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221: 8 Things to Cut From Your Facebook Ads to Improve Their Performance

Posted on: November 9, 2020 /
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If I had to choose between my instinct and the billions of advertising impressions that fed Facebook’s seismic shift in available text space, I’m going to rely on the behemoth’s deep and wide sampling of our buying culture. Advertisers don’t make the rules. Consumers do. We advertisers either break ourselves upon those rules or play within them for more and better traffic to our auctions.

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219: A Safety Net for When I Guess Wrong

Posted on: October 5, 2020 /
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The longer I advertise on Facebook, the less I trust my strategic instincts and the more I lean on data. I get surprised just about every week by which ads do better than others in the same campaign.

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218: The Achilles Heel of My Facebook Ads

Posted on: September 21, 2020 /
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Most of these remedies can be implemented for free. Some don’t take any additional time—just patience. All of them will increase the professionalism of your brand and quite possibly your commissions and sell-through rates. When a client doesn’t have these ducks in a row, it actually relieves some of the pressure I feel to deliver them high-performing ads. That relief comes in the truth that I charge the same fee to send crowds of people to an active marketplace as to a dead end.

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This Summer’s Effect on Facebook Advertising Budgets

Posted on: September 7, 2020 /
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You will never eliminate the risk or the guesswork of auction advertising. You can, however, make more educated guesses and better seller presentations based on captured, curated, and comparable data. If you don’t have those statistics, you’re welcome to borrow mine.

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216: Direct Mail Tips During a USPS Controversy

Posted on: August 24, 2020 /
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Whatever your political or even nonpolitical view of the United States Post Office is right now, I hope you’re using it effectively and efficiently. If you aren’t, that’s actually an auctioneer problem more than a USPS problem. The good news, though, is that you can be part of the solution, part of those adapting to changing marketplace conditions. While chickens run around without their heads or tell us the sky is falling, we can drive targeted traffic to what will hopefully be successful auctions.

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215: 3 Lists Every Auctioneer Wants But Nobody Can Buy

Posted on: June 29, 2020 /
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Over the next two decades, conglomerates and aggregate sites are going to put hundreds of bid callers and even auction marketers out of business. They’re going to pay people to do this data curation work. Instead of trying to buy data, they’re going to mine their own. Those of us who follow their example will most likely be the ones in 2035 who are still advertising auctions at all.

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