Stop Running Ads

Do you want to engage like a human and really connect to your target audience?

If so, it’s time to stop running Facebook ads. Yes, you read that right – stop running those ads and focus on developing a marketing strategy that will not only convert but will resonate with your audience and nurture that human connection.

The Problem with Facebook Ads

You may be wondering, why would someone that runs a digital marketing company tell you to stop pushing ads on social media? The short answer is that there are many other things that you need to be doing first.

In other words, you don’t need to avoid these ads forever, but rather must take a step back to make sure that they are effective and convert. The ads won’t work unless you have sold your product organically first – you need to know your service inside and out and understand the language that will capture their attention.

If you don’t have the complete buyer journey planned, though, you are simply wasting your money on these ads. You won’t know the correct language that appeals to your audience until you have successfully moved prospects through the sales funnel and nurtured that relationship!

Think about it this way – you can’t ask a Facebook user why they kept scrolling past your ad and ignored your message. On the other hand, organic selling allows you to collect feedback and fine‐tune your messaging until it works.

Humanizing your Audience

Social selling is much different than running a commercial on TV or a newspaper – your customers don’t want to be sold to. They expect a commercial or print ad to scream ‘buy me’, but they want a different experience on social media. That’s why humanizing your audience and customizing your messaging are so important.

You need to speak to your audience in a way that nurtures the relationship rather than pushing them with sales. Address the problems that you know they are having and explain how your products and services can solve them.

It’s the same thing you would do if someone came up to you at a party and shared a challenge they were facing. You would listen to their pain points and say something along the lines of, you know what, I may have a solution to that problem. Then you can go into how your product works and what it can do to address those challenges – while giving them a chance to ask questions or provide feedback.

This is the only way to understand what your customers want, so when they come to you with a problem, you have an answer! Your audience is more than just a number – start looking at them as real people.

Shifting your Mindset

The key to engaging like a human and scaling your ads is learning how to communicate with your target audience. Take what you’ve learned from selling organically and develop a nurture sequence that identifies their needs and presents a clear solution: your product.

Once you change the way you speak to people, your sales will go through the roof!

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