How To Make Money With FarmVille
Your Expertise + Surveys + Facebook = Big $$$
Ok, here’s another thing I did which made me some good money with ease. A little warning before I get into this – I used Facebook ads to drive traffic. If you don’t have money to spend, then you should try driving traffic some other way. In the end, I’ll mention some free traffic generation techniques you could use.
Ok, let’s go.
I decided I should try promoting a FarmVille guide to FarmVille players on Facebook. At the time, that guide was really hot on ClickBank and wanted to try to jump on that FarmVille craze.
There are a lot of FarmVille players around the world, they are playing it on Facebook, so it made sense to advertise it on Facebook.
But since ad costs are a bit high and the commission I get is not too high, I knew I had to get a very good CTR and CR to make it worthwhile for me. I decided to apply a similar technique as in the first example.
Here’s what I did:
I set up a simple one essay question survey on surveygizmo.com asking people to ask me anything they want me to help them with FarmVille.
Here’s the link to that survey: What’s your biggest question about Farmville?
On the next page they were asked for their email address.
I then set up a Facebook ad campaign targeting people that are playing FarmVille. Made a lot of ad variations to find the one with highest CTR and that was it.
Here is a screenshot of one of the best converting ad variation.
My CTR was 0,265% after more than 850,000 impressions and my CPC was as low as $0,05 which was 4-5 times lower than the suggested CPC.
Obviously I hit the nail with this method since this kind of CTR on FB is really above average.
*USEFUL FB ADVERTISING TIP: Start with bidding low on CPC, once you know which ads have the highest CTR, switch to paying per impression for those ads à your CPC will drop 4-5% with the same traffic volume.
The success rate of people filling out the form was more than 30%. I think I got less than 700 people asking me questions during a 3 month period. Oh, I forgot to tell you that I had never ever played FarmVille in my life and I didn’t know a thing about it.
What I did is I bought the guide and I had a little friend to help me become a FarmVille expert called Mr. Google.
For each FarmVille question I got it took me around 10mins to find an answer and another 10mins to write the solution down.
At the end I simply added my affiliate link to the guide and honestly recommended it to them.
Out of those 700 people, around 85 of them bought the guide making me something like $1600.
I have spent around $150 on advertising which is nothing compared to the revenue.
And if you calculate how much money I made for each hour of my time invested, I was making a little bit more than $11 an hour, something like that.
Not bad for a simple project that I invested around 1hour a day.
I then stopped doing that because I was actually loosing money with this once I was making more money on other projects, my time was better spent somewhere else.
How to do this yourself?
You can do this for any niche you can imagine. Just like in the first example.
It’s even better if you’re an expert in a certain field because it will take you less time to write an answer.
But you don’t need to be one, you only need to be a good researcher and find information quickly.
If you want to do this, then pick a niche and a product to promote, set up a similar survey on surveygizmo, create ads on FB and that’s it.
If you don’t have the money to invest or you’re not skilled at FB advertising, then you can try the following traffic generation technique:
- Set up a facebook page with a title like: “I solve your FarmVille problems!” or “Let me answer your toughest FarmVille question!”
- Populate your page with the links to your survey.
- Also, go to fiverr.com and find someone to create a landing page for you for $5
- The landing page should have a small intro text where you explain how will you help them and what they need to do.
- Then set that landing page as a default page of your fb page so that people coming to it always see it first (and not your wall)
- Go to fiverr.com and find people with a lot of friends that will like your page and invite all of their friends for $5
- Just go to fiverr.com, click on sort by ratings and you’ll find at least 5 people on the first 10 pages of results.
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- Watch your fan count increase, and more importantly the questions you start getting.
- Also to spurr some viral effects when you send them your advice/solution, tell them you will send them a free ebook on that subject if they go back to your FB page and LIKE it.
- Rinse and repeat + come up with your own ideas
- Find other ways to promote your page, etc.
