Audiences

Lead machine4 min read

An audience is who your ad is shown to. Entrestate starts from who actually buys, not from broad interests — and it never hands anyone a raw phone number or email to get there.

01

Start from a named audience

The audience library speaks your language, not an ad platform’s: “Local Emirati investor — cash”, “Arabic end-user buyers in the UAE”, “Golden Visa buyer — UAE”, “English-speaking resident — mortgage”, “Russian-speaking resident — cash”.

Each card shows what a lead from that audience is expected to cost — typically AED 100 to 220 — so you know what a fair price looks like before you spend anything.

02

Rate your leads

Every lead can be rated 0 to 10: 0 means worthless — stop buying leads like this; 10 means exactly what we want. Every rating teaches the machine what to buy and what to stop buying.

Leads rated 6 or better become the seed your best audiences are built from. Closed deals count most of all — a buyer who closed at AED 4M weighs more in the seed than someone who merely answered the phone.

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The form is a data workout

The lead form on your page looks like a form. It is not — it is a data workout that builds audiences. Every lead it captures, and every rating your team gives that lead, trains what the next campaign buys and what it stops buying.

Leads rated 6 or better become seed audiences; lookalikes are built on top of those seeds. And before any contact reaches Meta it is SHA-256-hashed — raw phone numbers and emails never leave the platform.

04

Build a lookalike

A lookalike asks Meta to find new people who resemble your best leads. Build it on your top 3% for the closest match. It needs at least 100 matched people to stand on — with fewer, the screen tells you the shortfall instead of building something that would quietly underperform.

A new lookalike takes Meta a few hours to fill. That is normal, and the screen says so — it is not a fault.

05

Exclude who you already have

Two lists keep your budget off people it cannot help. The first holds everyone already in your CRM, so you never pay again to acquire a person you are already talking to. The second holds the leads your own team rated junk — and that one is applied to every launch automatically, not as an option.

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Attach it to a campaign

In the campaign wizard’s Targeting step, pick the audience by name. A saved audience keeps its own exclusions when you attach it. Broad delivery is allowed too — the system will tell you that is what is happening, but it never refuses a strategy.

Common questions

Why can't I build a lookalike yet?
Not enough rated leads. A lookalike needs at least 100 matched people behind it, and the screen shows how far you are. Keep working and rating leads — the option appears on its own as your book grows.
Are broad audiences bad?
No — broad delivery is a legitimate way to buy, and the system never blocks it. Named audiences and lookalikes simply start from stronger evidence: who actually enquired, qualified and bought, rather than what people claim to be interested in.
Do my ratings leave the system?
Never. Ratings, names and notes stay in your CRM. The only thing an ad platform learns is whether a scrambled number matches someone it already knows.
Audiences — Entrestate for Business