Hey there friends. We're sure by now that you're really pumped up and ready to learn how to create your first ad on Facebook. But it is important that you also learn how to navigate your Facebook Ads Manager, so you can make the most out of Facebook ads. To access your Facebook Ads Manager dashboard, click on the options menu while logged into your Facebook account, and click on Create ads. The ads manager landing page is a campaign setup starting page where you'll be able to create Facebook ad campaigns. In this page, you'll be able to select your ad account a marketing objective for a new campaign, and to check your campaign setup progress step by step.

All other sections and features available in the ads manager dashboard can be accessed from the top bar menu when Take a look at each option in the menu from right to left. First, you'll find the Help button. When you click on help Display menu will appear. In this menu, you'll find news updates, tips, help articles and links to the Help Center and other support areas. Let's now click on the Settings button to go to the Settings page. The settings page has four sections at account pages, payment settings, and notifications.

In the Add accounts section, you'll be able to manage your ad account setup information, including your ad account name, timezone, advertising, purpose, business name, address and country. Your tax ID number. attribution settings to lead Facebook measure results from your ads and your ad account roles. In the pages section, you'll be able to manage Facebook pages that you use for advertising. In the payment settings section. You'll be able to monitor your bills To add payment methods, and to set your account spending limit.

Lastly, in the notification section, you'll be able to manage notifications from the ads manager, including add email notifications, add notifications on Facebook, and add notifications on messenger. Let's now check the next two buttons. When you click on pages, you'll get a display list of pages that you use for advertising on Facebook. And when you click on notifications, you'll get a display list of notifications about your ad account, your ads, and your advertising pages. Let's now click on the profile display button. When you click on this button, you'll be able to see on which ad account you're currently logged into.

You can switch to a different ad account by clicking on the rest of accounts available in this menu. The Facebook ads manager has a search function that you can access by clicking on the search bar. You can use the search bar as a shortcut to access tools and help by typing a keyword related to what you need to find. Let's now click on the hamburger menu in the top left corner, you'll be able to access all available Facebook ad features from this menu. This menu is divided into five sections, plan, create and manage, measure and report, assets and settings. Let's take a quick look at these sections from left to right.

Starting on plan. Here you'll get access to the audience insights and creative hub pages. In Audience Insights, you'll be able to get data about how your target audience reacts to your ads. In creative hub, you'll be able to create and manage ad creative mock ups that you can share and test to get great ideas for new ads. Let's now take a look at the creative manage section. Here you'll get access to the business manager to the ads manager to the page post area to the app dashboard, the app and helper in the automated rules page.

In this section, you'll find everything you need to get an overview of all advertising activity across your ad accounts and pages, create ads, and page posts to promote, create and manage settings for Facebook ad apps, and automate your ads to work for you while you're away. Let's now check the measure and report section. Here, you'll get access to ads reporting, the test and learn area, the attribution area, the analytics area, and the events manager page. In this section, you'll find everything you need to create an export performance reports. Create advertising tests, learn about important add metrics for your business, and connect and manage data from your website, such as tracking data with a facebook pixel. Let's now check the assets section.

Here you'll get access to your ad account assets including your audiences, your images Your catalogs your business locations and your brand safety settings. In this section, you'll find everything you need to manage your custom ad saved audiences, your creative assets, such as images, your product inventory, and your saved business locations. Here you can also create block lists to stop your ads from appearing in certain placements. Finally, let's take a look at the settings section. Here you'll get access to the Settings page, your business settings area, and your billing area. From this section, you'll be able to check your ad account setup to manage ad accounts, pages, staff accounts, payment info, and business info.

Now that you know how to navigate your Facebook Ads Manager dashboard, it is time for you to start with the basics by learning how to set up a page post right from your Facebook account.