawl the mouse with a presumption of some promotional product listings but it interests them as the other regular posts with regular like, comment and share options. And Facebook cleverly shows the number of total comments on the post rather than just the number of comments on the latest shared version that the users are viewing.

You know, the first impression matters.

Facebook Ads structure: helping you understand facebook advertising better

Facebook Advertising for a successful dropshipping business is structured in three descending stages:

1. Campaigns (rossly determines the advertising objective)
2. Ad sets (Categorized ads by the targeted audiences and your budget)
3. Ads (Actual ads that will be showed to the users)

Campaign

‘Campaign’ stage starts where you need to set the primary objectives of your ad. Suppose, you have two types of ad sets for your dropshipping website; one is of the entire website and the other sets of ads deal with specified products.

You’ve certain objectives for both of the ad sets. With the first type of ads, you want to:

• Maximize traffic to your dropshipping website
• Getting more likes
• Increase the audience base of your dropshipping business
• Coin some offers
• Increasing brand awareness
• While with the rest specified products’ ads, you want to maximize the independent sale of these products.

At this stage, you need to carefully categorize each ad to their respective adjective and create the correct ‘campaign’ for each of the categories.

Ad Sets

At the ‘Ad Sets’ stage, you would cater the ads to the relevant sets of audiences as per their demography, interest, occupation, Facebook groups they belong to, types of posts they like the most, pages you’ve commented on, recent life events, purchasing frequency and personal interest.

‘Facebook Audience Insights’ is a free tool from Facebook that makes the entire sorting process a piece of cake. Just use it, I won’t even call it a ‘free tool’, it’s a part of FB Ads you NEED to use.

For example, if you’re selling some sports accessories, you would specify a set of the ad for your ‘customized audiences’; another set for people with nearer residence; another one for people with at least one person and his friend-list who has purchased from your site.

Ads

The final stage, the ‘Ads’ is the narrowest and most relevant combination of most useful objectives and targeted audiences. Here comes the live ad creation part. For each of the ad sets, you need to mix and match multiple logos, descriptions, and images and to see which one works the best.

Always remember to run A/B tests. A simple change of color can boost the conversion rates by 100%.

Targeting the right audience

Why would you treat Cinderella with a rainbow mustache? Wink wink!

Studies have shown, only failing in targeting the correct group of the audience has led numerous dropshipping businesses to the dogs while the opposite can have a claim for roaring success. If you’ve well-researched your dropshipping niche, this is going to be the easiest part.

Demography, Interest and Occupation

Quite obviously, a 60 years old ex-army man will not like the same products from your website as a high-school girl will. ‘Facebook Audience Insight’, an inbuilt extension of Facebook, allows you to distinguish your actual targeted audience by their:

• Age
• Occupation
• Hobbies
• Interests (Facebook groups they belong to, types of posts they like the most, pages they’ve commented on.)
• Recent life events
• Purchasing frequency

If you’re selling some kitchen appliances, Facebook will automatically target only the users around you who have recently purchased some kitchen appliances or associated things recently or have shown interest on those or at least belong to some interest group of the same.

Basically, you can laser target your potential customers. This is exactly what we need in a dropshipping niche store!

Geography

The more concentrated your circle is, the nearer is the success. The first thing to address in Facebook Advertising for successful Dropshipping business is the location. Being a retailer of South Pole, won’t selling windcheaters to the North Polar Bear be a little too adventurous? Target your prospective buyers within a certain geographical circumference where you think you can deliver products at the earliest.

Custom Audiences

Along with showing your advertisements to the targeted audiences, with advanced Facebook marketing tools, you can customize your own preferred viewers’ list with their email addresses. They can be from your previous customers, positive reviewers or people who have personally contacted you for some specific product.

The budget factor

Money matters. It really does.

A single penny isn’t worth wasting at any cost especially when you’re an entrepreneur in dropshipping business. We always suggest you go slow. Instead of investing a mammoth amount of money at a single time ad campaign, invest smaller amount at first.

Follow the growth and then grow accordingly. With ‘Facebook Advertising Tool’, you can pay for the advertisements on daily basis and also as a one-time investment or the ‘Lifetime Budget’ as they call it.

ALWAYS remember to test out new things. You will lose some money, but only to make a lot more than what you lose. Just learn the lessons and remember, all you need to do is marketing, you’re not managing inventory, packaging, and shipping good, investing a ton of money. Simply go out there and try new things and don’t get heartbroken if you lose some money.

Even though a daily budget is much lower at a time for obvious reasons, we personally recommend you to go for ‘Lifetime Budget’ till you get the master hold on the investment factor. With a daily budget, you have certain chances of exceeding your total budget to a far extent while setting the one-time ‘Lifetime Budget’ will lower the chance.

We suggest you go for the ‘Lifetime Budget’ with specifying the duration within which Facebook is supposed to spend your entire money on your ads.

Facebook spends the budgeted money in either of the two ways: on the basis of clicks (CPC) or impressions (CPM). with CPC (Cost Per Click), Facebook will automatically generate the ads on behalf of you to the most relevant users and with CPM (Cost per 1000 Impressions), the money will be deducted for every 1000 impressions on your ad.

The automated ‘Facebook Advertising Tool’ lets you to ad separately any discount coupon or offer if you want to.

Facebook Ads placement for Dropshipping business

You get 5 options of placing your ad to the Facebook wall as it comes in order:

1. Desktop News Feed
2. Mobile News Feed
3. Instagram
4. Audience Network
5. Desktop Right Column

Statistics say the first two options, i.e. the Desktop News Feed and the Mobile News Feed generate maximum traffic. Simply avoid the Desktop Right Column.

How to successfully market a Dropshipping business using Facebook Ads: In summary

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