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Meta Business Manager

Score7.3 out of 10

341 Reviews and Ratings

What is Meta Business Manager?

Meta Business Manager (formerly Facebook Business Manager, or Pages Manager) is a mobile app that supports management of up to 50 Facebook pages from a smart phone or tablet, allowing social media managers to see activity, post updates, and respond immediately to customers.

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Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Facebook

    The software allows users to monitor, publish and respond via Facebook.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Mobile access

    Users can effectively use the software through a mobile or tablet device.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Paid media management

    Users can manage and optimize paid social media posts across different channels.

    Category average: 7.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Twitter

    The software allows users to monitor, publish and respond via Twitter.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Filtering out noise/spam

    Users can filter out irrelevant search results through excluded keyword terms and other measures.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Pinterest

    The software allows users to monitor, publish and respond via Pinterest.

    Category average: 7.5

Pros

  • Centralized management of multiple Meta assets (pages, ad accounts)
  • Robust audience targeting and retargeting capabilities
  • Effective campaign creation and management, including tracking pixel generation

Cons

  • Constantly changing and confusing user interface
  • Complexity and difficulty in navigation and account management
  • Challenges in accessing comprehensive analytics and data

Meta Business Manager gives us access to performance insights across all Meta-owned social media platforms.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Meta Business Manager provides my organization with most of what we need to manage our Facebook and Instagram business pages, especially as it concerns ads management and placement. With Meta Business Manager, we are able to track the performance of paid ads. across Facebook, Instagram and other Meta-affiliated platforms in real time , edit Facebook business pages, manage ads notifications, and create audience segmentation for our various ads marketing campaigns.

Pros

  • Flexible audience targeting capabilities, including geographical targeting, interest based targeting, custom audience targeting, or demographic targeting.
  • Meta Business Manager is easy to access and manage on the mobile web.
  • Transparent billing.
  • Accurate campaign reporting. Campaign reports can be exported in spreadsheet format for advanced analysis purposes.

Cons

  • Meta Business Manager by default contains a lot of features and functionalities, which creates a slow learning curve for new users. Aside from this, I think the platform interface can be more intuitive.
  • Human support takes too long to respond.

Return on Investment

  • Meta Business Manager gives us access to place ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Meaning that we can target more than half of the global social media audience. No other platform gives businesses this kind of reach.
  • Meta Business Manager's geographical ad targeting has helped us target cities, streets, counties, and even event venues. This kind of reach makes our social media marketing campaigns more effective.
  • Metrics and data provided by Meta business ads for all of our campaigns has helped us better analyze every of our social media campaign launched on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each campaign, based on how the target audience engaged with them

Usability

Other Software Used

X Ads

Meta Business Manager is great for A/B testing!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Meta Business Manager to run our residential customers' advertising campaigns. We have found it to be highly effective for targeting niche clientele and geo-targeting effectively. We also love the A/B testing features as they have provided our company with many insights into what ads work and what do not. It is a highly effective tool for marketing and posting.

Pros

  • Advertising
  • A/B Testing
  • Social Posting

Cons

  • Customer support
  • Banning people (And not giving a reason)
  • Educating on best practices

Return on Investment

  • Tracking post successs
  • A/B Testing for Ads
  • Ad Targeting

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Hootsuite

Other Software Used

Brandfolder, Google Drive, Squarespace, Wix, Google Domains, Google Sheets, Constant Contact, Grammarly, Google Gemini

Meta Business Manager Growth

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Meta Business Manager to run our FB assets along with Instagram access. We are just now looking at spending money for FB Ads to validate one of our products and then test variations of marketing messages for that product. The goal is to bring in more relevant leads.

Pros

  • Consolidates messages
  • Tracking meta Pixels
  • Ecommerce Integration with Shopify

Cons

  • Quicker way to learn the dashboard
  • Simplify how Meta Business Manager functions for the small business without an extra employee dedicated to FB/IG/social media.
  • Access to real-time trends in the marketing industry we can immediately adjust for in Meta Business Manager.
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Return on Investment

  • Saves me chunks of time not having to jump between platforms to answers messages from others, etc.
  • Easy to spots patterns and make adjustments with campaigns.
  • Provides another e-commerce layer.

Usability

Other Software Used

Shopify Flow, Canva, Wix

Meta Business Manager Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We manage multiple business profiles whether its Product Pages in Facebook or Instagram or the Ad accounts associated with them for running various campaigns. Through Meta Business Manager its easy to manage employees and agencies taking care of the Accounts with varied role. Features such as Ads Reporting, Event Manager and Audience management helps us to understand the market and do proper targeting thereby creating multiple cohorts and optimising our spends across multiple user profiles.

Pros

  • Audience targeting and retargeting
  • Creating App events for better campaign management
  • Budget friendly compared to other channels
  • Agency friendly
  • Good Billing system
  • Multiple pages, users, properties can be handled at one place

Cons

  • Billing Admin
  • Change of Legal Name
  • Better Support infrastructure
  • Recognition of individuals running Ad by giving them points based on their spends or giving them goodies

Return on Investment

  • Was able to get 200 good Sales Qualified Leads for a Dog Training Program generating revenue potential of around 5 lakhs when I was working with an agency
  • Was able to create proper branding around my previous organisation odishacareer.com, currently its getting around 15,000 visitors per month organically
  • Was able to recruit agents for a program we are running in my current company and also get relevant registrations for events we conduct periodically

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Ad Manager, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, YouTube Shopping, Microsoft Advertising, Apple Business Essentials, X Ads and TikTok for Business

Other Software Used

Google Ad Manager, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, X Ads, YouTube Shopping, Yahoo Native

Facebook Business Manager Doesn't Help My Business.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company manages over 40 business Facebook pages and we use FBM to manage the platform for these clients. While FBM helps in some areas, it can be clunky to use from a smartphone which hurts our team when we are on the go and seeing clients and need to make a post or use the app to make an update in the content.

Pros

  • Easy to access.
  • Easy to navigate on desktop.

Cons

  • Difficult to use on smartphones.
  • Needs a search feature when managing multiple pages.

Return on Investment

  • Helped workflow of social media team.
  • Helped integrate instagram and facebook posts.
  • Provided good post campaign analysis.

Alternatives Considered

Google Ad Manager

Other Software Used

Newswire, Google Ads (formerly AdWords), Google Analytics

Usability