Greetings, friends!

How are your Holiday marketing campaigns doing so far? With the biggest retail time of the year for most businesses, it’s perfect timing to ramp up your offers and really take advantage of the great targeting features that both Facebook and Instagram offer. Facebook rounded up useful tips to help increase your year-end sales:

The holiday shopping season continues through the end of the month. Target last-minute shoppers and encourage self-gifting to capture additional sales opportunities. After the holidays, identify your best-performing ads so you can create similar ones next year.

And, if you want to dive in a bit deeper, here’s a great roundup of all the best Facebook business news from November!

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This week’s top 3 articles:

1. 11 Examples of Facebook Ads That Actually Work (And Why) via HubSpot.com

Businesses of all sizes are using Facebook ads to put their company in front of potential customers. But why is it that some get great results and others get little in return? This post shows us 11 ads that work and, more importantly, explains why. There’s so much great information here, you’ll want to save it to refer back to it as a reference!

2. The Facebook Funnel: Create a Social Media Strategy that Converts via V9seo.com

A successful Facebook funnel will help you to take a potential customer from awareness, to consideration and conversion. Doing this requires a solid plan. For each stage of the sales funnel you need to be aware of who you are going after, what type of content you will share and how you will know if it’s working.

For another spin on the Facebook funnel concept, do check out my friend Dennis Yu’s post. Dennis is a highly experienced Facebook ads ninja. 🙂

3. 15 Sources to Find Proven Content Ideas (In 30 Minutes Or Less) via ContentRanked.com

It can be challenging to find interesting ideas for content, yes? Even more so if you’re pressed for time! Well, this post has 15 sources where you can go  (quickly) to find ideas that will work for you. It will certainly come in handy when you have a difficult time coming up with something new.

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That’s all for this week’s issue of The Social Scoop. Have an awesome weekend and week ahead.

On a personal note, it’s the most wonderful time of year… for Holiday parties, singalongs, good cheer, lunch with friends, fun and festivities. YAY! I hope you’re having a blessed December so far.

Cheers,

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