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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3230 - Q&A: “How do I test Facebook vs. free traffic?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Free traffic feels safe, but paid ads might unlock a faster lane—IF the math checks out. Let’s design a two-week, $200 ad test with clear “go / no-go” numbers so this side hustler can see truth, not guesswork.

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0:00.0

If you ever shop online, which, let's be real, who doesn't, you already understand how important

0:05.6

customer reviews are. You know this as a consumer, right? You always check the reviews before you buy

0:10.1

something and your customers are checking reviews as well. That's why if you run an e-commerce

0:14.7

business, reviews have an enormous impact on your business and you want to level up your business

0:19.0

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0:21.1

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0:26.7

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0:31.2

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0:37.2

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0:39.7

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0:48.2

Lemonada.

0:53.3

Organic search results are the slow cooker of marketing.

1:01.0

When you start getting organic search traffic from people typing in search terms and phrases that lead to your website on Google or other search engines, that is just fantastic.

1:13.2

It's inexpensive. I mean, it's free,

1:17.9

right, unless you've spent some money to get to that point, but still, usually very inexpensive or free. It's reliable, but it's rarely explosive. Like it doesn't just take off. It takes a long

1:23.2

time to seed that process and then to see it actually happen. So if that is the slow cooker,

1:29.4

paid social ads are the microwave. Like with paid ads, you get fast results. Your results are

1:34.4

almost immediate, usually the same day or within a couple of days. You've got some real data

1:38.1

to look at. And it also costs money, right? Because that's why it's paid. So it's easy to burn cash.

1:44.0

Like it's easy to get those results and it's easy to burn cash. Like, it's easy to get those

1:44.9

results and it's easy to spend a lot of money. So how do you test Facebook traffic or other

1:50.8

paid ads versus free traffic? Can you do a little test without spending a ton of money?

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