If you don’t want to create a website there is another way of earning from Affiliate Marketing and that’s through Facebook. Facebook is one of the biggest social media sites that you can utilize to earn from affiliate marketing.
These are the different ways on how you can promote your affiliate links using Facebook:
- Post On Group Page
- Create Ads
- Be An Influencer
- Create A Brand
Post on Group Page
One effective way is to post your affiliate links in a Facebook group. Since you are posting on a group, this is often considered targeted marketing. This depends on the interest of the group you joined which effectively helps you to find the right customers/audience for your affiliate link.
You need first to understand the rules of the FB group. Note that there are groups that prohibit their members from posting affiliate links and selling stuff. Thus, you should know this first.
Always consider the members of the FB group. Depending on the group you are in, you need to understand who your audience is.
The best example for this is posting about real estate affiliate links on FB groups that are related to Buying/Selling of properties instead of those group that are for information-content group (Although this may still work the likelihood of someone buying from your link is higher in buying and selling group than just posting on information-content groups).
When promoting your affiliate links, always make sure that you are giving value to other people and not just spamming affiliate links to different FB groups. An example of this is answering questions by providing lengthy solutions that includes an affiliate links.
Create Ads
Another way of effectively promoting your affiliate links is thru creating FB ads. You usually see this whenever you are scrolling through your FB accounts.
You can create an Ads engagement for as low as $5 per day and earn some commission every time someone uses your affiliate link to purchase a product or services.
This is an effective way of earning from affiliate links without the hassle of creating your website. This may take some time to test the thumbnails, products, and captions but once you picked the right audience and product you can really earn from this.
One important thing to note is that you need to have a good affiliate product or service that can cover the cost of running the ads to ensure that you get the most from this method.
Finally, ensure that you have read the terms and condition of your affiliate programs as some does not allow affiliate marketers to promote their affiliate links via FB ads.
Create A Brand / Facebook Page
Although this may take some time as compared with the above options, creating a brand/FB page can be the most valuable method in the long run.
If you can create a brand and promote an affiliate link of products or services from a niche, you can create consistent cashflows in the long run. However as mentioned earlier, this may take some time as you need first to build your following and have an audience interested in your niche.
If you wanted to build your followings on your FB page you need to do these:
- Get organic likes through consistent FB posts and reach out to other people to like your page. Typically 1 to 4 posts a week is fine but the more post you can consistently produce the more followers you can gain.
- Actively engaging with your followers. The more you interact with your audience the more you can build trust with them.
- You can also run ads to create a campaign that allows you to reach other people and introduce your page. This helps a lot especially when you are just building your followings.
- Leveraging from influencers. You can reach out to influencers and have your brand or page promoted to help you gain followers. Other offers free products and services just to have a shout-out to other influencers or big pages.
This takes a lot of consistency and hard work to build the right audience for your affiliate links but once you have set everything up, this is a business that you can further leverage and earn not just from affiliate links but also from other revenue streams.
Can I Use Amazon Affiliate Marketing on Facebook?
One of the most common affiliate marketing programs is from Amazon. This is already an established brand and you only need to promote it to the right audience.
Amazon does not allow affiliates to advertise in Facebooks posts containing affiliate links. This means that it’s 100% legit to make a Facebook posts with an affiliate link, but you can’t boost that post with Facebook ads.
According to Scaleo
Can I Promote Click Bank Affiliate Links in Facebook?
Another big affiliate marketing company is ClickBank, they also have a wide list of affiliate products and services that you can promote and earn a commission. You may also be wondering if you can also promote their product or services on FB, here it is.
The short version is – yes, you can advertise ClickBank products via Facebook, but with some caveats…
According to Sell Saas
Similar to Amazon Associate program, you are only allowed to include the affiliate links in your FB posts but you are not allowed to promote them through ads.
Final Thought
I still would like to recommend creating a website if you wanted to see the full potential of affiliate marketing. But if you’re not really interested you can leverage from the different method above and see what best suits you.
At the end of the day, these all require consistency and hard work. You need to ensure that you are giving value to other people through your affiliate link and not just spamming it to different places on the internet.
If you tried but failed to earn from your affiliate marketing campaigns you can check this to learn more about 9 Reasons Newbies Fail To Earn In Affiliate Marketing.