177: The 2018 Holiday Advertising Roundup: What Worked and What We Learned

Hosted by: Austin Brawner with Andrew Foxwell

If you’ve been listening to this show for the last few months, you’ve heard us make predictions about how to approach Q4 advertising.

  • Listen on Apple Podcasts
  • Listen on Stitcher
  • Listen on Google Podcasts
  • Listen on Spotify
Holiday 2018

If you’ve been listening to this show for the last few months, you’ve heard us make predictions about how to approach Q4 advertising.

Many of those predictions worked out well. Others, not as much. There were a TON of Facebook bugs this year that came out of nowhere and really fouled people up.

Now that we’re through the busiest part of the season, we’re bringing you an episode on BFCM advertising and what we learned.

Andrew brought in four top media buyers to give you a detailed Black Friday/Cyber Monday recap. You’ll learn how it went down, what they learned, so you can adjust and improve your strategies going into the new year.

Enjoy!

Episode Highlights

  • 5:13 How value optimization helped one client get a 7X ROAS during Black Friday.
  • 6:55 The amped-up offer and focused traffic-driving strategy that worked for Ryan Kovach.
  • 8:34 Bid caps: how are they working for low spends vs. high spends.
  • 10:06 What exactly is a bid cap?
  • 11:27 The importance of putting in the work before Black Friday/Cyber Monday that led to 5X ROAS.
  • 12:44 The benefit of building your warm audiences in advance.
  • 14:10 Campaign Budget Optimization and how it worked well for a number of different clients.
  • 16:03 Testing campaign budget optimization and minimum ad set budgets.
  • 17:48 Campaign budget optimization and interest targeting.
  • 18:46 Should you split your placements across Instagram and Instagram stories?
  • 20:53 Interests vs. lookalikes – which performed better?
  • 22:53 How to identify what interests you should be going after with your ads.
  • 23:59 Guests share their worst Facebook bug experiences.

Links and Resources

Are you ready to hit 7-figures and unlock massive profit in your eComm business in the next 12 months?

If you want to scale up fast, while remaining profitable, we can help. We’ve worked with hundreds of early-stage eComm owners to pour the fuel on their businesses and level up from 6-figures to unstoppable 7-figure success.

This isn’t just getting you set up with the latest FB ads strategy or email marketing. We’ll help you see the big picture on how you can build and scale a profitable company with the right systems in place.

Are you ready to make your first million? Click here and LET’S GO!

Sponsor: Hotjar

Today’s episode is brought to you by the always wonderful Hotjar. Hotjar is an incredible tool that allows you to see what’s happening on your site with potential customers with recorded sessions. You get to basically go back and look at what’s happening, what people are doing, where they’re dropping off, why they’re not adding something to cart on mobile, on a desktop, and you can actually understand that.

Hotjar allows you to get in-the-moment visual feedback, see how people are using your website, and uncover insights to make the right changes. Hotjar is absolutely one of my favorite tools out there and if you’ve not used it, we definitely recommend checking it out.

You can go to EcommerceInfluence.com/hotjar to learn a little bit more.

Ecommerce Founder's Growth Pack

Enter your email to get our proven resources that will help you achieve massive growth without the burnout.

Please enter a valid name and email

Featured Posts

zero to launch

238: Zero to Launch: The Scaling Series, Part 1

In the first on our 5-part scaling series, where we talk about each stage of growth and the challenges you'll face as you scale, we're starting off with “zero to launch,” addressing some of the questions you’ll face when you’re going from an idea for a product to actually getting sales.