{"id":163261,"date":"2017-03-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=163261"},"modified":"2017-03-16T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:58:20","slug":"facebook-pixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/facebook-pixel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up Facebook Pixel and WordPress for a Winning Sales Funnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook advertising can get expensive fast and you don\u2019t always get the return on investment that you would like to see. Your page\u2019s engagement isn\u2019t always enough to justify the high cost of the Facebook ads, especially when response rates seem almost random. The question is, do you give up there?<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not alone. The internet is full of people complaining about Facebook\u2019s monetization strategy and how they aren\u2019t getting the returns they expect or used to see on the platform. While those guys and girls are out there complaining about how things used to be, you can take advantage of the more advanced strategies that net you a much higher conversion rate than those who just haven\u2019t caught up to the technology yet.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about using the Facebook Pixel to get major return on investment from your ad campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pixel is a simple line of code that you stick on your website to track how people interact with your content. You can then use the tracking information to advertise to very specific subsets of your visitors.<\/p>\n

This is the immediate future of the platform and for savvy business owners, using the Pixel can increase your returns by a massive amount. All you have to do is prepare properly and understand your own sales process, margins and customer profile, and guide your customers through a sales funnel that ramps up into your main offerings. If you don\u2019t know the profile of your customers yet, going through this step-by-step article will be really helpful to get it straight in your mind.<\/p>\n

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Step #1: Activate the Facebook Pixel on Your Site<\/h3>\n

The first thing you have to do is set the Facebook Pixel up on your site so it is recording users coming from your Facebook ads. If you aren\u2019t tracking your customers (and potential leads), you\u2019re really missing out on one of the most important value-adds of the platform.<\/p>\n

First, go to your business manager page and click the hamburger menu in the top left. Click Pixels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Click on the tab that says Set up pixel<\/strong>\u00a0and tell it that you\u2019re going to install by copying and pasting the code. This is really the easiest way to do it; just use your header to stick in the code. Many WordPress themes have them by default, and Ultimate Branding<\/a>\u00a0has a module that lets you customize your headers allow you to install the pixel helper on every page of your site.<\/p>\n

Once installed, you\u2019ll need to add your events code to the header as well. This means putting in the goals you want people to do on your page, whether that be clicking on a link that goes to a specific page or fulfill an action. Some actions require installing more code into the headers of some pages, but Facebook has very clear installation guides for each of these.<\/p>\n

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Creating a custom conversion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Double Check Your Pixel is Working Properly Before Running Your First Ad<\/h4>\n

You really need to check this, as I\u2019ve read of countless woe stories of people complaining that their pixel wasn\u2019t working and they had tens of thousands of hits on their site recorded in Google Analytics but the Pixel wasn\u2019t showing anything.<\/p>\n

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Check your Pixel status.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

You can use the Facebook Pixel Helper to check if it is running a tracking code on the page.<\/p>\n

Show Me Your Sales Funnel!<\/h4>\n

Once you have your pixel set up, you need to think about what you want your sales funnel to look like. What I\u2019m going to show you is just one way to set up a sales funnel, and you may find more lucrative or converting methods of your own with enough experience and testing.<\/p>\n

With the right ad, this practice to be very converting and for this I highly recommend video ads as Facebook is encouraging them relentlessly. On my last campaign using this funnel I got over 17,000 reach from a $40 investment, with a $0.02 CPC (Cost Per Click). Better yet, after users clicked through to the site I got 350 email signups!<\/p>\n

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\"Check
Check out your Facebook ad stats and keep an eye on things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

That\u2019s $0.11c per email!<\/p>\n

If you have more to spend this could be compounded, and once you find a successful formula that gives you a return on investment, there\u2019s nothing to stop you running ads like this all the time.<\/p>\n

Here is the layout of the sales funnel, and while this may look simple, it really is all in the execution.<\/p>\n

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How a sales funnel works.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The most important step is knowing how much a single customer is worth to you<\/strong>. This will inform how much you\u2019ll want to spend on your facebook ads. If a customer has a lifetime profit value of $6 on average, you\u2019ll know that spending $4 in a series of campaigns to get that customer is totally worth it every time.
\nSo here\u2019s the process in detail:<\/p>\n

Step #2: Run an Ad Leading to a Content-Rich and Useful (Non-Sales) Page That Tracks Clicks Through the Pixel<\/h3>\n

The key to getting the highest conversion rate possible for the first ad is to offer some extraordinary content for free. I\u2019ll leave the content up to you but the more useful it is and the better it solves the problem, the more converting users you will get in the end.<\/p>\n

What!? For free? I\u2019m not a charity. I need to make money, buddy!<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

I realize that this might seem counter-intuitive at first, but hear me out.<\/p>\n

The goal of the first ad is to get the tracking pixel on as many interested users as possible, as these are people that are just showing that they have some affinity towards the topic area your product is in. Audience targeting is a whole other article, but you\u2019ll be aiming for at least a 2.5% clickthrough rate so try to get as granular as you can with your audience targeting while still having a big enough base for the content to spread.<\/p>\n

Make your ad engaging. I\u2019ve said it before, but video really is massive here. Having a video ad that is engaging and well-produced will give you a better conversion rate than an image nine times out of 10. Be sure to include the link to click through to on the top line of the copy attached to your video (or image) and make sure you have the tracking pixel you want to use set up on the ad.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re ready, click that order button. Now you wait.<\/p>\n

Step #3: Run a Second Ad Retargeting Users That Were Tracked Through the Pixel<\/h3>\n

After the ad set has finished completely, this is when you run your retargeting campaign. This time, you\u2019ll be leading users to a minimal opt-in page that gives you a better option to reach the client or a small buy that is not your core buy. We call this a tripwire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A landing page offering a free PDF that is sent to their email inbox after a sign up is a good starter for this (that was my tripwire), but I\u2019ve even seen a $3 \u201cshipping cost only\u201d CD for an audio course that I bought just because \u201cHey, it\u2019s only $3!\u201d<\/p>\n

Think of Udemy sales, where video courses that are many hours long listed as costing $200 originally are discounted to $20, a 90% discount! This is a great tripwire that gets people to buy because it is just too good of an offer to pass up.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m spending a lot on this already. When do I start converting customers?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Remember, at this stage we are recording interest and tracking interested parties, not going all in.<\/p>\n

If you try to sell to a huge audience without gauging interest first, you might get a few leads, but it will be nothing compared to what you can do with a thoughtful and targeted (and retargeted) Facebook ads campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So now you will create a Custom Audience<\/strong> through Facebook that includes only people that clicked the link on your last campaign, reducing the size of the audience but ensuring that all of them have shown an interest in your brand.<\/p>\n

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Setting up a custom audience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Website traffic<\/strong> is your custom converter here, and using the drop down for \u201cPeople who visit specific web pages\u201d you can put in the URL of the landing page from the first ad set.<\/p>\n

Again, make sure that your ad has great content; video is preferable but you can use images if you have something that works well in your niche. I\u2019ll leave this bit up to you.<\/p>\n

Set Up the Conversion for the Main Product<\/h4>\n

Again, you\u2019ll be tracking the conversions for this ad with your Pixel, but you\u2019ll need to get a bit more granular now. For your main product ad set coming after this, you\u2019ll only want to retarget the people who complete your sign-up process from the second ad set. This way, you know that everyone you are spending money on retargeting will already have shown enough interest in your products or business to give you their email or pay a small buy-in for a product.<\/p>\n

Set up a second Custom Conversion from the Pixel page, with the URL of the Landing page AND the URL of the page that your site links to after you get a successful sign up (your \u201cThank You\u201d page). This is what we will use in the next step.<\/p>\n

Remember to wait until the campaign is finished, and be sure to keep up the relationship over email without trying to sell using this resource (yet).<\/p>\n

Why not remarket to them using their email now that I have it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an option and if you have experience in this area feel free, but in the timeframe we are looking at now you could just as easily lose the customer\u2019s trust as get them to buy. Remember, you are trying to build loyalty not manipulate people. With the former you get lifetime customers who revere your brand<\/strong>. With the latter you may get a sale, but you will get a lot of unsubscribes and bad reviews or feedback from customers who feel like you are \u201cselling\u201d them..<\/p>\n

Facebook advertising allows you to advertise without seeming like you are just going for the wallet. After a few weeks or months of maintaining your relationship with your email base, you can market to them again through the reliable email source and you won\u2019t damage your relationship if you have been providing gifts of value in the relationship.<\/p>\n

Step #4: Retarget the People Who Clicked the Second Ad, Then Offer Them Your Main Product<\/h3>\n

This is where you start seeing the great conversion rates that net you some serious returns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Use the Conversions ad option on Facebook\u2019s ad manager for this one. Select your main product landing page for the conversion at the top of the ad page. If you have the margin for it, you can also add an offer for this audience, but I never do this as I would prefer to have fewer high quality conversions than more low quality conversions for my main product. This will teach people that the product has incredible value even at full-price, and they won\u2019t just be waiting for a discount (which I never do). As I create more products in the future, they will be happier to pay full price next time as well.<\/p>\n

Of course, you know your niche and your product, so if you have the margin for it then an offer could increase your revenue, so depending on your industry it could be the right move.<\/p>\n

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Set who you want to see your ads.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

This final ad will target people who clicked through AND opted in to your previous ad campaign with the email signup (with the optional deep discount product) and will offer them the next step. Set up the audience to only include people who went to those \u201cthank you\u201d page URLs, and direct them to the landing page for your main product.<\/p>\n

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My final ad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Let the Ads Work: Reap the Rewards!<\/h3>\n

The magic here is that these people have already seen your content (proof), opted in to your email list and possibly paid a small amount for a product (that hopefully they loved) and now are seeing a product that they have shown interest in already!<\/p>\n

Conversion rates here can be multiples of what they would be if you just tried to sell your product directly to the whole of Facebook. You have baited the hook, set the line and gotten the right bites.<\/p>\n

Now just reel it in!<\/p>\n

If you have doubts that this can work, try it out! A test would only cost a few bucks and you might just find that you get some great conversions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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