Make money on Facebook Ads with deal sites.

darbsllim

darbsllim

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Hey guys, I did this strategy to generate some money in September, but then I started another business and had to stop.

I figured I would give this to you guys to test out instead of sitting on it - I know I'm not going to use it again in the near future.

Hopefully this will let you make some money with Group Deal sites like Groupon and the many clones.

They all have affiliate programs. I only did this with the group deal sites in Canada. Step one find a group deal site that you like and sign up for it.

Here's some aggregators that list all the deals happening at the individual deal site -

All Daily Deals From Every City all over the World - Groupdealspy.com
Exclusive daily deals for you and your family | FamilyFinds
Dealradar.com :: Daily Deals | Local Offers | Restaurant Deals | Spa Deals | Local Deals | Deal-a-Day Sites
QponBot - Nationwide Groupon Deals
https://livingsocial.com


I would look at each one and see the most appealing deals, then create fb ads in the city saying 'get free food at x' or 'get a $100 massage for $20 in city"

The CTR is high because it's targeted to the city, and you can even drill down into their likes - but that results in far less clicks.

Anyway - I made some good money with this but then started a company so I stopped the ad campaigns.

So giv'er.
 


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This is great for newbies. If this can be automated.. then ---> Kaboom
Otherwise it would be a pain because of the sheer number of Ads you need to make everyday for each city.
Right now there is Groupon deals for UK and Sweden
 
A month before this last valentines day I set up a pay per new customer FB campaign with a high end salon near my house (the incentive was valentines day themed and haircuts at this place run $100 and up. The campaign targeted women, obviously). The campaign became so successful that the owner had me turn it off 2 weeks into running it because his place was booked full. My total profit was $2200 for about 3 hours of work.

After my turning the campaign off the owner demanded that I hand over the FB campaign and account because I had made it for "his business" making it "his now." Luckily with this client, I had stated in our agreement that the campaign I created to send him new customers was mine, because I was funding it and would not charge him an initial setup fee.

With the remaining 2 weeks until valentines day I went to another "overpriced" salon and setup a deal with them. I made an additional $1600 sending them new customers and then sold them the FB account, campaign and creatives to use next year for $2000.
 
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Traska said:
A month before this last valentines day I set up a pay per new customer FB campaign with a high end salon near my house (the incentive was valentines day themed and haircuts at this place run $100 and up. The campaign targeted women, obviously). The campaign became so successful that the owner had me turn it off 2 weeks into running it because his place was booked full. My total profit was $2200 for about 3 hours of work.

After my turning the campaign off the owner demanded that I hand over the FB campaign and account because I had made it for "his business" making it "his now." Luckily with this client, I had stated in our agreement that the campaign I created to send him new customers was mine, because I was funding it and would not charge him an initial setup fee.

With the remaining 2 weeks until valentines day I went to another "overpriced" salon and setup a deal with them. I made an additional $1600 sending them new customers and then sold them the FB account, campaign and creatives to use next year for $2000.
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How did you guys know which customer was sent by you?
 
Traska said:
A month before this last valentines day I set up a pay per new customer FB campaign with a high end salon near my house (the incentive was valentines day themed and haircuts at this place run $100 and up. The campaign targeted women, obviously). The campaign became so successful that the owner had me turn it off 2 weeks into running it because his place was booked full. My total profit was $2200 for about 3 hours of work.

After my turning the campaign off the owner demanded that I hand over the FB campaign and account because I had made it for "his business" making it "his now." Luckily with this client, I had stated in our agreement that the campaign I created to send him new customers was mine, because I was funding it and would not charge him an initial setup fee.

With the remaining 2 weeks until valentines day I went to another "overpriced" salon and setup a deal with them. I made an additional $1600 sending them new customers and then sold them the FB account, campaign and creatives to use next year for $2000.
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Was it Gene Juarez?
 
theentry said:
How did you guys know which customer was sent by you?
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Good question. Perhaps he used a premium FaceBook service, the branding system. When users clicked on a FB ad for the salon, FB would automatically "punch" their asses with the name of the salon, Campaign Name and a Like button.
 
darbsllim said:
Hey guys, I did this strategy to generate some money in September, but then I started another business and had to stop.

I figured I would give this to you guys to test out instead of sitting on it - I know I'm not going to use it again in the near future.

Hopefully this will let you make some money with Group Deal sites like Groupon and the many clones.

They all have affiliate programs. I only did this with the group deal sites in Canada. Step one find a group deal site that you like and sign up for it.

Here's some aggregators that list all the deals happening at the individual deal site -

All Daily Deals From Every City all over the World - Groupdealspy.com
Exclusive daily deals for you and your family | FamilyFinds
Dealradar.com :: Daily Deals | Local Offers | Restaurant Deals | Spa Deals | Local Deals | Deal-a-Day Sites
QponBot - Nationwide Groupon Deals
https://livingsocial.com


I would look at each one and see the most appealing deals, then create fb ads in the city saying 'get free food at x' or 'get a $100 massage for $20 in city"

The CTR is high because it's targeted to the city, and you can even drill down into their likes - but that results in far less clicks.

Anyway - I made some good money with this but then started a company so I stopped the ad campaigns.

So giv'er.
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What kind of CTR and CPCs were you seeing?
 
One of these sites listed here is from us and is a failed project due to the fact that daily deal websites do not cooperate with daily deal aggregators.
 
darbsllim said:
I was seeing up to 0.2 on fb
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Very nice. I have been trying to do an almost identical way (call out city etc.) and cannot get higher than 0.05%. Maybe its an image thing, but I have tried A LOT of images including food (like sushi) and massage but no joy.

You can PM me some tips if you like ;)
 
nickster said:
Very nice. I have been trying to do an almost identical way (call out city etc.) and cannot get higher than 0.05%. Maybe its an image thing, but I have tried A LOT of images including food (like sushi) and massage but no joy.

You can PM me some tips if you like ;)
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Try boobs for everything
 
Do these sites at least give you data feeds of all the offers they have? Automation would be pretty easy. Or semi automation. A little image cropping tool would be useful. I'm not sure I'd want to invest money in throwing up scraped and autocropped images.
 
I'm an affiliate for a similar type site, except I get paid LIFETIME commission on anyone I get to sign up for the email list. If only I could track this shit (I can't place any code on the signup/offer page) I would be making hella good $$. Is there any way to track conversions when you don't have access to the "thank you" page to place tracking code?

Sorry I got a little off topic there, great post, very helpful!
 
i was trying this with living social and getting pretty bad results...mentioned something to the AM at livingsocial and apparently you're not supposed to do FB ads with them (because they're running their own)
 
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