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What is Custom Audience on Facebook?

Custom Audience is an ad targeting option that lets you find your existing audience among people who are on Facebook.

You can use sources like customer lists, website or app traffic, or engagement on Facebook, to create Custom Audiences of people who already know your business. 

You can check out the Facebook ‘About Custom Audiences’ page for more.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/744354708981227?id=2469097953376494

We will use the ‘Customer List Custom Audience’ type. It provides you the opportunity to reach our leads via Facebook ads.

If you have your potential clients’ phone numbers, email or physical addresses, you can use them on Facebook. Facebook processes this data and provides audience matches for you to show your ads.

Now the real question is: How do you find that information about your potential clients?

The answer is Outscraper गूगल मैप्स स्क्रैपर 

Creating A Potential Client List For Use In Facebook Custom Audience

If you’re in a B2B business, the potential targets you are selling products or services are companies.

While there are many company directory websites where you can find these businesses, none are as large and inclusive as Google Maps. With Google Maps, you can find all the businesses in the category you specify, not only in one country but all over the world.

Google is such a great resource, but it takes a lot of time to extract the data contained in Maps one by one. So you need a solution that will extract Google Maps data. Outscraper Google Maps Scraper will meet this need.

If you want to learn how to create B2B lead lists with Google Maps Scraper, check out this detailed blog post.

If you create a scraping task as described in this blog post, you will have a sample data list like this.

Sample Data List: Digital Printing Service B2B Lead List With Emails

You can download data in 2 different file formats from Outscraper to use on Facebook. xlsx and csv formats. If you prefer to download in CSV format, you can create a custom audience by uploading the file you downloaded directly to Facebook. If you download it as XLSX, you can copy and paste the column containing the data you want.

How to Create Custom Audience on Facebook?

Copy/Paste the Data Lists

You downloaded the Digital Printing Service B2B Lead List With Emails file and opened it with excel. There are many columns and data lists in front of you. You can use the following identifiers to use in Facebook data matching.

Facebook Data Identifiers

More information can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/business/help/112061095610075?id=2469097953376494

There are two laser-focused data in our list that we can target our potential clients. Email addresses and phone numbers. Email addresses are always our first choice.

Visit the Facebook Ads Manager and click the ‘Create Audience’ button. Select the ‘Customer list’ option in the list.

Customer List as Custom Audience Source

Quickly skip the Prepare List step. In the Select List Type step, as there is no customer value data in the downloaded file, so tick the no option and continue. When it comes to the third step, Add Customer List; we choose ‘Paste Comma-Separated Values’.

Adding Customer List

We open our data file with Excel and copy all the columns related to email addresses from it.

Copying Emails From Result File

And we paste all the email addresses into the box.

Pasting Emails

By clicking the Next button, we let Facebook map and identify our data.

Identifiers Worked

Facebook successfully mapped the copied email_1, email_2, and email_3 columns.

We cast an eye over the data in the Map Column to Identifier section. And we import the data by pressing the Import & Create button. If you receive a notification that “Some Identifiers Won’t Be Uploaded”, just click the Upload Anyway button.

Customer List is Uploaded

That’s it! Facebook has imported and mapped all our data. Now, we can create an ad based on this data or create a lookalike audience. Now let’s see how we can do this by uploading CSV.

Upload CSV File to Facebook

Outscraper allows you to choose XLSX, CSV, and Parquet as result extensions. While creating a custom audience on Facebook, you can upload a CSV file containing the values.

When you upload a csv file, Facebook maps all the data according to its identifiers.

Your settings should be like in the screenshot to make the result extension as csv file when using Outscraper Google Maps Scraper service.

Result File Format of Scraping Task

As a result of this scraping task, you will download a result file like this: csv_digital_printing_service.csv

Visit the Facebook Ads Manager and click the ‘Create Audience’ button again to create a custom audience with this csv file. Select the ‘Customer list’ option in the list.

Go to the Add Customer List step. This time, check the “Upload a List (.csv or .txt)” option and select the CSV file you have downloaded from Outscraper to upload it.

Adding Customer List by Uploading a List

Facebook will map whatever matches their identifiers in the CSV file. Phone Number (1), Country, Gmail (1), Mail (2), Email (3), and Phone Number (2) data seems to be available for matching by Facebook.

Columns Are Mapped

Continue to create a Custom Audience by pressing the “Import & Create” button again and uploading it successfully.

Customer List is Uploaded

Now the custom audience is ready. You can use it as much as you want. Using this sample potential customer pool, you can show ads directly to this list, or you can create a lookalike customer list from this list and show ads to that list.

You can target your laser-focused potential clients with Outscraper which you can’t find in Facebook’s standard targeting filters.

More ideas on how to use Outscraper as a digital marketing framework can be found in this blog post.

Create Your Own Customer Audience List Now

You can now create your own custom audience list using the Outscraper Google Maps Scraper service. It only takes 6 minutes to sign up and start extracting.

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अक्सर पूछे जाने वाले प्रश्न और उत्तर

Facebook Business Manager takes you step-by-step to create a custom audience. The most important thing you need is an email list with your potential customers. You can extract this list from Google Maps with Outscraper. Google Maps is a directory with millions of potential customers.

An email list is needed to create a custom audience on Facebook. This list is used as a reference resource to help find audiences interested in your service. Outscraper Google Maps Data Scraper service allows creating a list for everyone as a target local businesses. It extracts leads from local businesses on Google Maps.

The most basic step in building an audience for a business is to appeal to the right category. Once you decide which category of customers you need to reach, Outscraper does the rest. There are more than 5,000 categories in Google Maps. Thousands of businesses are registered in each category as well. Outscraper Google Maps Data Scraper service finds and exports thousands of audiences from your targeted categories.


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