Khalid Hamadeh – Facebook Ads Training – Lessons from a Former Facebooker
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I learned some new things about manual bidding strategies and cost-capping
Khalid Hamadeh – Facebook Ads Training – Lessons from a Former Facebooker
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I spent a whopping $2,589 on Facebook advertising courses.
Not to learn how to use Facebook ads to grow my business (I’ve been doing that successfully for many years) but just to “spy” on the competition ️
Let me explain.
My name is Paco Vermeulen, I’ve founded InterestExplorer. That’s a Facebook interest targeting tool that reveals 1000’s of hidden Facebook interests you can target without your competition knowing they exist.
It’s used by thousands of Facebook advertisers and it has been featured by industry experts like Social Media Examiner, DigitalKickstart and Adleaks.
I’m not a “guru” but I do know a thing or two about running Facebook ads.
Not only because I grew multiple businesses using Facebook ads but also because I’ve personally answered 1000’s of Facebook advertising questions from my users.
These questions reveal an obvious pattern.
They all come down to the same underlying issue: the absence of a solid and repeatable strategy.
And that’s because there’s just too much conflicting information shared in all of these Facebook groups, in all of these “10 tips” articles and in all of these YouTube videos out there.
Most advertisers glue together a bunch of isolated tactics (perfect ad templates, high-converting copy scripts, sneaky scaling tricks, etc.) without truly understanding HOW advertising on the Facebook platform actually works.
The result is a messy ad account and a vicious circle.
It’s like having the ingredients, but not the recipe to put them together. And then constantly adding pinches of this and dashes of that.
So I thought, I should sit down and write down my recipe, based on my experience of successfully running Facebook ads for years. And then launch my own online course.
But as a first step, I wanted to learn what’s out there already.
What the competition looked like.
So I spent a total sum of $2,589 to get access to most of the popular courses on the topic of Facebook advertising, completed them and took a lot of notes in the process.
And I quickly learned…
There are two major challenges when creating a course about Facebook advertising.
The first challenge is that there is already too much information out there.
People don’t need more of the same information.
Although we all love to distract ourselves by consuming it, we really don’t need it.
Still most of the courses out there are just knowledge dumps. The creator sat down and thought by himself “Hmmm what is everything I can tell about Facebook ads?”.
The result is a course with many modules & lessons, yet very little actionable insight.
All sizzle no steak, money wasted…
At least I learned that to create a new course on Facebook ads it’s simply not enough to just re-chew and re-package all of the information that’s already out there.
It has to be unique.
The second challenge is that it’s really hard to keep up with the speed at which the Facebook advertising landscape changes. Not only the strategies that work. But also the tools Facebook provides to advertisers.
And not in the last place Facebook’s UI.
It constantly evolves and it constantly changes.
Which means that even a course that was launched a year ago, already contains a lot of information that’s outdated and no longer relevant today.
Or what about the risk of Facebook tweaking the UI of the Ads Manager, forcing me to re-record entire modules…to be honest I became less and less sure if I should even pursue this. Especially because my core focus is creating software (not creating courses) and I’ll be launching a new tool for Facebook advertisers soon…
Then I stumbled upon this “new kid on the block” when scrolling through my Facebook feed. Khalid Hamadeh, an ex-Facebook employee turned marketing consultant and course creator. Maybe you’ve also seen his ads pop up in your Facebook feed.
His “lessons from a former Facebooker” course was my most recent purchase.
And the one that made me decide to abandon my plan to develop a course myself.
He has a unique perspective, constantly posts course updates, manages a very active closed Facebook group, hosts bi-weekly live Q&A’s and reaps only raving reviews.
And his English is native…
While my accent is
This guy is literally the only one I think I can’t beat at creating a Facebook course. But after completing his entire online course I do think I can add value by filling some gaps.
So that’s what I decided to do.
Why you should read this review if you’re looking to level up your Facebook & Instagram ads skills?
Well I’ll give you a couple of reasons:
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Who is Khalid Hamadeh?
Khalid Hamadeh is a former Facebook employee.
He worked there for 3 years and 7 months as a Solutions Manager and Partner.
In that role he advised big brands like Netflix, eBay and Coca-Cola as well as early stage startups on their Facebook ads strategy to increase their return-on-ad-spend.
Next to that he founded a few e-commerce brands of his own using Facebook ads as the main growth driver, as well as a Facebook ads consultancy. He knows how to run ads. Not only with multi-million dollar budgets but also with his own (limited) cash.
We share a fascination for the brands that came out of nothing and were built almost entirely on the back of Facebook ads. The approach in his course is to look closely at the strategies that these “digital native” brands use to grow so fast using ads.
Think of companies like AllBirds, Masterclass or Casper.
My personal favorite “digital native” is a company not mentioned as an example in the course. It’s the company reMarkable that sells the only tablet that feels like paper.
I’m waiting impatiently for my pre-order that will be delivered in August
Sorry, little detour.
The point that I’m trying to make is that Khalid presents a truly unique perspective in his online course. Him being an “ex-Facebooker” isn’t just a meaningless gimmick.
He clearly has first-hand experience and has looked behind the curtains to learn what succesful brands do differently. These are not the big multi-national brands we all know (which he also advised) but the more sophisticated advertisers like reMarkable.
Khalid takes a unique approach I havent’ seen in any other Facebook ads course by teaching the strategies, secrets and best practices of these “digital natives”.
My honest review of Khalid Hamadeh’s Facebook ads course.
To be honest I don’t know what the actual name of the course is…
It goes by “Khalid Hamadeh’s Facebook Ads Training”, “Facebook Marketing School”, “Khalidschool” and “Lessons of a former Facebooker”. They’re all the same.
Alright, time to dive in.
As you can see I’ve recently completed the course
I must admit that I even learned some new things that I had never heard before.
At the moment of writing this, the offer includes: 70 video lessons, a private Facebook group, bi-weekly live Q&A’s (in the Facebook group) and all future updates included.
However I don’t think it makes sense to go over everything he teaches.
The course is constantly updated with new content, for example last month 3 new video lessons were added. Visit his website for the up-to-date course curriculum.
I’ll just share what I liked about the course and what I didn’t like so much.
What I liked about it:
Khalid has a unique perspective you don’t see in other courses.
It’s very clear from the start of the course that working at Facebook gave him a good understanding of Facebook’s conflict of interests, how that translates to their future roadmap and most importantly how it affects advertisers on the platform.
Working closely with Facebook’s engineers taught him how the ad auction process works and which buttons you can turn as an advertiser to win more auctions.
I haven’t seen this explained in any other course. Most course creators just dive straight into practical tactics or even worse… “copy-paste templates”
The widely applicable “cascading” strategy he teaches.
I really like the fact that Khalid is teaching a framework that fits well to any type of business and to Facebook ad accounts at any stage (from infancy to maturity).
There’s even an entire lesson specifically about cold starts with a new Facebook pixel without any event data. That’s a phase most course creators tend to just ignore.
His “cascading” strategy includes the best campaign structure to implement as well as recommendations for audiences to test. He does have a strong focus on the use of lookalike audiences early on, but he doesn’t completely neglect interests either.
I agree for the most part with this strategy and it’s also something I recommend to the users of my Facebook interest software; start small and specific, build data first, then gradually go after broader interests and/or lookalike audiences.
The added content about important, yet rarely discussed topics.
The private Facebook group that comes with the course, proves to be a valuable source of input from students. Khalid answers questions there and does a bi-weekly Q&A session. But also creates new lessons based on the feedback he receives.
I really like that the newly added content contains lessons about very relevant topics that are rarely discussed in other courses, like: dealing with ad account disables and advertising restrictions, audience overlap and conversion optimisation windows.
I learned some new things about manual bidding strategies and cost-capping. These are features inside Ads Manager that I didn’t really use before taking this course.
The emphasis on learning by example.
I am a strong believer in learning doing and learning by example. If you want to become a succesful Facebook advertiser, it makes total sense to closely look at what the most succesful Facebook advertisers are doing. Not to exactly copy them, but to replicate their strategies and apply the principles to your own unique situation.
Khalid’s course takes the approach of looking at these “digital native companies” and the Facebook advertising strategies driving their fast growth. Not just examples of how their ads look. But also what you can learn from their account structures, ch
