About Dan Thut

Dan is the Director of Operations at Rocketer. Dan was Rocketer’s first employee and part of the team that developed its market leading advertising solution for Yahoo’s Search Submit Pro product. Dan was also part of the team that built hmv.com into an award winning ecommerce platform. Dan’s mission in life is to marry a technical advertising solution with first class service. His favourite feature of the Acquisio platform is the client extranet that lets client login to view pre-set graphs and reports set by the agency updated in real time.

Adding Value Through Facebook Advertising

Facebook Ads

Convincing brands to allow your agency to spend their money on Facebook ads is a tough sell.

It’s a ‘tough sell’ because they know, as well as you do, that Facebook is an emerging channel where few of the rules are known, and in which the conditions are constantly changing.

With this knowledge many brands say that they should manage their own Facebook ad campaigns or avoid serving any ads at all. Some report that they have tested Facebook ads with other agencies and that it didn’t work or that they have heard many stories of ad campaigns going wrong and that they don’t want to waste their budget.

A disconnect often occurs where Paid Search Experts at agencies take the opinion that Facebook ads will run the same as Google ones, while brand managers on the client side hold the view that Facebook ads are more akin to Display advertising; totally different to Google.

The upshot of this is that brands are not convinced by the credentials of Agency-Land to deliver Facebook ads successfully. Yet.

I am sure that this will ring true for every one of you.

It is my intention with this column to give an insight each month into how you may be able to better-demonstrate value to your clients with this challenging channel, making it easier for you to win, grow and keep Facebook advertising business in 2012….