How do i sell products on facebook without "selling" them?

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I have a facebook page on a specific niche with almost 4,000 likes and i think i'm ready to try and sell something (i know of a few clickbank products that are perfect), but i built my page posting good interesting content and i don't think it's a good idea to just post something like "best thing ever" with an affiliate link that goes to a blatant sales page (the kind with a video that starts playing..) is going to do any good or even sell anything...
i'm new to facebook marketing and this is my first campaign like this and i need to know how i can post somthing that will both reach out and be shared and engaged with but will also presell them on the offer and make them click an affiliate link and buy the product?
Are there article websitles like hubpages that allow affiliate links on them? Should i just post somthing right on the page with the link in it? How is this done?
#facebook #products #sell #selling
  • Profile picture of the author kaufland
    you could try amazon or ebay partner network.
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  • You should post these with a effective blogs and articles.viewers should attract with your posts not just for selling purpose.Do these techniques carefully in Facebook.
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  • Profile picture of the author markeeter
    you're right, blantantly promoting affiliate products on your page may just ruin the relationship that you have with your followers. So What I would recommend is that you build your own website or blog, and promote the affiliate product over there.

    For example if you are to promote a baby swaddle. you can write an article about baby swaddles and casually recommend the affiliate product or something like that. As for Hubpages, I know they do allow promotion of amazon products when you reach a certain hubber score. Not sure what there take is on affiliate products. I think they do allow it, unless you go overboard with it.

    I worked with a client who used to use Hubpages for promoting his E-books. He used to post other blogs too so that it just doesn't seem like a marketing page.
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  • Profile picture of the author hani051
    For facebook, you need to post awesome content posts, and then just add images with details, with no pricing in it. If people like it, they will contact you directly about the pricing and show interest, you can engage with them and sell openly.
    Hope this help.
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author jamescanz
    How do you sell without selling?

    Hmmm, that's quite the tough question to crack.

    Why don't you just put "Click here to (benefit they want)"?
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  • Profile picture of the author jordannick
    Actually Clickbank products are difficult to sell sometimes, what are you actually selling there? you need to get at least 50k active fans on your page. Try to play ads or buy organic fans that would actually buy from you.
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    • Profile picture of the author tomer20072
      Originally Posted by postschiffeonline View Post

      You should post these with a effective blogs and articles.viewers should attract with your posts not just for selling purpose.Do these techniques carefully in Facebook.
      But what if i don't have a website and i need a different way of preselling them on the offers and getting them to click my link?

      Originally Posted by markeeter View Post

      you're right, blantantly promoting affiliate products on your page may just ruin the relationship that you have with your followers. So What I would recommend is that you build your own website or blog, and promote the affiliate product over there.

      For example if you are to promote a baby swaddle. you can write an article about baby swaddles and casually recommend the affiliate product or something like that. As for Hubpages, I know they do allow promotion of amazon products when you reach a certain hubber score. Not sure what there take is on affiliate products. I think they do allow it, unless you go overboard with it.

      I worked with a client who used to use Hubpages for promoting his E-books. He used to post other blogs too so that it just doesn't seem like a marketing page.
      But is there no way of getting facebook fans through my affiliate links without a website of my own?
      I'm looking for some media like an article site where i can write some things about those offers an add an affiliate link, is there nothing like this at all?


      Originally Posted by jordannick View Post

      Actually Clickbank products are difficult to sell sometimes, what are you actually selling there? you need to get at least 50k active fans on your page. Try to play ads or buy organic fans that would actually buy from you.
      I'm running ads all the time to promote the page but i'm still under 5,000 for the time being, is there no way to make good sales from a community that size?
      I'm selling digital products like e-books and such.
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  • Profile picture of the author UnkwnUsr
    Some ideas if you don't want to deal with your own site:

    1. Make videos and post them to youtube and share them on your page.

    2. Use a free service like blogger or hubpages to promote the items.

    3. Give away a special report with affiliate links embedded inside.

    In the long run though you'll want your own site eventually.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Kipson
    One strategy is by being discreet. Don't force them to buy something. Continue with what you are doing, posting interesting content, with just the occasional mentions of the products you want to sell. Don't make the product your highlight, just mention it casually. I think maybe one selling post every five can be okay.
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  • Profile picture of the author medstock
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    Now a days viewers likes relevant videos or meme .you can post these type of relevant stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author iluvatoq
    i made $1k in 1 week with clickbank .
    I used it for the first time on my page.

    What i did was put up a picture suited with my niche and then find a product on clickbank and just trow that in . The pictures get shared like 1.000 times and so is my link . And that is how i got sales on clickbank .
    My niche is a bit hard for clickbank but i have other affiliate programs i can use this with .
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    • Profile picture of the author markeeter
      @Tomer
      you can still promote it using other means. In the forums that allow it, you can use the signature of your affliate product in your signature. You can promote your product on Youtube, if you're good at something than start a channel about it, and you can include your affiliate links with your video.
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  • Profile picture of the author ghost209
    send traffic from fb to your own pre-sell page where you give a video review or text review.. and at the bottom of that you can have links that say something like.. 'read more' that then connects them over to your sales page. or just do a squeezey
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  • Profile picture of the author Philip1008
    Before selling your product, you must ensure your product is safe and useful.
    Then show its features on your timeline. If someone likes your product,he will communicate with you.
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  • Profile picture of the author irfanmaverick
    The essence of facebook is engaging with the community, connecting with them at human level and establishing yourself as authority. Pushing officious content on Facebook usually puts your audience off. You need to devise a content strategy following the supreme Pareto Principle (80/20). i.e. 80% of the time you should be posting content that adds value to your audience like stats, facts, interesting quotes, news related to your niche. Also posting something that resonates with your audience interests. Ask questions, post statuses that fuel conversation.
    And blending in this practice, you should post about your product only 20% of the time. And even when you are promoting your affiliate product (assuming that you are confident that its full of value for your audience), you should personalize it. You should express in humanly tone that you used that product and you liked that product because of xyz reasons. You should relate a story in casual way that tells how that product has improved your experience.
    If you follow this strategy consistently, you will get sales along with the trust of your audience in the form of burgeoning community.
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  • Profile picture of the author irfanmaverick
    I have seen a number of affiliates following this strategy:
    1. Instead of creating a page about their website/brand, they create interest based or niche based pages e.g. based on health etc and they brand those accordingly. They don't mention anything about their website etc in their page so the community gets a feeling that this page is genuinely about that niche and isn't for brazen profit intent.
    2. They grow the community around that interest and niche and engage the audience until the community reaches a critical mass. By that time, after they have fostered substantial authority and trust, they blend affiliate offers in a personalized way.
    So I would suggest you to opt for this strategy and hopefully the results will come!
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  • Profile picture of the author ajmalkhan
    According to me you should continue posting contents and post some t-shirts for sell in between contents you should try tspring on your page
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