Author: Jason Gan

Based on direct experience with real client cases: generally, no — a restricted Business Manager doesn't allow any changes, including removing a page from it. If your page is tied to a Business Manager that's been restricted, it stays tied to that Business Manager, even...

If your ideal customer is a specific, hard-to-define B2B role — a factory owner, for example — there's often no clean interest category on Meta that targets them directly. Hyper-location targeting solves this differently: instead of trying to describe who they are through interests, pinpoint...

For a complete beginner starting from zero confidence and zero experience, $1 a day — Meta's own minimum threshold — is a genuinely reasonable place to start. The goal at that budget isn't results volume. It's learning how the platform actually works, and building the...

A longer retargeting window feels like it covers more bases — more time to catch someone who eventually comes around. In practice, a 60 or 180-day window is usually longer than it needs to be, and a 7 to 14 day window does the actual...

Over-retargeting is a real, common mistake — and it's made worse by the fact that it's sometimes taught directly by the marketplaces themselves. One seller running CPAS ads for a Shopee store followed Shopee's own official seller training, which recommended retargeting for 180 days. The...

Whether to optimize directly for Purchase or start further down the funnel depends less on how new your account is and more on how common the product itself is. Common, mass-market products benefit from Meta's learning across other advertisers selling similar things. Niche products don't...

Audience Network is a placement most advertisers should manually exclude, even though doing so costs a few points on Meta's Advantage+ compliance score. One real account saw budget quietly shift to 30-40% going to Audience Network — a placement that should typically sit around 1-2%...

Custom audiences are still fully relevant in 2026 — using them for exclusion or retargeting does cost you some points on Meta's Advantage+ compliance score, but it doesn't disqualify a campaign from being Advantage+, and partial compliance performs perfectly well. Custom audience targeting hasn't become...