How to get results from boosting your company’s Facebook posts.

A boosted Facebook post can gain more interactions, such as comments, reactions, and shares, with your organic content already on your page. Boosting your content will reach potential customers that don’t already follow your business with content that they would see daily from your page.

Advantages of Boosting on Facebook

• Simplicity: Facebook makes boosting posts as easy as it is to create them. You’ll simply go to a post on your page and click the “Boost Post” button. After a couple of questions, your post will be in front of hundreds of potential new customers. With boosting, you don’t have to create more content for Facebook  advertisements — you use what already works with your original audience. 
• Customizable: When boosting your post, Facebook will have you define your targeted audience and location. If you want more engagements on your posts, you could set your audience as just the people that like your page. If you want to increase your brand awareness, you could set your audience to a custom demographic in your specified location. If your company wants a mix of more engagement and brand awareness, you could choose to have your post boosted to people that like your page and their friends. 
• Pay as much as you’d like: Any budget works with boosted posts. Facebook will let you choose how long you would like your page boosted for as well as how large or specific the audience for the post will be. The more specific your audience, and the longer your post will be up, the more expensive the ad will be.

Disadvantages of Boosting on Facebook

• Too customizable: Facebook allows you to boost your post for as long as you would like, as well as creating any audience you like — whether that’s a wide range or a super-specific one. However, your boosted post won’t be successful just because it’s boosted for a long time or if the audience you picked isn’t right for your content. 
• It won’t fix a bad post:  If you’re seeing less engagement than usual on one of your posts, the solution may not be to boost it. Dramatically less engagement could mean that your content may not be meeting the needs of your audience. Putting this content in front of more eyes wouldn’t be the solution.
• It only gains engagement on Facebook: If your goal isn’t to increase your company’s social media presence and engagement, you shouldn’t be boosting. Boosting your posts on Facebook can get you more reactions, shares, comments, and follows, but it doesn’t guarantee link clicks or conversions. If social media interactions aren’t your goal, consider a different form of marketing.

The Bottom Line of Boosting on Facebook

When choosing to boost posts on Facebook, know what goals you are trying to achieve before you decide to promote. Whether you are trying to increase brand awareness with potential new customers, or increase engagements with existing customers, use what already works well with your original audience. At the end of the day, remember to always be true to your brand.