I've read here that several people make money posting email/zip offers and make a couple hundred a day?
yes but don't flood the FB group with all affiliate links. You have to give them content and have value to your group. Remember if they don't like your posts or if you are "pushy" with products and it's always buy, buy, buy - they can comment on your posts which in turn will turn conversions away!
hahaah yeah in the start i abused the hell out of my fanpages. 80k fans on one page, made me steady 300 a day on weekends but now i'm making like 15 a day off of it lol. still, it's pretty nice to have residual income from random people still completing your offers.
i've also found that while posting status updates works, you get a shit ton of likes if you post a risque pic and put your aff link in the description. though i just recently tried this, so i can't say if it works better. definitely gets more likes/shares though.
I had a fanpage with 50k fans, and it was going real strong before facebook deleted it. Best day was about ~$2800 profit.
Would it be worth the time and money to build a large fb fanpage? Well it depends on what you do, its better if you're pushing something legit. If you're doing stuff that fb doesn't like, email submits for example, I suggest you 1) get as many fans as possible in a really short time 2) squeeze as much money as possible without pissing people off.
Oh yeah people get pissed if you're spamming their news feed like crazy. Here's a couple of tips to keep the angry fans from ruining your page:
1) Blacklist words
2) Use an open graph page instead of a fanpage
swag........
It works, BUT i'd say it's probably not worth your time. Even if you have 80% legit content to the niche and 20% aff links there's still a good chance FB will ban your page in the blink of an eye. Which instantly kills your traffic, so it's a pretty high risk (they don't like aff links on pages at all).
Your best bet if your going to do it, is to take it slow and make as legit of a page as you can around a unique niche (ie: not ipads). Then formulate a marketing plan to mix in content and aff links together, and probably use landing pages for most of the offers. As lifetweak mentioned, $2800 in a day from 50k fans is pretty sweet, so it's worth doing it properly, your other option is to go absolutely crazy get as many fans as possible with some viral'ish idea/and a friend spamming script (which shares your page on the viewers page) but thats short term crazyness.
fb is also downchecking all links.....so even if you post a shortened link if it redirects to or though a domain they dont like...which is alot of aff networks and the like.....and also MYWOT flagged as well....so they get the little popup saying this link has issues if they click it...
its not like it usta be....they are really hating on fanpage spam these days....
Polar is right...they downcheck all the links...I once had this issue with one of my pages, so when people click on the link they'd get a message saying the external page they're trying to access is shady, etc. But the interesting thing was, it still converted really well and made $3k in 5 days (with 10k fans on this one). Not bad for an obscure european country.
Yes, there is risk involved..but if you know what you're doing and don't indulge in shoving your spammy links on the user's face day and night, there is definitely money to be made.
The trick is to make it look as legit as possible.
Add a bunch of pictures every week, Post decent updates - for example, you can ask your fans a question everyday or do a 'quote of the day' kind of a thing - its not that hard to add some content related to your topic as long as the page lasts.
Thanks for all the comments and advice. I just spotted a rather large fan page the other day based on a movie quote. I'm thinking it was around 900,000 fans. I checked out how he was monetizing his/her page and all I could find was links to his twitter profile which had a link to his website. It was a website selling replicas...
hxxp://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/464904-finally-facebook-fanpage-software-video-training-quick-57-autopilot.html
I bought into this last week even though access to it was given in the download section at bhw.
hxxp://www.cloneforsuccess.com/fbgraphicdesigner/index.php
not sure if its ok to share the user name/password here or not. Might be something someone could use. I'll read the rules again.
On the website is a video and text file of short url services that didn't get the fb spam alert crap. went straight to offer..
I'll either make a website/blog and direct fans there or to a twitter account that will contain that link. Maybe that will work better than throwing affiliate links on my page.
Got a pm requesting the username/password. Didn't have my 10 posts in to be able to pm. So I'll post it here.
hxxp://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/464904-finally-facebook-fanpage-software-video-training-quick-57-autopilot.html
hxxp://www.cloneforsuccess.com/fbgraphicdesigner/index.php
Username: fbgraphics
Password: access2011
I'm sure it's easy to cloak the bot checker if you guys are worried about losing pages do to the downlink thing.
5 more pretty cool videos added
Video 9 - How to create a like/reveal tab in your Fanpage
Video 10 - How to insert an aweber email optin form into a tab
Video 11 - How to get fans using free RSS traffic
Video 12 - How to get fans using free post method
Video 13 - How to auto-post related content to your wall using Google
fb 'Pages' can be as fragile as glass. A guy fron Oz caleed Nick Peal, calling himself MrFBX ran a course boasting some pretty decent numbers. However, his page got deleted by fb (pretty embrassing when your running a pages course) and he had to email his plist and beg for new 'likes'.
This made me think twice.
If you do go the fb route, ensure you build a relationship with your fans. Don't spam the poor sods from the get go.
Definitely not worth it to spend all the time making your own fanpages, instead just buy other peoples. You can get 100-500k fanpages for under 50 bucks because 99% of the time the owner will have no idea of its potential. Just do google searches in this format to find them:
"[Insert Keyword]" "page owners" site:facebook.com inurl:/pages/
heres another related trick....
how to find pages with more then 10k likes:
weight loss site:facebook.com inurl:/pages/ intext:"10000...999999 like this. * talking about this"