You can easily promote your posts directly from within Statusbrew, to reach newer audiences and grow awareness about your brand. Facebook posts can be promoted right from Statusbrew’s Compose window, planner list or the calendar view.
Facebook Boosting is available in Premium plan and above. See full feature comparison of Statusbrew plans here.
To start promoting a Facebook Post in Statusbrew, you need to fulfill the following criteria beforehand:
- Adding a Facebook Business Page to Business Manager
- Adding a Facebook Ad Account to Facebook Business Manager
- Connecting Facebook Ad Account to Statusbrew
- Connecting Facebook Business Page to Statusbrew
Once done, you can start promoting your posts using Statusbrew:
Adding a Facebook Business Page to Business Manager
Before publishing Dark posts within Statusbrew, you need to make sure your Facebook Business Page is added to Facebook Business Manager.
If you don't have a Business Manager account, Facebook has a detailed article that shows you how to create one.
To get started,
- Go to your Facebook Business settings
- Below Accounts, click Pages
- Click + Add
- Select Add a Page
- Enter the Facebook Page name or URL
Note:
You must be an admin of the Facebook Page that you wish to add to the Facebook Business Manager. To know more about adding a Facebook Business Page to Business Manager, Click here.
Adding a Facebook Ad Account to Facebook Business Manager
After you've added your Facebook Business Page to Facebook Business Manager, you need to add your Facebook ad account.
To add your Facebook ad account to Facebook Business Manager, follow these simple steps:
- Go to your Facebook Business settings
- Click Accounts > Ad Accounts from the left side nav
- Click + Add
- Choose one of the three options: Add ad account, Request access to an ad account or Create a new ad account
- Enter your ad account ID and click on Add Ad Account
Your Facebook Ad Account will start getting charged when this promoted post is published.
Note:
Click here to learn more about adding your Facebook Ad Account.
Connecting Facebook Ad Account to Statusbrew
It is essential to connect your Facebook Ad Account to Statusbrew to start using Dark Posts. Click to see how it can be done.
Connecting Facebook Business Page to Statusbrew
The next important step is to ensure that your Facebook Business Page is connected to Statusbrew. Get started here.
Promoting a post from Statusbrew's Compose
You can smoothly schedule ads from within Statusbrew's Compose. To get started,
- Click on the Home button
in the top left of your screen to open Statusbrew Home and click on Compose - Click on + Choose Profile to select the profiles/ profile group for your connected Facebook accounts
- Create your post with text, media & link
- Click the
button
- Promote Facebook Post screen would pop up
- Select the Ad Account
- Select the Campaign Name for your ad or create a new one
- Click on Next button to choose Audience and Budget in the next step
- Select the run time
- Click Boost Post
Remember that you can publish this promoted post like any other post in Statusbrew - you can publish immediately, put it in the queue, schedule it manually, or save it as a draft.
Promoting a post from Statusbrew's Planner
You can promote your published Facebook posts right from the planner list or the calendar view. To get started,
- Click on the Home button in the top left of your screen to open Statusbrew Home and click on Planner
- Click on the published Facebook post to open its detailed view in the Planner's List or Calendar view
- Click on the three-dot menu and select Boost Post
- Promote Facebook Post screen would pop up
- Select the Ad Account
- Select the Campaign Name for your ad or create a new one
- Click on Next button to choose Audience and Budget in the next step
- Select the run time
- Click Boost Post
You can quickly find all your ads and promotional posts by looking for the $ icon that appears beside the promoted posts in the Planner.
Note:
Statusbrew's Professional and Enterprise plans users can get in-depth insights into the performance of their promoted content using Statusbrew's Facebook and Instagram Paid Performance Report.
Statusbrew also fetches all the comments on your Promoted content which you can easily moderate using Engage Inbox.