How to Make Money On Facebook In Leisure Time – Simple Steps

You might be wondering how can one make money online that too from Facebook. But it is also easy ( not very easy 😛 ) like other earning money online strategies.

In fact many businesses are earning large chunk of money with the help of Facebook though not directly from Facebook.

Businesses can make money, what about individuals? Is there any possibility for individuals to earn money from Facebook?

Why not? Yes individuals too can earn money from Facebook. Please note that Facebook do not pay Businesses nor individuals.

Then how are we supposed to earn? Earning from Facebook is possible only through Indirect Ways.

There are variety of options to monetize your Facebook indirectly.  Let’s jump in to the strategies that will help anyone to make cash with Facebook.

If you are someone who is looking to make sky-high income instantly, then this article is definitely not for you! Don’t waste your time here. 

Please go ahead only if you have enough patience and time to follow these strategies.

One should have connected to people on Facebook to make use of this income. The more you get connected to people on Facebook, the more you earn. It can be through your Personal Profile or Fan page or Community page or Groups or anything on Facebook.

Also, read 100 ways to make money through online jobs. 

People who have Facebook pages with good number of likes have higher chances of earning since that is where you don’t have limitation. Facebook profile cannot have more than 5,000 friends. Facebook pages and groups do not possess any limitation.

I recommend all of you to use either Facebook page or group to start.  

Let’s break down the Facebook monetization process in to two simple steps.

  1. Getting good number of Facebook page likes / group members.
  2. Generating revenue through various ways listed below.

1. Get Good Number Of Facebook Page Likes / Group Members

Select a topic for Facebook page or group. Topic should be related to Entertainment since that will grab a lot of users attention.

Let’s split Facebook pages and groups for better understanding.

Get Facebook Page Likes

  1. Create a Facebook page using this link with compelling page name. Your page name is very important since that will encourage people to like your page in suggestions list.
  2. Setup a good profile picture and cover photo.
  3. Invite all your friends to like your Facebook page.
  4. Ask your friends to share your Facebook page to their wall.
  5. Post user engaging content like photos / messages / videos so that people may share your posts and then their friends will also see your page, thus you will get more number of likes.
  6. Post things that are more likely to get comments, shares and likes / reactions.
  7. Post one or two links a day (we will see the kind of links in second step)

Get Facebook Group Members

  1. Create a Facebook group with privacy as Public
  2. Add all your friends to that group
  3. Ask your friends to add their friends to that group
  4. Keep group post approval settings as “All group posts must be approved by an admin or a moderator” and prevent spam as much as possible so your group members may not get bored.
  5. Post user engaging content like photos / messages / videos so that people may share your posts and then their friends will also see your page, thus more members will request to join the group.
  6. Post things that are more likely to get comments, shares and likes / reactions.
  7. Post one or two links a day (we will see the kind of links in second step)

2. Earning from Facebook Page / Group

Way #1. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is basically referring a product or service to people and get paid when they make a purchase of the product or service. The best thing about affiliate programs is Cookie validity period. If the program’s cookie validity period is 90 days then you will get paid whenever your referral user purchases a product with in the 90 days period.

Great no? 😀

Not just that, referral purchase need not be the product you have linked, it can be any product. For example, you share a link of some x brand hair dryer and your visitor buys some other conditioner following your link, you will still get paid since they have followed your link. The same way, number of products (in a single purchase) will also be taken in to consideration.

Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn money from Facebook only if you receive targeted traffic. If you promote electronics, then your Facebook audience / followers interest should be related to electronics. Otherwise, you will get very low conversion rate thus low income.

There are many affiliate programs in each and every category. You should select a niche based on your audience interest.

Some reputed Affiliate Programs

You should register with multiple affiliate programs and grab the product / service links and post it to your Facebook page / group. You can also make use of affiliate marketplaces like CJ to participate in multiple affiliate programs at once.

Way #2. Sell your own products

Don’t panic by reading the title. It is easy to own an eCommerce store now a days. Our only work is to create product and market it through Facebook. Follow these steps to start an online products store.

  1. Register at Shopify using their $29 basic plan
  2. Name your ecommerce shop and pick your brand domain name E.g :  yourstorename.com
  3. Your products can be anything like homemade crafts, books, gifts or anything that is affordable.
  4. Take a photo of your product and create a product by following the instructions specified here.
  5. Post links to your product on Facebook. Don’t post links often, your fans / group members may get irritated.
  6. That’s all, you will get paid to your bank account once a user purchase your product.
  7. All you have to do is couriering them the respective product.

Also read how to market your eCommerce products using Facebook ads

Way #3. Blogging

Blogging is one of the best ways to make money online. In fact you can take blogging as a full time profession to lead your life. I have already written a detailed article about blogging and making money online.

Do read it here

There are 100+ other ways to make use of Facebook to earn money but always remember that Facebook is just a marketing tool to help you make cash.

Have you tried any of these techniques ? Are you earning money from Facebook using some other strategy? Let us know about it in the comments.

Laxman Muthiyah
Laxman Muthiyah
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