How to make money with Facebook? Is it really possible to make money with facebook? It seems like making money with facebook is on everybody’s mind these days. If you are one of those people who want to know how to make money with facebook, here are some ideas to help you get started in making money on facebook.

These methods don’t require you to buy anything or pay someone to tell you the "secrets”. As a matter of fact you can start making money with your facebook right now without having to spend any money at all. These are no "secrets” for making money on facebook. Simply some very basic methods that people use to make money elsewhere, but with a little work and patience you can apply the same methods to make money on facebook

Of course, like any other method to make money, you need a market for it. In this case the market would be facebook friends. The more facebook friends you have, the more chance you have of making (more)money. What if you don’t have much facebook friends?…Fortunately it’s very easy to create a massive market (friends for facebook) simply by searching and inviting others to be your friend. But, if you want to take it to the next level and automate the finding and adding friends process, there are some software that can do just that.

Ok, lets get to the point and see how you can make money on facebook. Here are some proven ways you can use to make money on facebook.

Showing ads on Facebook

With all the facebook applications that make it easy and a snap to start showing ads on your facebook, there is no excuse for not taking advantage of this method, specially if you are popular amongst your facebook friends, and have a big audience to show your ads to. Using adsense, chitika and other PPC advertising companies you can easily setup your ads and customize it to your liking. Make sure to set it somehow that it serves ads related to product and services that you know your facebook audience is interested in.

Writing a Facebook book (How To…)

Facebook is attracting more and more members everyday. And lets face it, not all of these people are facebook savvy. And even though getting started with facebook for you and I might be simple and quick, many people have problem with the basic things. Write a small and to the point e-book about facebook and how to use it. Maybe a simple step by step instruction for getting started with facebook. Or an e-book about how to use different application to make facebook experience a better one. There are many possibilities. With the huge amount of facebook apps and all the new ones that are added daily, this can be quite big. You don’t even have to pay to promote your e-book, simply use your own facebook or better yet create one for your e-book and start promoting it.

Affiliate marketing on Facebook

It’s the same idea as showing ads, but in a more direct way. Register for free with affiliate networking sites such as clickbank, Maxbounty and etc, and pick a product relevant to your facebook audience interest to promote. You will be provided a simple code which is a link with your affiliate id embedded in it. Whenever someone clicks on that link and buys the product or service, you make money by getting a commission.

You can create an entirely new facebook for that product and start promoting it there. A friend of mine is actually doing it for 4/5 different weight loss product. He created a facebook page for each product and started adding friends to his facebook. He writes short posts about the product and posts it on his facebook with his affiliate link in it. Hi is making a couple of hundred dollars a month doing this. I know it’s not much, but for something that doesn’t cost you a dime and takes about 30 minuets to setup, and takes about 20 minutes or so a day to run, I don’t think it’s a bad deal.

Blogging about Facebook

There are already some people doing it. But there is always room for new voices. Get a free blog over at blogger and use Google adsense (which is already integrated in blogger, so even if you don’t know how to show ads on your blog, you can set it up with couple clicks) to show ads on your blog and make money that way.

When you established yourself as an authority and a trusted person for anything related to facebook, you can get some sponsor and maybe use affiliate networking sites to find and promote facebook related product.

Create and sell a Facebook application

If you are savvy enough and know your way around, why not use your skills to make a facebook app of your own and sell it to facebook users? Again, once you made it, you can use the same strategies mentioned above (blog or a facebook page for the app) to promote your app.

  There you have it, 5 ideas you can use to make money not only on facebook, but you can also apply the same ideas to Myspace, Twitter and other social networking platforms to make money. If you know of any other ways to make money with facebook, please use the comment box below to share it with us.