How to Successfully Convert Facebook Ad Leads

What To Do With Your Facebook Ad Leads?

You got a ton of ads from your lead generation campaign!

Congratulations! Now what? If you want to learn how to convert those leads into customers, keep reading. 

We’ve run a lot of lead generation campaigns in our time online, and have learned a lot from collecting and trying to convert those leads. 

We want to share our tips with you so you can skip the line and start seeing better returns more quickly (and affordably). 

Today, we’ve got a bunch of tips for converting those Facebook ad leads into customers.

Plus, other things you can do with the leads you generate on Facebook (like retargeting campaigns and group invites). 

Let’s get started!

Lead Generation Campaigns On Facebook

A lead generation campaign helps to build interest in a product, service, or experience your company offers.

It also collects contact information for interested parties that you can use to reach out to them. 

Lead gen campaigns cost a bit more than other objectives on Facebook.

But, they’re usually worth it because a lead is a more valuable interaction than a click or view. 

Here’s a look at CPC per objective for Facebook.

Provided you’ve got good targeting and a clear objective, lead generation can be a successful part of your Facebook advertising strategy.

Let’s look at how to use those. 

Why should you run the ads on Facebook? Some of these reasons include: 

1. The completion rate is higher, since users don’t have to leave FB to fill out the form.
2. You can sync your CRM, so new Facebook ad leads info automatically gets to the teams who need it. 
3. They’re easy to set up and customize; they show on Facebook and Instagram. 

4 Strategies On How To Use The Facebook Ad Leads For Conversions 

Let’s go over some of the best strategies, ideas, and examples for converting those Facebook ad leads to customers or clients.

Just like with anything digital marketing-related, these aren’t guaranteed to work. 

You can do Facebook ads optimization all you want…

…but if your lead nurturing and sales process isn’t good, or your product or service isn’t honed, the best ads in the world can’t help you.

Make sure you have a good business idea, great execution, and smooth processes.

And then, you can spend money on advertising.

1. Engage Your Facebook Ad Leads with Retargeting Ads
2. Get a Yes Early On to Get Warm Leads
3. Invite Facebook Ad Leads to Your Facebook Group
4. Convert Those Facebook Ad Leads with Video

1. Engage Your Facebook Ad Leads with Retargeting Ads

If you have leads that haven’t engaged with you since they entered their information…

…or who you haven’t heard from in a while, use retargeting to remind them about you and re-engage them. 

You can retarget lapsed leads with anything, but it should be interesting and relevant to them.

Things that work really well are;

• Direct invitations to buy (you can speak directly to their pain points relatively easily)
• Discount codes
• Special offers
• Exclusive access or content

Make sure that you exclude anyone who has made a purchase. Let us show you how to do that quickly: 

1. Go to Ads Manager and navigate to Audiences.
2. Click “Create your audience”.
3. Select Custom Audiences.
4. Select Website Traffic as your source.
5. You’re going to choose “People who visited specific pages” and enter the URL that folks see after they complete a purchase.

This usually includes a thank-you portion of the slug. 

6. Name this audience and save it.
7. Now, you can add this to your exclude list so your ads are only showing to people who haven’t made a purchase. 

We’re going to talk about what to do with your warm Facebook ad leads next, but first, we want to tell you about our new social media ads training course.

If you want to run more successful social ads, then be sure to check it out after this. 

2. Get a Yes Early On to Get Warm Leads

When looking for leads, you want to convert cold leads to warm leads.

And when you do have a warm lead, you want to nurture that lead so it doesn’t go cold again and wander away from you.

A lot of businesses understand this, but we see them waiting way too long to put it into practice. 

You may be familiar with the old sales idea that getting folks to agree to a small yes (like giving you their email address)…

…helps make it easier (and more likely) that they’ll say yes to a bigger ask (like buying a product). 

The problem is, leads get cold quickly.

So if you follow a lot of the advice online, you won’t reach back out to that contact to offer them something else for at least a couple of days.

And that may be too long. 

Instead, we recommend you start asking for that next yes right away. Here’s what we mean:

• If they downloaded a PDF, use the last page (or spots throughout) to upsell your course, package, service, product, etc.

They’re already reading and interested, so why wait? 

• If they gave you their email address, send them an email immediately.

Introduce yourself, talk about what they gave you their email for, and then upsell or direct them to another product, service, or experience. 

• Add leads to a retargeting audience and show them ads aimed at converting them to buyers.

These can be dynamic ads featuring your product catalog or ads you create for a specific goal or purpose. 

• If they’ve joined a free webinar, use that time to mention other items that they may find beneficial. 
• Don’t forget to use thank you pages on your website to direct customers to more great products or resources on your site.

Actually, the ideas are endless. 

3. Invite Facebook Ad Leads to Your Facebook Group

While they’re still interested and ready to click, get them over to your Facebook Group.

Your Facebook group should be built out and active with a wealth of information. Here’s a great example of that.

You’ve probably experienced being really excited about a topic, page, or person you’ve come across…

…only to feel deflated when there wasn’t more than a couple of pages worth of deeper digging you can do. 

You want your audience to be able to lose themselves in this group, if they want.

Now, don’t stress out if you’re just starting a group (or don’t have one yet). You don’t need to wait until you have a ton of content to run ads.

And you shouldn’t rush to put out a bunch of mediocre content.

Just focus on publishing quality content regularly and focus on helping your audience. 

We did a whole post on using Facebook Groups for small business.

You can read that to get a good idea of what you should do in those Facebook Groups to keep people engaged and willing to convert. 

4. Convert Those Facebook Ad Leads with Video

Those retargeting ads we mentioned earlier?

You should absolutely be utilizing video when you’re reaching out to your audiences.

The internet is moving to video (from 15 seconds to hours long), pre-recorded and live, so users have very little patience for non-video content. 

Engage your leads with a video that can give them more information and invite them to:

• purchase,
• attend,
• sign-up,

…or whatever your next CTA is. 

If you want to learn more about Facebook video ads, read this post next. 

What Else Can You Do With Your Leads? 

Those are 4 of our favorite strategies to use, but they’re not the only way to use and nurture leads. Here are a few more ideas: 

• Invite captured leads to a live event (virtual or in-person). 
• Invite leads to message you with Facebook Messenger ads.

• Find leads you gathered on Facebook or on Instagram, and then encourage them to follow you there.

Conclusion

If you run lead ads, you need to know how to convert and engage them after they’ve shown interest. What’s your favorite method?

We’d love to hear what’s worked for you so other small businesses and digital marketers can give it a try!

But if you need more help with your leads or FB ads, check out our lead generation services or Facebook advertising services today.

Get in touch with us now!

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