Affiliate marketing with Facebook groups has become popular as in the last 10 years, the face of affiliate marketing has changed largely due to the growing popularity of Facebook and Google.
2 billion people now visit the Facebook website every month. That means Facebook has all the people you can ever think of needing. But, most importantly, there are 620 million Facebook groups!
Among them, there are thousands through which you can connect to experts. And also hundreds of thousands of them with which you can sell products too. All from the comfort of your home!
Over 800 million people now use Facebook to buy and sell products! A whopping 800 million!!!
Do you want to make money from affiliate marketing on Facebook? Then this article is for you. In this article, you will learn:
- How to make affiliate marketing money on Facebook
- What affiliate marketing is all about
- What Facebook is all about
- Why you too can make millions from Facebook (People are making it, why not you?)
- How to choose a niche related group
- How to create your group and monetize it
- Why joining groups is better than creating pages
- How to connect with other marketers on Facebook
- Why you should join niche related groups even if you are not an affiliate marketer
- And lots more…
So, if you want to make money online, or become an affiliate marketer, then this article is for you.
I have carefully taken out time to explain everything to the last detail, giving you a full guide on affiliate marketing with Facebook groups.
I hope that after you finish reading this, you will make your first hundred dollars from Facebook within a few months.
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is the simplest, yet the hardest way to make money online. It is simple because, with affiliate marketing, you do not need to produce anything. You only need to sell other people’s products.
Now, let’s talk about the hard part? If you have ever sold before, you will know that selling is not a lazy man’s job. So, whether you are selling your products, or you are selling other people’s products, if you are lazy, you won’t make any sales.
Many affiliate marketers have made one hundred thousand dollars or more through this high-income skill – affiliate marketing.
It is called a high-income skill because it can fetch you some cool one hundred and twenty thousand dollars every year.
So, if you want to make ten thousand dollars a month, read this article. Before we proceed, let us consider the general structure of Facebook.
What is Facebook all about?
Facebook Inc is a social media channel, where people communicate with friends and family. But over time, Facebook has evolved.
You see, Facebook today is beyond what people think it is. People like Sabri Suby have made hundreds of thousands of dollars, selling his book on Facebook. For me, Facebook is a place where people go to make money.
If in this 21st century, you have not made any money from Facebook before, then you need to change some things and I am here to help you change those ‘things’ by showing you how to make money from affiliate marketing with Facebook groups.
Interested? Read on!
Facebook overview (why you can make money from it)
There are several reasons why you can make a lot of money from Facebook, and a couple of them are listed below:
- Facebook contains people’s detailed information. That’s very important because the information is power.
- One-third of the world is on Facebook. That means anybody you want to talk to is likely to be on Facebook. Now, this one-third of the world doesn’t include little children who are just being born, or aged people who grew old before the coming and popularity of technology. So, Facebook mainly has the youths, and the working class set of people on it.
If you consider these reasons mentioned above, you’ll no doubt that Facebook is the ideal place to meet your dream clients. Anyway, in this article, our focus shall specifically be on Facebook groups.
How to make money from affiliate marketing with Facebook groups
So, let us consider why we think you can make money as an affiliate marketer, on Facebook groups.
Join a niche related group
Due to the structure of Facebook, it is very easy to find niche-related groups. If you have not joined one, please consider doing so immediately.
As an affiliate marketer, joining niche-related groups helps you get access to your target audience free of charge. That means, some of the people you are looking forward to selling to are just one click away from you.
And because the groups are niche-related, you are sure that your posts are going to the right people.
To be honest, most groups won’t allow you to paste random links in them. That’s called spamming. If you are not ready to add any value to the group, then don’t expect them to allow you to sell anything there. To overcome this, make a very valuable blog post with relevant information, and post it to the group. At the end of the post, include your link.
Also, some group admins sell advertising slots cheaply. You may consider buying such a slot to place an ad in that group.
Create a Facebook group (and monetize it)
One of the surest ways to making money with Facebook groups is to create your group. This may take time and energy off you, but it will be more profitable to you in the long run.
Go to your menu, click on groups, click on create a group. Every further instruction will be given to you.
When asked for a name, pick a niche-related name. This will help your target audience to easily find the group.
If you are selling weight-loss products, for instance, you can use a name like weight loss for women, reduce your weight, belly fat consumption, etc. Just be sure to use a niche-related name.
After creating your group, you have to do two things at once.
- start growing the group. If you want to make money, then you must have at least 10 thousand members in your group. That may take you a year of hard work or less than a year. Possibly, even more.
- you must add a lot of value to the lives of those in your group. Make relevant posts, teaching them things they don’t know.
For example, in a weight loss group, you can make a post like, 5 foods that can double your weight in one year. Another post maybe, 7 easy ways to lose up to 19 pounds every month.
When you start posting highly valuable content like this, it becomes very easy to recommend products to people and get them to buy. That’s because, they now see you as an expert, and not a seller anymore.
If you want your group to be a success, it is important that you do not allow just anyone to post on the group. Not everything should go. This will make spammers post a lot of nonsense on it, and you will lose all your loyal followers.
Always make sure that your groups are private, and every single post must pass through your approval before appearing on the group.
How to join a niche related Facebook group
Before choosing the groups to join, there are things you must consider. But first of all, what is a niche?
A niche is a collection or combination of similar products e.g all products related to losing weight, burning fat, etc are in the weight loss niche. Similarly, all the products related to body clearing, removing pimples, creating younger-looking skin, etc are in the beauty niche.
To join a niche related group, you must consider the following:
- The group should have up to 10 thousand members. In this kind of place, you will easily meet and interact with a lot of people.
- It should be a private group. Any group without loyal followers will not be good for you. For a group to have loyal followers, it must have a clear message which resounds well with them. For that to happen, only specific types of posts will be allowed in such groups.
- You should be ready to add value to the group. This may be through posts of your own, helping them out with things that they don’t understand
- You should only post one link for a certain period. Excessive posting of links, like every other unimportant thing, is known as spamming.
If you can follow all the above-mentioned rules, then you will likely connect with people who can buy your product, and affiliate marketing with Facebook groups will be a walk in the park for you.
But, if all you want to do is to sell, sell and sell, you will end up joining rubbish groups, pasting lots of links without getting any single click.
Facebook Groups vs Pages
Initially, Facebook created pages for business purposes and groups for communication between a large number of people.
As time went on, more and more people began to use pages for their business needs. This went on well until the introduction of Facebook ads. It is not advisable to use a page for business purposes on Facebook if you don’t plan to run an ad. It may get you frustrated.
To grow your page, you will have to boost posts. That’s now almost the only way to get your posts to a lot of people.
If you own a Facebook page, on average, your posts will likely only get to about 6 percent of your followers.
But for a group, it’s different. It was created for interaction. That means you can communicate more easily with members of your group.
Also, you can not even run a sponsored ad from a group. You therefore can easily grow your group without having to run paid ads.
And lastly, group posts are more likely to get to people than page posts. So if you ever thought about selling on Facebook, consider joining or starting a group.
Note: If you must start a group on Facebook, never start a business group. Start a general group with a niche-related name.
How to connect with other marketing experts through Facebook groups
Apart from the fact that you can sell products on Facebook, you can also easily connect with top affiliate marketers on Facebook.
If you have not started taking advantage of this, you have to start now.
Just select the menu, click on groups and search for affiliate marketing groups. They will help you in your journey.
If you have all the money in the world, can run ads to get any amount of traffic you want, have your complete sales funnel, etc, then congratulations.
But even at that, if you don’t join niche-related Facebook groups, you are missing a lot. Why? Because people buy solutions to their problems.
People don’t just buy anything they see. They only buy products that will give solutions to a challenge, or satisfy a want.
And even after getting products that work, people still have lots of complaints about them. This is where you can come in and make crazy amounts of sales.
When you know what makes them happy about a product you sell, and what makes them unhappy, you can easily sell like crazy.
All you have to do is to tell them that your product does the exact things that make them happy, and does not do the things that make them unhappy. That’s all.
And where can you get access to this goldmine of juicy information? Facebook groups are the best!
Conclusion
One of the best ways to get your dream clients when engaging in affiliate marketing with Facebook groups is to get a lot of information about them.
Joining niche-related Facebook groups is not limited to affiliate marketers alone. If you have a business, look for groups related to that business and join. This will help you to keep up with the latest market trends, consumer behavior, and the latest marketing techniques.
