Make Money With Facebook

I had the chance to review FBAutoCash at the weekend… a brand new course by Mark Anastasi, a successful online marketer from Cyprus (a small island in the Mediterranean).

He makes millions of dollars as an affiliate, a seminar host and promoter, and a top JV partner for most of the big launches that have occurred in 2010 and 2011… but I had no idea that he was involved in Facebook in any way, until recently.

Anyway, the course claims that he makes at least $35,000 every month promoting on Facebook.  I’ve seen a few claims of people making money with the social media giant, and I’ve always been skeptical — for one, Facebook
Ad costs are SO high ($1+ per click for most markets) and two, I’ve personally found it difficult to turn those visitors into BUYERS since everyone is there to chat and check in with friends… not buy!

So while there are plenty of claims of making money with social media, much of it seems to be from the ‘indirect’ benefits that are obtained by simply getting your name and face out to a wider  audience.  To actually start something TODAY… and make money TODAY… that’s a whole different story.  Getting your name out there is a process of acquiring trust… and building rapport.  And that takes time!

So that being said, I approached this course with an open, but somewhat cautious mind.  Was it going to be the same
as every other course?

The claim with this course is that… it has nothing to do with ‘elevating’ your name or status.  The path to making money is very direct – you sell a product, you earn a commission.

Mark claims you can take the guide… read it tonight… and start making money TONIGHT. Very bold claims!

So… are they true… and if they are, how does he do it?

After reading the course (which is 158 pages, 42 of which are either case studies or testimonials, leaving approx. 116
of direct, hands-on material), I had sort of a “Doh! Why Didn’t I Think Of That?!” moment… the actual premise behind
how and why this works is so simple, it’s one of those ideas you’ll wonder why you never thought of before.

And yes… I can absolutely see why it works, and why there has been a near 100% success rate for anyone who has
actually followed the course, and stuck with it.  It’s actually very difficult to lose… IF you do it correctly.

The strategy is simple – create a ton of Fan Pages, and promote affiliate links to every fan who signs up.

What will surprise you is the kind of offers that actually work.  It’s clear that throwing just ANY old affiliate link
at the page won’t work – there are very specific types of offers that do well, and you’ll be surprised what they are…
and actually how to recruit thousands of fans to your new pages (which is really the lifeblood of the strategy).

If you goof on either of these things – you’ll make very little, or no money at all.  Follow the steps that Mark shows
you… and it’s clear to see how you can make a killing. The course explains the process very well.

I read the entire course in one sitting, and here’s what I took from it:

* There’s basically 8 steps you need to follow for making money from Facebook.  All of these can be learned
in one night, and implementing them should take just 4-5 hours.

* You don’t need to use your own name, have any kind of presence, or know anything about a particular market to
make money in it.  You’re actually encouraged to use pen names and remain anonymous.  I really liked that concept
because it means we can tackle multiple markets with many pseudonyms, and dominate them all without tarnishing
your primary name/brand.

* It costs NOTHING to run this entire business.  And when I say nothing, I really mean nothing!  This is
something that really hooked me with this model of making money, and is a benefit not to be understated. Since you’re using free Facebook Fan Pages and not Facebook Advertising, your clicks cost nothing. No hosting costs, no domain names to register, no staff to employ, no product creation expenses, no merchant accounts.  You can promote anything as an affiliate and make as much money as you want, and no-one has any claim to any of it.  This is a huge benefit because it means you can build up your income at your own pace, without racking up bills and overheads that need paying.

* There’s nothing really technical about this business model.  Creating a web page means you need to know HTML, maybe Javascript or PHP, editing graphics, etc. With FBAutoCash, if you already use Facebook, you know how to run this business!  You’re clicking buttons on the Facebook website that you’re already familiar with, adding friends, posting status messages, etc – stuff you probably already do with friends of family. It really is that simple.

* Realistically, it will take around 30 days to see the kind of income that can start replacing a full-time salary. That’s because you’re encouraged to add 100-200 new friends per day, per account, and you’ll be setting up multiple accounts for many different markets.  The general feeling seems to be that it takes around 4,500 to 5,000 Facebook adds (again, you’ll do 100-200 per day very comfortably) for every $1,000 to $1,200 you make in return.  There are also ways you can outsource this, or (my personal favorite- see below), you can use software to automate nearly ALL of these tasks for you.

* What I found REALLY exciting is the software Mark has built to automate adding friends and managing promos
automatically.  What that means is, instead of spending 30-45 days to make each $1,200 ‘income stream’, you can let the software take care of that for you and even run multiple accounts with it and do in minutes what it’d take the average person several days to achieve.  That’s REALLY powerful.  The software is offered as a purchase following the course and is priced VERY reasonably for the time it saves and the money you can make with it. What’s really powerful is, you’ll be able to walk away from your computer and come back a little later… to find hundreds of new ‘friends’ added to your account. These are people you can start sending affiliate links and targeted promotions to immediately.

* This is a rare course in that there are several students making a solid $25,000+ per month with it (which I’d consider to be a very decent ‘salary’ to earn from one website, with no business running costs), yet the course is step by step and extremely easy for even a newbie to follow and make some decent money with.  With so many product launches these days, it’s very rare to see something explained so clearly that so obviously works… there are screenshots for every step, and everything is marked in step 1, do this… step 2, do that… format. Many courses claim it; this one actually delivers it.

So, is it worth buying?

At $37 for the course, my verdict is it’s a *WINNER*.

Making 10x the purchase price should be easy for anyone to do very quickly, if they actually follow the instructions
and invest a few hours into reading the material and doing the steps.

With the software, it’s made even easier – your workload is cut down to just a few clicks of the button.  The hardest part is deciding which offers to send to make your money on – a process Mark has made much easier by showing
you screenshot examples of EXACTLY what he’s selling online, and why certain types of offer work better than others.

The following bonuses also accompany the course (which add to the package value but honestly, you probably won’t
even need them).

- 12 videos on Facebook, including:

* Mark Anastasi (intro to Facebook Marketing Seminar)
* Tom Miller LIVE at The Social Media Millionaire Summit
* Glen Kirkham LIVE at The Ultimate Facebook Marketing Seminar
* Mili Ponce LIVE at The Facebook Marketing Seminar + Social Media Millionaire Summit
* Nick Peall MR FBX LIVE at The Facebook Marketing Seminar
* Armand Morin
* Daniel Priestley

- Audio Interviews with people who already make  $1,500 to $25,000+ using this strategy (these are very effective, because you get to see exactly what’s working for these people TODAY… including their best selling offers)

* Georgina Lany
* Robert Grant
* Wayne Dobson
* Nadeem Malik
* Paul Wakefield
* Vlad Danciu
* Suraj Sodha
* Imran Naseem
* Sam Bakker

- And the following exclusive PDFs, delivered free to the next 100 students

* FB Ads module
* FB Events module
* Fanpage Dollars
* How to be accepted in CPA networks (which can gain you access to exclusive offers to promote on Facebook that
none of your competitors will be selling)

To learn more about the product and grab it immediately (it’s an instant download), use this link:

http://FBAutoCash.com/775

The Newbie Workbook, could be the answer to your problem. In it, Bryan Zimmerman provides you with a 30 day plan of action. He tells you what you should be doing for 2-3 hours each day in order to bring your money making aspirations to reality.

Each chapter of the ebook consists of a daily worksheet that first explains to you what you should be doing and then gives you a ticksheet so that you can tick off each activity as you complete it. As the days go on the explansions get shorter and the days chapter just becomes a tick sheet, because you will be doing actions based on what has already been explained.

Finally, Bryan explains how, once you have started making money online, you can reinvest some of that money into hiring others to do some of the work for you, therefore reducing the amount of time you need to spend working on your internet marketing business.

Is The Newbie Workbook a comprehensive guide to Internet Marketing, website building and list building, the short answer is No. However, it will give you a good grounding in what you need to be doing consistantly each day to start making money on the ineternet through affiliate marketing.

To learn more about The Newbie Workbook, click on the image below.

1. Promote affiliate products

2. Google adsense

3. Sell a service

4. Sell advertising

5. Sell physical products (think ebay)

6. Sell information

You’ll notice that the last 4 all involve selling something. That’s the approach I want to talk to you about today.

I did a survey with my Milcers and Alist members. I found out that most of them are still stuck to a degree in getting things going.

I want to give you an abbreviated action plan that I spend 100 pages elaborating on in “Gimme My Money Now” and that the icons walk you through in “The Marketing Dashboard”.

There are MANY Formulas out there. Here’s the Marlon Sanders Formula in a nutshell. So many of you have written and said, “I need a Formula. I need step-by-step.” This is the big picture:

1. Find demand

2. Write sales letter

3. Create info product to meet demand

4. Roll out with affiliate program

That whole formula is elaborated on in much greater depth in both Amazing Formula and Gimme My Money Now.

Here’s what I found out from my survey. Most of you guys and gals have jobs that you want to escape from. You have bills and debts to pay.

And most of you are coming into this without a lot of prior knowledge of marketing and some of you have limited computer skills.

Based on that, do you think it’s safe for me to say it’s unrealistic to think you’re going to quickly and easily become a zillionaire? Well, it’s true. If you have no background in sales and marketing, and you don’t have very good computer skills, you have a learning curve ahead of you and that takes time.

HERE’S HOW I PERSONALLY DID IT

I remember when I was broke and bought deodorant with all pennies. But what I did was kept learning and didn’t expect easy nor overnight results.

I kept buying books when I could afford them. There were no cheap and easy ebooks back then. I could have done it
10 times faster if I had access to all the information available today.

Anyway, my way out was self education. And action. I kept doing little projects to put what I learned into ACTION.

I ran this one little business where you sold booklets using answering machines. You didn’t have voice mail then. So I had 3 answering machines hooked up in my home (my friends hated it).

I ran these little ads in what we call in the U.S. “penny shoppers.” These are little papers given away for free that are all classified ads.

I ended up running ads in 72 cities! And people would leave their name and address on the answering machines. I shipped the books C.O.D. Half the books came back. It was sorta like paying out 50% affiliate commissions.

You didn’t have Paypal or easy merchant accounts in those days. So you had to do C.O.D. I sold $12,000 of books via “mail order.” And I was exhilerated to do so. I think at the end of the day I probably LOST money.

But I sure learned a lot.

Then AOL and CompuServe came along and I started writing sales letters and running ads on there. You’d run a little classified ad (they were free on AOL). People would email you.

Since autoresponders didn’t exist, you’d personally email them back your “free report.” Since there weren’t any PDF’s then (at least, that I knew of), the free report was a long email.

The “big trick” my friend Jonathan Mizel taught back then was to put their name in the return email! That was a big secret back then.

Mizel, me, others all learned copywriting from Tested Advertising Methods by John Caples. That was like one of 4 or 5 books on copywriting. But you know what? We wrote some pretty good sales letters back then. I first met Jonathan Mizel ’cause he sent me one of his sales letters, and I thought it was good. So I wrote and asked him where he learned to write copy.

Of course, he said “Tested Advertising Methods” by John Caples. So we were immediate friends.

AOL was great. You could test out your little ads, emails and sales letters. I don’t even think in those days we sent out follow up emails.

As far as I know, my friend the late Corey Rudl created the demand for autoresponders when he wrote about how he brought in all this money by automatically emailing buyers 4 days later.

It was only after that someone was smart enough to create an autoresponder. Corey’s stuff was hand coded.  Gosh, I miss Corey.  And I reckon you’ve been in this business a long time when you see your friends move on to the next great adventure.

Somewhere in this timeline (it all escapes me), I had a little retail store selling self help books and tapes. The first thing newbies think to sell online is either diet stuff or self help.

Man, self help is a tough sell. Both Dan Kennedy and I had self development stores. And we both lost bux on ‘em. But I did have the chance to write and send out a few sales letters. And since I often didn’t have the money to print and mail letters, I’d call ‘em on the phone.

I found out that just by calling people, I could say ANYTHING and I’d STILL get a lot of people coming in for the next 3 weeks.

That’s the power of staying in contact with your customers.

Anyway, I could go on with this story. I’ve told the rest of it in bits and pieces in different places.

What are you supposed to get out of this?

Dan Kennedy I think had a path kinda like mine. And what he said once is profound. He said, “I became an overnight success after 20 years of effort.”

Now, I’m NOT saying you need 20 years of effort. You don’t. But neither is 20 minutes a week gonna do much for ya.

Most of the people I’ve seen make it in this business do so after trying things that didn’t work. And they kept on trying. And sooner or later, somethin’ clicked.

I think I shoulda called this article, “Sooner or Later, Something Clicked.”

So you got a job that sucks. You got bills that are stacked up. Hopefully you can buy deodorant with something other than pennies like me in the old days.

So what do YOU do?

My friend, I’d personally tell ya to do what I did. Fall in love with the process more than the immediate fixation of “I gotta make this work now or the whole thing is a scam.”

What you’re learning is marketing.

And that’ll benefit you your whole life. It can help you get your son or daughter or friend a job. It can help you raise money for your Church or charity. It can help you promote an idea whose time has come.

See, a LOT of people say, “I feel like I’ve just wasted my #*$&* money on stuff.”

I my response is, “Then you don’t understand what you’re learning. No wonder things haven’t clicked for you yet.”

See, this isn’t about gimmicks. It isn’t about you figuring out how to trick people into buying with magic words. It isn’t about fooling the search engines into stickin’ your stuff at the top. If you do this business the way I teach it, it’s about learning marketing. And yeah, I said the dirty 5-letter word — LEARN. You can paint it up. You can put perfume on it. You can sell the sizzle not the steak.

But my friend, what you’re doin’ is learning. And like my friend Jim Edwards says, “That isn’t something you microwave.”

“So Marlon, tell me how long this is gonna take and how much I’m gonna make when I’m done?”

Rule 1: People learn at different rates, so no one knows.

Rule 2: You’ll never be done.

Rule 3: It depends on what you sell, who you sell to, how much you charge, what your margin is and how often they buy.

Some people like Russ Brunson get in this business, do it part time between classes in college and go great guns with it.  Russ was one of my top affiliates.  But he figured out this business so quickly, before I knew it he had his own line of highly successful products. More power to him!

Others are like me and take like 10 or 20 years to learn it. What’s average? Average is not doing anything, therefore not learning anything, therefore the bills pile higher and the job gets tougher.

“Well, if you can’t tell me how much I’m gonna make, how long it’s gonna take and how much it’s gonna cost me, then I think this whole thing is a scam.”

To say that is to say you believe marketing is a scam. Because at least the way I teach it, that’s what you’re learning.

What’s my advice?

Think of the best info product idea you know how to come up with. Interview some experts and record it. Or have a friend interview you. Do a little 3-hour product, write a sales letter for it. And see if anyone buys.

If they don’t buy, guess what? You asked the market a question and the market answered.

You asked the market, “Do you want to buy this?” And the market responded, “No, not in the way you’re presenting it to me.”

Your choice is to present it differently or do another product. Along the way hopefully you learn some things about how to find out what people want, how to get ‘em to buy, how to fulfill products, write letters, create sales pages and so forth.

Honestly, in the DOING, you’ll learn a lot more than you’ll ever learn in the reading. You ask. The market answers. You learn along the way.

But if you’re a spectator and you never get in the game, I can guarantee you one rock solid thing: You’ll never win the game if you aren’t in it.

This is a great business. It isn’t for everyone. It sure isn’t a way to become a zillionaire overnight. Maybe after 5, 10 or 20 years you hit that zillion and you’re the next John Reese or Jeff Walker.

I don’t think everyone should be in this business. If you don’t wanna figure anything out yourself, if you don’t wanna learn how to solve problems, if you don’t wanna learn more things about html and the computer than you really wanna know, if you can’t tolerate risk, if you need your first attempt to be a success, or even your first 3 or 4, then I don’t know, if you can’t afford to spend money on learning and education, if you can’t afford to try things that don’t work, if you think it should all be simple and easy, I don’t know if this industry is for you.

A lot of people get seduced by the lure of ez dough. The promises of zillions without learning. Just connect the dots and you too can be John Reese, Marlon Sanders or whoever you wanna choose.

Here’s the deal: People WILL sell you a turnkey system to escape your job, make zillions or whatever. They’ll give you the fish. I want to teach you TO FISH.

I have a strong belief that unless you buy a franchise, in most cases your going to better off learning marketing than “buying a fish.” There are exceptions. But more often than not, buying a fish doesn’t serve you well.

Some of my friends would disagree with that premise. I happen to have a strong conviction that you are better off learning marketing.  My friends are RIGHT in that people DO want to buy the fish versus learn how to catch it.  So oftentimes, you’re best off selling a “fish” product.

But everybody has their perspectives.  And for me, my criteria for buying a product: If whatever “IT” is doesn’t “pan out” for you, are you STILL better off from having spent money on it? Will it continue to benefit you, your family or your friends in the future?

If the answer is NO, then think twice before spending your money.

You have a job you wanna escape, bills to pay off, retirement to prepare for. Or special needs like a sick loved one. Or a sickness yourself.

I can’t promise you ez zillions. There’s no integrity in that.

I can’t promise you 6 figures a year ez as pie.

What I CAN promise you is that selling products works. It’s no scam. People been doin’ it for thousands of years.

I can promise you that marketing works. Always has. Always will.

I can promise you that money and time spent learning marketing can pay off in many ways.

I can promise you that if you find demand, meet it with products and well-executed promotions, and you do that over time, those bills will likely fade away.

I can promise you that everybody on the Net selling you this or that “dough making system” ALL have 1 thing in common — THEY are selling you a product, service or seminar.

They have a target market.

They have an intro offer.

They have a back end.

I believe in paying more attention to what people DO than what they SAY.

People get all confused what to DO. And there’s a new system invented every day that’s the next big thing. Thank God. I love commerce.

But to remove the confusion, understand this:

They all may disagree on HOW you make money. But one thing is certain: They’re making bux selling a product to a target market — YOU!

Go and do thou likewise.

I remember back then. When I bought deodorant with all pennies.

I remember the date I had with a model in a car that smoked like a bomb.

And to me, there’s no confusion. It’s all crystal. It’s all simple. Take away the smoke. Take away the mirrors.

You need a product. You need people who want it with the money to buy it. You need some great promo out there.

There’s only ONE method people having using to pay their bills and quit their jobs for the past 1,000 years –

Selling products and services to a target market with a great sales pitch that presents benefits and solves problems.

I know you want more details on how. How do you find target markets? How do you identify demand? How, how, how.

I have provided a lot of those answers in the Milcer’s newsletters, Amazing Formula, Gimme My Money Now, Action Grid.

You wanna quit that job? You wanna liquidate that debt? I don’t have an ez zillion for you. But I do have a crystal clear answer.

Find a group of people. Find out what they need and want. Meet those wants with a product. Provide great service.

And who knows. Maybe. Someday. If the stars shine down on you, you’ll hit that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy.” If you’d like to get on his mailing list and receive tips, articles and information about online marketing, visit: http://www.marlonsblog.com

In order to make money online, you need a simple plan of action.  In addition to that, you must possess the willingness and desire to take action and keep taking action until you start making money.

Here’s the kicker: be prepared to take the action necessary and couple it with a positive attitude towards success, and success will come your way sooner or later.

Cash is king, so it is to your benefit to write down your goals for every aspect of your Internet business.

To get your goals to stick like glue, make your statement the start up page when your computer boots up. On top of that, you can convert your goals into a screensaver. As if that’s not enough, read your goals to yourself at least 3 times daily as you complete tasks throughout your home and business.

Mark my words; you will need to learn the basics about finding a product to sell, marketing products online, and building at least one website, probably more.

But that’s not all, learning how to sell online means having a thick skin and being able to adapt to change.

One of the easiest ways of building a website that you should consider creating a blog to help your business grow.

Use your blog to promote any product you are selling, be as an affiliate or creating your own product. Stay ahead of the game by adding content regularly.

What this means is casual visitors who will happen upon your website will then become regular visitors when they see that you add new content each time they come to your blog or website.

Churning out a profit online will be a lot easier for you if you are able to find a mentor who has already done what you want to do. A mentor knows the pitfalls. In fact, they already have a business plan in place that you could model your business on. In essence, they can answer any questions you may have. Finding a mentor may be as simple as finding internet marketing forums and talking to people who are already a success online.

You could just follow the steps that they outline in their posts on forums, without even talking to them, or you could visit the blogs of popular marketers and see what they are writing about. You don’t necessarily need to buy products from them, but you do need to learn from them, and take action.

Learning how to sell and make money online is all about taking action. When you first set a clear goal, and then take the necessary steps to see this goal realized. It really is just that simple.

This is what makes internet market research so important. By conducting this research you are better prepared to know who your target audience is as well as the best methods of reaching them.

Many companies find that the markets in which they serve are filled with customers, competitors, and continually changing marketing conditions. Meeting the demands of these constantly changing market conditions is one of the most difficult aspects of marketing. It is because of this that market research is so important.

The same marketing techniques that work today are not guaranteed to work in the future. This marketing research can provide information on what the target market is going to look like in the future, and how to prepare for it.

Research is the process of gathering information in order to learn about something. Yes, that is a simple definition of something that is actually quite complicated. For the marketer, research is not simply for the purpose of learning, but is an extremely important ingredient in the decision making process.

Internet market research will give you a full picture of both what is occurring and what is about to occur in the marketplace. When it is performed well it can let you know what the best choices are to be made. Marketing decisions are less risky when you have looked at all available options.

There are countless decisions to be made in business that are effected by marketing; these include: target markets, products, distribution, promotion, pricing, external factors, and others. Each of these marketing segments will require research. It is important that you perform the correct research for each of these segments or you will be wasting your time.

Because marketing involves people, it is one of the social sciences. Social science is the study of people and how they react to different situations. In marketing, you study people and how they react to different marketing campaigns. Many marketing research techniques, such as surveys for example, are in actuality scientific experiments.

Not all marketing research will require studies to be performed, but if these studies are not performed correctly then they are producing inaccurate results. Of course, any research, no matter how well performed, has the ability to be wrong. It is because of this that you must undertake many different methods of research in order to produce the most accurate results. Research reliability depends on making sure that the data gathering leads to accurate results. If you always make sure to conduct the proper Internet market research, you will find that your business will be much more profitable than if you had not.