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  • Registering Trademarked Domain Names

    Registering Trademarked Domain Names

    A quick definition here…

    By a trademarked domain, what I mean is a domain name that is clearly the name of another company. For example, if I registered facebooknews.com, then it is clear that I am taking advantage of Facebook‘s brand and actually misleading visitors into thinking that I am in some way associated with Facebook.

    The general advice given is not to do it. Putting moral issues aside, you can get sued by the domain name holder. They can also bring a UDRP (The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) which means that they appeal to ICANN to take ownership of the domain name.

    So, if you register another company’s name or similar to another company name then there is a real risk that you will end up losing money on your domain name investment.

    However, the company bringing the complaint needs to prove that they own the rights to that domain and that you registered it in bad faith – ie. to make money by selling it back to the company.

    Needless to say, I have simplified the whole process and law and this should NOT be taken as legal advice…

    Often, it isn’t so obvious. For example, I may have registered a domain name in 2010 in order to use it for my website. At the time, there was no company with that name. Then a company comes along and names itself that name in 2015. They can fight for that name. However, there is a strong likelihood that they would not win even if they have the trademark as you are already doing business or have a genuine intention to do business under that name.

    If a company files a UDRP under false pretenses, then that is called reverse domain hijacking.

    As always, with the law, there are many grey lines.

    I have personally sold a number of domains which are the name of a company that ceased doing business. If they are no longer doing business, then does the law still apply that they have rights (or the liquidator has rights) to that domain name? How about if they have spent time and money building up that brand which you are then going to use for your own company?

    The domain I recently sold was similar in concept to greatshoes.com (different words and products). The company name was Great Shoes (conceptually) and had been liquidated a couple of years earlier and its stores were shut. It is likely that the domain expired due to the fact that no one was now working at that company and any company that had acquired items in liquidation may not have even been aware of the domain name expiration.

    A few months after I purchased it, I had a BIN on afternic for $x,000. I don’t know who the buyer was. It could have been the current owner of the brand. Or someone totally different who wanted to use the credibility of the brand in order to apply to their own shoe business.

    I am assuming that if the new owner is from the original company, then they either didn’t know about UDRP or they realized that it was probably cheaper just to purchase the domain name at the BIN price rather than get into a potential legal battle (even though they would probably ‘win’).

    Neither the .com (which I sold) or the .co.uk (it was a UK business) are currently active. Will report back if anything changes….

    Lastly, how do you value a Trademarked domain name?

    The positives is that it has brand value and probably existing SEO value. The downside is it can be seized from you.

    Unless you are pretty certain that it won’t be seized from you, I would be very cautious building out a website that you could potentially lose.

    If you are buying it as an investment hoping that someone else may purchase it from you, then there is a reasonable chance that you will sell it or hold it long enough that your fear of seizure will be reduced. So, it depends on how much money you are prepared to risk. I also think it depends on how much a company would willingly pay rather than having to go through a potential legal hassle.

    My personal limit would be about $1,500-$2,000, depending on the multiple you are going to sell it for and the percentage chance that it will be seized.

  • Domain Name Appraisal: candyfloss.com

    Domain Name Appraisal: candyfloss.com

    The domain name candyfloss.com has come up for auction on Godaddy Expired Domain Names.

    There are about 30 hours left and the current bid is $7k. As much of the action on auction sales happens towards the end, I would expect it to reach $10k+ . Will update here with the final price!

    Until the domain name expired, it appears that a Shopify shop was hosted there. What’s slightly weird, is that to have an active Shopify Store, you would need to pay monthly. So, it is unlikely that someone would be paying for their hosting but yet forget to renew their domain name for about $10-$15.

    My guess would be that the store was not very active, and someone forgot to cancel the charge and just didn’t bother to renew the domain name as they were no longer actively using it. The alternative to that is that the owner passed away and the remaining family didn’t know how to deal with it.

    Whilst this doesn’t help with estimating its value, it does tell us that there are no major content assets that were on the site that could be continued. Or that there could be some inherited branding.

    Its SEO value is very low with virtually no incoming links that are useful. Nor does it seem to have ranked over the last few years for any terms apart from candyfloss.

    So, where is the value in this domain name and why is someone prepared $7k+ on buying it?

    (and bear in mind that I may be totally missing something here in that there is an alternative meaning to the word).

    Candy Floss (or cotton candy) is a food made out of sugar. It is common throughout the world and available from fairs. As it is an exact match domain, this has value. There is a record of candyfloss.org selling for $200 in 2015.

    Candy Floss is also pink which could be good branding for a clothing (or similar) store looking to set up a new shop.

    It could also be a good name for a start-up as it is highly memorable. However, the first word that comes to mind when I think of Candy Floss is “sweet”. Therefore, it would have to be good branding for a start-up that has a connection in some way that makes sense.

    So, the main positives are that it is highly memorable and has ‘sweet’ branding.

    A negative though, is that candy floss is also called cotton candy. So, it would only be useful in parts of the world that called the food candy floss else there would be confusion.

    Another negative is that candy floss is not a profitable niche. You don’t sell candy floss online. People aren’t looking for information about it. Perhaps a candy floss machine company could find it useful but am not sure that it would be worth $7k+ for a domain name which can probably be improved upon for less money.

    Perhaps a catering company or a restaurant could be good for it.

    In summary, I do think that it is a cool domain. However, I find it difficult to see how it could be worth $7k to someone unless they already have a brand with that name – which probably isn’t trademarkable. I suspect that it will send to an end-user rather than a domain investor due to the high price already compared to the value.

    I would probably pay around $2k-$2.5k for it for the novelty and brandable value but would look to resell rather than use.

    UPDATE: candyfloss.com sold for $7,200 with 2 extra bids since I originally wrote this. I would usually expect to see more bidding in the last few hours of an auction. But perhaps, I was correct that the value was already seen as too high. Congratulations to the winner!

  • How To Contact Facebook Ads Support

    So, you caught me red-handed. Truth is, that this is really a post for my own benefit as I always seem to lose this link and then spend hours looking for it!

    Basically, if you want help with Facebook Advertising Billing or Payments, then you can use the following link:

    https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/649167531904667

    Not sure if this will help you if your account is disabled. If that is the case, then you will probably find a link to contact Facebook above your ads manager.

  • Tips For Being Accepted To A Native Ads Company

    Tips For Being Accepted To A Native Ads Company

    Native advertising is one of the most sought after services in the online marketing and advertising niche. More brands and companies have recently learned of native advertising’s great benefits, and are using the best native ad companies to put up their ads strategically all over the internet. Companies such as Taboola and Outbrain are known to produce the best results from their native ads. More and more people who want to advertise, which calls for a strict vetting process.

    Discussed below are the most important tips for native ad companies accepting your ads.

    Authenticity.

    As much as native ads companies are in the business of making money, they also have the role of upholding a high level of trust. This calls for a thorough audit when an advertiser comes to them for advertising. In addition to the brand and the services being advertised being genuine, the ad content should not be copied from other sites. Native ad companies will reject companies that violate plagiarism and copyrights.

    Submit Acceptable Content.

    With every advertising company, different categories are acceptable to be posted. The advertiser needs to respect the company’s policies when it comes to acceptable content and ads. As an advertiser, you should only submit acceptable content to the native ad company if you want your application to advertise with them to be successful. According to Outbrain’s guidelines, the advertiser must keep away from any restricted content such as nudity, weapons, drugs, sexual imagery, violence, graphic images, provocative imagery, and profanity. This is the kind of content that is prohibited by most, if not all, native ads companies.

    Make sure that any content you submit as an ad, whether an article, slideshow, video, podcast, infographic, or whitepaper, does not violate the guidelines of online advertising by endangering the viewers.

    Clarity and Transparency.

    Transparency in advertising yields trustworthiness. For an advertiser to be accepted by a native ads company, they need to be clear and transparent when it comes to their goals and objectives. First of all, having a clear and transparent plan for your ads will help you get accepted by native ad companies. For instance, the disclosures for any sponsored content should be conspicuous to enable internet users to know that they are ads. When submitting your ads, make sure that the font sizes, colors, placements, and designs are easy to read and interpret by users. Native ads are designed to match their surroundings, reducing the level of distraction caused by other display ads. Most native ads companies do not accept popup ads or those that contain excessive overlays. This helps a great deal in ensuring that the users have a seamless experience, thus encouraging engagement and increasing conversions.

    Communication skills.

    Any advertiser must have excellent communication skills. This helps a great deal in coming up with the right kind of ads for the correct type of audience. With excellent communication skills, it gets easier for the advertiser to come up with solid ideas of whatever they need for their ads. The best qualities of an advertiser include the ability to listen, understand, and speak clearly, as well as express their ideas with confidence. These are the kind of advertisers that ensure maximum returns on their company’s investment in the advertising and marketing industry. This is mainly since they know and understand precisely what their company or brand wants in terms of advertisement, and they can easily correct the native ads company whenever they lose track of the advertising brand’s goals and objectives.

    Creativity.

    Any advertiser should be creative in terms of coming up with ideas and designing their brand’s advert. Creativity and imagination will help an advertiser to be accepted by a native ads company. A creative and imaginative advertiser has the unique ability to work through stressful situations, make swift decisions, and solve problems with utmost ingenuity. According to a journal published on Science Alert, there is a heightened need for advertisers to think outside the box when it comes to choosing the best mode of advertisement, how to present the ad’s message to the right audience and the best way to cater for any limitations of the technique or platform chosen.

    Management Skills.

    Among the essential qualities that an advertiser should have are practical supervision and management skills. With these skills, it is easier for the advertiser to budget for their ads, manage any unexpected instances that may come up and solve any arising problems quickly. In addition to the advertiser and brand being accepted by the native ads company, these managerial skills, coupled with a little creativity, are enough to get maximum results from any native ad. This makes it easier for any native ads company to accept an individual that wants to advertise their services or products.

    Native ads companies hold the right to reject any advertiser. This is usually based on the type and quality of the content that needs to be promoted. This could be due to reasons ranging from violation of copyrights to submitting of prohibited or restricted content. This is in line with their passion for ensuring the most authentic and incredible user experience, as well as the highest return on investment on the advertising brand’s side. Before trying to seek the services of a native ad company, it is always a great idea to go through their guidelines, privacy policies, and terms of service pages. These pages contain all the rules that any advertiser needs to follow to have their content published by the native ads company.

  • Buying Facebook Ad Accounts

    Buying Facebook Ad Accounts

    I never thought that I would enter the belly of the dark side of the internet until I found myself wanting to buy Facebook ad accounts.

    I wanted to try an experiment advertising something that I knew Facebook doesn’t like your advertising, but without it having a record on my ‘real’ profile.

    The nice I wanted to try something in was weight-loss and I didn’t want to risk having my primary ads account banned. So, thought it better to do it on an account disconnected to the original account.

    What Even Are Multiple Facebook Ad Accounts?

    Facebook allows you to have a personal ads account and also multiple Facebook ad accounts through the Facebook Business Manager.

    As you are probably aware, you can have one personal advertising account and then two business manager accounts. On each business manager account, you can have multiple Facebook ad accounts. That is NOT what we are describing here. Buying a Facebook Account is about using an additional facebook profile, which then allows you to create accounts separate from your original one.

    What Is Involved In Using Multiple Facebook Accounts?

    Using a second Facebook account to advertise with is not as easy as you may think. You have probably not even considered several factors that are involved. And once you do, it may put you off considering it.

    Starting at the end of the story, once you have bought a new functioning Facebook Ads account, where are you going to send the traffic?

    It has to be to a website that has zero connection to anything that you may have been doing on your original Facebook account. And not even connected to any site that you may have visited before that has a connection to your Facebook account.

    Avoiding A Connection Between Your Two Accounts

    Let’s say that you have site A which is a blog site, and you have Facebook tracking on there as you want to build a custom audience or have once sent traffic there. That means that you can no longer have any connection between that site and your new account.

    A New Website

    What you need is a new website and server. Once you have that, you must never visit it on any computer or internet connection that you have used previously with your original Facebook account.

    The most convenient solution here is a remote desktop connection where you can build the site and register the domain. However, it must be a new domain on different host. And you must never visit that site from your main computer. And if you have a Virtual Assistant, it’s also vital that they never visit that site.

    A VPN Is Not Enough

    You may think that you can use a proxy or similar from your computer and delete cookies. However, in reality, this will never be enough. There will remain far too much information on your computer to identify you and connect you to your old account.

    Where Do You Buy A New Facebook Account?

    I’m not going to link to any sellers or sources here. You don’t need to be too imaginative with a few quick searches on the internet to find one.

    If you buy an account, you are advised to do it with Bitcoin. Bitcoin can be risky as you could send the money and never receive any money in return. However, it is also safer in some ways. Because you are doing something that is on the grey side of marketing, you want to avoid your credit card or PayPal account connected to a dodgy transaction.

    How Do you Connect To Your New Account?

    Once you have paid, they then provide you with a remote desktop connection to the country of your choice. My advice would be to purchase for the country where your credit card or the payment method that you are going to use is registered. If you don’t, then when you start using your ads account, they will query why you are using a credit card from a different country. They will notice that the credit card doesn’t line up with the correct country. Although you can truthfully answer this, it means that there will be another possible point against you.

    Once you have the details, you open up the remote connection, and you arrive on the new server. If you are new to this, then you can think of it as someone else’s computer in a country of your choice. You control it remotely.

    You open up Chrome, and you will find that you are logged in to someone else’s Facebook account.

    Entering weird city 😉

    Unbeknownst to the owner, you are using their Facebook account to advertise on Facebook. The account that you are using is their actual real Facebook account that you are using. You are hoping that they will never use Facebook advertising – because the vast majority of people don’t.

    You should disable notifications from ads and pages and a couple of other safety measures so that they don’t know that you are using their account.

    Certain notifications can’t be disabled (such as Facebook support requests). It is likely that at some point, your victim/target will think something strange is up. But they are probably also unlikely to do anything about it. Think of yourself in the same position where you don’t understand what those messages mean. Aren’t you more likely to ignore them than investigate them properly?

    I had another problem with that the Facebook account that I was using. Although the account was US-Based, they were using Facebook in Spanish, which made it near impossible for me to be able to work efficiently. I did change the language to English. If someone lives in the US and the language changed to English, this shouldn’t raise too much suspicion. Or if they wanted to, they would change it back. In retrospect, a better way to deal with this would be to translate the page automatically through Chrome’s inbuilt translator.

    Warming the account

    So, the next step is to warm the account up. What this consists of is doing a few ads that Facebook will see as very nonthreatening and slowly start to build up your trust level with the algorithm. In this way, you can hopefully begin to do some far more aggressive things.

    For example, your first ad may be an engagement ad to a post.

    The next ad may have a link into a totally whitehat page that doesn’t even sell anything.

    The next ad may start to drive traffic to some money page.

    There is no choice but to do this if you want to use multiple Facebook ad accounts.

    Algorithms And Machines Are Watching You

    What you have to realize is that it is generally not a human that will be judging your account but an algorithm. Therefore, everything that you do must be as natural as possible. It is impossible to say what is and isn’t natural, but likely that a variety of sequences of actions will trigger Facebook to take a closer look at your account. And you don’t want that.

    There could be hundreds or thousands of things that Facebook judges. For example, are you using the account to tweak your ads at times when you have never used your account before? I just made this up as a possible thing, but perhaps it is something that could cause Facebook to score against you.

    So you want to make sure that everything you do is as natural as possible. Do not start putting up a $1k a day CBO campaign optimized for purchases. This is not what someone is likely to do first on their account. And Facebook has probably found that people that do that on their first day are far more likely to be banned ultimately.

    Making Your First Payment

    But let’s step back a bit because this can be a complicated part.

    When you start an ad, you need to enter payment details so that the ads will start running.

    However…as you may expect, this is not so simple.

    It means that you can not use any payment method that you may have ever used before on a previous account.

    It also means that you can’t use any payment method that will be using the same address as a card you have used before.

    Facebook doesn’t let you use debit cards (at least from my experience. I have a suspicion it may be different in certain countries).

    So, let’s say that you do have a spare credit card that is registered to another address (do you?). Or you can borrow a family member’s or business partner’s credit card.

    If things go sour, then you will never be able to use that card again to buy Facebook ads even if legitimately. And people aren’t generally so keen to ‘lend’ their credit card however much they trust you.

    So, if you don’t have that facility, then you will need to find another way. However, remember that prepaid cards and debit cards don’t work when buying Facebook ads, so it definitely will have to be a credit card.

    There are ways to buy semi-legitimate credit cards, but they can be expensive as well as having a percentage when you want to add money to them. And often, it’s not so easy to add money to them and has to be done by Bitcoin or something similar. My brief investigations showed them to cost around $100 initial payment and then 5% of whatever balance has to be put on.

    How to buy Bitcoin (which you will need) is a whole other post!

    But Let’s Say That You Overcome That

    So, now you have active Facebook ad accounts and start sending traffic to an offer.

    It is likely that within a short amount of time, Facebook will start asking you for more details about your card and your business. They will ask for documentation. If you are going to fake that, then you are starting to enter an area that is crossing a line that you probably don’t want to. And you are stuck.

    Another thing to realize is that Facebook doesn’t like it when you start spending money too quickly as you start becoming more of a risk to them. So, you have to scale very slowly. First $10 a day and then gradually up to $100 a day. If you don’t do this, then you WILL get your Facebook account banned.

    I’m not sure where that level is, but there is some point when Facebook will start looking at your account more thoroughly by a human. They will notice that something strange is going on as there seems to be a lack of connection between the real profile and the advertiser. The human review is another thing that could cut down your operation.

    So, you want to go under the radar. At some point, you realize that the small profit and large amount of time that you are putting into this account is not an efficient use of your time!

    Changes to your landing page or website can suck up your time as they must be done via a remote desktop connection. Using RDP can be a real pain and also involves another payment to another RDP company.

    Daily Changes To Your Facebook Ads Account

    Any change to your Facebook campaigns will also need to be done through a different remote desktop. Using RDP is not only a pain but is also very slow. You are connecting, and then they are putting you through an additional proxy to mask your main IP. Do you have the patience to deal with slow connections and waiting a few minutes for a web page to load up, which generally would only take a few seconds?

    Why I Quit

    I stopped for two main reasons:

    • It wasn’t feasible to run a real business with all of the above problems and restrictions. It’s hard enough to make money online anyway, but with these added costs and problems, it makes it even harder.
    • There is a point where you have to cross over from what is ‘acceptable’ to what is illegal. Once you start having to fake id and addresses, you are breaking laws. Breaking laws is not somewhere that I want to have to do when running an otherwise legitimate business

    I hold zero judgment. If you do decide to try, then know it’s not easy buying an additional Facebook Ad Account or multiple Facebook ad accounts after your Facebook Account is Disabled. It is even hard to use them successfully. There are many other stumbling blocks.

    If you are more into a burn and crash business model, then this could work pretty well. Realize that much of your time will be taken up dealing with the unique challenges – which some people enjoy!

    Where Do Fake Facebook Accounts Come From

    I may be wrong about the following, but it is the only thing that makes sense to me.

    The accounts that I am referring to aren’t fake. They are real Facebook accounts that real people around the world are using daily. They are genuine profiles, and the users are posting on a regular and natural basis to their accounts. The friends that they have are real friends.

    These accounts are accounts that have been hijacked in some way. The person selling you the account (or selling them the account) has found the username and password that are needed to log into the account. The seller may have used illegal snooper software. Alternatively, they have used lists of email addresses and passwords that have been taken from a hacked database.

    As people generally use the same login details for many sites, the seller has found accounts where that has happened.

    So, you are using the account of someone unsuspecting.

    Moral Reasons For And Against Fake Facebook Accounts

    I’m not going to pretend that it is a victimless crime. But I can’t see a way that the original user will be affected. They will still be able to log in and continue using their regular Facebook account. If they suddenly decide they want to advertise using their account this could be a problem – but the likelihood of that is pretty low.

    Likely, the actual user will never know any difference.

    If you have read until now, you will know that it is something that I did. And not something that I regret. However, it was on the border of my desired involvement with the blackhat side of things. I have no idea of the legalities, but even if not illegal, it does kind of feel a bit crappy.

  • Shopify Dropshipping – The Basics

    Shopify Dropshipping – The Basics

    What is Dropshipping?

    Dropshipping is when you sell a customer a product that you don’t currently own. Once you have made the sale, you then purchase it from a dropshipping wholesale supplier who will send it to your customer.

    How Does Dropshipping Work?

    • customer buys and pays for product
    • you pay a supplier to ship that product to your customer
    • you pocket the difference

    Is Dropshipping Legal?

    Although I can’t answer specific legal aspects of it, the concept of selling products to customers and then buying that product to someone else is legal. That is actually how much of trade works in the real world.

    Why would I want to start dropshipping?

    Dropshipping is meant to minimize your risk.

    In theory, it means that you don’t need to buy stock before you sell it. This has two main advantages:

    • you never have dead stock sitting there that you can’t sell
    • it makes your cashflow far easier as you never have to lay out money before you receive it

    What are the best dropshipping products?

    At the time of writing this article, the best place to dropship from is Ali Express. That is because they have almost every product that you could ever think of and their prices are very reasonable. Most of the sellers on Ali Express are used to dealing with dropshippers and will be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

    There are a number of disadvantages to buying dropshipping products from Ali Express though which we will go through below. However, the main one is that they are shipping from China and shipping times can be longer. This means that your customers may not be happy with the long shipping times and if your customers aren’t happy, then your payment processor (or Paypal) won’t be happy and things can very quickly spiral downwards.

    Why don’t my customers buy direct from Ali Express?

    That’s a pretty good question and one that we will go over in more detail once we discuss sales tactics. However, in short the answer is that your customer doesn’t know that what they are buying from you, they can buy far cheaper from Ali Express. You are out-marketing Aliexpress in this case.

    How to make money from Dropshipping?

    Making money from dropshipping is far from easy and anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to sell you a course. I have sold well over $1m dropshipping products and it definitely isn’t all rosy. Even when you think that things are going well, things can go wrong very fast.

    Before selling a product on Shopify you need to be very certain about you ‘numbers’.

    Some things you need to be aware of are:

    • how much you are paying for a unit
    • how much you are selling that unit for
    • how much you are paying to a payment processor (around 3%)
    • how much you are paying to Shopify or anyone else who is hosting your store
    • your starting costs. eg. graphics, design copywriting etc.
    • any additional apps or software that you may be using on your store
    • the amount you may be paying support staff if you are not doing it yourself
    • helpdesk software
    • advertising and marketing
    • email autoresponder

    and a host of other monthly charges that you will suddenly need to start paying.

    As a rule of thumb, I only sell a product if I can sell it for 3 times the amount that I am paying for it. So, if I am buying it for $10 then I will want to sell it for at least $30.

    ASIDE: At this point you will probably be wondering if Product X is an exception that this rule doesn’t apply to for some reason. Whatever the reason is, the answer is NO. Just no, no, no…

    If you don’t stick to this rule then in almost every case you will NOT make money.

    Can I lose money by dropshipping?

    Absolutely! In fact, you are far more likely to lose money than make money – especially at the beginning.

    The reason is that you will find that you are paying more for the sale than you are making in the sale.

    Unless you have free traffic, you will need to buy traffic through advertising which can be very expensive. You will need to be very careful that you are not overspending on each customer. This is why it is so important that you know your ‘numbers’ so well.

    What products shouldn’t I dropship?

    Whilst I can’t give you specific products or this article would be extremely long, there are certain categories of products which I would advise you not to sell.

    Some examples are:

    • anything that goes against someone else’s trademark or copyright. For example. don’t sell fake Nike shoes or Disney hats.
    • anything that is even slightly illegal. The reason should be obvious, but in addition it just isn’t worth the hassle that you will get
    • anything that is prohibited by Facebook/Google/MSN etc to be advertised. It severely cuts down your option if you can’t use these
    • try to find something that sells for at least $30. It is possible under this price-point but I have always found it far harder to profit under around $30.

    Any more tips for dropshipping?

    I have a load more and will add them on this blog. But just remember that finding a product that sells profitably is just half of the challenge. The other half is being able to actually make money on that by scaling and not running out of cash.

    Good Luck!

  • Facebook Ads Account Banned? [Solution]

    Facebook Ads Account Banned? [Solution]

    Not When, But If

    At some point, you will have your Facebook Ads Account banned or disabled. It’s not really a case of ‘if’, but when.

    So, what to do?

    First thing to do is to try and get Facebook to overturn their decision. Say sorry. Be polite. Beg. Offer your firstborn. Whatever it takes. Send a package to Zuckerberg personally if necessary.

    Banned Facebook Message

    THE MESSAGE THAT NO ONE WANTS TO SEE IN THEIR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT

    However, the chances are that they won’t reinstate your account. I’m being realistic even though that’s not what you want to hear with the shock of your Facebook Ads Account Banned. You are generally not banned because one ad was wrong, but because overall their algorithm or a manual reviewer doesn’t like what you are doing. You are small fry to them.

    Your Choices:

    So, suck it up. You then have a choice:

    • give up entirely
    • open another account using a different identity and CC and IP and domain and try again
    • find another solution

    As you have probably just realized, your whole business has just been wiped out overnight because Facebook doesn’t like you. If you are dependent on another company, then you don’t really have a business at all. That needs to change.

    If you want to find another solution, then you now know that you need at least two or more streams of traffic so that the same thing doesn’t happen again. You also need to start collecting email addresses from customers so that you have an asset that more or less can’t be taken away.

    Luckily for you, there are many other solutions – some where you will make even more money with greater converting traffic.

    It’s going to be out of your comfort zone and is a massive pain, but it can be done and you can come back even more successful than ever before.

    Alternatives When You Have Your Facebook Ads Account Banned:

    Here are some suggestions:

    1. Native Ads. If you have a fairly general product which is targeted towards 10m+ people then this could be great for you. Some suggestions for you are Outbrain or Taboola. My biggest tip for you is to experiment with a presell page to warm customers up. It will make a big difference.
    2. Google Adwords. Whatever else you are doing, you should be using Adwords. They have HUGE amounts of traffic and therefore huge amounts of potential customers. You also have access to Youtube. Big tip: Go for your perfect prospect first to see if you can make conversions and then perfect your strategy. I was a certified Adwords specialist, but even now I find their interface a bit intimidating. So, there is a learning curve, but it can be well worth it.
    3. Bing Ads. Bing is like the unwanted brother of Adwords. They have done nothing wrong, but direct marketers seem to ignore them. In fact, they are far easier to use than Adwords and often bring a far better Return On Investment.

    There are many other networks that you can try, but the three above are where I would start if you do have your Facebook Ads Account banned.

    Finally:

    Don’t wait around for Facebook to say Yay or Nay, because even if you do get your account back you will now have a second source of traffic.