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Forum: Social Media 30th May 2014, 11:37 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 3,597
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Teespring Copyright Issues

Teespring is going to be thrown into the same boat as sites that allow users to share download media. In the end, a decision will have to be made as to whether it's Teespring, or the user that's...
Forum: Social Media 9th April 2014, 01:22 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,088
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Social lead freak

Yes, FB is currently not allowing anything that combines Teespring and custom audiences. You can still use CAs, but not to Teespring; and you can promote Teespring pages, but only to a general...
Forum: Social Media 7th April 2014, 09:54 PM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

My guess is that all the Teespring 'name' campaigns is what drove this change to happen.

Some of the names that were targeted were pretty unusual; you can imagine that it would freak someone out...
Forum: Social Media 7th April 2014, 06:53 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,195
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: FB Cust. Aud. greyed out. Banned?

Custom audiences work just fine...although there has recently been a big problem associating them with Teespring ads.

I've been running a lot of TS ads with custom audiences lately, but since...
Forum: Social Media 10th March 2014, 11:45 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 837
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: A couple odd occurrences with Teespring

The pixel doesn't get verified until there's actually a conversion, so you need to wait until there's a sale.
Forum: Social Media 3rd March 2014, 07:48 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 750
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Social Lead Freak

SLF itself works fine, but FB seems to be cracking down on custom (scraped) UID files. For instance, I have a few campaigns running split between FB general interest targets and custom SLF files. ...
Forum: Social Media 3rd March 2014, 08:07 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

The shirts I'm doing are not really translatable across niches, so posting other ideas to the fan page probably isn't going to work.

That said, the campaign in question has just tipped and seems...
Forum: Social Media 28th February 2014, 09:34 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

Good point about people buying after it's tipped. I wonder if that's Teespring's version of social proof?

I initially was greedy and set the bar at 50 for this campaign - it was so similar, yet...
Forum: Social Media 28th February 2014, 12:29 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

Here's a question: I have a shirt that's sold 6 so far at the cost of about $50 ad spend so far. I think I'm making about $8 or so per shirt, so it's right on about break even. Would you let it...
Forum: Social Media 26th February 2014, 09:22 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 790
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Just me or getting LIKES Getting MORE EXPENSIVE!?

It makes all the more important to convert those likes into leads in the very early stages of engagement.
Forum: Social Media 26th February 2014, 09:06 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 594
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: FB is really pissing me off!

Why was a new account created just to run ads?

I believe FB is cracking down on such things due to the proliferation of ad coupons. From their POV, there's really no reason to create an account...
Forum: Social Media 26th February 2014, 12:47 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

Conversions don't appear immediately, but they're within a few minutes (maybe 10?).


PS - got your PM, will get to it shortly :)
Forum: Social Media 23rd February 2014, 06:06 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

Thanks mate...no, not the sports niche. I've had a few failures with sports T's; seems to be a competitive market.
Forum: Social Media 23rd February 2014, 06:04 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Forum: Social Media 22nd February 2014, 09:27 PM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

Thought I'd share this as I've finally nailed a campaign - 120 shirts sold in the last 12 hours. I had no idea how viral it would go, but I'm closing in on $1,000 profit!

I had a oCPM ad running...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 21st February 2014, 07:04 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,335
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: FB Classroom

I got this last night and read through it. While it's nothing groundbreaking, it does give some good tips for Facebook advertising if you are inexperienced or even moderately experienced in that...
Forum: Social Media 21st February 2014, 05:20 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 494
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Which FB scraper does this?...

Social Lead Freak has a feature that converts UIDs to @fb email addresses, but it's a pretty useless feature. If you send something to someone who's not a friend, or has liked your page the message...
Forum: Social Media 21st February 2014, 04:57 AM
Replies: 805
Views: 61,731
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How I turned $250 in Facebook ads into $810 revenue within 3 days...

Well, I finally got one that's biting! 7 sold in the first 12 hours of advertising with a $20/day budget. 1.7 million in my target audience, which is also split by a custom audience of about...
Forum: Social Media 16th February 2014, 10:54 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 566
Posted By MarinerdMike
Social Lead Freak performance

Has anyone noticed the decline in UIDs that SLF is now gathering since the recent 'updates' to how it's working?
Forum: Social Media 12th February 2014, 01:41 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 506
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook Likes High, Reach Horrible

Tough one. No matter what anyone is saying these days, engagement is much more difficult than it was a few months ago.

Personally, I see a LOT more newsfeed ads in my timeline (which I keep...
Forum: Social Media 11th February 2014, 07:02 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 21,728
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Social Lead Freak currently not working

You could look it as very clever marketing. They caused a panic for a day that resulted in thousands of users talking about their product in front of tons of non-customers.

Somebody should ask...
Forum: Social Media 11th February 2014, 08:40 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 21,728
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Social Lead Freak currently not working

Yeah, I still have a crapload of files I can use from the software...and seeing how engagement has dropped, the files I scraped in November/December are probably more valuable than if I were to...
Forum: Social Media 11th February 2014, 08:04 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 377
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook Fraud [Video by Veritasium]

It's compelling, for sure. To me, it stresses the importance of a) targeting and b) why you advertise.

Gone are the days of LIKE campaigns. People (myself included) recently have been enamoured...
Forum: Social Media 10th February 2014, 10:38 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 583
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: [Video] Facebook Fraud - Important Watch For Facebook Advertisers

Interesting video, thanks for the share.

As they say, "the proof is in the pudding." I've had both successes and failures with Facebook and I believe that effective targeting is the key. The...
Forum: Social Media 10th February 2014, 08:21 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 21,728
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Social Lead Freak currently not working

FYI - just got an update:

:[FB API POLICY CHANGE TODAY - INFO FOR FIX BELOW]

Sometimes when you're at the Cutting Edge Forefront with a certain market that is still in it's 'infancy' such as...
Forum: Social Media 10th February 2014, 07:56 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 21,728
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Social Lead Freak currently not working

Damn, it was fun while it lasted. Need to get the most out of the files I've saved.

Wonder what happened.
Forum: Social Media 8th February 2014, 07:25 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 875
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook Fanpage lead capture page

All FB tabs are slow to load IMO, I don't think it's a Woobox specific issue.

Never heard of 22socialpro, but their Facebook page is pretty bad...which kind of deters any further looking into.
Forum: Social Media 7th February 2014, 08:59 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 912
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Teespring frustrations

Cool. Always happy to discuss things and look for advice...will PM you an email address.

Cheers.
Forum: Social Media 7th February 2014, 05:53 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 912
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Teespring frustrations

Agreed, teespring saturation is probably a thing now. However, I do believe that selling shirts through an active fanpage is the way to go.

I'm through straight out advertising and am waiting...
Forum: Social Media 7th February 2014, 05:44 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 912
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Teespring frustrations

It has nothing to do with the Seahawks - WA in my case is Western Australia!.

I used Social Lead Freak to create a custom audience in my niche. I've used it a few times and it's a pretty good...
Forum: Social Media 7th February 2014, 05:59 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 912
Posted By MarinerdMike
Teespring frustrations

I thought I was onto a winner with a specific shirt in my niche. I created the shirt & targeted a custom audience of just over 1.2 millon and got the following results from the Facebook ad.
...
Forum: Social Media 6th February 2014, 08:42 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,526
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How Long For 100,000 likes?

I wouldn't get too hung up on geographical boundaries. Likes from secondary market countries (outside the US/UK/CAN/AUS) can be useful as long as you target their interests and make sure your...
Forum: Social Media 3rd February 2014, 06:06 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,615
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Rinse and Repeat - 1,006 Fans in 3 Days

Mine niche is wine and wine accessories. Inhibited by marketing to countries that don't allow alcohol marketing, but my audience is still over 3 million.

Made a couple tweaks and the cost per...
Forum: Social Media 3rd February 2014, 01:53 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,615
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Rinse and Repeat - 1,006 Fans in 3 Days

Hey AJ - ran with your program today for a brand new page I created for my niche and got exactly 100 likes for $6 on day 1. Will keep it going and hopefully the optimisation will kick in a bit...
Forum: Social Media 2nd February 2014, 07:50 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,615
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Rinse and Repeat - 1,006 Fans in 3 Days

I know, I was just being cheeky...I'll look for your page the hard way and see what you're up to ;)

Go Hawks!!!!!
Forum: Social Media 1st February 2014, 09:09 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,615
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Rinse and Repeat - 1,006 Fans in 3 Days

Nice work...but I have one issue:

You didn't target Australia - there are plenty of NFL fans down here ;)

I'm launching a niche fanpage next week and will be aiming for a couple thousand likes...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st January 2014, 01:46 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 4,067
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Amazon deactivating affiliate accounts

I opened an Amazon affiliate account a few months ago, but have rarely used it and have yet to record a sale through it. To be frank, I jumped straight into IM thinking it would be easy and I could...
Forum: Social Media 29th January 2014, 10:34 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 487
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Custom Audiences

I, for one, can't understand why Facebook would be against scraping UIDs in order to create custom audiences. It encourages advertisers by making them more confident in their targeting.

I can...
Forum: Social Media 27th January 2014, 10:13 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 441
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Is it possible to put your website on Facebook?

You can remove scroll bars in the Static HTML app. My only issue with it is that it messes up opt in forms. Whenever I add a squeeze page with Static HTML, my customers have a hard time adding...
Forum: Social Media 23rd January 2014, 08:20 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 614
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook Launched Trending Feature

I've seen it on my page, but it's the most irrelevant feature they've launched yet. I just hope they tweak it to make it useful.

I've attached a screener.
Forum: Social Media 22nd January 2014, 10:33 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,157
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: How Do You Create a Second FB Ads Account?

I set up a second account for ads because at the time I wanted to separate what I was doing for clients vs my personal stuff. I just used a different name, added a different credit card to it and...
Forum: Social Media 19th January 2014, 02:44 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 449
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: FB Clicks vs CPC

That's what they are, clicks to the page. Forgot to realise that's a clickable option.

Cheers!
Forum: Social Media 19th January 2014, 05:54 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 449
Posted By MarinerdMike
FB Clicks vs CPC

So I'm running a Facebook ad that's produced 38 website clicks and 6 page likes, but the campaign tells me there have been 130 clicks.

Can anyone tell me what the other 86 clicks are?
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 17th January 2014, 12:58 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 538
Posted By MarinerdMike
Adwords training?

Hi all

Can anyone recommend a general Adwords tutorial/training course? WSO or other.

Many thanks,
Mike
Forum: Social Media 12th January 2014, 08:41 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 2,147
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Alternatives to Facebook Ads

I'm having the opposite problem. I have been sending stacks of traffic to sites within my niche and been looking to apply the principles to other areas. I've created a bunch of Clickbank ads in FB...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2014, 02:06 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 258
Posted By MarinerdMike
Looking for a product

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I've been sending decent amounts of traffic to a few affiliate sites within my niche and am looking to branch out a little.

I'm looking for a high...
Forum: Social Media 8th January 2014, 04:19 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,956
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook has kicked my 1.2M fan pages in the nuts

Page Post Engagement through the ad tool is much more effective than Boost Post, IMO. You can target both your existing fans as well as potentials. Not saying it's the answer (and I agree that the...
Forum: Social Media 7th January 2014, 07:36 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,956
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook has kicked my 1.2M fan pages in the nuts

I recently launched consulting company and have had to quickly adjust my pitch from encouraging companies to engage, to focusing on highly targeted lead generation & sales campaigns.

And I reckon...
Forum: Social Media 7th January 2014, 07:11 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,956
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook has kicked my 1.2M fan pages in the nuts

It's not just you, it's a wholesale change to the way Facebook lets its information out.

Facebook Pages’ Updated Organic-Reach-Crushing Algorithm, And What it Means for You | Fstoppers...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th January 2014, 10:57 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 915
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Rejected by fiverr providers 3 times

They don't really need to show their face, do they?
Forum: Social Media 6th January 2014, 08:02 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,200
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Can You Scrape FB UID's

I just can't fathom why FB would create the custom audience feature, which includes the ability to upload UID lists, and then prevent people from scraping. If they wanted the feature to simply be to...
Forum: Social Media 5th January 2014, 10:14 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 404
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Facebook Software That Has to Be Made?

Well, I have an awesome idea for a piece of software - could be implemented for FB - but just don't know how to make it. I figure someone will eventually tho.
Forum: Social Media 5th January 2014, 08:04 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 674
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Apps To manage FB ads

As far as I know, you can't use ad manager through a phone. I have Pages Manager as well, but it doesn't let you access the ad manager tool.

I'd be interested to hear if there are any apps that...
Forum: Social Media 4th January 2014, 08:23 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 361
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: The Social Networking vs Social Marketing debate

It all depends on how you use them...

Facebook can be a decent networking platform if you find the right group, while LinkedIn can be effective for B2B marketing.
Forum: Social Media 4th January 2014, 12:35 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,657
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: {SOLUTION} Facebook Ad Manager How to get your account back!

How did you get past the part where you had to send in some ID?
Forum: Social Media 4th January 2014, 12:25 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 756
Posted By MarinerdMike
Re: Why i can't extract all FB id's?

Exactly, I've scraped a couple of big fanpages and wound up with tens of thousands of UIDs - biggest so far is a 5mb .csv file.
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