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Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
Facebook ads are like 90% scams. I don't even understand how any of them get accepted. It's also night and day difference from Instagram which is also owned by Meta, I don't get it.
Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
I don't think FB is any better than Google, but I also think online ads mostly exist to keep marketers in business.
Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
I was always told that Google's real customers were advertisers and that they would be treated well. Guess that's not the case. Google seems to be insistent on making it as hard as possible for people to utilize their products.
Yea. I am selling a pretty honest product, nothing fishy about it. Not even naughty. Just an eink display for google calendar. My Google Merchant account got banned immediately and I have no idea why. For now, I have decided to not play this game and will look for marketing avenues outside google. EDIT: In case you want to play a game of guess-what-got-him-banned, this is the product page: https://shop.invisible-comp…
Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
As a coder with a side hustle, I tried using FB ads a few years back. I had a niche product targeting a very specific demographic (K-12 teachers in the US). My business' page got tons of new followers from people not in education and not in the US. We spent hundreds of dollars and didn't get a single valid customer that I'm aware of. I don't think FB is any better than Google, but I also think online ads mostly exist…
I have similar views. Large companies with marketing/advertising budgets have to spend that money. If you're in that department, you have to be able to show people how effective you are. Digital ads make that super easy with all of the nice little graphs and charts. The only problem is, their is no way of actually knowing their accuracy. They just look impressive. The fact that we have brand awareness campaigns vs promoting specific products just shows that the only metric they really care about is how much money they can spend while FB/Googs gladly take it all.
Yea. I am selling a pretty honest product, nothing fishy about it. Not even naughty. Just an eink display for google calendar. My Google Merchant account got banned immediately and I have no idea why. For now, I have decided to not play this game and will look for marketing avenues outside google. EDIT: In case you want to play a game of guess-what-got-him-banned, this is the product page: https://shop.invisible-comp…
Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
I was always told that Google's real customers were advertisers and that they would be treated well. Guess that's not the case. Google seems to be insistent on making it as hard as possible for people to utilize their products.
Tl;DR: If you're a coder, running a marketing experiment is harder and more expensive than coding. Wish I'd just used Facebook Ads instead...
I was always told that Google's real customers were advertisers and that they would be treated well. Guess that's not the case. Google seems to be insistent on making it as hard as possible for people to utilize their products.