Meetup202 Vancouver is in 9 days, if you’re in the area don’t miss it.
Details:
There are a few spots left, so leave your room for a few hours and come by.
Also, today is my birthday. That is all.
POF implented a partial click log for any campaign > 1000 clicks.
This log randomly shows demo information for 500 clickers. I’m not gonna lie, its pretty pimp.
It allows you to see the following:
So, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out this is some valuable information. Thanks Markus for adding this. We still need some suggested bids / demo size 
POF is rolling out a new self-serve ad system supposedly in the next week or two.
It is still in beta and you can sign up here:
Plenty of Fish Ads
I took some screen shots and will go through it. Basically you register, log in, and end up here:
Pretty simple and straight forward. You can see any recent activity, look at campaigns, and check if anything was updated company wide. POF made it so one company can have multiple employees who can log in, I like that.
Click on Manage Funding and you will end up on this screen:
This page does not work yet, but it looks pretty simple. You have to pre-pay, and Canadian residents will pay 5% tax. You can set it to auto fund.
The Create a Campaign page looks like this:
Pretty standard, choose your bids, running dates, frequency caps, daily spend. A lot of people have told them to add day-parting. hopefully they will.
The targeting is what makes Plenty of Fish stand out from some self-serve advertisers. Notice all of the options:
You can really pin point down to a demographic.
One thing that may be lacking is the Reporting. As you can see below it looks like it will only show a date range of impressions and clicks. The system isn’t live so I don’t know for sure, but hopefully there will be some more options.
Overall it seems nice. It will most likely be saturated to shit, but the strong survive. Check out Plenty of Fish and try out the Ad Manager for yourself.
Read the full post and talk about it on Wickedfire
A lot of people have been dealing with facebook compliance issues, mainly not being able to make their rebill anymore.
I decided it was over, no more sneaky stuff for me. I’ve decided to be 100% compliant with Facebook terms. Ever since, things have been looking better.
Moral of the story, the Facebook gravy train is over. Find a legit offer and run it, there is still money to be made.
I haven’t been posting or hurr durring for a while, the reason is work.
I have work to do, and its more important then socail presence online.
So, I will be droppin some no bullshit info soon just need to finish some stuff.
Happy am’ing, and remember to checkout meetup202 in vancouver next month.
(Did this from phone)
Facebook made an update. So I decided to throw out some pics and what I think.
This is the new main screen:
Facebook Ad Manager Main View
As you can see, they changed a lot. Most noticeably is you can edit multiple campaigns and make changes on the main page.
Editing Multiple Campaigns
You can select check boxes, click edit, and make changes to campaign settings to multiple campaigns.
This is the new “Campaign View” in Facebook ad manager:
Campaign View
Again you can make edits to multiple ads. I am lazy, and didnt want to take more pics and edit them.
Summary:
This isn’t in-depth, and overall it doesn’t seem worth the changes unless they add dayparting.
I read this post over at FinchSells, What not to do on Facebook.
I do things the complete opposite as him and have varied results. Read his post, actually, read his whole blog.
Facebook has been doing updates and improvements for a long time. Their system is never stable. The newest ‘feature’ introduced is the ‘Like’ button.
Now happy ad clickers can ‘Like’ an ad. I for one think this is a neat idea, but it wont change anything. There is no dislike button, so we cannot be “penalized” and if we are rewarded by ‘Like’ing our ads it wont be by much. Users are stupid, they will like anything with a pretty picture.
Take a look at what the update brings:
What sort of bothers me, is that they made it show the ‘Like’ button on the Ad board. I don’t see the point of it, and some less then admirable affiliate marketer could abuse it more easily.
Edit : I didn’t see the X, so there is still a “dislike” button. I am pretty stupid, so if I don’t see it my main target audience might not.
I don’t know how long it has been like this, but apparently Bing results show up in Facebook searches.
It shows up on the right hand side in place of FB ads
Also under all of the search results.
This could be a good thing for Bing, and organic SEO bitches.
A lot of people ask questions about Facebook advertising (and by questions I mean complain). Justin Dupre has some very good posts on the subject. A lot is changing in the Facebook advertising world. My words of advice:
But really, read these questions answered by Justin it will help if you’re new.
