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My Expensive Facebook Ad Campaign

Remember my Facebook ad campaign for ruk.ca? Well I ran it for over four days last week. The ad received a total of 1,332 impressions (to the “liberal and moderate people between 18 and 60 years old in Charlottetown, PE” audience). How much traffic did it generate? None.

Facebook Ad Manager Screen Shot
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:54pm
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Rob Hyndman's picture
Rob Hyndman on February 26, 2008
My results pretty much exactly.
oliver's picture
oliver on February 27, 2008
That was a bubble test. No bubbles in how you guys are conceiving the information economy.
Steven Garrity's picture
Steven Garrity on February 26, 2008
I find this oddly comforting.
Peter Rukavina's picture
Peter Rukavina on February 26, 2008
As do I.
Kevin's picture
Kevin on February 28, 2008
Last week I was invited to a focus group discussion which dealt with promotion campaigns for the technology Sector Council — one of the general themes was that traditional advertising is able to reach a smaller and smaller percentage of people, particularly young people who seem to be an important audience to reach. Face Book ads were suggested as one approach which might work — your experience would perhaps suggest otherwise.
Peter Rukavina's picture
Peter Rukavina on February 28, 2008
Setting aside the questionif whether sector council advertising of any sort makes any sense, the upside of Facebook ads is that you can easily and inexpensively find out whether they are going to work or not.
Ryan's picture
Ryan on February 28, 2008
The liberals of Charlottetown on Facebook are already reading Ruk.ca. No need to click the ad, really.
Matt's picture
Matt on March 2, 2008
Well put, Ryan. If you’re into blogs on PEI, you’re likely into ruk.ca.
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Cours Seo Montréal on November 19, 2010
My personal experience has shown me that Facebook is a poor avenue to get sales. However, I feel that these people who meet your company through Facebook and “like” you are somehow important brand carriers that will eventually bring its share of customers when what counts down the line is how good or how bad people talk about your business around.

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