Blab named as one of only 25 partners for Facebook’s marketing api

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Blab is inventing a whole new way to advertise in the social space. Traditional advertising invades the social space with product claims and brand slogans. It’s not surprising that people click on ads in the social space half as often as they do on websites.

Blab flips the traditional ad format on its head and leads with what people are talking about. Blab predicts trending conversations by target audience across Twitter, Facebook, blogs and forums; auto generates and targets relevant ads before the trend peaks.

Blab is launching an automated ad creation and targeting platform to level the playing field for small medium businesses – giving them a cost-efficient way to run effective advertising on Facebook. Blab delivers 3X leads with custom-built contextual advertising and media placement requiring zero time investment from the small medium business.

Blab announced today that it has become a part of the Facebook Marketing API Program. Access to the Ads API is a significant pivot point as it allows Blab to further drive the power of relevancy as Facebook innovates advertising solutions.

“We have seen a dramatic shift in the power of data moving from key word search to natural language intelligence allowing us to unearth what the influencers in a category are talking about,” says Randy Browning, Cofounder and CEO, Blab. “Now it’s all about predicting tomorrow’s conversation and tailoring advertising in real-time to drive a whole new level of engagement.”

Browning says that Blab’s key difference is to think in passion categories and influencers. “Our hardest job was to build a self-learning engine that evolves the knowledge base on an hourly basis while being driven from the category perspective and not ours or our client’s.”

“If you haven’t thought of using Facebook as a customer acquisition channel, Blab makes it easier for you to start and will drive more leads than you’re currently getting in any other channel” says Malcolm MacGregor, Cofounder and CCO, Blab. “Blab’s relevancy ad solution helps businesses across the entire ad spectrum, from driving qualified awareness at a CPM of tens of cents to converting engagement at a rate of 20-40 percent.”

“Blab is just getting started”, MacGregor says, “we are currently working with 20 beta clients ranging from CPG companies like Johnsonville to car dealerships like Park Place Motors to sports companies like Lib Tech and GNU snowboards.”

Check Blab out at www.blabbings.com

Facebook wants to make friends with small business

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Facebook is getting ready to launch a new campaign to win over small businesses and get them using Facebook as their home on the web. The lure will be a series of $50 free ad credits for Facebook banner ads targeted to 200,000 small businesses across the country. But the hope is that small businesses will flock to Facebook, setting up pages as either an alternative to or compliment for their company websites.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, kicked things off with an interview in USA Today. The campaign centers on the idea that many small businesses don’t already have a website and that setting one up is too much work, whereas setting up a Facebook page can be done in minutes.

While her premise is true, I believe the most receptive target will be those businesses who already have a web presence, but have not been able to use it to generate leads and new business. This is where Facebook advertising can play a big part. When used by an experienced marketer, Facebook advertising can be an efficient and effective tool for the small business.

However, for anyone who has used the Facebook self-service ad builder, the actual user experience does not live up to the definition of easy and intuitive. There are a lot of apparent black box processes that determine how often the ad will be presented (impressions), how frequently it will be shown and how the auction style bidding actual works.

The only way to learn is by doing and so my recommendation is that any small business who wants to get going in Facebook advertising will be well served by starting out working with a specialist who has learned what works from a technical side and combines that with a strong sense of what sort of ad will work for each type of business.

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