{"id":1494,"date":"2020-01-16T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamad.blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2020-01-16T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T07:58:02","slug":"protecting-your-ad-campaigns-from-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamad.blog\/2020\/01\/16\/protecting-your-ad-campaigns-from-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Ad Campaigns From Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lately, I’m writing only about Facebook ads<\/a> & e-commerce<\/a>. That’s because since 1st January, we’re busy with the launch of our new store. We took a big part of 2019 off and planned to do some work from 1st January 2020. It has consumed us so far. But today is a good day because today we made it profitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 12 hours, we have done $415 in sales. We’re projecting to close the day at $700. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our ad spend for today is $154.81 which is about 37% of our gross sales. The net-margins are low right now but since we’re just getting started and the pixel is developing<\/a>, we’ll see improvements with conversion rates over time. We also haven’t introduced any kind of lookalikes<\/a> at this point in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These aren’t our desired results. We have to make up for the losses incurred with ads in the first 15 days. We need to optimize the ads after removing whatever segments aren’t converting to bring the costs down. We also then need to scale this campaign. If everything goes right, we should be able to do that in the next 7 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason why I’m not touching the ads right now despite that there’s room for improvement is because campaigns take time to optimize<\/a>. Many people suggest not to touch your campaigns for 24 hours after you make them. While this could work if your campaign is completely off, I generally suggest 48 hours if there’s some sign of success. And so I’m going to let these go on for at least 48 hours and will not modify them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 48 hours, I’ll decide how to modify them by looking at breakdown data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you want your campaigns to work, you need to protect them from yourself. Stay away for 48 hours, be patient. The cash might burn and it is going to hurt you, but the profit lies after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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