Targeting tells Meta who should see your ad. A small market like Armenia gives you an advantage: audiences are compact, and a local business can reach the right neighbourhood precisely. The mistake most beginners make is aiming at everyone aged eighteen to sixty-five in the whole country and hoping the system will figure it out.
The audience types you need to know
- Core audience: you choose location, age, language and interests. This is the starting point.
- Custom audience: people who already know you, such as website visitors, video viewers, page followers or a customer list.
- Lookalike audience: people similar to your best customers. Works best when the source list is large enough.
Practical tips for Armenia
- For a local shop or clinic, select the city or a radius around the address, not the whole country.
- Test Armenian and Russian creatives separately if your customers use both languages.
- Do not stack too many interests. Two or three related interests are better than ten loosely related ones.
- Use a custom audience of past customers and website visitors to run a cheap reminder campaign.
- Review the audience size indicator. Very small audiences cost more, very large ones are too broad.
Frequently asked questions
Can I target people by exact job or income?
Meta has reduced detailed targeting options over time, so rely on interests, behaviours and strong creative that speaks to the right customer.
How big should the audience be?
For a local business, a few tens of thousands of people is often enough. Broad audiences work for products with mass appeal.
Should I exclude existing customers?
For acquisition campaigns, yes. For loyalty and repeat purchase campaigns, target them on purpose.
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