adil's Blog
EARNING AND INTERNET, 4 '12 Subject: INTERNET HELP, Viewed by: 79

Secrets to making money on FanBox
There are so many rumors and ideas floating around the community.... so many different strategies to maximize your earnings.
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So, who should you listen to? What's the best way to make the most money -- that you can CASH OUT as soon as possible?
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Should you post to Facebook and Twitter?
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Posting to facebook, google, twitter etc are all good ideas. But if you look at the amount of money people are making from those sources -- its not much. The source that is making the most money for people (not counting ads) -- is definitely from Making New Posts. The reason is that when you make new posts, thousand of people will see it (at no cost to you) because it is shown in their fanbox homepage feed.
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So definitely try facebook and twitter and things like that -- but I am sure you will find that most of the non-ad money is coming from making new posts. Every day I see people making good money from posting -- as much as $50 or $100 (I've even seen as much as $300 made in one day from making new posts) --Â but I never see anyone making more than $3 to $6 from other sites or even from their fanbox profile.
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OK, so the very best way to make money is to Make New Posts. But what should I write about?
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The very best thing for you to write about is.... ready for this.... NOTHING!
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What??? Let me explain....
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Why take the time to write about anything -- when there are millions of web sites and billions of pages of content on every possible imaginable topic already on the web -- and totally accessible instantly using google!!! So you can easily copy and paste right from those sites right into Fanbox -- just be sure to give them credit with one easy line at the end of your post, something like "Source: XYZ.com" or something like that.
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Look, readers don't care that you took it from somewhere else -- they are just happy that you did the research and brought it to them! And the owner of that content usually doesn't care, because you gave him credit -- and if he ever has a problem with it, worst case he'll ask you to take it down (which will take you only about 10 seconds) but that will not happen often.
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OK, so to maximize my earnings, is to make new posts. But, I have big ambitions and would really like to Go Big -- REALLY BIG! What can I do to make LOTS OF MONEY?
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So as we just discussed, the best way to earn the most money, is to make new posts -- tons of them. Want to go bigger than that?
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I wouldn't be surprised if you could make so much money that way that you could hire one person to help you, then another person, then another person.... gradually building a team that does that for you, as your earnings grow -- because you don't have other costs.
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Then, you can also hire another person to manage your ads -- and their job is to make sure that only the best ads are kept live -- so their job will be to basically try many ads each day, but quickly take the ones down that aren't producing for you.
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There is plenty of proof that someone can build a company out of this opportunity -- if they have the ambition and the communication and leadership skills needed to motivate and inpsire others.
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I hope this helps you -- but please remember, these are all just ideas -- this is all very new and we are all learning together. Some things will work, others won't. I will let you know as I see others succeeding or failing, so you can learn from their successes and failures and save yourself time. But from everything I have seen (and I spend a lot of time researching whats working and whats not working, to save your time) I can tell you honestly that this is our current very best understanding about what you can do to maximize the return on your time and money - to profit from your passion and energy.
Make money using your profile
Increasing your revenues by:
   Bringing traffic to your profile
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When people visit your FanBox profile, to check out your photos and learn more about you, communicate with you, or just admire your sense of style and how you've set up your profile -- they will also visit your blogs and -- guess what -- YOU EARN MONEY!
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So be sure to make your profile pretty -- load lots of photos -- and BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY!
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Community building starts with your real friends -- who else will care more about you, your ramblings and your blogs?
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So to increase your earnings, create a nice profile with lots of photos -- and invite your real friends to it!
Growing your readership using Facebook
Increasing your readership by:
   Posting into Facebook
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One of the easiest ways to get more people reading your posts, is to hook into Facebook!
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With FanBox's Facebook integration, the whole process takes you LESS THAN ONE MINUTE, and after that, you can have all your new posts automatically posted into Facebook!
CHEATING or HONEST? How did #1 make $28,000?
CHEATING OR HONEST?
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How did #1 on the Worldwide LeaderBoard make her earnings?
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I promised that I would do my research and provide my thoughts on Erica Nicole (with earnings of over $28,000 in 6 weeks) and whether or not she cheated the system to generate her earnings.
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I requested all the data from FanBox, and went back and did the research -- looking at the sources of her daily earnings going back 3 months, and all the trends and movements she made.
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Here are my findings, followed by an open letter to Erica Nicole:
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First, a little history:
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About 2 months ago, Joen (currently No. 2 on the Worldwide All-time Leaderboard), decided to do something that no one had done before: Invest all his earnings right back into Ads -- to see where it might take him.
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Within a few weeks, he went from $200 to $14,000 in earnings. As he earned money, each day, he reinvested it right back into Ads. After a few weeks of this, he turned off his Ads - and waited to cash out what he had earned. I am not sure he actually launched that many Ads - but the one or two Ads that he did have, somehow just kept making him a profit, just enough to keep money in his bank to fund his Ads the next day.
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One day, someone said "Joen, you are making too much money. Why don't you let us make some too? It's not fair to us!"
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Someone else added a comment: "Yes! Why are you making so much money? Are you stealing from us?"
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A third person chimed in: "Stealing from us??? May Allah rain a thousand bolts of lightning onto your head!!! You are a criminal and I hope you die a painful death"!
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The fourth person added: "Painful death??? That's not enough -- your whole family deserves to be tortured -- for being related to you"!!!!
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And the comments got worse from there!
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I'll spare you the next many messages that were left -- all meant to create verbal and emotional pain for Joen -- for seemingly doing nothing but attempting to see what he could earn by reinvesting all his earnings into Ads.
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Funny enough, one of the people that had questions about the legitimacy of Joen's earnings, was Erica Nicole - although she never got verbally abusive -- but she of course had questions as to whether he was earning legitimately or had found a way to "game the system" and basically steal from FanBox and the other bloggers.
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Scott, a product manager at FanBox, chimed in. He did the research to see what was happening, and reported that Joen had done nothing wrong. He was simply betting all his earnings on Ads -- a choice that was open to every other blogger in FanBox. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Many individuals kept complaining that FanBox needed to take him out of the site and delete his account, and Scott's last comment was that these users needed to grow up and "find something more productive to do with their time" than sit around and wish harm to someone who's only crime was success. He suggested that a better use of their time was to make new posts, launch ads, promote their posts on facebook or fanbox or elsewhere.
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Erica Nicole was someone who decided to change her approach and thinking - and set out on her own to test what Scott was saying. She launched an Ad. Watched how it performed. Launched two more. Took the worst performing one down. Launch new posts. Launched more Ads. Took the worst 2 down. Launched more posts. Focused on her Ads. Looked at what was working, and what was not. She learned from the Ads that were working, and the ones that were not.
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She kept this up for 6 weeks. In the process, she launched about 3 Ads a day - totaling almost 100 Ads in a month, taking each of them down when they no longer performed well. She also made a lot of new posts.
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And her All-time earnings went from $800 -- to $28,000 -- in 6 weeks.
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Then, at the end of March -- 6 weeks after she started that process - she paused all of her Ads (so her earnings wouldn't be spent on Ads for a while) so she could cash out on April 30.
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She is now poised to cash out many thousands of dollars on April 30. In the picture below, notice that the blue bars are her earnings that she spent on Ads; and the green bars are what she will cash out. Notice that she paused her Ads on March 30, to ensure she could cash it out on April 30. I think that it's great that she is taking a moment to enjoy the fruit (cash) of her labors, before she returns to do it all again.







