Money Making Secrets!
Find out how I made it to the top ten worldwide leader board!
I have been trying to figure out for months how to earn on FanBox and I want to share all the things I have learned. I did not earn that much money right away. This has been a slow climb and not always upward. There were many times where I barely made anything....just pennies for weeks. I never gave up. Persistence is important. These are all things I have done and continue to do. I want to share, so everyone can learn to make money on here because it is very possible. So here are my tips for success, so you make $$$$$.......
1. Make posts, read and comment on others posts!
If you are new to FanBox or are wondering what to do this is where you should start. Just start posting. Create blogs that interest you and that you think might interest others. We all have different taste, so more than likely your post will be interesting to someone. Make the post...keep an eye on it and check to see if others comment. If you get comments always respond to the comments. This helps because you will make friends and your post will go through the feed again, so it has another opportunity to be seen. If you don't receive a comment make one, so your post will be seen in the feed again.
2. You need fans!
You need fans because they are the ones who will see your posts, read them and make comments. The more fans you have the better the chance someone will see your post and want to read it. Fan people!!! Fan everyone!!! Fan someone when you read their post and whenever you see you are not a fan of someone. If they comment on a post you have made see if you are their fan. As you look at the news feed and read blogs fan those people too. It's only a matter of time before you have hundreds of fans. Fanbox also gives you fans which is a great bonus!
3. Experiment with Ads!
I have made many ads so far and most of them didn't work so well for me in the beginning as far as bringing me a lot of money. Make an ad for every post as you now have the opportunity for a knowledge investor to fund it. As of now we can't track our ads performance, but we will have that ability in the future, so it's a bit of a guessing game. My advice if you don't know what to fund is fund one ad at a time to see which one you earn from and that will give you an idea of what ads to fund. You You can also gain exposure to new fans. You can also run ads for other peoples posts and set them for a knowledge investor to fund!
Make sure you have relevant tags for your ad. When you create an ad for the first time the system doesn't know if that post is popular or not, so it will show your ad a lot. Once it learns if your ad gets clicks or not it will determine if it should continue to show impressions or serve your ad. So, if you aren't earning from your ads it's because they aren't getting clicks and then they don't get shown...the more popular ads get shown first and the unpopular ones get buried. So you have a chance in the beggining to make a good impression if you create good work!
4. Tags are important!
Always fill in all of your 6 tags/search terms. If you don't it's a MISSED opportunity. Tags are important because they match your post to users with those interests. If you don't it's a missed opportunity as your post will reach fewer users within the site. Make sure your tags relate to the content of your post because now people can rate your post. If your tags do not relate to your post you can be rated poorly and your post will be pushed down in a search.
5. Place the dollar sign correctly!
Place the dollar sign after the first few sentences of your post. The dollar sign is where theRead More goes and you only make money after people click the read more to get to your post.
6. Be patient and consistent!
I have been on here for months and have only just started to gain some momentum. It does not always happen overnight. I have also put time into this every day. I am on here every day either making a post or reading and commenting. Be respectful of others and create a presence. You may have days or weeks when you feel like you have not been earning, but don't give up!
7. Read everything FanBox!
Read every post you see about how people are making money on FanBox. Most people are very willing to share what they have learned with you. Many of the people on the leader board have very informative blogs about what they have done to make money.There are no tricks or secrets. It takes hard work and some creativity.
8. Ad links to your posts!
Another way to earn money is by making sure you have a link in your post. You can link your post to another post and continue to earn money while the reader is looking at the other post. Check out the link below for an example. ;)
9. Rate & Categorize:
You can also rate and categorize other peoples posts to earn ad credits! This is a great way to accumulate some funds to promote your own ads. You can also ad tags if the post has less than 6 tags. This activity increases your 'CAR' score the most. The system remembers you and how you rate, so be objective to gradually increase your score. If you have no money this is a great way to gain some then you can fund your own ads and make more money! Got it!! ;)
10. Boosting
The boost feature has only been available to us for a couple of weeks. I have been boosting and diversifying my investments and seem to make a nice return. Sometimes I let Fanbox decide the return and sometimes I select a minimum return usually within the parameters they give me and I select a variety of people, interests and charities to invest in. This is how I got in the top 10 on the leader board worldwide! This has helped me make largest earnings I have ever made on the site! If you are unsure what to do you can set FanBox to control your return and your investment.
11. Comments
Always respond to people when they comment on your post. First, you want to respond to any question they may have or just show them you appreciate them spending time on your post. After you initially make a post it will go through the feed right away if you have no pictures, and it will take longer if you do have photos. After you are sure it has gone through the feed once make a comment on your post and it will go through the feed again. Check your posts and respond or make your own comment because this will help your post be seen. Each time you comment or someone else does it goes through the news feed again for everyone to see. Especially if you are just starting out and you don't have much money to promote your posts through ads.
12. Building Community
The more you read and comment on other posts you will start to make friends. Fanbox is a community of people that support each other and we want everyone to succeed. People are very helpful on this site and are always willing to answer questions, so just ask!
13. Teacher
If you are new to the site you have two weeks to select a 'teacher' to help you navigate the site. If someone invited you to the site go to their home page and on the bottom left side you can select them as your teacher. You only have two weeks to after you create an account to do this. Don't worry if you missed that opportunity.....
14. Success Coaching
Fanbox is so interested in seeing people succeed that they have created a program called 'Success Coach.' When you create an ad you have a chance at getting a success coach. A coach can help you navigate your way through the site and provide support and encouragement for. Your coach will answer any questions you have about the site and give you suggestions to improve. Your coach is there to help you be successful, so take advantage as this is a great opportunity! Interested in becoming a coach? If you are in the top 25 on the leaderboard in any of the various areas for earning you have the chance to be nominated to be a coach! Take a look at the full leader board and on the right side above the board you can use the drop down menus to view the top 25 earners in the various areas.
The coaching program is a great opportunity and there are some really great financial perks! You will see coaches among the top earners on the site.
15. Graduate
Jump start your success and graduate! What does this mean exaclty? Well, when you utilize all of the money making features on the site you get perks! That's right...FanBox will actually give you perks for making money. You can find your progress bar in your Dashboard under your start tab. Role your cursor over the white tabs and it will tell you what you need to do to complete that tab. For a detailed explanation about how this works read this...Are You Ready To Graduate? This is the quickest way to jumpstart your earnings because one of the perks is you will instantly double your profits once you have completed the progress bar.
Important Tip:
The system remembers you, so the better you get at rating and categoring, earning from others reading your posts, earning with ads etc you will actually notice your earnings will go up! This is because of the algorithms. :)
These are all the things I have done and still do to maximize my profits from my posts. If you are new on FanBox I hope you find this guide helpful and if you are not so new I hope you are doing all of these things or will start to!
