Testing: Facebook Money Making

Five Opportunities to Make Money on Facebook

With the release of its new platform, Facebook’s recent endeavor in social media presents a unique opportunity for marketers, developers and businesses to tap into the social network’s young, active, and viral crowd.

However, over the past few weeks there has been a rising concern among developers to uncover ways to monetize their Facebook applications. The curse of instant online success is that you can no longer sustain expensive servers to support hundreds and thousands (or even millions) of Facebook users. The question: how can the developers of Facebook apps actually make money? We don’t have all the answers yet, but here are 5 suggestions:

1. SELL. Develop applications solely for the purpose of selling them to interested parties. Several applications have already been acquired in this fashion; the most recent example is
that of Mozes’ purchase of TextMe.

2. DEVELOP. An indirect source of funds: develop applications under contract for third parties. A number of companies have been posting contract jobs over at the Facebook’s developer forums. There exists a large gap in the supply and demand of available Facebook application developers; as a result, finding potential clients to charge reasonable rates should not be a hassle.

3. ADVERTISING. Use advertisements, cross-promotion schemes and affiliate marketing. It is not feasible to use Google Adsense for this since Facebook does not allow JavaScript embedding. Adsense may be embedded through iFrames, which despite being popular among Facebook developers, is against Google (Google)’s TOS. Affiliate marketing is a great alternative to advertisements; my own source of income on Facebook is generated through Amazon’s affiliate marketing.

4. MICROPAYMENTS. Sell services within Facebook through micro-payment transactions. PayPal payments made for accessing premium services could potentially yield reasonable income depending on the application’s purpose, size, and prospective users.

5. GET INVESTMENT. If you think you have something big on your hands and lack the funds to scale it, apply for investment through Bay Partners and others who have expressed interest in funding Facebook apps. This would be the likely course of action for a startup with plans to expand globally within and beyond Facebook.

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Facebook has a huge active community. It is reported that of the 29 million active users, about half log in each day. This is a rarity among Web 2.0 companies (comparatively, Google Videos has about 3% active users). If Facebook (Facebook) can convince its users to shell out $1 to send those silly virtual “gift” images to each other, then surely a clever developer or startup can find other approaches to earning money from a Facebook application that do not involve just drowning their users in ads.

Due to the pace of innovation over the web, it is imperative that companies jump on opportunities like these as they turn up. LinkedIn (LinkedIn) and Bebo (Bebo) are expected to release their own set of developer APIs as well; I personally cannot wait to be among the first to tap into that opportunity. I advise others to start planning as well.
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Facebook is fast growing to become one of the web's largest social networking applications, and it's now possible to begin making money for your blog, website or products by promoting and marketing it on several platforms. Instead of spamming friends, family and colleagues, Facebook offers special tools that can help you direct traffic to your site and make money for your business. Here are some tips on how to make money with Facebook.
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1st Step
Setup your Business Facebook account. If you already have an existing account with, what you need to do is just to select a business name. This will avail you a privilege to have a separate profile to work with.
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2nd Step

Put your profile information. create your business logo or screenshot of your site for the image, include a hyperlink/URL back to your main site, and provide any vital information to differantiate your profile from the rest.
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3rd Step

Add interests. Add interests that other usera of Facebook can locate you with; provide keywords that apply to your business, site, blog,organisation or industry.
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4th Step

Include your RSS feed. You can add an RSS feed to the "Notes" section. Click on "Applications" on the left hand side of the page and follow the steps to add an RSS link.
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5th Step

Marketplace is available as well where you can sell things, so just go ahead and sell your stuffs. However, if you're already selling products on your website, include the same listings on the Marketplace section. You can as well list items with your affiliate links in the same place.
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6th Step

By linking to quality content, you can increase traffic. Form pages and notes on your Facebook account that have a link back to websites which have a high Page Rank. Google and other search engines can increase your own Page Rank after they scanned your profile of Facebook and discover a link to your main website.
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7th Step

Connect with groups and members everyday. Make sure you are active on daily basis or even all the time on Facebook so that people can recognise and identify with your business, website or blog and keep up with your postings and notes.

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Facebook has become if not the most but one of the most popular social networking sites in this present world with over 300 million users across the globe. Without any doubt its becoming an online money making avenue.

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step 1

For money to be made online with facebook, you need to open an account with facebook, that is having a Facebook account. I have to give this suggestion early enough that you need not to use your regular business accounnt especially if your target is to make a large number of people be aware of your products or services. Make your facebook account look fascinating. On your profile, make available website address and business information. Create some links to your businesses on your wall. customise your facebook account as much as you can. Give people an impression that you for real. Do not forget to develop some level of frienship with people even as you try to advertise your business.
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Step 2

Form a related pages and groups to your products. Subscribe with affiliate marketing and add to your groups and pages links of products you are reselling.
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Use the marketplace on facebook as a medium of advertisement for your products and services. to list products, it is totally free, so you should take advantage of that.
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Step 4

Create applications that can be used on facebook and sell them. I am sure you must have used a facebook application times without number.