Spent money on FB ads for my community. 194 clicked through. Not one person joined. Help!
Hey Flames, I run a book club in Chandigarh (India) for entrepreneurs who read business/psychology books and actually apply them. We're 5-10 members. Meet twice monthly. Discussions go deep, sometimes until 1-2 AM. Zero networking BS. We have electric camaraderie. I want more peeps like them. Trying to grow from 10 to 20 members, so I ran FB/IG ads. What happened: 50,000+ people saw the ads. 194 clicked through to the Google Form application. 0 people filled it out. Not one. (no tech issues, i triple checked) The form isn't crazy: - Name, business type, location (multiple choice) - One paragraph question: "What's one business concept you're currently trying to implement?" - Culture fit question (multiple choice) - Phone number My theory: Maybe there's a trust gap. One ad had our meet photo, the other had a designed poster. Both got clicks. But when they land on the form, just questions, no context so they bounce. The ads seem decent.... (screenshots below). They were written to put browsers into problem state, starting with a question. Then telling them the benefits if they were to solve that problem. At last show them how our club is the vehicle for the solution. What I'm thinking: Build a Google Doc bridge between the ad and form. Going through @Travis Sago "2 Page Google Doc Cash Machine" training now to write it. G doc will show them what actually happens at our meets, who attends, culture, more photos. Shower them with our FUN meet photos, warm them up a lil. Group is 3 years old, so we have ton of pics. THEN send them to the form. Then ask them to experience a trial meeting. Trying to use Travis's "First Date" principal. Our culture will filter the networking types naturally. The movement piece: I created this community before I joined FIRE, so the movement isn't sharpened yet. That's a work in progress. Right now it's: "Entrepreneurs who implement books, not just read them." But I know it needs clarity.