How can I make money on Facebook?

[Marty Buckley]

I know there are people who have a ton Facebook fans and then what they do it market or advertise an affiliate product form say Amazon or PaySpree and if someone buys that product they get a commission.

[clatoden99]

There are plenty of ways. You can get a lot of followers and send them to offers or sales pages and commissions off the sales, or you can sell dropship products from china and market it on facebook. The possibilities are endless You should read this book: Page on bit.ly Its free (http://bit.ly/1NY7VrP) . It teaches how to get started if you are new to internet marketing.

[yupstrips]

9 Networking Tips to Make Money on Facebook

9 Networking Tips to Make Money on Facebook
1. Create an appealing Facebook profile.
When someone knows, likes and trusts you, they're more willing to hear about your business. Your profile gives you this opportunity when you use your profile picture; cover image, and "about" section properly.

Choose a professional profile picture. Use your cover image to give people a snapshot of your personality. A complete "about" section makes you more credible and rounds out your personality.

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2. Post publicly on Facebook.
Your goal is to let your friends know what you do for a living and how you can help them. For example, if you're a realtor:

Hey everybody! As you may know, I love helping people find their dream home. If you know anyone that needs assistance, please message me.

If you're an insurance rep:

Hey there! As you may know, I love helping families be protected from unforeseen tragedies. If you know anyone that needs life insurance, please message me.

3. Use Facebook Messenger.
It is like email, but better. If you've previously conversed with a prospect and you're getting ready to talk to them again, you can quickly review all your previous talks in one place.

If you haven't spoken to a friend in a while, make sure to re-establish the relationship first. You don't want them to feel like you are only reaching out for business. You can say, "Hey! We haven't spoken in a while. How have you been?" Only chat about your products if they ask what you do.

4. Send messages based on past conversations and what you know about a friend.
A realtor example:

Hey Tom! I know you love houses with a view, and I seem to remember you were looking for a house. Well, check out this amazing lake view property! Do you want to come see it with me?

An insurance rep:

Hey Alicia! I know we're both family people, and it's been awesome to see yours grow up on Facebook. I was super glad to find out about this new life insurance option our company just created. It provides for families like no other policy I've seen. Do you want to hear more about it?

5. Keep the conversation going.
It's exciting to have someone respond to your messages! Thank them for the response, give them additional information: pictures, videos and details of your offering, and then let them know what is the next step.

If you don't hear back, send them a message once a week asking if they wanted to take the next step. Be patient. Not everyone checks Facebook daily.

6. Stay in touch.
It's only a matter of time until friends want your product. Stay in touch on Facebook by posting quality content and interacting with your friends' posts. Posting quality content is a balance between business and personal: Too much of either can result in failure. Be personal 80% of the time. People do business with those they have the best relationship with; so post about what's on your mind. Post about business the other 20%.

The more you interact with your friend's posts, the more your business posts appear in their newsfeed. Your friends will also see you as a true friend, not someone just trying to sell them products. When you comment on a friend's post, write from the heart. Treat it the same as when you talk face to face.

7. Grow your friends to grow your income.
With over a billion users, Facebook offers an unlimited amount of people to talk to if you take the time to build relationships. Facebook's Graph Search solves the new prospect obstacle by opening up their entire database to you. All you need to do is take the time to reach out and build relationships.

8. Create a group for support and inspiring sales teams.
Whether you're a manager motivating a team, or have a group of industry peers who want to support each other, Facebook Groups are the answer. You can move mountains when you belong to a group of passionate people working toward the same goals, supporting each other every day.

Once you start your group, post at least a few times a week. It could be a question, words of motivation, pictures, or videos. Always like and comment on what others are posting as well. Groups are like live events happening 24 hours a day. When run correctly, it will become the cornerstone of your success.

9. Remember, Facebook is part of the strategy, not the whole strategy.
Facebook connects you to new people and helps you develop relationships. However, you still need to talk with people face to face, over the phone, and at events. They also need to experience a "taste" of your offering.

[FrankFacts]

Are we talking about making money through FB DIRECTLY? Or channeling traffic to an outside source (website or something), and monetizing it that way? I didn't realize one could make money off an FB page directly...

[Deepali Mohite]

ways to make money

I don't feel making money on FB is possible and is a regular income.

[Therstrand83]

Making money is not so easy on fB but as other said that if you can get more likes and views on fB then it means you can make good money too.

[Gailete]

Having fans or likes on Facebook in no way directly translates into money. To make money using FB you have to do things and I don't know what they are. One thing I can guarantee you though, that to make money on any of the social media sites, you have to do research and plenty of it to learn what can and can't be done. You can't depend on a site like this to help you understand it since I doubt most of the people here make any money off of FB. I did have one person come from one of my links on FB to my store and bought something and that is in 6-7 years maybe. Granted I don't have that many followers, but FB keeps changing things and I get tired of having to keep figuring it out. I prefer Pinterest as a social media site. I have over 17,000 followers there and still get only 3-4 purchases through Pinterest in a good month. When I have time I do want to do the research to find a way to make money with my Pinterest page.

So as I said, it isn't the amount of followers or likes on these places, it is what you do to monetize them. To do that, you have to be very clear on what you need to do and like any worthwhile thing, you have to put effort and work into it. Until you know what you want to do or how to make money using FB, don't be spending money or whatever trying to get likes because it is just as easy to 'unlike' a FB page as it is to like one.

[sj11041990]

This is quite interesting! haha!

[ygrey]

You can't really earn money on Facebook, but you sure can spend a lot. Facebook can be used to drive traffic to your website, which can be your source of money by getting more people on your website and running ads on your site, you can earn money through the website.

[hassen02]

Hi
Facebook d'ont pay you but you can build a blog or web site and then you send traffic for it via facebook page fans or group

[Gailete]

Facebook d'ont pay you but you can build a blog or web site and then you send traffic for it via facebook page fans or group

The blogs or website doesn't pay you either unless you do affliate marketing with them and write well enough to draw in a crowd of loyal readers and also bring in the curious so that they click on links which would make you money.

I see people recommending FB, blogs, and websites to make money, but it is obvious they have never done it since it is much harder work than what is ever talked about. Over the last 14 years I think it has been, I have made around $700 via Google Adsense. $700! That for me is about one mortgage payment in 14 years. For sure I don't depend on it. I could probably make more but I am too busy running my on line business that DOES make me money on a monthly basis that I use for essentials like food and medication. So for people to keep recommending blogs and websites as a way to make money, it is much harder than anyone ever says. It is at least not a quick and easy way to make money. I would guess that one in a 100,000 bloggers make enough money to call it worthwhile. They blog and have websites for different reasons, like to pull traffic to their one line store like I do. Or some do it just because they want to communicate and share ideas with others. If you want to have a blog or website, do it for a better reason than making money with it. If it makes money that is nice.