TOP 6 WAYS TO MONETIZE/MAKE MONEY FROM FACEBOOK

It is no longer news that social media marketing is one of the biggest revenue generators for those who are into digital marketing. With the rate at which the world of social media is expanding, it is only a matter of time before it becomes the best revenue generator for digital marketers.

As at the time of making this post, Facebook was the second most visited website after Google in the world and is the largest social media platform out there boasting of millions of users. It is based on this statistics that most individuals and businesses deployed Facebook as their no. 1 means of online marketing.

There are several easy and free ways of turning your facebook account which you normally use for chatting and posting selfies into a steady source of income.

Do you know that you can actually cash in those your thousands of likes into money? I don’t mean directly if that’s what you are thinking but today am going to show you how to take advantage of your thousands of facebook admirers and turn them into a steady source of income.

Are you also aware that you can become a social media marketer and be paid to handle social media accounts of big companies? If you are not aware, then you really have to read this post completely.

TOP 6 WAYS TO MONETIZE YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT.

Today am going to be sharing with you 6 awesome ways through which you can fully monetize your facebook account. They are as follows;

#METHOD 1: AFFILIATE PROGRAMS.

This is one of the major ways through which you can actually make money from facebook. Most people actually use this method.

WHAT IS AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM?

An affiliate program is a program which involves a seller and an affiliate. Here, an affiliate is been paid a certain commission by the seller for actually bringing buyers who will purchase the sellers product. When you register for any affiliate program, a unique affiliate link will be given to you, all you need to do is to bring buyers via your link and you make money.

WHO IS AN AFFILIATE?

An affiliate is anyone who aids in the sale of a product via his affiliate link and makes a commission from it.

There are thousands of affiliate programs out there all you need to do is to find the right one for you.

Here is a list of some top paying affiliate programs;

>>CLICKBANK

>>OFFERVAULT

>>JUMIA 

>>ALPARI 

>>AMAZON

There is lots of money to be made from affiliate programs. You can make as much as $200 from just one sale depending on the program. That’s awesome right? So image when you help sell at least 10 commodities in a month, that means you would be making thousands of dollars a month and all these are been done online. No physical work is involved.

All you need to do is to make your facebook friends and followers aware of your product and due to the fact that they are your friends, they will definitely want to patronize you. At least, if out of a thousand facebook friends that you have if 15 decides to buy the product through your link, you will still be making a good amount of money.

The best part is that it’s not just selling products you can also be paid for using your link to bring visitors to their website or bringing visitors that will sign up for their programs and you will earn a certain percentage of the amount which the person you brought earns.

#METHOD 2: SHARING LINKS

This is by far the easiest way to make money from facebook. No convincing is required all you need to do is to share links and make money.

HOW IT WORKS.

>>Go to any website of your choice. You can even start with this website.

>>In that website, go to any particular post or page and copy the page URL (The link to the website page found in the browser’s address bar) you can use this page’s url.

>>Go to any url shrinking website that pays and register with them. Here is a list of top paying link shrinking websites;

==>ADF.LY

==>LINKSHRINK

==>BINBUCKS

==>LINKBUCKS

After that, paste your link in the space provided there and shrink it.

>>Next, copy the new short link.

>>Go to your facebook timeline or any facebook group you belong to and paste it there. But try not to spam.

>> If people click the link, you get paid.

You can paste as many links as you want and get paid for each click from them. That’s not even the best part… do you know that you will actually be paid if you click the link multiple times? Yes, it’s as awesome as it sounds. You don’t even need to have a website or a blog to do this.

TIPS…

>>Ensure you use captivating posts (Posts with exciting contents or exciting titles) E.g REVEALED, HOW TO LOOSE 10 POUNDS IN TEN DAYS, HOW I MADE $1000 IN A WEEK FROM BLOGGING, etc.

>>Target active groups with thousands of followers and paste your links.

>>Ensure that your posts are legit and don’t try to deceive people just to get clicks. Remember! Trust is important. If people trust and like your posts, they will always want to click it whenever you paste it.

You can make as much as $8 from 1000 clicks depending on the url shrinking website you registered with.

# METHOD 3: FACEBOOK GROUP.

As surprising as it may sound to some people but you can actually make money from facebook groups. This is another simple method but this actually generates income in a long run.

HOW IT WORKS.

>>First of all, you need to define the niche (Topic) for your facebook group. It could be on Entrepreneurship, Digital Marketing, Web Development, Graphic Design, Baking and Recipes, Health and Fitness, Fashion and Designing, Technology, Online Market Place, etc the list is endless just ensure that it’s something you like and you are good in.

>>Create your facebook Group. This can be done by logging into your facebook account and selecting CREATE GROUP.

>>You can decide to make the group a closed group or you can decide to leave it open and then later when you have built a strong network, make it closed.

>>Invite people to join your group. Ensure to invite people with similar interests as your niche to join your group. This is because if you invite those who have no interest in your niche, they won’t be active in your group.

>>Next, you need to create a Network. What this simply means is that you have to create a strong network/communication between your group members and also with you.

>>Give value to your group. Give people reason why they should join your network/group. For instance, if your group is an online market place that records lots of trading activities people will want to join with the aim of either wanting to sell or buy from others that are selling in the group. Or if your Group’s niche is Digital Marketing, you can start offering free class in the group to your members just like a webinar.

This will actually create value for your group and will attract so many people.

>>Make your group a closed group and add a Membership Fee for new members. One you’ve created a great value for your group you can now make it a closed group and anyone that wants to join must register with a fee. Provided they know the value of your group they won’t hesitate to pay and enjoy great value.

NOTE:

>>This process takes time but is highly profitable. So many people use this method to make money online and it is efficient and generate maximum revenue.

>>It is free to start up.

>>In order to generate more income you can decide to advertise your facebook group and get more people to join.

#METHOD 4: SELL YOUR PRODUCTS.

This is a simple and orthodox way of making money online from facebook and social media as a whole. Facebook is a sure way of promoting your personal business and make great sales. All you need to do is to make your facebook friends and followers to be aware of your business by always talking about it on your timeline and get feedback from them.

Products such as E-book, Software, Physical goods, e.t.c can be sold using facebook. All they need to do is to indicate interest in your products and you deliver it to them as they pay you.

You can also advertise your products in public groups such as Online Market Places to get buyers and always remember to target active groups with many members.

#METHOD 5: FACEBOOK TRAFFIC SOURCE AGENT.

Now this is an interesting way to make money from your facebook account at ease. This method entails you to act as a source of traffic for a particular website or blog and you get paid for it.

HOW IT WORKS.

>>Before becoming a facebook traffic source agent, you need to ensure that you have so many facebook friends and followers (more than 1k) and you also get lots of likes (at least 1k and above) and many comments on your individual posts. This is because if your personal posts gets thousands of likes, when you share someone else’s post or when you share a link on your timeline it is sure to get a high number of clicks and engagement by your friends and followers.

>>Strike a partnership with a website owner or blogger. The partnership should be in this form:

Whenever the website or blog owner posts something new, you as the facebook traffic source agent will copy the link to that post and paste it on your timeline. The website/blog owner pays you either per post, per week or per month depending or your partnership agreement. Or you might be paid according to the number of people that either clicks the link, likes the post or comments on it (this is also dependent on your partnership agreement).

>>Just share posts and get paid. No stress, no work. Isn’t that great?

  

#METHOD 6: CREATE A FACEBOOK PAGE.

Facebook is one of the major ways through which website owners and bloggers generate traffic and make money online. Almost every website/blog has a facebook fan page and this is because of the tons of traffic which they get from there.

Not just for blogs and websites, almost all companies nowadays use facebook pages to make their customers either to be aware of their product or buy them.

So you as an individual could decide to launch a website or blog and then create a facebook fan page for it. After doing that, all you need to do is to get people to like and follow your facebook page either by inviting them or by paying facebook for that. Then, link your facebook fan page to your blog /website start sharing your website/blog post on your facebook fan page which will start generating traffic for your website/blog and you start making money.

That’s how you can monetize your facebook account and actually start making money from it. So don’t just stay there and be counting your facebook like. Convert it to money and start counting money instead.

If you learnt something from this post then feel free to share it with others and also if you have any question or you are aware of another means of making money from facebook, feel free to drop it in the comment section below.