Eliminating Niche Ideas – Social Media Suitability
Lesson 7
If you are happy to choose a niche that has limitations on social media then that is 100% OK, don't overthink it.
The purpose of this tutorial is to help you avoid any silly mistakes but if you make a conscious choice then that's fine.
- Philip Borrowman
Avoid Controversial or Negative Niches
Later down the road you do want to have the option to scale your business with paid traffic and scaled up social media campaigns.
If you choose a limited niche then you may not be able to scale on demand.
Realize you will encounter a lot of trolls or hateful comments if you choose a controversial niche like politics, guns, animal cruelty and so on.
Have a good think about your niche and make a conscious choice.
35 Banned and Restricted Products You Can’t Advertise on Facebook
You can read this article for a full run down of niches are banned from using Paid Traffic on Facebook.
- Tobacco Products
2. Weapons and Explosives
3. Derogatory Personal, Political, and Religious Content
4. Spy Cams and Surveillance Equipment
5. Counterfeit Goods
.... there are MANY more... click there to read the article.
Last year I tried a little advertising on FB, it was a small advert for my survey business….they kept saying I was breaking their rules, you never get to speak to anyone…every time I reviewed their decision they agreed with me and took off the restrictions, when this happened for the third time, they just said you have broken the rules and your account is restricted and you can’t review it any more!! PPPFFFFFTTTT….I have just looked at my account and it’s still the same…locked
Yep, FB does that. The process is incredibly frustrating as there is no help for beginners to understand what is going wrong.