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Dolby

Dolby

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Anyone done it?

I put $30 into a few promotions and the views/likes/interactions were great. However I noticed that the likes never appeared to come from my target audience.

I started digging and it looks like most are fake profiles. I Googled and this has been brought up before and other people have noticed. Very unethical if true as they're taking my cash ...

Anyone else used them and maybe comment on their findings?
 
Yea I've picked that up now. Lucky was only $30
 
Join groups that may contain your target audience. Share your page posts to the groups each day.

Experience has taught me to post to 35 groups one after the other, then leave it for 15 to 30 minutes, then another 35 groups etc.

2 risks: if you post to too many one after the other FB blocks you from posting to any groups for 24 hours as they think you are spamming. Also, you risk annoying your actual FB friends as they see all/most of your shares in their newsfeed.
 
Dolby said:
Anyone done it?

I put $30 into a few promotions and the views/likes/interactions were great. However I noticed that the likes never appeared to come from my target audience.

I started digging and it looks like most are fake profiles. I Googled and this has been brought up before and other people have noticed. Very unethical if true as they're taking my cash ...

Anyone else used them and maybe comment on their findings?
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Paid for builders in Botswana. All likes were unemployed kids.....
 
1 billion + of us ... apparently the older generation. If the advertising worked, it's quite cool ... Target exact age, gender, interests etc
 
Does it work for you?
You legit people seeing an advert?
 
Haven't tried it yet. I tried Insagram. Put $10, according to stats, all are on 0. So yaah, maybe you should spend a higher amount.
 
The stats are there :

But the paid target market was Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria. Men from 30-40 with an interest in MyBroadband / gadgets / home automation / smart home etc. I'm happy with the CEO of Facebook from Soshanguve adding to my stats, but he doesn't really fit the profile

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Use ad campaigns not boosted posts.

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Thor said:
I also use that I found one those humber are fake/inflated and two those clicks are most likely bots or totally not the target market.
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Well yes that's certainly debatable, but for $50 a month it's not really too much of a concern, I've gotten a few leads from it.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Well yes that's certainly debatable, but for $50 a month it's not really too much of a concern, I've gotten a few leads from it.
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I'll try it again because it's been a year since I used it. I used it for flyboys and I don't know something just felt fishy at the time the people that shared and liked.... Not sure anyway yea will give it another go and see if anything changed.
 
Trompie67 said:
Join groups that may contain your target audience. Share your page posts to the groups each day.

Experience has taught me to post to 35 groups one after the other, then leave it for 15 to 30 minutes, then another 35 groups etc.

2 risks: if you post to too many one after the other FB blocks you from posting to any groups for 24 hours as they think you are spamming. Also, you risk annoying your actual FB friends as they see all/most of your shares in their newsfeed.
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This is the worst advice, never spam a group, group Admin's hate that schit as do users. Post judiciously to groups, ie depending on how busy the group is that may mean once every 2 weeks or 2 months. Run genuine promotions, now that's where the best brand promotion lies, everyone loves a deal so find a great loss leader. Many companies have realised it's either spend on advertising or use that same money on a loss leader, the latter actually gets guaranteed sales and people onto your website, if you back the sale up with a great product and good service you'll win a customer to sing you ur praises far and wide.

And one of the best is know your product like a boss and give advice including your products as solutions, but don't be a shill. I've seen a camera store work like that, nobody minds and the guy drives traffic/sales virtually daily.

It's a fine line and it takes work, no free lunch.
 
ScottulusMaximus said:
Use ad campaigns not boosted posts.

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Can you see on your site that those clicks are going through and what they'r doing ?
They're not just saying that you have 400 odd clicks?

If they're faking the boosting posts - could be faking anything :/
 
Dolby said:
Can you see on your site that those clicks are going through and what they'r doing ?
They're not just saying that you have 400 odd clicks?

If they're faking the boosting posts - could be faking anything :/
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There's a correlation between what FB is showing here and the data from Analytics, they seem to be "real" clicks.
 
Dolby said:
Anyone done it?

I put $30 into a few promotions and the views/likes/interactions were great. However I noticed that the likes never appeared to come from my target audience.

I started digging and it looks like most are fake profiles. I Googled and this has been brought up before and other people have noticed. Very unethical if true as they're taking my cash ...

Anyone else used them and maybe comment on their findings?
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Did you boost or post or did you start a new targeted campaign? what targeting metrics did you use?
 
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