Today I want to introduce you to a friend of mine who has helped me grow my customer base and reach customers who may never have used our services.
Without further ado I introduce you to…
… The Facebook Pixel Code
This little snippet tells Facebook whenever someones visits your website as well as a plethora of other useful information. It allows you to create audiences from your website visitors and serve them dynamic adverts based on their activity on your site. Along with my other friend, The Google Tracking Pixel, this is probably the most important thing you can have on your website today.
Imagine, a potential vendor is doing a bit of research and stumbles across your site. They don’t really know who you are, so they have a quick peek about and leave, forgetting all about you. Normally that would be that, poof, gone forever…
… But with the help of our little friend here, the next time they visit Facebook they see a promoted post from your page or an advert about your company. Now they are suddenly much more interested in who you are and what your company offers.
Sure, you can run adverts to a cold audience and simply target everyone in your area, but the real magic happens when you retarget people who have already shown an interest in your brand. You can only do that once this little bad boy is installed on your site!
Wait, what, you’re not running Facebook ads?
Why not??
Don’t tell me…
…You’d rather spend your hard earned budget on marketing without measurable results in a bid to boost your mystical name awareness?
**SLAP**
Seriously get with the programme, don’t be the horse that doesn’t drink the water, there’s only so many times I can lead you to it. Now get out and don’t come back till you are ready to take action.
Ok, where was I?
Oh yes, for those of you who understand the power of social media and would actually like a measurable, scalable ROI for your marketing spend, here’s a sneak peek at the power of this thing.
This is just a small combination of the audiences you can create in Facebook so that you serve highly relevant adverts. Relevant adverts promote a better response.
Once you install the pixel, Facebook will know when someone visits, what page they visited and when. This will help you build and target some amazing audience demographics
- All of your website visitors during the past 1-180 days
- People who visited a particular page or group of pages
- People who visited a particular page but not others
- People who visited during the past 180 days, but not lately
- People who were within the top 5%, 10% or 25% of most active visitors
That’s just the tip of the iceberg!
I’ve created hundreds of these audiences to help me drive potential clients to the relevant parts of our business. You probably wouldn’t even be reading this if I hadn’t done so.
To give you an example you can use in your own business, you could build an audience of people who visited your “Book a Valuation” page but did not submit their details. You could then serve adverts to these people about your Free Instant Valuation Calculator, your handy guide on picking the best estate agent, or simply brand based adverts to boost your presence (much better than leaflets, they cant throw this away).
Even if you are still not ready to jump onto Facebook adverts for whatever reason (I can’t think of one), you should still install the code so that it can build an audience for you for when you are.
Please, don’t ignore this advice, I’m simply amazed buy the amount of estate agency websites I visit that do not have this installed. Yes I check!
Speak to your website developer today and get it done and while you’re at it get the Google Pixel as well, more on that another day…
Are you using Facebook adverts, if so what has been your experience so far, if not, why not?
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