Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Facebook Pricing Gone Wild

Pricing your sponsored tweets on Facebook is an active and moving target.  The first step is to understand that the number of “likes” you have has become an irrelevant way to price your sponsored posts.  Yes, you did hear me use this number in the past to set prices.  Like I said, pricing your sponsored tweets on Facebook is an active and moving target.  Today, most of my ad sales training clients are using a solid metric that I have observed working very well in markets across the nation.

The metric is pretty simple, they are pricing based on total engagement of a post.  What does that mean?  After you post something on your Facebook page, users on FB do various things with your post.  They might “like” the post, share the post and even use your post to create their own story.  Each post is tracked in your Facebook Insights data portal.  There is a link below on how to get to that portal. Suffice it to say, it is not an easy find on Facebook.   Across the board, for most media companies, the price of a sponsored post runs $75-$125 per thousand. So, if you have a post that has been “engaged” 1,000 times, you would charge an advertiser $75-$125 per post.  Many media companies use a rolling average to determine how much to charge in advance.  I can not advise you to wait and see the level of engagement and then charge the advertiser.  But, that practice is becoming very common as well.  In addition, there are many “things” you can do within a post to drive up user engagements.  We’ll save that for another blog post in the future.  

Here is link to help you better understsand Facebok Insights.

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