As part of my year-end business plan, I reviewed the Insights section for my Facebook business page. There is an export option which I chose. The .csv file I downloaded was huge! There is a ton of data collected, from demographics about your followers to what types of action is taken by those followers on your page. I originally downloaded a report for a whole month and was overwhelmed with all the data in the file. So I went back and downloaded just a week’s worth of data. It was still a bit overwhelming but I managed to wade through it all.
What I wanted to know primarily was the demographics of my followers. I learned that the majority of my followers are from the U.S. Interestingly, I have followers in Australia, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Germany, the Philippines, India, Canada, and the UK.
Though there are several male followers, the majority are women between the ages of 35 and 65.
How does it help to know this? It helps me to know who my audience is so I know how best to market my services. I can then tailor any Facebook ads to target an audience of women living in the U.S. between the ages of 35 and 65.
I suggest you download your Insights and analyze them specifically to see who your target audience is and then create an ad targeted to that audience. Let me know how it goes!