Should I Restrict The Countries My Facebook Ads Target?
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Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today's question comes from Jim, who has a question about running Facebook ads. Is it a good idea to restrict Facebook ads to the United States? Jim’s site is http://www.microtutes.com/. In this episode, I mention Amy Porterfield’s (http://www.amyporterfield.com/) strategy for driving email signups to a webinar. A good webinar platform is GoToWebinar (http://www.gotomeeting.com/online/webinar). Rick Mulready has lots of advice on Facebook ads (http://rickmulready.com/). I also mention The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/). Do you have a question about using Facebook ads? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. If you have advice to share, use #AskPat318.
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| 0:00.0 | AskPAT. |
| 0:05.4 | AskPack.com. |
| 0:11.0 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.1 | Pat here and welcome to AskPad episode 318. |
| 0:15.2 | I hope you're doing awesome today. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm feeling great. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm feeling great. |
| 0:17.9 | Hope you are too. |
| 0:18.1 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week now let's get to today's question from jim hey pat this is jim and |
| 0:27.4 | appreciate all you do i have a website that offers photoshop tutorials it's called microtutes |
| 0:33.3 | dot com micro t u tess dot com and there are over 500 of them. They're all less than 60 seconds each, |
| 0:40.0 | so they're very quick. And to the point, my question is, I've been using Facebook ads and getting |
| 0:45.1 | a pretty good email sign up. I want to build my email list up to a thousand before I begin |
| 0:49.2 | offering a digital product. But a lot of the ones that are signing up are from other countries like Pakistan |
| 0:55.4 | and China and Philippines and things like that. Just curious if I should restrict the Facebook |
| 1:01.9 | ads to just the United States because I want to make sure when I begin selling the digital |
| 1:05.5 | product that they'll be able to make a payment for it via a credit card. So that's my question and appreciate all you do and hope to hear from you soon. |
| 1:15.2 | Thanks, Pat. |
| 1:16.8 | Hey, Jim, what's up? |
| 1:17.8 | Thank you so much for the question. |
| 1:19.2 | And I, first of all, just want to tell you how much I love your site and what the concept is like and the idea of it and just you know the whole idea behind it micro toots t u t-U-Toriels which is of course |
| 1:30.0 | micro tutorials and they're all under 60 seconds which i think is a great concept and i love how the |
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