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DivByZero

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About DivByZero

Trying to make Facebook advertising easy at AdEspresso.com

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    Comment #10234984

    Lol ... it's Content Marketing :)

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    Comment #7569847

    Thanks for the comment. Great considerations. Totally agree that overall Facebook Ads is great for demand generation while Google Adwords is much better for demand fulfillment. Als…

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    Comment #7568655

    I don't, I've written in the post I envy them for the great outcome they had out of $50 spent in Fb Ads ... that's what marketing is all about, getting the most out of your time/mo…

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    Comment #7568647

    Sorry that what the post remember you of. Was not the intention. I'm the first to say that Facebook Ads don't work for everyone. And in advertising you should immediately stop spen…

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    Comment #7568620

    Never claimed to be better :) But if you like to bash something based on data, at least let's do it with some reasonable data set

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    Comment #7568592

    This is partially true ... but still promoting a b2b service on FB is always tough ... I see many of our customers with b2c products getting crazy conversion rates and spending mor…

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    Comment #7568577

    Agreed but doesn't this apply to every Advertising platform? Are you going to get much better results if you spend $50 with no expertise on Google AdWords or display advertising ? …

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    Comment #7568541

    That's true but actually Facebook now try to charge for CPM not clicks so that soften the problem, and still, you should check your CPA ... if that makes sense some fake clicks are…

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    Comment #7568525

    Thanks :) Yep ... I wrote it exactly out of frustration for reading post after post here on HN bashing Fb Ads because of Fake clicks ... people should stop caring about clicks and …

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    Comment #7568448

    I'd love to hear what the HN crowd think about my comments on FB Ads after so many stories trending bashing Fb Ads :)

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    Comment #7533526

    How fake clicks that don't generate business results would improve Facebook reputation as an effective advertiser ? Actually every time these posts comes out (once a week lately) F…

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    Comment #7533287

    Of course I'm not saying that it's extremely frustrating both to have click fraud and having little data from Facebook to better understand what's going on. I totally agree with th…

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    Comment #7531665

    Screw the cpc and the fake clicks :) they exist, nothing you can do about it, live with it. The only thing you should consider to get to any conclusion is the overall CPA. Facebook…

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    Comment #7531521

    The article raises some great points and it's very frustrating to read these articles as the founder of a Facebook Ads Optimization tool aimed at SMBs (AdEspresso - http://adespres…

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    Comment #7303626

    Yep, that was the first thing I checked as well, actually broadcast.com is by far the most expensive acquisition. There's probably a bug in the visualization library getting the th…

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    Comment #7284619

    It may work ... and if you just want 200k fans no matter what you don't even need Facebook Ads, you can go directly to the like farms and get them for much cheaper. But then how wi…

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    Comment #7284604

    I agree on this point that with Facebook training you should have at least some experience but I guess he didn't learn that much :) $6/400k is like a medium sized agency monthly bu…

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    Comment #7284573

    Reading this story honestly I would summarize it like this: "User don't know anything about Facebook Ads. Decide to test them. Test with $400k in 4 days. Totally waste his money". …

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    Comment #7284558

    The motive is that with these farms they then sell dumb users "100.000" likes for 10$ ... and people actually buy them. Nowadays I receive more FbLikes spam than Viagra's

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