Overview
In this article you are
going to learn exactly how you can start earning money in as little as
24 hours, doing the things that you already do on Facebook!
Did you know that social media has become one of the biggest drivers of sales and new customers
for businesses? Companies that used to spend millions of dollars on radio
advertising, TV commercials and billboard signs, are now shifting huge chunks of their marketing budgets to social media sites like Facebook.
So why are they doing this?
The simple answer is.....
Social Proof
What do you think is more
valuable to a business? Someone seeing an advertisement from a business that
says:
"Buy
our new smartphone, it has great features and is reasonably priced!"
Or that same person seeing a
Facebook status update from their friend saying:
I
LOVE my new XYZ smartphone, the camera on it is amazing
Of course, it's the latter. And that's why social media is so powerful for business.
What you may not realize though, is that you have
unwittingly become an unpaid marketing agent for these companies! Every time
you mention a business on Facebook, recommend a product or service, or 'like' a
businesses page, you are making that business money.
And what do you get in return?
Nothing.
Does it seem fair to you
that these businesses should be making all this money of the back of your time and efforts, while you get nothing?
Imagine if you could get paid for the actions you take on Facebook?
How great would it be if you
could get paid every time you 'liked' a page, shared an article or left a
comment.
Instead of wasting all those
hours you spend on Facebook, you could turn them into a way to make some extra
cash. That would be pretty awesome right?
Well now you can!
And the key to all of this is affiliate marketing.
So what exactly is affiliate marketing?
At it's most basic level,
affiliate marketing is when a business pays you a commission or fee, for
helping them get new customers or sales for their business.
For example, a business that
sells a weight loss program online for
$100, may have an affiliate program that pays 50%
commission for each sale you help them generate. You could join this affiliate
program and then get paid for telling people about the businesses website.
As the affiliate program
pays 50% commission, and the product sells for $100, you would get paid $50 for each customer that
you send to that businesses website. It's that easy.
If you were an affiliate for this weight loss course, all you would need to do is find people who are interested in weight loss, get them to click on your affiliate link (which will take them to the businesses website) and then you get paid $50 for every person that buys the product. Facebook is the perfect place to make money doing this as an affiliate, because through their Facebook accounts people tell you exactly what they are interested in (and therefore what they may be interested in buying!).
Through the pages that they like And the groups that they join.
You can then use this information to recommend
products they may be interested in
(using your affiliate links), and when they buy them, you get paid!
It's not spam or unwanted
marketing because you are only giving people information about products and
businesses that you know they will be interested in.
For example, lets say you
see a post on Facebook where someone writes:
Can
anyone recommend a good android phone? I
just broke my old one and I need to buy
a new one ASAP!
Normally you would reply to
a post like this with the name of a phone brand, or a link to a phone
manufactures website that you have heard good things about.
However, as an affiliate you
can still provide the same helpful
advice, but you can get paid for it!
Instead of just giving them a link to the top selling Android phones, you
can give them an affiliate link instead.
They will never know the
difference because they still get taken to the same web page with the top
selling Android phones, but now if they
buy a phone from that website, you get paid.
How awesome is that!
Are you excited to get
started? Well the first step is to join the affiliate programs.
Join Affiliate Programs.
There are two major
affiliate programs that you should join if you want to maximize your earnings as an affiliate on Facebook:
As you probably know, Amazon is the biggest retail website in the
world and sells pretty much everything from baby diapers to coffins. What you
might not know is that you can become an affiliate for Amazon with their
program "Amazon Associates".
Once you join their
affiliate program, you can earn
commissions when you send someone to their site through your affiliate link. Amazon is the best affiliate
program for promoting any kind of physical product, such as a smartphone or
watch. They have over 1,000,000 products
that you can promote, and you can earn up to 8.5% commission on the sale price
of an item. 8.5% commission might not sound like much, but on a $500 smartphone
for example, it means you get paid $42.50 just for giving someone a link to the
buy page for that phone. It's very easy money.
Click here to join the
Amazon Affiliate Program.
Clickbank is the largest digital marketplace online, which means
that it sells anything that can be
downloaded to a computer, smartphone or tablet. This includes things like
eBooks, audio courses, videos, computer programs etc. Clickbank has an
affiliate program where you can join and
get paid a commission for promoting any of the products in their marketplace.
And because all of the
products in the Clickbank marketplace are digital, the commission rates are
much higher than with Amazon. You will typically get paid 50-75% commission on any product you promote!
Click here to join the Clickbank Affiliate Program.
Make Money!
After you have joined the
affiliate programs, the next step is to start integrating affiliate marketing
into your daily Facebook usage so that
you can make some money!
Don't get ahead of yourself
though.
You can't just go and start
pasting your affiliate links for random
products all over Facebook. The most
important thing to remember with affiliate marketing on Facebook is....
Relevance
When you post an affiliate
link on Facebook it must be relevant to to the discussion, person or group that
you are communicating with.
If you just start sending
out random affiliate links to anyone you come across on Facebook, without any
thought as to what the offer is and whether that person will be interested in
it, then what you are doing is essentially spam.
And not only is it spam, but
it's also a waste of your time.
If you are just sending out
affiliate links to random offers that you don't even know if people are going to be interested in, then it is very unlikely
they are going to buy anything.
On the other hand, if you
are smart about what you do, and give people affiliate links to products and
services that are relevant to them, you can make a lot of money. And as we discussed previously, Facebook makes it
super easy for you to find out exactly what people are interested in, thinking
about or feeling at any given moment.
From a persons Facebook account you can see at a glance:
1.
Status updates – Tell the story of exactly what is
happening in a persons life at any given moment (having a baby, started a diet,
going on a holiday etc.)
2.
Likes – Give a quick overview of what types of things people are interested in.
3.
Groups – People with similar interests all join together in a
single group on Facebook so that you can
easily reach out to a large group of people with a targeted offer. Think
about Facebook groups for people that want to lose weight, new parents, people
looking to make money, cooking groups and many, many more.
Once you know what a group of people are interested in,
it's easy to find and recommend products they may be interested in (with your affiliate links).
4. Apps And Games – Facebook allows you to see what apps and games people use on Facebook, which can give you great information about what else they might be interested in buying.
The 3 Steps To Making Money On Facebook.
Step 1 – Identify an interest
The first thing you need to
do is find someone, or a group of people, on Facebook that you have identified
as having a specific interest (through a status update, comment, like, group
etc.).
You will come across these
all the time just with your normal use
of Facebook. Your newsfeed is constantly filled with information saying that
someone has liked a particular page, joined a group or set themselves a new
goal through a status update etc.
If you want to find even more potential people to contact, you can look outside of your own connections and use the Facebook search function to identify groups,
pages or tags that will help you segment a target audience.
Step 2 – Find a product to promote
Once you have identified a
person or group of people with a specific interest, the second step is to find
an affiliate product that you can
promote to them.
Clickbank has a huge number
of digital products like eBooks, video courses, audio programs, software,
membership sites and more that cover a plethora of topics. And as I'm sure you
know, Amazon sells everything from books, to bikes, TV’s, phones, tablets
and...... well just about everything.
So between the Clickbank affiliate program and the Amazon Associates affiliate program, you can find a product to promote that will appeal to
just about anyone. For example, if you came across a status update on Facebook
where someone said:
Arrrrgh!
I love my baby but why won't she sleep for more than 2 hours straight!
You could go into the
Clickbank marketplace, lookup the "Parenting and Families" section and find a
relevant eBook or video course to help them. A quick search in the Clickbank marketplace reveals
that there are several products based on teaching parents how to get their children to sleep through the
night. These would be perfect, and you get $20 or more per sale.
Once you have found a
product that is suitable, the next step is to get your affiliate link for it. Clickbank and Amazon
both have different procedures for this and you can find detailed instructions on their websites,
in their affiliate training sections.
Step 3 – Give them your affiliate link!
The final and easiest step
of all is just to give them your affiliate link.
If we look back at the example we gave earlier where someone posted on their Facebook timeline:
Can
anyone recommend a good android phone? I
just broke my old one and I need to buy
a new one ASAP!
You could respond to this
with a comment like:
Hey
there, I've heard that the new XYZ phone
is good. Here is a link to the top selling Android phones, they all have
independent customer reviews so it should help you choose: https://youraffiliatelink.com
It's as easy as that.
And if you have found a
Facebook group with a similar interest you could create a new comment in the
group with your link, or reply to some
status updates or comments from other members in the group.
Tip: Don't just post your affiliate link as a
comment or reply. Write a personal, helpful
response or comment and only include your affiliate link at the end, as
an extra source of information they may want to look at. This will help your
comments seem more genuine and will help you get more clicks on your affiliate link.
URL
Shorteners
Some affiliate links that
you get can be quite long, such as
amazon affiliate links to specific products:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BTEIIU/?tag=AX94EF2SSFBB4
This is fine, and will work
if you give it to someone on Facebook. But it doesn't look very nice, and isn't
very practical for the short message nature that Facebook sometimes calls for.
In these examples you can
use a URL shortener such as:
https://bitly.com
By using a URL shortener
like Bitly, you can turn your long affiliate URL like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BTEIIU/?tag=AX94EF2SSFBB45
Into a simple, easy to use
url like this:
https://bit.ly/xyz
Whenever anyone clicks on your shortened URL, Bitly will automatically redirect them to your full affiliate URL.
