I use Facebook to promote my work
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
United States
July 16, 2012 12:56pm CST
I know lots of people are Facebook crazy. I'm not. I don't have much use for Facebook other than when I want to promote my work. It does make a big difference. My page views started taking off when I started promoting on Facebook... so I usually make over $55 dollars a month just from people clicking on my stuff. I have almost 1300 pieces on Yahoo Voices and just under 300 pieces on Knoji. Page views at Knoji suck, so it doesn't even matter. But Yahoo Voices is quite profitable, because I don't have to do anything and my views continue to be up there. When I am not able to write articles, I will just write a 3 line haiku poem once in awhile to keep people coming to my pages. I get comments from people making google searches on a lot of topics. One of my most visited pages is my article about my total knee replacements. I was surprised at how many people messaged me to tell me they enjoyed or were educated by that article.
I believe that Facebook and Google are my friends for allowing me to make a little passive income.
Your thoughts?
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19 responses
@Ixodoi (445)
• Israel
16 Jul 12
I agree. I also use Facebook mostly for promotion.
You should also consider using twitter. If people really like you work so much - they will follow you on twitter. And so will me notify when you publish something new (since you will tweet the link). Also it is good for SEO.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
16 Jul 12
I guess I will have to start doing it. I almost never use Twitter.. but I have an account.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jul 12
At this point in time, I really don't have a lot of experience with using facebook as a marketing tool. However, I will admit that it is something that I am starting to get into because of the fact that I was invited to join a marketing dream team for one of the digital scrapbooking sites that I've been a member of for many years.
It is interesting to hear that using facebook as a marketing tool is something that works for you and I do hope that it will also be something that will work for our digital scrapbooking site.
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I only use face book to talk to my friends have no idea how to make an income from it.
@Kasiviswanathan2k (288)
• India
16 Jul 12
That's sounds great.. really facebook promotion give u like traffic to your page.. really it's great.. I accept that it's really great for promotions.. because we can make lot more trafic.. by refering our friends friends and go on.. that's make very huge chain..
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
16 Jul 12
I've been writing since 2007 and making pretty good money after I started promoting.
@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
18 Jul 12
Hi friend, i am also in your sort, use my fb account to promote my articles and getting pageviews from it. Good to hear that you made around 55 dollars from your fb account views. I am writing in EC, wikinut and getting visitors from my social site accounts
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
17 Jul 12
Hi Pose. It's not going to work so well for you. You are Canadian so you won't get paid every month. They don't pay upfronts to Canadians. Just people in the US are eligible. You can vet money from page views but it doesn't pay you until you reach $100 and then you only get to keep $70 out if that.
Winterose writes for YV and she is Canadian. It takes her 4 or 5 months to make $100. Then taxes in the US are taken out, I guess. I get all I earn but Canadians don't. Other countries are not eligible at all to earn from Yahoo Voices.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Jul 12
hi PQ you are so talented no wonder you make 55 dollars.Wonder if
I have enough talent to do that? I love to write but I am mostly a fiction w riter so can I switch to articles and c an I
sell anything? I do do poetry and have sold to small poetry magazine s b ut they only pay you in copies?I see that FaceBook
did indeed help yo u. I need to make more money too.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
16 Jul 12
Hi Aunt Hatley,
Yahoo Voices doesn't pay upfronts for poetry.. all creative writings are for performance payments... you will get paid for page views... think of all your friends here being your supporters on Yahoo Voices? You would make a lot more than me with less articles, I'm almost sure of it.
There was one girl I knew who made over $1000 a month just with performance pay .. that's from page views. She has a huge following. I bet you could too. I wish I could get a huge following to make that much a month..
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
18 Jul 12
I do the same thing.
I use facebook to share my writings and nothing much of that.
I am not a fan of social sites either.
I rather spend my time writing and mylotting than chatting.
I only leave message to friends when necessary and greet them on their birthdays and other occasions.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
18 Jul 12
Yes, me too. I would rather do the same thing.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
17 Jul 12
http://www.blogstash.com/12-ways-to-make-money-on-facebook/
@DoctorDidi (7018)
• India
17 Jul 12
Would you kindly explain how you use facebook or any other social networking sites for promotion of your work? I have a blog on blogger for homeopathy which describes some common diseases with their aetiologies,clinical features,investigations and treatment by homeopathic medicines. So I think it has a more or less bright prospect. But unfortunately, due of lack of proper promotion, it does have a good traffic. So I earnestly seek your suggestion in this respect.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
17 Jul 12
True. If you write crap, no one will be interested. Since 2007 I've made over $5,000 so I think I'm doing alright. A grand a year isn't a lot but it's better than a kick in the butt. I used to be active writing for upfronts. Now I just take assignments. They are few, but the pay is better than the regular upfronts.
@GardenGerty (160952)
• United States
16 Jul 12
It sounds like you are being a good business woman. I understand that you can tweet your articles as well. I wish you lots of views and good fortune. It is really neat that you can do this.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Jul 12
yes there are many passive writing sites like that, stubleup, linkin, digg, pinterest and so much more.
@ivade0000 (225)
• France
22 Jul 12
Well, I do agree with you. I am doing exactly the same thing as you are doing now. I promote my blogs and my websites on facebook and twitter too. Although it does not sound so professional, it is still a good way to get a number of views from my friends and my family.
@bent31 (85)
• Canada
22 Jul 12
I have to say that I never thought of using my Facebook for promoting my work. I mostly use it for communicating with friends and family.
I was wondering if you're able to give me some tips regarding Yahoo Voices?
I'm very interested in making a little income during school.
Best of luck!
