Facebook Business

14 November 2017

Grow your business internationally with Facebook

More than 1.2 billion people on Facebook are connected to a small business in another country. As more people around the world come online, businesses have an opportunity to connect with new customers, many of whom live in different cities, regions or countries.

That's why last year, we introduced cross-border solutions to provide a bridge for businesses to the new global, mobile economy through Facebook.

Easier ways to reach new customers, anywhere

Today, we're introducing four new cross-border solutions to make it easier for all businesses to grow; around the corner or around the world.

1. As businesses expand to new countries or regions, it's important to reach the right customers in their preferred language. With dynamic language optimisation, businesses can include multiple languages in one campaign, and Facebook will match the right language to the right person at the right time. This solution also makes budgeting across different languages easier, as Facebook will optimise for the best performance based on your total budget and campaign objective.

Over the last year, Facebook has created many new features that not only help my business scale, but also help me to work more efficiently in different time zones. Instead of staying up late at night to check ads every hour, now I can set rules to turn off ads when they go out of our budget. And once I have products that work in one country, I can easily scale to that region by adding new languages to my products and websites.

Le Phuong Bao

Facebook Marketer at iMedia and Trading Agency (Vietnam)

2. Before, advertisers could create international Lookalike Audiences to find their best potential customers in a new country. Now, businesses can also use multi-country Lookalike Audiences to find their next best customers in any combination of countries or regions. International and multi-country Lookalike Audiences can help businesses, both big and small, to find the people from around the world that will love their business.

Since we started advertising on Facebook, we were able to grow our business exponentially and sales have increased by 83%. As a result of this success, we've hired four more people with plans to hire two additional employees and we are now present in more than 40 countries across five continents.

David Suarez

Marketing Director at LifeCell

3. When expanding into unfamiliar markets, businesses can spend a lot of time researching where to invest their ad spend. Now, with multi-city targeting, businesses can target all cities above a certain population size without having to do research or add the cities individually.

4. Businesses can also decide how and where to expand their business across borders based on actionable insights. Facebook IQ cross-border insights finder helps advertisers discover untapped markets for their business by providing comparative country data based on past campaign performance across Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network.

Education is an important step as businesses decide to expand operations and hire new employees. To help businesses learn more about how to take their brand global on Facebook, we've developed a Blueprint e-learning course –Expand across borders with Facebook.

With Facebook, businesses now have the education and tools to reach the people who will grow their business around the world.

Expand across borders with Facebook.

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