Pardon my bluntness, but this advice is nonsense! 

In order to solve a problem, you must first define it.  Without knowing that the problem is facebook, the advice to switch to another, costlier and more challenging ad venue is not sound advice.  Advertising is tricky - even for advertising professionals - and chances are high that it's the advertisement/advertiser and not the ad venue that is at fault.  This means that Google results would be no different from Facebook unless there is a steep learning curve before Google ads are undertaken. 

Additionally, Google is much more restrictive of what they will and will not tolerate from advertisers and if they deem that your ad is irrelevant or poor-quality or any other negative term they don't like - then they can close your account for good.  Further, unless you've prepared an excellent keyword rich & relevant landing page for the keywords you've selected, your Google ads won't even run.

It could be very well that Facebook does not have the best audience for the ad that was placed, but we don't know that without proper testing.

I've made a general advertising topic called Learn to Earn here - it's under the paid advertising subforum but most of the advice is valid for free advertising as well.  Have a look at it.  It may help you figure out what's wrong, which in turn can help you figure out what's right.

Mary Payton

EDIT:  I too have run some 'useless' facebook ads (and myspace ads too), but I have also run ads with results like this one.  BTW my final net result for MyLife commissions that day was just under $109 after deducting my $5 in advertising costs.

Last edited by Mary Payton (2010-02-04 15:45:13)