Question About Facebook Ads

[Deleted50669]

Hey all,

I have launched my first FB ad to drum up some excitement / awareness of my coming SaaS product. For those who have some experience with this, what kind of engagement rates do you look for? My current metric is one post like for every five people reached, or about 20%. Is this good, bad, somewhere in-between?

Thanks in advance for any insights.

- Cheers

 

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[SYK]

You need a more strategic goal/approach than simply ‘drum up excitement’. If one in five people like your post, how will that ultimately help when you launch your SAAS product? Will they remember that like they gave weeks/months ago by the time your product is live?

Use engagement to gather data. Eg use video to track % people watch then build retargeting/lookalike audiences based on, say, people who have watched +75%. Voila! Now you have a zeroed in audience to target. Either immediately to capture leads or when you launch and run conversion campaigns.

On lead capture... why not do that now? Rather than chasing likes, round up some prelaunch emails. If you’re running a prelaunch engagement campaign, connect it with a more tangible outcome: building a launch list.

I always use engagement in conjunction with lead/conversion campaigns. Engagement to zero in on demographics/build targeted audiences and add social proof (likes, views, shares) to your ad creative, then lead and conversion ads alongside these using this data/social proof.

Hope that helps some.

 

[Deleted50669]

You need a more strategic goal/approach than simply ‘drum up excitement’. If one in five people like your post, how will that ultimately help when you launch your SAAS product? Will they remember that like they gave weeks/months ago by the time your product is live?

Use engagement to gather data. Eg use video to track % people watch then build retargeting/lookalike audiences based on, say, people who have watched +75%. Voila! Now you have a zeroed in audience to target. Either immediately to capture leads or when you launch and run conversion campaigns.

On lead capture... why not do that now? Rather than chasing likes, round up some prelaunch emails. If you’re running a prelaunch engagement campaign, connect it with a more tangible outcome: building a launch list.

I always use engagement in conjunction with lead/conversion campaigns. Engagement to zero in on demographics/build targeted audiences and add social proof (likes, views, shares) to your ad creative, then lead and conversion ads alongside these using this data/social proof.

Hope that helps some.

Thanks a ton! I am simultaneously working on the email optin page. My intent was to invite people who engaged with the post to visit the page and join the community to get early access when we go live. I probably pulled the trigger too quick on the social media side, because now I just have a post floating in the abyss with no connected strategy.