Leslye Schumacher is a Founding Partner with Vici. Leslye’s background in media spans 25 years and includes working for both large and mid-size television, radio and newspaper companies. She has held positions in sales, management, marketing and NTR. Leslye has extensive experience in training salespeople and coaching managers. She is Google Analytics Advanced Certified, a Certified Radio Marketing Consultant and a Certified Sales Talent Analyst, having assessed over 10,000 media salespeople and managers. Leslye was the Vice President Of Talent Services for The Center For Sales Strategy before going on to start TalentQ Consulting and then Vici Media.
By now you’ve probably heard or realized that spending a lot of time posting organically to your Facebook page and trying to generate “likes” is no longer going to help spread your organic reach onto customers’ Facebook pages
Facebook defines organic reach as "how many people you can reach for free on Facebook by posting to your Business Page." It used to be that businesses could post on their Facebook Business Page and assume that people who had liked their page would see those posts on their own news feed
But then, Facebook started changing their algorithms. Now, only a fraction of people who have liked your Business Page will see what you post
A study from Edgerank Checker found that between February 2012 and March 2014, organic reach for the average Facebook Page dropped from 16% to 6.5%. Research from Social@Ogilvy, showed an even lower number and that organic reach could be as low as 2%
So what is a business to do? Pay to reach people on Facebook and “Boost” a post? Well, yes to the first part, no to the second
Yes, you should pay to advertise on Facebook. It is one of the best advertising platforms out there and delivers incredible return on investment for your marketing dollars
But don’t do it by boosting a post. In fact, this article, “Don’t Touch That Facebook Boost Post Button”states emphatically, “Boost Post is a waste of your money. If you’re using it often, you might be throwing hundreds or even thousands of dollars away.” This is why we, at Vici, don’t boost posts for our clients, we use targeted display and video news feed ads through the Facebook Power Editor
Here are the limitations of just doing a boosted post:
That last bullet point is a big one! The detailed targeting of Facebook is what makes it so effective. A study by Shopify found that Power Editor ads have a 94% higher click through rate than just “Boosting” a post from your Facebook page
Want more info about how we do Facebook targeting. Contact us!
