7 Reasons NOT to Delete Facebook
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You are leaving money on the table if you don't use the resource that is Facebook today and here are 7 ways how you would lose money by deleting Facebook.
I'm keeping it real here with personal examples as someone new to facebook and who has made money and contacts with minimal effort, so even for absolute beginners to facebook an indication as to what you could be losing. And I'm sure you can add even more!
1. Online forums use facebook: we can log in to the discussion areas on them and when we make comments and get involved in the discussions all the people there can connect back to our facebook and websites - that's a targeted audience usually of thousands of people for your niche.
- Someone from an event recently did connect back to me on fb, friended me as a direct result of a comment I'd made under one of the speakers about improving the marketing and messaged me that he wants to connect to discuss further my suggestions.
- I have had people connect with my facebook profile to enquire about building websites and joining WA as members too and I'm sure many of the raw clicks on my links came from there too as I did not have a bootcamp site the past year.
- I made $138 from one facebook post, I simply made a comment at the Parasite summit that I was going to post some parasite pics on my fb personal page and people could go check them out - I was not allowed post links at the event but people did go check me out and I got commissions and followers who see everything I post now.
2. Private groups use Facebook: for example I attended the SIBO summit and joined their private fb group, now I'm free to comment in there and get updates from members all across that group all the time - that is a HUGE group of people and network that have access to me and my affiliate links for WA and health niche and whatever else I'm offering all the time.
3. Some courses use facebook: eg I did a course by John Assaraf called Winning the Game of Money where his entire platform was run on a private fb group - I did make WA commissions in there. And to this day a number of people from that group stay in contact with my fb page, they are notified of what I post on my fb, and any time I go on to comment or like on one of their posts the social doors are open again, targeted audience ;)
4. Commissions Leaderboard Winner Used Facebook: An online shop owner I know scored #139 in the affiliate commissions leaderboard of a major event - the sort where the biggest players in the health world always win the most commissions and even to appear on the leaderboard alongside them is a major achievement- he got all his commissions from his personal fb page by running little videos every day with commentary, stories about his life like what diet or fast he's trying at the moment, what bugs him, little snapshots that get engagement. And that's another group I can wander into and have a chat with any time, each time I like and engage there my facebook door is open for them to come back and see what I'm offering. Hint, my facebook page is not idle chat, I use even my personal page to promote what I'm interested in.
5. Viral Potential of the Reach: Over 1.5 billion people are using Facebook, each estimated to have an average of 200 friends, so connecting with any one person on facebook tends to have a viral effect as regards your reach, the sheer ability for you to be exposed to other people all of whom can share your content virally too, and all of which can lead to your website or offers. And then facebook itself is geared with some sophisticated technology to amp up that viral effect if you want to play seriously with the marketing.
*I hope by now you are seeing it is an infinite network, dropping us right into the center of targeted audiences for our niches all the time, just by being ourselves and mingling with events and people that interest us we are reaching out and displaying our wares, and that is on minimal effort.
6. The free business pages: are easy to set up and link to our websites. These have even more functionality.
7. Facebook Advanced Features: - magistudios has a series of 6 trainings on Facebook showing people how to use things like boost posts, ads, select audiences, and more.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/magistudios/training
- I've heard John Assaraf say he spends something like half a million dollars or more on facebook ads every month, which returns him more money than he actually spent.
Facebook has some very advanced marketing strategies available to marketers, some of these using the very things people are complaining about at the moment, Facebook Insights is not something I pay too much attention to, I never gave fb the info it was looking for, I lied about my date of birth etc lol, but as Kyle has said and it is pretty logical, if Facebook can gather this data then they all can and will.
Facebook: Good, Bad, or Indifferent?
There is no doubt facebook has been accused through time as having been a bit of a dictator, there is even an excellent documentary on it on Irish TV, and there had been court cases in Europe to try to make Facebook toe the line way before the latest screams. And if fb were to vanish and create a vaccuum, something else would spring up to replace it for better or worse.
I'm not pro-facebook here, I'm just pro 'not leaving money on the table' when it is up for grabs, and people deleting their accounts simply cuts down our reach. It's up to Facebook to clean up its act, meanwhile it's a resource with a lot of good potential.
There is no doubt facebook has closed some businesses and personal accounts down unfairly in the past, I would not encourage any business to rely on facebook, and many of them seem to use it as an alternative to websites or blogs! NO, it's simply about not leaving money on the table when it's there.
Reasons to delete some of what YOU are posting on Facebook, lol!
Then on the other hand, while we are talking about making money off facebook as a resource and adjunct to our websites and other social media, it seems most people are filling up their personal profiles with personal stuff that ends up embarrasing them and even losing them their jobs if their boss catches it. Best to choose how you use your fb account in the first place, whatever about spying by facebook.
Ok, hot topic at the moment. Just saying, minimal effort maximum reach, shows great potential.
Mary
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I do not have a FB account at present and am thinking about it. I do want to see where the dust settles. However, I agree people do not think about what they post there and therein lies the problem. Just think about what you say and you will be alright I would think.
yes, and you don't have to give them accurate info signing up either - it is just a resource to take advantage of for your own purposes, many people use it like a public diary! See Kyle's comment below :)
Thanks. I agree. I use fb for so many things. When I post, I think of my brand and possible message I might be sending. I have done many courses that have discussions on fb and gotten lots of useful contacts. All that is happening now, will soon pass. There are so many of us that find fb a great benefit !
Thanks for sharing your positive experience and showing people how it really works for us, especially when used with intent the way you are doing it
I guess I'm a little old school here...
I think Facebook is a potential goldmine. If we're worried about security on the web then this is probably the wrong business to be in.
The tech giants are working hand in hand with the CIA and NSA to track everything everyone does.
That's just the way it is. I'm pretty sure they are not focused on the google rating on your website or how much you've sold through Amazon :)
My defense against the cyber spies? Work naked at my computer. They will either stay and stare leaving my friends here at WA alone or run to another room and cower in some corner of a dark office :)
HeHe....just kidding...or am I?
Steve
Are you looking...Again? Ha, better get my bath robe on hanging out here :)
Great article by the way. Thanks for being so helpful here!
Steve
Facebook is just one spoke in the wheel of all data collectors, it doesn't resolve anything when you delete your Facebook account. They still will track you down. When it's not Facebook, then it's Google (Maps), Whatsapp, Instagram, Camera's, your credit card or shopping cart, you can't escape the rat race by just deleting Facebook. There need to come rules and laws for all these data tracking and selling. #Deletingfacebook is a sign, not the solution.
Well said Loes - I need to make contact with you soon as I'm back in The Netherlands.
Take care.
Johan.
The government is in on it, they are gathering all our data in their own ways too, and then we hear rumours about ISP providers, so no escape really! Glad you are not telling peeps to delete their account.
Thank you for sharing, great article, and insights. I am well on my way to creating a page for my website, and thanks to you I know what to do and what not do on Facebook.
I have a personal page on FB, but I have not been active for a long time. I think this has helped see the benefits of having a page for my business.
Best regards,
Kele
That's great Kele, and it might help that you haven't been active, sort of means starting fresh with the audience you want for your biz.
Such an honest assessment of Facebook's value for affiliate marketers. I wanted to punt FaceBook until another Wealthy Affiliate member pointed out some great strategies for managing FB, as you have. There are several FaceBook strategies and I now think its important to read every one you can. I didnt find any strategies that worked for me until recently and that makes all the difference. Mary you have pointed out another strategy that resonates with what Im doing so thank you. I see how I can increase my participation in other groups.
It's called 'the just being yourself' strategy :)
Some of the official strategies out there would put me off too, I never really saw myself as doing anything at all till I looked back and saw things working nicely with fb. Thanks for your kind words. I do hope people won't react too quickly and cut their reach by deleting.
I like that name for it -- you have to find a bit of yourself in the strategy or you wont keep doing it. It will feel like too much of a pain.
I agree with this Mary, Facebook still has viability in your business and likely always will. Can you succeed without it, absolutely. Are you better off with it (assuming you don't sit there and watch videos all day), absolutely.
I know this data breach and the fact they are handing over data has upset a lot of folks and they have every right, but it is the nature of the beast with these companies offering a free service with an ad driven business model. Your data, is their value. The more data you provide, the more valuable it becomes.
That is why I recommend to share only things online that you want the entire world to see. Otherwise, keep it private.
You maybe right, but it’s never been about the privacy stuff with me. It’s more about the time and effort I don’t feel like putting into creating a Facebook page! Also, it’s been said that you can’t be a master of all, pick one or two and build something then expand. Who knows, in the future I might find that Facebook was the missing link to faster success!
Peace & blessings,
Marcus
I hear you, but all of the above with me was minimal to zero effort, 6 official friends and that money was rolling in, I'm not sure that page has even one like - yet I'm hearing courses out there saying oh you got to use strategies to build your first 1000 likes lol
Mary,
I have to agree with you here. Yes Facebook for me in the passed was my nightmare.
When it comes down to conversions and money on the table. Well we are talking a different world altogether.
As you say minimum effort maximum reach just sums it all up perfectly.
Well said Mary.
~Debs ;-)
thanks Debs :)
my facebook efforts really were minimal but the returns opened my eyes to the potential
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Excellent post there Mary, Facebook is in business and we are in business it is all about creating those mutually beneficial relationships.
We are all in the marketing sea, some of us in the shallows and some of us in deep waters, at the end of the day we are all about collecting information, as soon as we tap into Google analytics we have joined the club, it is just that Facebook swims in extremely deep waters.
Business is business, it can be a case of being in for a penny being in for a pound, delete Facebook no way, time to increase exposure, I think harvest time is approaching.
Thanks Alex, love your attitude on this! :D