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Without a doubt, Facebook is one of the biggest social
media platforms in the world today. With over 1.88 billion users daily, it's no
doubt that it has created full-time jobs for people. In this contemporary world
of technology and social media, at least out of 10 people, 9 have a Facebook
account. It doesn’t matter if you have
a small business or one item, our main objective is to make money on Facebook.
Well, most of us use Facebook to send messages to our
friends and relative, share funny videos and vines, post pictures just for
likes but, you can convert your friends/followers into your loyal supporters to
support your own business.
In this article, am going to teach you,
1.
What can I sell on Facebook?
2.
Who can make money on Facebook?
3.
How can I make money on Facebook?
WHAT
YOU CAN DO TO MAKE MONEY ON FACEBOOK,
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Create Facebook ads
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Became a social media manager
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Help others on Facebook groups in your niche
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Enter contests
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Sell on Facebook marketplaces
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Create Facebook videos
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Apply for jobs
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Create Facebook posts
· Start copywriting
WHAT
CAN I SELL ON FACEBOOK?
You can sell almost anything on Facebook. It could a piece
of land, a house, a car, crafts pretty much everything but, with the current
strict community guidelines on Facebook, you have to be careful with what you
post. Stuff such as illicit drugs could not be tolerated as you could be
blocked by Facebook or sentenced to” Facebook prison”
But in general, you can buy anything off Facebook without
even showing your information like you to the entire world.
WHO CAN MAKE MONEY ON FACEBOOK?
From my personal experience and from that of close friends,
anybody can make money on Facebook depending on what you want to sell. Making
money on Facebook comes with a first impression. Your profile must sell you to
your followers first for you to win their trust.
There are a million Facebook accounts (spam) that have
promised a lot to their followers and have completely failed to deliver a
thing. So, don’t become a culprit.
Make sure that you also put your location in the bio so
that people don't get confused about where you’re located. Add you're correct contact information and
also add a link to your blog/website if you have any for your brand awareness.
Depending on how you want to run your Facebook and make
money, I suggest you create a Facebook page where you’ll be posting your
content to look professional.
HOW
CAN I MAKE MONEY ON FACEBOOK?
Now that your
account profile is well set, you're ready to go but, just a disclaimer. Just
like other social media platforms, you'll need an audience or a following for
you to make sales. Therefore, grow your following first for you to expand your
presence online. Below are some ways you can make money on Facebook.
1. CREATE FACEBOOK ADS
Still, wondering how you can make money on Facebook by creating Facebook ads?! Worry no more, you can either create Ads for Your Page or some else's. Gibson a close friend of mine started creating Facebook ads for his wife's online boutique during the lockdown on Facebook then, stretched his wings to creating for his wife's friends for some money. After five months, his side hustle turned into a big stream of income for him. He started getting recommendations from friends he's worked with and hats how he makes money on Facebook.
Besides, every business depends on the advertisement to survive, therefore, creating a Facebook page to run ads is very important. What you have to know is that you can make money by creating and running Facebook ads for people's businesses. An advantage of running Facebook ads will also promote your business to people who even don't follow you to know about your existence.
HERE
ARE THREE FACTORS YOU MUST CONSIDER WHILE CREATING A FACEBOOK AD.
1.
The objective for creating an ad.
Are
you aiming at driving traffic to your website or you want to make sales? Always
think properly about these two questions before you create an ad.
2.
Audience
Being
very specific with the demographics of your targeted audience is very important
while creating any ad be it on Facebook or any other platform. Specifying who
you want to see in your ad will make it very easy for you to get what your main
goal is.
3.
Budget.
Money is the fuel that enables any business engine to start. Just like they say that it takes money to make money, be sure of how much money you are willing to spend per day. How many days do you want your ad to run and how much are you willing to spend on that? Make sure that you have enough money budgeted for that cause.
2. BECOME A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER.
Being a social media manager means that, you're working is to manage a company's social media like Facebook depending on the sites they are logged in. You're responsible for,
1.
Responding to comments.
2.
Creating ads.
3.
Growing the audience size.
4.
Monitoring the ads campaign metrics.
5. Creating content for those sites.
Besides Facebook, you stand a higher chance to run other company's social media like Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and the list continues. You're expected to run social media savvy's and you're paid for that. How cool?
3. HELP OTHERS ON FACEBOOK GROUPS IN YOUR
NICHE
Another way to make money on Facebook is by joining groups in your niche and, answer people's questions. This will project you as an expert in that niche on that group. It's a viable option for bloggers' business owners.
All you have to do is to go on Facebook and join groups that fall in your niche of expertise, then start solving people’s problems by answering their questions. People will start trusting you then you can monetize your help where people pay for your help.
When joining any group on Facebook, pay attention to their posting guidelines so that you don’t get banned for violating them. Unless you’re not the moderator, you may not be able to post affiliate links so self-promote your blog or products. So, take note of that.
4. ENTER CONTESTS
Many companies and content creators run a lot of contests on Facebook nowadays. The only thing that's required of you is to either share their link on your Facebook account or to follow their page and leave a comment. In that way, a lucky winner is given money or a phone or anything promised to be given by that person running the giveaway contest. It’s an easy way to make money or win goodies but, all you need to do is put in your time.
5. SELL ON FACEBOOK MARKETPLACES
You can also make money on Facebook by selling on Facebook marketplaces. Market places on Facebook are free for all individuals willing to sell online. You can buy and sell or literally, trade almost anything in your local area free of charge.
I know it’s not specialized as local buy and sell groups, anyone can easily access Facebook marketplaces, so one can easily share posts and find something special they have been looking for.
6. CREATE FACEBOOK VIDEOS
This is very fine with folks who are not camera shy. Creating videos on Facebook teaching people how to bake cupcakes at home will attract people interested in baking cupcakes and this will build a brand around you by attracting a loyal following of people. Then monetize your content by charging people money for you to teach them how to make tasty cupcakes.
You can also do a Q&A live video session where your followers send in questions then, you answer them there and then. That's very important as it helps your followers to trust you more. The thing is to build a following, create trust and produce high-quality content.
7. APPLY FOR JOBS
If you use Facebook more often, you might have come across the job board where people post jobs and where job hunters can find their dream job. Companies advertise job opportunities in the job tab and, it's either full-time or part-time jobs. I remember during my last year at university, I got my first writing job with an entertainment website that paid me off.
Besides, job boards, Facebook users have created groups in specific niches and people join them and post related jobs. Try job boards or join groups, you could get your dream job that will pay you off and that will help you make money on Facebook.
8. CREATE FACEBOOK POSTS.
People are on Facebook to socialize and so is you. Therefore, creating content for your Facebook account will get your friends are followers close to you through engagement. You can post whatever you want to sell on your Facebook account then add some images just to back up your post.
If you want to sell your land, take good pictures of the land, then write something about your land maybe, where it's located, how much you want then share the post with your close friends. It's social media, I mean your posting to shares with your friends but ask your friends to also share on their Facebook accounts, their friends can see your post too. Therefore, that puts your post in many people's eyes and before you know it, you get a potential customer to you your land or your car or anything that you want to sell hence helping you to make money on Facebook.
9. STRAT COPYRIGHTING
You can make a good amount of money through copyrighting. Due to the embracing of technology, a lot of companies or personal brands want to run ads for their businesses but, they want a person who can write attractive and compelling copyrights that will cause sells or that will attract people to click on the link on your Facebook page to go visit the website.
Therefore, being able to compose good copyrights will give you a chance to make money off Facebook due to your good writing skills.
SUMMARY
To be honest with you. Anybody can make money online. It doesn’t matter if you want to sell a physical product or if you want to promote your blog.
This can be possible if you join groups within your niche and interacting with members of that group and maybe by running some paid ad. You can make a recurring income on Facebook if you desire.
If you want to sell your car or your second house in your village trading center for once and make money, Facebook is such a free platform for you to tell the world what you have to sell. Anyhow, these are a few ways that you can employ to make money on Facebook. They say that "sharing is caring" that being said, share down below if you have ever made some money off Facebook by leaving your story below and, let me know what you think about making money online.
