Make Money With Facebook And MySpace

Internet marketing is simple in principle; traffic converts into money, the more traffic you can attract the more money you can make. Since not all of us can simply whip up a website and get bucket loads of traffic from the start we need other sources of traffic. Some of the most popular sites on the internet are social sites such as Facebook, My Space, Bebo and many more. The amount of people that visit these sites every day is hundreds of millions providing us with an unbelievable source of traffic to sell products and services to.

So how can you turn these sites into profit generating monsters? Well first lets understand how these sites work. The concept is very simple as each site allows individuals to sign up for free and create a personal profile stating their interests, hobbies and anything they would like to share about themselves. Once created individuals will search for their friends and try to find new ones through common interests and social groups. As members accumulate new friends they begin to interact through leaving messages on each others profiles and look at what all their friends are up to. To do this members constantly check each others personal profile pages to see what's new. This creates a web of friends that are constantly checking each others profile many times hundreds of times a day every day. This kind of marketing potential is what advertisers dream of. Hundreds even thousands of people can check a single profile every day. Now imagine that on your profile you mention a few of your favorite products or hobbies and incorporate some affiliate links. As your friends check your profile they click through to the products and services eventually buying some of your recommended products providing you with a commission for your sales.

The process is simple. Create an account on one or more of these social sites and make a welcoming profile page with many of the things you enjoy doing. Find some affiliate programs that are relevant to what you enjoy and post them on your profile page recommending them to your friends. What is especially effective are free to sign up dating sites that pay you per sign up. Tell your friends you found the love of your dreams through an affiliate dating site and watch them sign up in the hundreds. As with all affiliate marketing, you will need to experiment with what kind of affiliate products will convert well with these social sites. Since social sites are dominated by the student populations, music, ring tones, fashion and dating are some of the best converting products.

There is one more question you will be asking; how do I get more friends? Well first start by inviting everyone you know to sign up. Then simply search through other peoples profiles or social groups joining as many as you can. Use your commonalities to make friends. It is incredible easy to get individuals to accept you as a friend on their profiles with many people simply adding anyone that asks. It will be up to you to find ingenious ways to attract more people to your profiles. Some people use provocative pictures, others comedy and some methods that we shouldn't even mention! Your ability to grab people attention will be the yard stick in measuring your success with this money making method.