This makes me an extra $100 a day

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This was an idea that I just kind of stumbled upon. Put it into action. And now It's making me an extra $120 a day $100 in profit.

Just a note this will work better for those facebook gurus out there (i'm not one)

A few years back I decided I would start a UFC/MMA news update blog. I decided to build a fan page in order to get traffic for this blog. I tried several different tactics to get fans for free, but it was a VERY slow process. I decided eventually to go the paid route. I set up an ads campaign and started getting paid likes. My fan page now has over 90k likes (this was very expensive to do so that's why I said this will work better for FB guys)

Keep in mind these are legit fans who are interested in my page. Well I decided this "blog" idea was going to take up too much of my time so I scratched it and my fan page just sat there for awhile. I didn't want to try and monetize it by spamming affiliate links and losing fans. I actually kind of forgot about the page for awhile.

Then the idea popped in my head. Well if I don't have time for this blog, maybe I could sell my page to another UFC/MMA blog. As I was writing what my email would say I thought... Why sell it for a one time few $1000? Maybe I could get residual from it. So I searched for the top 10 blogs in this niche and the email I sent them went something like this.

"I currently have a fan page with 82k fans (at that time) all legitimate fans who are interested in receiving MMA news updates. I don't have time to write the news myself and have no desire to outsource. I am however willing to make a deal with a large MMA blog. I will post 6 news updates on my facebook page a day. Please let me know what you are willing to pay for this. I can post one update free so you can see the results before agreeing to anything. I will also continue to build my fan pages likes without extra charge"

It was a bit more snazzy than that, but you get the idea. Anyway I agreed to only 6 posts a day because I didn't want to jeopardize my fan page by over posting. I emailed this to 10 of the top UFC/MMA blogs I could find. I got 2 offers. One offer was for $10 a post and the other was for $20. Of coarse I took the second offer. I now receive $20 per post at 6 posts a day. $20 of this goes into getting my page more likes and the other $100 goes in my pocket. I have been doing this for 3 weeks now. They email me the links they want posted, and I post them. This literally takes 5 minutes or less out of my day for an extra $100 bucks so it doesn't take time away from my other businesses that require more attention. I will probably renegotiate every year, or every 50k fans I get, I haven't decided yet.

I hope this helps anyone who is having trouble monetizing their fan page. When you do this in my opinion it's best to do it in a "news update" style like this instead of posting ads all day. I get very few people unlike my page because they are actually interested in these updates and I'm not asking them for money.

I will try and answer your questions in this thread PLEASE no PM's
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  • being totally new to this and not having a blog or fb fan page...starting from scratch, could you potentially do posts yourself to your fan page for something newsworthy, while paying for legit 'likes' until you get enough 'likes'.. say 10,000 or so, then go out and find the top 10 in your niche and do the same you did? Do you find that maybe you have to have a certain amount of 'likes' say 50,000 + for value to be consider by a future poster to your fanpage?
  • This is great idea; I working on something similar to this
  • Excellent method. You're providing value to both your 'fans' on Facebook and the individuals who are buying the links!

    The difficult part will be getting the Facebook accounts set up with 80,000+ actual fans, but if you can do it, you're set!

    Congratulations!

    Michael
  • Wow that is an interesting idea. Kudos to you for thinking outside the box and making the extra money. But I think the real key is in getting the number of likes on the Fanpage in order to make it work. Thanks for sharing.
  • cool idea. I am an avid mma fan and have "liked" numerous fan pages myself. I wonder if I am on your list too lol.
  • This is against Facebook's T.O.S. and I would not suggest that anyone tries this, unless you don't mind Facebook closing down your page without warning. Most pages that get away with this (even selling gigs on fiverr to post your ads on their fanpages etc) are simply, well, getting away with it. Not a good business plan.
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    • How can this possibly be against the TOS? For all FB know, there is only one party involved (the page owner)
  • Great idea. The blog must be making a ton of money to be giving you $120 per day to post updates on a facebook page! Have you never thought of scaling up into different niches and rinsing/repeating?
  • Thanks for your interesting post.

    I have four questions:

    1) How much did you spend on Facebook PPC to get your 90K fans? (Until you recoup that cost, you're still not actually profitable.)

    2) How can it take only 5 minutes per day if you have to write 6 news posts from scratch per day? Is the MMA blog supplying the content to post?

    3) What is the MMA blog linking to in your posts -- articles on their blog or affiliate products?

    4) Are you placing the link at the end of the post or embedding it within the body of the post?

    John
  • that is really interesting - i have many ideas on how to make money from facebook and I think this one will actually works the best.
  • setting up a Facebook page with 80,000 fans sure looks impossible, unless you are resourceful enough to know where to look!

    This sure is a sound idea!
  • Original thinking! Great job.

    Curious, is it really against FB's TOS? Why?
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    • I would think it would be better to have your own site with some advertisements and such if you have the time while building an income. If you have the time for this however, it might be in your best interest to just keep posting your own blog updates. As far as how many likes you need, this is the first time I've every tried anything like this and before I had this idea I already had 80k plus fans. My guess is popular blog owners will have a good idea what your page posts are worth. For example, if you have 3k fans it may not even be worth there time. Also if you have 100k fans, but they are all from Asia, it may not be worth anything to them either. As I said I've only been doing this for 3 weeks I'm no expert

      Yes you are 100% right the hard part is getting the fans. And they have to be REAL and TARGETED fans. Otherwise even if you don't do as I did and give them a free example post, you may get paid for one update, then they will see it's not worth their time and and you've wasted your time. As far as getting fans, there are guys out there that are actually great at it, and probably some legit WSO's on the subject I'm not sure. I try to target uk, usa, canada, austraia, etc. Places where most websites want their traffic to be from. This costs more. I normally get clicks on an average of 7-10 cents a fan. 80k fans cost me a total of about $5000 to get. If I am able to continue what I'm doing for another 5 weeks or so I will be in profit. I'm not saying go spend $5000 on fans either :p. The great thing about this though is I get unpaid fans all the time because "so and so likes" whatever page will show up in people who like the pages newsfeed. When a friend likes a page you are more than likely going to trust it too.

      Absolutely that is key, and the only way I know how to do it legit is with paid advertisements. Most don't have that kind of budget. Especially for something that may or may not work in the end. But like I said, those who are good at building pages, but struggle with monetizing because they don't know how, or they are losing fans by throwing affiliate links at them all day can make use of this.

      I don't really see how. I'm not even selling anything to my audience. They want MMA updates and I give it to them. This a partnership, not an ad saying anyone who has $5 bucks can spam my facebook. Really if you think about it, I'm basically their social media manager and getting paid for it. Their own fan page only has 14k likes.

      Yea I thought about that too. But if you think about it, they are paying their staff writer money to write the article. A post on my page is worth more than the actual content being written, you can write a million articles, but if no one sees them they are useless. As far as thinking about scaling, I've only been doing it for a few weeks and I want to see what kind of roadblocks I might hit. Maybe I will scale later. However, I will probably go into some financial niches where the blogs are making more from advertisements. Then you could probably make a lot more. I only chose MMA because I had originally planned on starting my own blog for this and wanted something I would enjoy writing about.

      Kind of what I thought, but who knows. Most sites that you can write freelance for ask you to post your articles on your social media sites what's the difference other then some one else does the writing. Who knows.

      1.) So far I've spent a little under $6000. This includes the $20 a day I've been spending over the last few weeks. I think a big seller was the fact that I am continuing to grow the page without charging more. I may not try and renegotiate any time soon in case this is the main reason they are on board. Don't want to kill a good thing. I will be profitable in 4-5 weeks as long as nothing changes. If it continues, only 1/6 of what I make goes back into advertising so if this continues for another year I will be up over $30,000

      2.) You are exactly right, I don't supply the content. If I were to do this I would just make my own blog. I don't have the time.

      3.) News update articles. They make money through the advertisements on their pages. For example, if Anderson Silva was injured in training camp for an upcoming fight, they would send me the link of the written article and I put it on my page.

      4.) They email me the post they want on my page, I copy it, go to my home page, click paste in my status, click post. Facebook automatically does the rest for you. It shows the headline, the into to the article, and has a pic if their is one on the article page. Like I said less then 5 minutes out of my day goes to this

      Yea I see fan pages with hundreds of thousands of likes and you can tell they aren't even marketing anything, so people do know how to do it for free. I can't help in that department.

      I don't see anything in their terms that is against what I'm doing. Even if it was there is no way of Facebook finding out. I get paid through paypal and I post MMA news updates on a MMA update fanpage. If something is wrong with this I would like to know that too.
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  • Genius idea. Thanks for sharing!
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  • Great idea!

    If I didn't have so much going on it would definitely be something I'd be interested in.
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  • Awesome! I've always TRIED to tell people that the MMA niche is a killer one.



    Congrats on monetizing it!
  • Good job mate
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  • great idea, its an unique idea. Fb can be a wise choice for business opportunities.
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  • Great method and a great share.

    A relatively stable method that could easily be replicated.

    Thanks
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    • Sounds like a good idea...but where are you suppose to get thousands of likes from?
  • Great job and initiative.
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    • Great idea.. How much did you pay per USA fans? 6k seems alot for only 80,000 fans
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    This makes me an extra $100 a day

    This was an idea that I just kind of stumbled upon. Put it into action. And now It's making me an extra $120 a day $100 in profit. Just a note this will work better for those facebook gurus out there (i'm not one)