Questions about Facebook ad testing

jraines

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Jul 22, 2010
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So I am trying to get started on FB with a limited budget, and I am wondering which variables are the most important to test variations of. I know all have an effect but are any more generally important, like say the image?

The reason I ask is because I know the importance of testing but I don't see how I can fully test on a limited budget.

For example: I wrote a script that generates every permutation of any headlines, ad bodies, demographics, and images you give it. So if you give it 4 of each, that's 256 ads to make. I'm not bawwwing about the number, but I have some questions.

It seems impossible to get a statistically valid test result with, say, a $60 daily budget.

I saw a guy make a thread complaining about having 15 ads rejected, and he got torn to shreds.

So here are my questions, and let's say for the sake of clarity that it's not a dating campaign where obviously you'd want to test a ton of images:

1. Where is the happy medium between 15 and 200+ ads, for testing on a limited budget?
2. If it exists, how would you get there? Manually pare down the whole list? Stick to a small number of headlines/bodies and test a bunch of images?
3. If you have had some success and have the budget where you need/want to test hundreds of ads per day, how are you approaching this? Using some kind of tool to help out, hiring some data entry, or just grinding it out?