Rick Ong

Wish I’ve seen this Facebook Advertising presentation by Shoemoney, I would have saved some money back when I was doing Facebook ads on dating. It’s almost a year old but there’s a lot to learn from and that you can still apply today. Key factors for high CTR ads: 70% for the Image 20% for [...]

As of March 2011, these are Facebook’s estimates of the Single Male, Over 25, Looking for Women population. United States – 4,000,000 United Kingdom – 834,000 Canada – 535,000 France – 278,000 Australia – 257,000 South Africa – 101,000 Ireland – 40,000 New Zealand – 33,000

After 3 weeks of learning, testing and doing, I finally made profit on Facebook running an affiliate dating offer and got the formula down. Things like this don’t last forever though. Facebook could ban you, offer could get pulled out, among other things. So it’s obviously necessary to diversify your income sources. So here’s a [...]

It’s been 18 days since I started my first campaign on Facebook. The past two weeks I spent learning all that I can about running ads on Facebook from forums, blogs and ran campaigns. Over time, as I was doing things right, I had a feeling I’d get to profitability soon and that day is [...]

I’ve learned some really important things that I will have to test still, but I feel already has some merit. Dating ads should not be ran before 8pm and after 10pm on weekdays. I noticed that this window provided the best conversions. Sometimes a difference between getting 10% down to 5%. I have in my [...]

So I’ve been doing a UK and AU dating offer on Facebook for 10 days and here’s what I’ve learned so far. After testing ads on UK I found an advert that clicks at around 0.1% CTR. At this rate, I’m paying for clicks ranging from $0.35 to $0.63. Testing was a bitch because Valentines [...]

I’ve been learning about affiliate marketing from blogs, forums and podcasts. One of the most important points I’ve learned is to TEST, TEST and TEST. I’ve had enough of that word so it’s about time I do my own testing! I decide to start on Facebook Ads since they got the easiest and most accessible [...]