Step 1 – Identify an interest
The first thing you need to do is find someone, or a group of people, on Facebook that you have identified as having a s p e c i f i c interest (through a status update, comment, like, group etc.).
You will come across these all the time just with your normal use of Facebook. Your newsfeed is constantly filled with information saying that someone has liked a particular page, joined a group or set themselves a new goal through a status update etc. If you want to find even more potential people to contact, you can look outside of your own connections and use the Facebook search function to identify groups, pages or tags that will help you segment a target audience.
Step 2 – Find a product to promote
Once you have identified a person or group of people with a specific interest, the second step is to find an affiliate
product that you can promote to them. Clickbank has a huge number of digital products like ebooks, video courses, audio programs, software, membership sites and
more that cover a plethora of topics. And as I’m sure you know, Amazon sells everything from books, to bikes, TV’s, phones, tablets and…… well just about everything.
So between the Clickbank affiliate program and the Amazon Associates affiliate program, you can find a product to promote that will appeal to just about anyone. For example, if you came across a status update on Facebook where someone said: Arrrrgh! I love my baby but why won’t she sleep for more than 2 hours straight!
You could go into the Clickbank marketplace, lookup the ‘Parenting and Families’ section and find a relevant ebook or video course to help them. A quick search in the Clickbank
marketplace reveals that there are several products based on teaching parents how to get their children to sleep through the night. These would be perfect, and you get $20 or more per sale.
Once you have found a product that is suitable, the next step is to get your affiliate link for it. Clickbank and Amazon both have
different procedures for this and you can find detailed instructions on their websites, in their affiliate training sections.
Step 3 – Give them your affiliate link!
The final and easiest step of all is just to give them your affiliate link. If we look back at the example we gave earlier where someone
posted on their Facebook timeline: Can anyone recommend a good android phone? I just broke my old one and I need to buy a new one ASAP!
You could respond to this with a comment like:
Hey there, I’ve heard that the new XYZ phone is good. Here is a link to the top-selling Android phones, they all have independent customer reviews so it should help you choose:
h tt p : //y o uraffi l i a tel i n k . com
It’s as easy as that.
And if you have found a Facebook group with a similar interest you could create a new comment in the group with your link, or
reply to some status updates or comments from other members in the group.