How to set up an advertising account

[Reyed Mia (Apprentice, DIU)]

How to set up an advertising account

If you already are using Facebook for personal or business purposes, your Facebook advertising account is already set up, and you're ready to start creating ads. There are a couple more steps that need to occur before those ads go live. You will need to associate a credit card or other form of payment method to your account. To do this, we'll start by going to the Facebook ads manager. There are a couple ways to access ads manager. You can find it by visiting the link on your screen here. You can also use a drop down arrow in the upper right hand corner to bring up the menu. Here you'll select Advertising on Facebook.

Now, if you have created an ad before, this link will be titled Manage Ads, like it is shown here. Here you can see that we're on the Manage Your Ads page. Let's select the Ads Manager menu and select the Billing & Payment Methods option from the drop down. At this point you might be prompted to enter your password. If so, go ahead and do that, and you'll be brought back to this page. I'll select the green button, labeled Add Payment Method. From here you can include a credit or debit card, a PayPal account, online banking account, or a Facebook ad coupon.

To add a credit card go ahead and fill in the information in the boxes and when you're ready, select Continue. Once your payment method is set up you can continue adding more payment methods if you wish. Once that is complete, I recommend setting some spend limits just in case you make any errors setting up your ad budgets. To do that, I'll head to the Account Spending Limit box. Select Set Account Spending Limit and here you can use this field to enter the max amount you wish to cap your advertising spend at. So when your account reaches this limit all spend will stop and all ads will be paused within 15 minutes.

This limit can be reset at any time and your ads will not be paced on this limit, meaning it's not going to show ads slower or faster depending on the amount that you set. Now it's your turn. If you haven't already created your advertiser's account, go ahead and set it up so that we can be ready to rock and roll and create some ads in the upcoming course sections.

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