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[submantom]

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I have been 'invited' to become a fan of a particular facebook page.... for a fairly broad item of clothing.

I didn't pay much interest until I saw that it had got 220,000 fans having only been created a week before!

The more I think about it, the more it seems the person who created the page is in it for their own gain, not just for fun, but I can't see how they will benefit. There are no links, no ads, nothing as yet. Maybe they will start to inject a few links later, I don't know.

How could you monetise a Facebook fan base of several hundred thousand people? Can you post affiliate links, or links to your own AM website?

[yesasia]

I have been 'invited' to become a fan of a particular facebook page.... for a fairly broad item of clothing.

I didn't pay much interest until I saw that it had got 220,000 fans having only been created a week before!

The more I think about it, the more it seems the person who created the page is in it for their own gain, not just for fun, but I can't see how they will benefit. There are no links, no ads, nothing as yet. Maybe they will start to inject a few links later, I don't know.

How could you monetise a Facebook fan base of several hundred thousand people? Can you post affiliate links, or links to your own AM website?

Yes you can put affiliate links on fan pages. You can also send messages to all your fans, which you can target by country.

It's possible someone just set it up for fun and then forgets about it. But 220,000 fans is really a lot!

[submantom]

thanks..... yes i thought that was a lot too.

i've gone for it and created a page related to one of my sites - got 100 people so far so a long way to go, but i guess it should be exponential growth really. well, that's what i'm hoping!

[missgong]

Yes you can put affiliate links on fan pages. You can also send messages to all your fans, which you can target by country.

It's possible someone just set it up for fun and then forgets about it. But 220,000 fans is really a lot!

How you can message all of your fans?

I think this is not possible (unfortunately). You can only send UPDATES, which means that they will receive your message in the updates-inbox (somwhere... ), not in their messaging inbox.

[yesasia]

Oh, I didn't realise there was a difference. Anyway, the ones sent from a "group" do go to the inbox. But maybe pages are different.

[purple]

How you can message all of your fans?

I think this is not possible (unfortunately). You can only send UPDATES, which means that they will receive your message in the updates-inbox (somwhere... ), not in their messaging inbox.

Facebook page updates go into a persons news feed, so they should see it when they next login

Problem with facebook groups u cant post message to group once u got over 2000 members there is no limit on facebook pages

[submantom]

i've seen a few merchants prevent you from putting affiliate links in social networking sites - is that common place?

[missgong]

Facebook page updates go into a persons news feed, so they should see it when they next login

Problem with facebook groups u cant post message to group once u got over 2000 members there is no limit on facebook pages

you can send messages to all the people in a group, from 1 to 5000
the problem is when they are over 5000, you loose the ability to message the members.

[missgong]

i've seen a few merchants prevent you from putting affiliate links in social networking sites - is that common place?

i didn't see those warnings... why ? i mean, what is the explanation they give for that prevention? Maybe we can figure out then

[yesasia]

Facebook page updates go into a persons news feed, so they should see it when they next login

Yes, but isn't there be a difference between updating your facebook page, and sending an update to your fans? Updates sent to fans do not even appear on the wall.