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Posted on April 6, 2021April 8, 2021 by admin

How To Model Creatives & Dramatically Drop Your CPA

How do you maintain profitability while scaling?

Everyone wants to double or triple their ad spend and see consistent results BUT very few brands successfully achieve this.

One of our clients has been with the Agency for 6 weeks and we have taken them from spending just under $500/ day to $3,000 / day, with the CPA dropping from $50 to $30 in that time period.

I am going to show you a step by step breakdown of the creative changes we implemented on the account to see this result.

Step 1: I Spoke to The Client & Asked Him What Are the Top 10 Reasons People Buy Your Product.

This allowed me to understand the buyers behaviour of why they want or need the product.

And this helped me map out my creative ideas for the brand.

Step 2: I Stalked the Brands Competition on the Facebook Ads Library and Saved Any Videos / Images I Thought Stood Out as Quality.

Over the years I have also downloaded 1000’s of videos and images and added them into a Google Drive folder breaking them down by niche so I have really amazing creatives to look at when I need to make new ones.

Step 3: I Found 10 Videos I Wanted to Model and Broke Them Down

If you look close enough you will see that every single video ad follows a formula. Often they will include things such as; problems, benefits, features, social proof, reviews, user generated content, showcasing products and a call to action.

For these 10 videos I broke down the structure of it and then made the video ad copy relevant for our client. For example a videos structure might have been this:

Problem > Push Pain Point > Introduce Product / Brand > Benefits > Social Proof > Guarantee > Call To Action

All of these 10 videos were different, had different editing styles and ensured the client had 10 dramatically different styles so we could hopefully see big changes in results.

Step 4: Get a Video Editor to Make the Video

For this part you will show the video editor the original video you want to model, you will give them the video ad copy you want in your video and the footage / photos you want in the video.

Get them to model the video exactly so the transitions and the editing style is the same, but only this time it has your brands content and messaging within it.

Step 5: Add It Into Your Ads Manager and Wait

Now that you have 10 different videos to launch, add them into campaigns and watch the results improve and your ability to scale occur.

Inside the very first week with the client we saw the CPA drop massively because creative changes allow that to happen. Making small tweaks to targeting or bidding strategies will not get you profitable. Focus on the big levers in your Business.

Hope this helped and you get some great results from it.

If you want me to do an audit of your ad account, your creatives and your website, book a call below and I will show you how to triple your budget while maintaining good results!

Book a call here: https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

Chat soon,

Dan

Posted on April 5, 2021April 7, 2021 by admin

What To Do When Running Ads on a New Ad Account

There can be lots of reasons why you would use a new Facebook Ad Account to run ads.

You might just be starting out, your account could have been hacked and you opened a new one, your account could have been banned, or maybe another reason.

One thing is certain: everything will be uncertain.

At DimNiko, we’re used to running ads on new Ad Accounts for all types of reasons.

It can be a daunting task because it’s uncertain how the performance will do.

And, it’s easy to get lost in the best practices you should follow.

Since we’re good at this kind of thing, I’ve compiled a list of best practices to help you out…

Budget

Whenever clients ask us what is the perfect daily budget to run ads on we love to give them a target of $1000 (or more). This will provide the most data at a faster speed.

However, with a brand new account you will have to hold back on the temptation to spend too much money from the start.

Ideally you want to take this down to even a quarter of the amount and spend around $250 / day.

A good budget distribution split would be 70% for cold traffic, and 30% for warm traffic (retargeting).

If you want to be even more safe and feel you have audiences to retarget, a 50/50 split can also work for the first couple of days or first week.

Creatives

When starting on a new Ad Account, creatives is the most important part of the equation.

Here you want to focus on the known winning creatives and use them as they have worked well in the past.

This is not the best time to test new creatives that have no previous data and information to fall back on.

Ideally if you had a previous Ad Account, getting post IDs and using them in your new ads is the best way forward.

This will show you have social proof and engagement which will assist in the slow start of a new ad account.

If you have to use new creatives because your old ones sucked, then try and choose the best video and best image you have and put them in a small dynamic campaign.

Try not to use too many creatives.

Your campaigns should stay on a smaller budget to start off with.

Another important thing to keep in mind is that a good image can convert just as well as a video (although we prefer videos).

If you find a good converting image creative, start building out a post ID with this image and build that social proof we were talking about.

Retargeting/ Retention

You may find that launching retargeting ads on a new Ad Account might be slower results at first.

It can be disappointing since these campaigns should stand out from the rest.

This will be the case when your audiences are still too small and the campaigns struggle to spend, or ad frequency shoots through the roof.

A good solution is to combine your Middle of Funnel (Facebook & Instagram engagers, as well as video viewers 25%) and your Bottom of Funnel (retargeting audiences such as Add to Cart 30 days, Viewed Content 30 days, Page Viewers 30 days) into one campaign.

You will have a higher chance of converting customers. When purchases increase after a week or two, you can split the two parts of the funnel into their own campaigns again.

You can also add a tension audience into the mix if your audiences are too small and you sell a variety of products.

If you have a shopify customer list in your custom audiences, you can add the lists into a combination BOF/MOF campaign.

The TL:DR:

Start more conservative and keep your money in your pocket.

As soon as you have winning campaigns, increase the budget slowly and focus on your winning creatives.

Don’t forget about the power of post IDs and start building them sooner rather than later.

Lastly, consolidate those retargeting audiences in the beginning and throw in a retention audience in the mix for the best initial results, until you can separate them at a later stage as your budget and traffic increases.

Posted on March 29, 2021April 7, 2021 by admin

How a Quiz Campaign Boosted Our Conversion Rate

A couple of months ago we launched an Ecom store in South Africa selling supplements.

Our target audience wanted to buy, but lacked the confidence to follow through with their purchase.

This has drastically impacted our overall conversion rate over the past few months

It made it impossible to gain stability and predict what will happen from one week to the next.

Our conversion rate would jump from anywhere from 0.2% to 3% and back to under 1% without us touching the ads or the website.

Our campaigns had to run on autopilot in order to test this theory. We noticed that our CTR is really high overall compared to accounts we’ve seen.

Typically you would see well converting campaigns getting 1.5% CTR that would run stable.

With the South African market almost seems backwards, our CTR on our ads are averaging more than 3%, so how are our ads not converting?

To add a little pain during Q1, the retail market suffers a massive sales slump since families are stocking up on school supplies, paying the annual school fees and shifting their priority towards the essentials.

Through the past few months we found out through customer enquiries, emails and calling them that it just came down to about three main factors affecting our overall performance. It comes to the conversion rate; trust, knowledge and timing.

Trust

In an up and coming industry building trust with your customers is the hardest thing to achieve.

Most of the feedback we received from past customers was:

Some customers were scammed
Packages took over a month to arrive
Customer service was appalling since the industry hasn’t taken online shopping seriously yet

So how did we start building trust with our customers?

We made sure to have daily communication with our customers, via WhatsApp & Email. We followed up on their experience and improved on our service each day.

The customers that converted had a good experience and will always come back making the LTV a lot more valuable.

Knowledge

This is one of the hardest challenges we have been facing recently.

Since it’s customers’ first time buying online, they have no idea how to use it.

I personally had to go on a one hour call walking a customer through the online purchasing process. In the end, it was worth it, but this example sums up how serious it actually was.

This was an unexpected problem, since internationally, online shopping is a second nature. It’s the most convenient way to shop.

Our current solution is to build a very detailed “how-to” page walking the customers through each and every step.

Even how to add your banking details since we see the biggest drop off at checkout.

Timing

The timing of the month is our saving grace at the moment. There are two pay cycles throughout each month, mid month and end of the month.

Most of the country still has a set pay day at the end of the month and this is the period where we see a 3%+ conversion rate.

We scale our ads up during this period in order to catch as many customers as possible.

During the slow periods of the months where the conversion rate is too unpredictable we shift our focus on the customer journey and improve that since we know the ads do work.

This has created a big thinking shift for me since everything we do that affects the ad performance is done outside of Media Buying.

How does a quiz fit into all of this?

Quiz Campaign

The reason why I mentioned the quiz is that this was a very good method we were testing in order to generate leads.

We ended up getting conversions through the lead campaign which was a bit strange.

We decided to launch a quiz conversion campaign and actually started seeing very good results.

We were still generating cheap leads with better quality traffic and the campaign was basically paying for itself.

As the quiz campaign actually started optimizing on its own we saw a lot more stable performance from the conversion rate on the website.

I believe this was due to the interactive nature of the quiz where more “experienced” customers were pulling through to the website.

We have concluded the test for now while we run our other test.

Overall, it was positive to see during this period. We received better quality conversions and captured good data to make improvements.

It is an interesting project to be part of.

The methods that we learn from this project can be implemented with our clients strategies as well.

But this only works if you have the right agency partnered with you!

If you are spending over $500 a day and you want to scale your brand

Book a call below:

https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

And that’s a wrap!

I’m Quintin, Media Buyer at DimNiko

Posted on March 24, 2021March 26, 2021 by admin

Testing Results: Lifetime vs Daily CBOs

Here at DimNiko Agency, we do a lot of tests everyday.

In each test, 50% of the time I try Lifetime budgets vs. Daily budgets

If I have an account that mainly runs good on daily CBOs, I’ll test every few weeks to see what will happen with LFT campaigns.

Sometimes LFT will over-perform daily budgets, and they won’t.

I saw my first success with LFT around 2017.

At that time not a lot of people we’re using LFT, but I decided to act on it and I got amazing results.

How I tested LFT vs. Daily is as follows:

I duped all my best performing campaigns and put them on LFT.

If the CPA dropped by 20% on average, that would be marked as a big success.

I still remember the dropshipping account.

We were getting CPAs under $5 for a product that was selling for $29.99.

Today, the era of under $5 CPA is gone, but LFT campaigns still work pretty well.

The thing is, you never know when LFT campaigns will work, so you need to always test them.

In the past year, LFT success came in a few different waves.

Every 2 months they will outperform daily budgets, and it will last for a week or two.

Sometimes more. Up to a month, maybe two.

But for a week or two CPA will be as much as 10-30% lower on exact same audiences!

And that is a big win for me.

It’s good to test LFT here and there, regardless if you had bad experiences with them in the past.

Big Win Example

My recent big test was a few months ago, where I had a good LFT result in an account.

I am spending $10-15k per day in this account, and at that time almost 2/3 of all cold traffic campaigns were set on LFT.

Performance was much better across the whole account.

Then over the New Year, daily budget campaigns started to perform much better. So, we turned off a majority of LFT campaigns.

Here and there I still had one or two LFT campaigns left running, but the majority was back to Daily CBOs.

And few LFT cost cap bids that I don’t place in the same bucket.

Why You Need to Test

But for the last test I duped 20 of my best performing daily budget campaigns, and put them on 9k for 30 days. ($300 per day)

I didn’t touch them for 3 days, then I started to slowly optimize the adsets.

After a week, 1/3 of LFT campaigns were switched off, but 2/3 of them were still under my KPI.

Then I was just doing my daily optimization routine across all accounts, and didn’t analyze which is good and why. I just took care of the average account KPI.

After 2 weeks I decided to analyze what happened, and the results were to my big surprise – exactly the same!

LFT campaigns performed on the same average CPA as my Daily campaigns!

But I could double the spend and get the same results which maybe I wouldn’t if I would put all on daily budgets.

This account runs mostly on a broad audience and very big interests 20+ MM, so no overlapping issues were reported.

At some of my campaigns, I had the exact same audience (3xbroad), but different dynamic or ID creative.

So my recent test showed me again, that all you need to do to have some success in your account, is to TEST.

LFT vs Daily budget, Cost cap vs Bid cap, CBO vs ABO, and IDs vs Dynamic.

Sometimes general things will work, but the very next day something else you tested will surprise you, and you could scale the account much easier because of your test.

How to Optimize LFT Budget Campaigns

Lot’s of people ask me how to optimize LFT budget campaigns.

I do them exactly as I do my daily budget campaigns. I lower or scale up the budget every 1-2 days.

Sometimes I also do an end date change, but then you need to remember that date and it’s a little harder for me as I have 50-75 campaigns in the account.

Even if I put an end date in my campaign name.

And the main point is that I didn’t see much of a difference.

So I like to use more ‘budget changing’ in my LFTs.

Maybe you have another process that works better for you.

If you have, please share it under this post!

Let us know your experience lately if you did some tests.

Also if you have any questions about LFT or Daily budget campaigns, please comment below.

If you want us to run your ad account for the best ROAS, you can book a call with us here ==> https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

Have a great day,

Matej

Posted on March 22, 2021March 26, 2021 by admin

Does Your Team Have a Marketing Roadmap?

If you’re a marketer or have been running your own ads, you’re probably already familiar with the term roadmap… or at least should be.

If not…

The basic definition of a roadmap, doesn’t matter what the roadmap is based on, it’s a way to make sure your strategy stays organized, making sure you and your team reach your targets or goals.

Does your team need a marketing roadmap?

Short answer: Yes!

A roadmap is a great tool for your team to refer to while accomplishing daily, weekly or monthly tasks.

It gives your team a structure and shows your clients your organization and focus.

Step 1: Set Your Goals Straight.

What are you planning to achieve? What are the main goals? And when do you plan to get it done?

Setting the right goals and realistic timelines is the main and most important step in a roadmap.

Those goals or targets must be measurable, so you can easily keep track if you are working in the right direction.

Step 2: Set the Necessary Steps / Actions You Need to Achieve Each Goal

These actions must be completed in a specific amount of time, generally giving you a shorter timeline while working along the roadmap.

Step 3: Connect Your Roadmap to Your Marketing Strategy

Some people think that having a general strategy is enough, but working on a strategy while following a roadmap will help you make sure that you are on the right track.

A roadmap will help you connect the main points of your marketing plan while giving a better understanding for your clients as well as your team, giving more clarity.

Marketers sometimes feel that they are working on creating new campaigns blindly, without a real understanding on how they are affecting the customer’s business.

Once you’ve set up a roadmap, it’s extremely important that all team members involved are aware of the steps to follow and the goals to achieve.

Your team must follow the roadmap on a daily basis, they must be aware of the tasks or actions to take next in order to achieve the specific goals.

On the other side, your customers must be well aware and informed on which part of the roadmap you are at each specific moment in time.

Do you have any questions about how to work on your own roadmap?

If you’re interested in working with us to grow your eCommerce brand, find out if we’re the right fit for you

Book a call below:

https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

Until next time 😉

Posted on March 15, 2021March 26, 2021 by admin

How to Properly Track Performance with 7 Day Attribution Window

Hi Folks,

Today I’m going to share a little trick that helped me optimize performance on campaigns with huge discrepancies.

Now that FB changed it’s attribution window from 28 days to 7 days, a lot of purchases are not tracked.

It depends on many factors:

The size of the business,
How long you have been running ads
How well you know your campaigns
The performance and what you should expect

But even if you know your Ad Account inside & out, the attribution change can still affect it, plus each quarter has different user behavior, but this is another topic.

Let’s see now how to track the performance and start learning again to deal with the 7 days attribution window.

The first thing I noticed is that it’s not a good idea to optimize based on daily performance, unless you’re hitting your KPIs.

Solution, until you get to learn again your campaign’s behavior and know what to expect in terms of attribution you’ll need to follow closely the daily performance from day 1 to day 7 and the 8th day to recheck again.

It is a bit time consuming but exporting into an excel spreadsheet will help to have a clear view.

For example, on one of our clients, we noticed that the discrepancy from day 1 to day 7 was about 50%.

Yes, it is kind of a madness in this case to optimize on the daily performance, we would have killed good campaigns.

However keep in mind that campaigns with a higher budget for 7 days unoptimized can be a double edged sword, so pay attention to the daily budgets until you learn the new patterns.

For this specific test I was using 2x the CPA for the daily budget.

If you have multiple sales channels running try to understand how much of the sales came through FB.

I know this is “mission impossible” and a never ending cycle, but actually the spreadsheet will help you to notice the discrepancy between day 1 and day 7.

So once you have a clear pattern you’ll be able to know approximately how much sale came through FB on Day 1.

Example: Day 1: 50 sales in Facebook’s Ads Manager / 100 sales in Shopify
Day 7: 75 sales in Facebook’s Ads Manager

As per the above example there is a 33% discrepancy between Day 1 and Day 7.

We found that 75% of the total sales came from Facebook.

I would like to encourage you to try this test if you haven’t yet, and see if it will help to better understand and optimize your Facebook Ads campaigns with the new 7 days attribution window.

Let us know if you have any questions or give us feedback if you are trying similar optimization hacks.

If you are spending over $500 a day and want to scale your brand

Book a call below:

https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

Have a great Day!

Ago,

Posted on March 8, 2021March 5, 2021 by admin

How to Set Up Retargeting Campaigns with Limited Data Due to iOS14 Update

I am sure that everyone who runs an e-business, or works in digital advertisement already met (or at least heard about) the new iOS 14 changes, which were implemented by Apple. The iOS14 update will ask users for permission to track their activities across the web. In case the user does not give permission, third-party data collectors like Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, etc will not be able to get user data for targeting, optimization, and reporting.

In the U.S. more than 50% of mobile users have iOS, (which number is approximately 30% in Europe.) In the worst case scenario, 50% of the conversions may not be reported – so the effect of the update can be significant. Due to these changes, Facebook also has to implement some changes, trying to support its advertisers’ efforts to run effective campaigns even with the changed data-environment. Although it is not fully clear yet what the full impact will be, it already seems that everyone has to adapt to less data, limited targeting precisity and higher costs.

There will be several changes, which need to be adapted in further strategies.

Where We Will See Changes

Only 8 events can be tracked, and will be reported after the priority level. This will affect utmost those products and services, where the customer’s decision-making time is longer than 7 days. This case if a customer clicks to an ad but purchases only later than 7 days, this purchase can not be connected to the Fb campaign.
Conversion data from mobile web will be delayed up to three days. This means that remarketing audiences are not fully updated in real-time.
Dynamic Ads audience sizes will decrease
You will only be allowed to use 1 pixel per catalog.
Offline conversion events will be reported based on the time the conversions occur and not the time of ad impressions.
From late February, ads metrics data older than 37 months will no longer be reported.

Aggregated Event Measurement will be introduced, which results in partial event reporting. For every visit, only the highest priority event will be reported. So if someone arrives at your page, checks a product, adds to cart, and goes through checkout ending with a purchase, from this 5 pixel event (page view, ViewContent, ATC, IC and Purchase) only the Purchase event, as highest priority one will be displayed.

What does it mean in everydays? You may see a decrease in the number of reported conversions and some of your ads may be paused or could stop being delivered to certain devices.

Retargeting:

Also the Facebook app itselves is affected by the changes. As 80% of Facebook traffic is mobile-only (with iOS domination in device-profile). The users, who do not give permission for the FB app, might / or will drop out from such remarketing lists and audiences which are used by advertisers. Without the necessary user approval it will be difficult or even impossible to aggregate the following of customers. This means smaller and incomplete remarketing audiences.

There are a lot of brands and businesses, who can not afford to spend ten-or hundred thousand dollars for facebook ads – so it is essential for them to minimize wasted money on false audiences. So if you ask, if retargeting will be possible in the future? The answer is: Yes, but prepare for less effective retargeting and higher advertising costs!

Challenges:

Delay in event reporting, due to the Aggregated Event Measurement: this means you can react slower, and actually running “blind” during the first days of the new campaigns
Less qualified reach: as your targeted audience partly (or even mostly if you are not lucky) will not give permission for data sharing, the size of highly relevant audiences will shrink.
Less effective retargeting campaigns: Due the limited data, it will be more difficult to reach the most relevant group of people for your business.
Difficulties in the exclusions: if the reported data is delayed for 3 days, you will keep on targeting the purchasers for an extra 3 days. This decreases effectiveness and increases CPA. In case your customer chose not to provide data – you can not even exclude them at all after they completing any events.
Shrinking Audience sizes: some audience sizes can shrink to that level, which makes them quite impossible to target.

What Can We Do to Solve This?

We do not have a lot of options so far… but as this affects simply too many companies and businesses, we can trust that the industry will find different solutions to minimize the effect of the changes. The Aggregated Events Measurements of Facebook, and Google’s Consent Mode (still Beta) will use algorithm-modelled data for completing the missing data-gaps. Even with this, we cannot expect to get the exact precisity as before, but the trends are supposed to be correct.

Some Tips to Try:

Split cost and risk due advertising also on additional channels
Try using independent measurement tools
Prioritize your events
Try to implement broader / consolidated audiences for event-based campaigns
Try to reach your audience through email campaigns, improve their commitment and loyalty to make them purchase again.

Don’t forget, not only you, but the whole industry is facing the same challenges. There will be plenty of information about the topic, and sooner-or later there will be a solution. Even if not perfect – everyone will adapt to the new circumstances.

Zsoka

Posted on March 1, 2021February 26, 2021 by admin

How Does Your Landing Page Affect Your Campaigns Performance?

Have you ever considered how much your landing page affects your campaign’s performance?

Landing pages are those sites that the customers are redirected to when they click in your ad. And they must represent your brand or business as well as your product or service.

Most advertising platforms will take into consideration the relevance and quality of your landing page and this will directly impact your ads performance.

For example, Google Adwords uses the Quality Score in order to assess the quality or level of the different points involved in your marketing campaign.

It is well known that the landing page is a very important part of the calculation in the Quality Score.

And what do you need to look for in order to rank high on the landing page Quality Score?

-Relevance, interesting and useful content where the main keywords used in your Google campaigns are widely present.
Easy to navigate both on pc or mobile.
Promoting transparency about your business and product/service.
Optimize the speed across the site, with fast loading times.

The information above mentioned can be found in more detail on the policy page of Google Adwords.

However, do other advertising platforms also give your landing page a similar score?

The short answer is, yes.

For example, on Facebook Ads, there’s a different metric called Facebook Ads Relevance and it has three main components:

Quality Ranking, Engagement Rate Ranking and Conversion Rate Ranking.

The main difference with Google’s Quality Score when it comes to the landing page ranking is that Facebook does not rely on keywords when it comes to targeting but in audiences.

Therefore, Facebook bases their scores on the engagement and interactions from the users in order to decide if your ad is relevant.

And with the help of the Facebook pixel installed on your site, it will also take into consideration the engagement and conversion rate on your website or landing page.

How to Optimize Your Landing Page to Be Relevant and High Quality

Speed!

Speed nowadays is everything, most users will lose interest in your brand or product if they need to wait just about a few seconds in order to fully load your landing page or website.

Any landing page that takes over 3 seconds to load will lose as much as 50% of the users that were potentially customers. That is how important speed is.

Quality content

While having a landing page that is easy to navigate and that leads the users into converting, it is important to mention that the content that we present to those users is extremely important.

We don’t want to drive traffic into a very basic landing page, without information or content that only focuses on getting them to convert.

If a user clicks on your ad it is because they are interested in your product and/or brand. Work on the content that you are providing those users and make sure that it properly represents your brand.

Design

It is extremely important to update landing pages into the most updated design in order to keep up with the trends.

We don’t want to drive traffic into a landing page that looks old or that it has not been updated in ages.

Most importantly, use a design that talks to your user persona. Think who is your ideal customer and adjust the landing page in a way that it speaks to them.

Simplicity

Nobody wants to spend time scrolling through a landing page that is too complicated or that it has too much information on it.

The same that most customers will leave if your page is not loading within the first few seconds, they will do the same if they cannot navigate easily though it and they cannot find the information that they are looking for.

Make it simple and user friendly and you’ll see your conversions improve.

These are just some of the main important things to keep in mind when optimizing or creating your landing page.

If you are just interested to know more about this topic or us, to find out if we are the right fit for you and if you are spending over $500 a day and you want to scale your brand.

Book a call below:

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Until next time 😉

Posted on February 22, 2021February 19, 2021 by admin

Secret is Out – Replicate Our Best Performing IDs/Dynamics Campaign Structure

Should I use one or many creatives / IDs or Dynamic in my campaigns?

We hear these two questions over and over again. With old and with new media buyers. What we found out is that both strategies will work.If you have a great product, that your targeted audience wants. And if you optimize campaigns correctly, when you get enough data.

Our recent tests showed that maybe at this point fewer is better than more – on cold traffic, more is better than a few – on retargeting, and IDs work better on short term, and Dynamics better on long term.

Let me explain a little more of our recent testing.

Example 1: Reorganizing a Current Client

We have this client’s account, where we mostly run dynamics on cold and retargeting for the past half of the year.

Budget was around 10k per day on average. We tested new always with $100 or $200, and after a few days and few tweaks performance was optimized. These campaigns performed well for 2-3 months if optimized correctly every day.

Here I mean downscaling and upscaling budget, and turning off and on ad sets + ads based on the last 3-7 days performance.

Structure on retargeting was almost the same as on cold traffic, and each ad set had around 10 images and 3 ad copies.

Then a few months back, we had to change all creatives very fast, and because we had more than 50 campaigns, we decided we were gonna do it with IDs.

We created around 10 different IDs (pics/vids, carousels, collections), and then duplicated all dynamic campaigns, deleted ads in them, and switched dynamics off on ad set level. Then we duplicated new IDs into these empty new campaigns one by one.

We finished the process in 2 days, but if we would go via dynamics, we would need the whole week as we would also need to create ad sets from scratch because of the audiences.

We decided that we are gonna try all campaigns with IDs for a week, to see if they can compete with our previous dynamic campaigns.

To our big surprise, after 5 days when new IDs got enough engagement, we optimized the campaigns heavily and results were great.

We put 1-2 IDs in different combinations on cold traffic, and 3-5 together in retargeting campaigns.

Now after 2 months these campaigns are still working well and they are bringing pretty much the same results as before.

Example 2: Setting Up a New Client

Our new client when he came to us, had only 2 proven IDs that performed well in the past.

He didn’t have any good video creatives, all he had was a bunch of product pics that were not tested. So we selected the best ones and put everything in dynamics on cold and retargeting.

We thought we were gonna make it work but somehow dynamics never worked here.

After one month of testing we gave up, and went testing just IDs. Results were better but still not where we want them to be.

So in month 2 we decided to push only the 2 IDs they performed the best in our dynamic tests, and use dynamic campaigns just on our retargeting.

Strategy became our winning one and we used the same approach in one other account.

Results were great again. So at this point, we like to push a small number of IDs on the front end, and a lot of creatives in dynamics on the backend.

You can also do with lots of IDs on retargeting, but then I would suggest to change copy based on the 3-90d segments.

We also exclude all page viewers, buyers and social media engagers on cold traffic, so we target just fresh visitors. And that is a very simple structure you can replicate and try out!

1 or 2 IDs on cold, 5-10 IDs or Dynamics on retargeting.

If you want us to run your campaigns for the best ROAS, book a call with as here
==> https://dimniko.com/msp-apply

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Posted on February 8, 2021March 26, 2021 by admin

Best Practices When Ads Manager Is Recording The Wrong Data.

DimNiko | Inaccurate Data in Ads Manager

Have you ever jumped into Ads Manager and got a shock when the total number of purchases that you received during the day was the most you have ever had in a single day?

And have you ever seen Shopify sales at a high but Ads Manager reporting conversions at a low? Maybe the Add to Cart event is not showing data in Ads Manager, maybe the ROAS, and even worse – purchases.

I’ve been in this back and forth struggle with a client who unfortunately had many pixel errors. First the pixel kept over recording the purchase events, then under recording. Ads Manager doesn’t record the purchase Conversion Value and I cannot see the ROAS.

You might be wondering HOW DO YOU OPTIMISE !?!?

Let me share a few tips with you that I have learned throughout this ongoing struggle, and what you can do if this problem happens to you – we all experience pixel problems at some point.

Top of Funnel Campaigns

Firstly for prospecting campaigns. The key with your prospecting campaigns (cold traffic) is to keep your targeting as broad as possible. Since we cannot accurately track data, it is a great time to put broad audiences to the test and let Facebook find your customers for you.

When you have specific interests that you want to test – keep this testing for later and take your best known interests from past data (when you could still analyze the numbers accurately) and put them all in one consolidated audience in one ad set. Therefore you must create a stack of your best interests, in one ad set only. Remember, there is no real point splitting these interests in different ad sets as you might turn off the one that shows the least purchases, however its recording the wrong data and it might in fact be a good ad set.

Middle of Funnel Campaigns

We then move over to the Middle of the Funnel, where we target the people who have engaged and interacted with our ads and social pages. Generally a nice split is ideal between audiences such as your video viewers, Facebook engagers and Instagram Eengagers. However, because we are experiencing the wrong tracking of data, this is what you need to do.

If you have good engagement on your Instagram page, Facebook page and your ads, it is the best idea to consolidate these engagement audiences into one Middle of Funnel campaign in one ad set. This will bring you consistently good results and is easier to manage and it makes sure you cover all the engaged audiences while you see the incorrect data in Ads Manager.

If you know that your Facebook page for example brings poor quality engagement, you can always opt for Instagram engagers only with or without video viewers – just to be more safe.

Bottom of Funnel Campaigns

Retargeting – this one is important!

Retargeting is where we hope the magic happens as we sometimes struggle to convert on cold traffic, we have now warmed our audience up so we should be selling like HOT CAKES 😉

However, we can’t optimise because we still see the wrong data.

The theme throughout indicates once again – consolidate. This is generally the best method to deal with this problem and you want to consolidate the following audiences in one retargeting campaign with one ad set: people who have viewed pages on your website, people who have viewed the content of these pages, people who added to their cart, people who have initiated checkout (all of these excluding people who have purchased). This will keep your budget safer and in one place, and less optimisation will be needed until you are able to receive the correct data.

When you experience hiccups like this in your advertising journey, fall back to the basics and try to keep things as simple as possible. It is definitely not fun optimizing blindly in an ad account that runs 20 different campaigns.

When you have 5 campaigns – much easier.