Due to popular demand, i am going to start this series with affiliate
marketing. I am going to show you how i do affiliate marketing using
Facebook with or without a website.
Now making money with affiliate marketing is easy to do if
you know the basics. I see a lot of Nigerians are into blogging and are scared
when they hear the phrase “affiliate marketing”. With affiliate marketing, all you need to do is recommend a product
and when someone buys through your link, you get paid. Now I made it sound
simple and that is because it is.
In the past, to make money with affiliate marketing, you
need a good website which means you need to depend on Google to rank your site.
You need to do SEO (Search engine Optimization) or buys ads through Google Adwords.
Well I was not successful in using Google Adwords or doing SEO in affiliate. So
I came up with a plan, to use Facebook.
I did not invent this plan, far from it. But I used what is
working out there and then tweak it a little bit. Using social networking sites
like Facebook and twitter is very effective. Any good affiliate marketer knows
that using Facebook page is a very good marketing strategy.
Affiliate marketing is never easy for a Nigerian because of
the rejections by affiliate networks and the fact that to make money you need
to market to the right audience which are Americans, British, Australians and
Canadians. How do you do that when you are right here in Nigeria?
Now I am going to show you how I do affiliate marketing
using the power of Facebook page. I also use twitter but my main traffic source
is my Facebook page with 3,679 friends and over 10,000 real fans in one account
and 5,000 friends and 15,696 fans in the other account.
I use my Facebook pages I created specifically for affiliate
marketing, CPA marketing and other social advertising promotions. I promote
books, kindles, weight loss products, acne products, games, ringtones, CPA
offers etc.
Now note this is not a page where I have Nigerian friends.
Nigerians friends will not buy my weight loss products. Nigerians will not buy
hair removal products; they will rather go to the nearest pharmacy or store to
buy, so I won’t waste my time doing that.
Now a successful Facebook fan page can bring
- Easily convertible visitors to your site who
will buy your recommended products.
Now to make this method work for you, you need a Facebook
page, a website and a product(s) to promote. If you don’t have a website, you
can still make money. With this method, you don’t even need a website, but
getting a website really helps a lot.
How to Get a Facebook Account that Work
First, go to Facebook to register a free Facebook account.
If you have read my free eBook on making money with Facebook AdSense, I showed
you how to register a Facebook page as an American. But because this is for
affiliate marketing, I am going to show you how to add 5,000 American and UK friends
in as little time as possible.
Go to
Facebook and
sign up for another account. Update your profile and register as a girl of
about 18-22 years. Find a good beautiful photo on Google images or free image
sites and upload it as your profile picture.
Now you need to add friends, American and UK friends to be
precise. These are the friends we need to make money. To add friends quickly,
you need to import your contacts from outlook express or email contacts into
Facebook.
Facebook will not allow you to a lot of friends in the
beginning manually. Plus doing so manually is going to take ages and we don’t
have time for that right?
With Facebook import tool, you can add thousands of friends
at once which you cannot do manually. We are going to use a contact.csv file to
do that and I just designed one for you to
download here.
You could use an email extractor or email generator to find
friends. An email extractor harvest email from the internet for you while an
email generator generates email addresses using common names from the countries
you want to target.
With this methods, you will have to generate thousands of
emails to get few hundreds of real email accounts plus most of them may not
even interested in what you have to offer.
If you have an email list, just import your lists using
contact.csv file. This is a special format that Facebook accepts which is using
contact.csv file. Facebook will not allow you to import email list directly.
How to import Your Contacts
If you have an email list or you can get one (will cost you
some money). Now open your contact.csv file. As you can see, it looks like the
normal Microsoft excel file but with columns already inserted. You will need to
have your list in a notepad.
Copy your list from notepad. Add your email lists under the
“email addresses” column. Save your file. I advise you to add at most 1,000
email lists the first time. Once you save, you will get some warning, just
click “yes” and “save” repeatedly in the same location you have saved the
download contact.csv file.
Now I assume you have completed your girly profile as an
American living in Nigeria. Good
Now go to “find friends” on the left hand side of your Facebook
timeline and go down until you get to “other tools”. Now click on “choose file”
to locate your saved contact.csv file. Click on the file to upload.
Facebook will scan the email and search for your contacts
that are already on Facebook. Any contact that is already on Facebook will be
invited to be your friend. Click on “add to invite” and finally “invite your
friends” and Facebook will notify them immediately.
Now complete your other uncompleted profile and log out. Note
you Facebook may ask you to verify your account with your phone number. Supply
that to verify but make the phone number hidden, only to be seen by you. Most
Americans are curious and may want to contact you and your accent will give you
away.
When I did this with my first Facebook account about a year
ago, it was okay and I was able to add 5,000 friends in about 7 days. Now I
tested this with another account and I discovered Facebook is now strict with
you adding friends especially from another country.
So Facebook will ask them if they knew you personally and if
they clicked on no even if they accepted your friendship, you will get a
warning and a friendship add ban from Facebook.
So I will advise you to log out and wait 2-3 days before logging
back in. if you have a real list with real people on Facebook, at least 500 of
those 1,000 friends will be your friends by the time you log back in. But you
cannot escape that 7 days ban, trust me.
At least 500 American and UK friends in 2-3 days is not bad.
Plus you’d have got some friends request too from other people. Just add them
and you are now fine.
Creating a Page for Your Marketing
While you are still serving your 7 days friendship add ban,
create a page by going to
http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php.
Add a cover photo and a good page profile picture that represents the business or
niche market you want to promote. Now invite all the friends one by one.
This is important.
You need friends that are interested in
your market to like your page. If they are not interested, you won’t get many
likes. More on this later in this post.
After your page is complete, you can start to promote your
products on your Facebook page. After your ban is over, add 2,000-3,000 more
friends using contact.csv file again. Now delete the email lists you added
before and add another fresh list and save in same location.
With this method, you could end up with 5,000 friends in a
month. Once you have added more friends, invite them too to like your page and
soon your fans will increase.
Now this is the reason why you need to have a good email
lists. You need friends who will naturally like your page because you are
creating a page around what they are interested in. if you have a list on
weight loss, create a Facebook page on weight loss niche.
You don’t want to send an invite to someone who does not
need to lose weight. So having a good list is really important.
Signing up for Affiliate Account
Once you have a friends and fans on your page, sign up with ClickBank
and Amazon to start with. These two networks allow you to link directly to
their site or vendors’ site.
Keep posting new things on your wall like tips in your
niche, products updates and pose questions. Americans naturally like
conversations and sharing ideas centered on what they want. This is what you
want and in a way, you will be getting people to click on your links to buy
your products.
I do like 2-3 updates daily on tips, quotes, news and
finally some recommendations. You don’t want to bombard them with products to
buy or you will piss them off. You need to make them realize that you are here
to help not to sell products.
Now if you have a website, write a review and direct them to
that post which has a link in your product reviews. You can combine this with CPA
marketing except in CPA, you need a website. (More on CPA marketing in another
post)
These are the major niches that I am involved in and are really
converting.
- Weight Loss (Hot niche)
- Games, Music, MP3 and mobile ringtones (Hot niche)
- Acne Treatment (Hot niche)
- Dating offers (Hot niche)
- Pregnancy control and Teen parenting
- Facebook applications
- Surveys etc.
I have a page for each of them and I try to update them at
least with two posts a day. (I guess that is why I don’t have time to update
this blog regularly).
Now I just taught you a really powerful yet unknown method in
Nigeria which most of the Facebook ‘gurus’ secretly use to add thousands of
friends overnight and make money.
How to Get Email List That is Going to Make You Money
Now I have a huge email list in all the above niches. I have
over 50,000 real email lists US and UK only – 53,000 to be precise. This email
list has been filtered to only include people who are on Facebook and are
active.
I do affiliate and CPA marketing. Most offers I promote are
targeted to Americans and UK residents. So I make sure that my fans and friends
are at least 99% from these countries.
Now if you want a real email lists to make you money
immediately, you need to get this list. Yes I am offering the list for a small
fee. Most affiliate marketers will die to get what I have. Getting fake fans on
Fiverr won’t make you money in affiliate marketing. You need real fans that
exist, are active and are really interested in your products.
Now I got this list from 5 major niches. So if you want to
promote weight loss products, you just need to add friends from the weight loss
list group. Your friends and fans should solely be people who are going to buy
your weight loss products.
So if you need that lists, it is going to cost you a little.
You should be ready to invest in this list and your affiliate marketing dream
will soon be a reality.
Making money with affiliate marketing is easy. You just need
to know how it works and be smart about it.