August 26th, 2008 Add Your Comments Bookmark and Share

I was really excited about this post! I’ve had it prepared for a day and was just waiting for the right time to put it up. However FaceBook are a real pain when it comes to advertising, they are so sensitive about what you can and can’t have. So I’m going to post this anyway and I’ll explain near the end the problems you might encounter.

Using FaceBook To Make Money With My HomePages Friends

I wrote a little while back about how to get some free adverting spends on FaceBook. Ever since that time I’ve been struggling with what to do with that money, as I later explained I wasn’t having much joy with the affiliate marketing, I did get one exclusive offer to work but the traffic level was low enough to leave me with a chunk of free advertising money left. I didn’t just won’t to throw that away on some random offers and besides I was really struggling to get anything approved, advertising on FaceBook is a mighty great pain in the hole. I wanted some value out of it though and that’s when I started to use my head. FaceBook has one type of user above all others, students. Now I don’t know about elsewhere but in the UK students are known as being one thing, tight. Most would sell their mothers at the end of a night for an extra drink :)

I needed to think of something that would appeal to studenty types, people after a few easy £$ who also have friends to refer. My Home Pages Friends, perfect. Get paid just for doing your normal web searches, even better refer your friends and take a commission. 2 pence (about 4 cents a search) might not seem like much too some people, but to others it’s free money. So I setup an ad targeting UK males and females in the right age group. Here is that ad:-

Search the Net, Get Paid
Earn money for doing what you do now for free every day!

I set my bid to $0.65 (high but it’s free money so who cares, I’ve got no plans of spending my own money on this). After a few days the figures were in, around 200,000 impressions, 78 clicks at an average cost of about $0.51 Whilst that doesn’t seem that great a CTR, out of those 78 clicks I had 32 My Homepages Friends accounts setup. That’s $1.24 per sign up. What I’m just started to see now is my MHPF second level referral earnings going up, obviously my direct signups are starting to refer friends, which is exactly what I’d hoped for. If friends refer friends who refer friends then I should be OK at worst.

Now I fully understand that $1.24 per signup might seem expensive, especially when you can’t know for sure what return you’ll get. Not much short term I’d imagine. But the beauty with the MHPF system is growing your network and to be quite frank targeting FaceBook users is the perfect way of doing it. Doing it for free is even better. I could have chucked that free FaceBook advertising money at a few ClickBank products and hoped. From what I’ve read elsewhere nobody is having much joy with that. Instead I’ve put it towards an online money maker that I can only see growing over time. Even better, already I’ve turned that virtual FaceBook money into some real cash.

Problems With Advertising On FaceBook

Unfortunately the story doesn’t end here. In order to replicate and grow this I tried the same ad with different countries, it was a complete lottery to whether or not it was accepted or not, some were, some weren’t, some I got a threatening e-mail back about. FaceBook seem to not want their advertisers to…well….advertise. They are very touchy about where you send their users, how you send them and making sure your advert doesn’t sound like an advert. But on the other hand some just get straight through. It’s a bit of a lottery and one you enter at completely your own risk.

So I’ve given you my advert, my target, and my bid. This worked to get me new signups. If you’ve got some free FaceBook advertising in your account (I wouldn’t recommend spending your own cash on this or FaceBook advertising full stop) why not get yourself signed up at My HomePages Friends and give it a go?

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