Free Facebook Advertising Opportunity Calculator

Are Facebook Ads Right For Your Business? Find Out Now!

Spoiler alert: You’re going to wish you did this sooner.

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Find out if Facebook Ads are worth your money with our quick and easy opportunity calculator.

Organic Reach Analysis

Learn how many people see your posts without Facebook advertising. (Even within your fanbase, exposure isn’t free.)

Cost-to-reach Calculator

Toggle between monthly budgets to see how spending a small amount on Facebook advertising can have a huge impact on your reach.

Learn about Targeting Options

Facebook advertising offers many ways to choose who sees your ads– we’ll show you which are the best and teach you why!

What you’ll get

  • Facebook Business Page Overview
  • True look at who sees your posts
  • Facebook advertising Cost-to-reach Calculator
  • Facebook Remarketing Simulator
  • …More!

Start driving better results for your business with Facebook Ads.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why Use the Facebook Advertising Opportunity Calculator?
When your business posts to Facebook organically—without any paid advertising behind it—you are probably reaching less than 10% of your current audience. With Facebook Advertising, you have a wealth of information on your audience, and potential audiences, at your fingertips, which you can utilize to target existing customers and identify qualified leads affordably. Because we understand that mastering social advertising is not your job (it’s ours!), the Facebook Advertising Opportunity Calculator walks through potential scenarios from budgeting to remarketing to make you aware of your business’ unique opportunity for growth through Facebook Advertising. You can quickly discover your true reach and use the Facebook Advertising Cost Calculator to see how many more leads and sales you could earn with a small Facebook advertising budget.
How the Facebook Advertising Opportunity Calculator Works
The Facebook Advertising Opportunity Calculator is designed to show you your current reach on Facebook and how much more you could achieve with a small Facebook ad budget. If you are running a Facebook Business page, we can access and assess your activity (with your permission) to calculate average number of posts per month, average number of people who see each post, average number of impressions per month, etc. Using this information and your potential budget for paid advertising, the tool can extrapolate how much your audience, leads, and sales could be increased.
Does Facebook Advertising Work?

In short: yes. Why does Facebook advertising work?

According to data from Pew Research Center, 70% of U.S. Facebook users access the site daily and 43% log on multiple times per day. 82% of the millennial demographic are among the most engaged Facebook users. Further, Facebook ads generate 22 billion clicks per year with a reach of 1.6 billion active monthly users.

Not only do Facebook ads have extensive reach already, Facebook itself continues to grow. By utilizing the data on active Facebook users, you can access thousands of custom audience parameters to create targeted audience segments for your campaigns. You can also create custom audiences by uploading data on existing customers that you already have, which enables Facebook to create “lookalike” audiences based on parameters that you choose. These ads can drive quality traffic—social advertising allows your business to seek out prospective customers in a unique way that is not possible through paid advertising.

Additionally, Facebook Advertising is one of the most cost-effective platforms available. According to Salesforce, the overall Facebook CPM in the US decreased from Q4 to Q1in 2014-2015, while CTR increased to 0.9%, indicating a healthy engagement with the ads.

How to Advertise on Facebook / Facebook Advertising Guidelines
  • Before creating any Facebook ad campaigns, have a clear objective or goal for your Facebook advertising, i.e. lead generation, branding, event sign-ups, product awareness, loyalty, insights. Determining these goals will help you measure your success after launching your Facebook ads.
  • Think about how you want to present your brand through your ads. Make sure it is authentic to what your business offers and represents. This will help create relevant ads, which can generate better quality traffic.
  • Identify which aspects of your brand are intrinsically social—what will make your audience want to engage with your ads on a social platform?
  • Don’t let your Facebook ad content go stale. Refresh your images and ad copy frequently, keep it simple and try to reward your customers for their loyalty to establish relationships.
  • Use the reporting tools at your disposal from Facebook to learn more about your audiences and the content they are most interested in. As you learn, adjust your ads to be more relevant for each target audience.
Facebook Advertising Costs / Facebook Ad Pricing

Costs of advertising on Facebook vary, just like that of other forms of paid advertising. With a focused goal and simple strategy, Facebook advertising can be extremely cost effective. WordStream can help guide you through the basics of Facebook campaign optimization through our free guides and this tool.

There are average costs associated with advertising on Facebook as well as different ways your account can be charged. Within your objective, you can select to pay per impressions, pay per link click, pay per thousand impressions, or simply have your ad served to your audience once per day.

According to AdWeek, the average CPC on Facebook is $.064 and the average CPM is $5.99. This accompanies a CTR of 0.9% on Facebook Ads, 0.6% CTR on mobile app install ads. However, following best practices and easy Facebook advertising guidelines, we have been able to get CPC as low as $0.05 and cost per conversions down to $2.00.

What are some common Facebook Ad Types?

Facebook Advertising campaigns have a variety of formats and features which can push your different objectives. The best way to find which ad type is right for you is to first examine your business goals:

  • Page Post Engagement and Likes: Boost your Facebook page posts to garner more likes. Promote your page to connect with more people who matter to your business.
  • App Installs and Engagement: Facebook Advertising allows a user to install an app straight from an ad, which increases the engagement within your app.
  • Local and Brand Awareness: Reach people in the area, or reach people who are more likely to become customers of your brand.
  • Event Responses: Effective Facebook Ads can raise attendance at your event.
  • Lead Generation: Easily collect leads for your business by advertising on Facebook.
  • Video Views: Create ads that entice more people to view your video.
  • Product Catalog Promotion: Show products from a catalog to people most likely to be interested through a targeted audience.
  • Clicks to Website and Website Conversions: Send people to your website through Facebook ads as well as increase conversions; these can be tracked through a conversion pixel.
  • Offer Claims: Generate offers for people to redeem in store.
Facebook Ad Types
  • Page Post Engagement and Likes: Boost your posts to garner more likes. Promote your page to connect with more people who matter to your business.
  • App Installs and Engagement: Facebook Advertising allows a user to install an app straight from an ad, which increases the engagement within your app.
  • Local and Brand Awareness: Reach people in the area, or reach people who are more likely to become customers of your brand.
  • Event Responses: Effective Facebook Ads can raise attendance at your event.
  • Lead Generation: Easily collect leads for your business by advertising on Facebook.
  • Video Views: Create ads that entice more people to view your video.
  • Product Catalog Promotion: Show products from a catalog to people most likely to be interested through a targeted audience.
  • Clicks to Website and Website Conversions: Send people to your website through Facebook ads as well as increase conversions; these can be tracked through a conversion pixel.
  • Offer Claims: Generate offers for people to redeem in store
Facebook Ad Targeting Options
  • Life Events: The Life Events parameter in Facebook Advertising is unique to the platform, allowing you to target people at specific intervals of time after the event takes place; i.e. a year after getting married, 3 months after starting a new job, etc.
  • Recent Purchases: Facebook allows you to take advantage of past purchase behaviors to target people broadly, i.e. Clothing, Food & Drink, Health & Beauty, to more specific subcategories, i.e. Fashionistas, DIYers and Foodies.
  • Custom Audiences: Advertisers can upload existing contacts onto the Facebook platform to create audiences and get in front of customers in a new way; this is a great opportunity to nurture leads and build loyalty with existing customers.
  • Lookalike Audiences: After establishing a custom audience, Facebook can help you generate new audiences that have similar interests to the existing contacts. If you do not have contacts to create a custom audience, you can use your Facebook fan base or tracking pixels to create custom audiences to imitate.
  • Layered Targeting: Because Facebook has such a stock of information on its user base, it is able to offer many options to target the perfect audience, i.e. Household Composition, Net Worth, Interests, Behaviors, etc. Using these together, you can generate a highly specific segment to which you can serve ads.