2600 subscribers and zero income?

It's a start, I'm encouraged to see you getting some initial clicks. I trust your watching the Facebook insights analytics.

Some pages getting initial visibility from hired likes from what may be bots or non English speakers, might start getting better quality fans and traffic as it's discovered through normal channels.

EDIT
Though the broad rule of thumb conversion rate for sales pages is something like 1%, you should realistically need to get a few hundred clicks on a fan page before you can truely judge it's effectiveness.
I understand that the going CTR for paid Facebook ads with traditional pitches is something like 0.15%, I assume similarly you should not expect a fan page conversion rate to approach a targeted Adwords campaign.

Keep posting something which is useful for your fans and increase your fans. Once you've thousands of fans then you can start promoting other things to make $$$$

2600 fans with in 3 days? I don't think you can build such numbers with in short period of time. building the fans with huge numbers won't give results(Thats where many people get around with none) building the natural/quality links will makes you for expected results.

Find the people who really interested in your niche fan page. increase the user engagement ( comments,likes,shares) and following days your will find some good conversions. Best of luck.

You also need to research the product you are promoting to your list. Don't try to sell something that looks cheap/low quality just to make a quick buck. I would also stay away from those type of CPA offers you are promoting to such a new group. You need to give this group time to grow and maintain reliable followers.

Focus on the Amazon clicks - it's obviously more what the people want.

Create things that those people will actually want to use. Don't just try and make them pay you for something because they won't - it's all about creating things of value

Do you mind me asking how you got 2600 followers in 3 days? Are you offering them something? If so....then you need to be able to monetize the offer...but without knowing how you ghot your fans...its almost impossible to tell you how to properly monetize them...

It's so easy to become a fb fan... just click a LIKE button... the commitment level is not there... You'd be better off building a double-opt-in email list where you know those people REALLY want to hear from you...

And start building trust first by offering awesome content instead of selling right off the bat

Thank you all for the feedback. These FB fan pages are Facebook.com/Pitbullowners and Facebook.com/LabFans and today I checked my stats and still havent made a dime. Over 76 clicks on Amazon links alone yesterday, over 20 clicks on CJ and still shows less than 5 for my CPA Offer. My CPA Offer is a free photo submit for a pet in order to be entered into contest to get $1,000 at end of month. So I am getting the clicks but no closes.

You need content that will go viral. Write some stuff that will get reposted like:

The 7 Worst Dog Products
7 Things You Should Never Do to Your Dog
Top 5 Weirdest Dog Accessories - If This Doesn't Make You Laugh Today, Nothing Will!
The Shocking Dog Food Video

Link to your blog/website that has the links to Amazon.

Good stuff Lyanna! That's right on the money.

The strategy for getting quick "likes" using targeted ads does work. I watched a 100,000 fan page being built in 24 hours for about $1,000 or about 1 cent a click. Some of the bigger FB OSO's are showing this. But converting sales is all about building trust and interaction. Some recommend a ratio of 50 to 100 posts of content before an offer. Even without this level, you should add some content like has been recommended by others here. Remember the general rule in sales typically require 7 to 18 contacts to close.

You have to remember with no relationship this is cold marketing which has a 1% to 3% sales ratio. If you have 2,600, then 2.6 possible sales. When you get 100,000 your bound to make more sales. Imagine the return with relationship and trust built.

It likes you dont have target visitors for your products. And 45 clicks for Amazon is not high. I have the similar social account and Amazon conversion is very low, about 1000 clicks /sale. Research and test to find down what your visitors want and give to them, for sure not free .

In the dog niche, try getting your fans really involved. They're such a passionate group.

Run a contest for best dog pic, or best dog video, or best dog name...something like that.

Get them clicking OTHER things before you expect them to buy from you. Condition them to click when you post something. It builds trust and helps make your brand resonate with them.

I had read an article two months ago about the fact that Facebook fan pages are not good for directly selling anything.

They work better as a motivation to visit your blog/site (where you’ll sell them something, or make them accept an offer).

If you were a fan would you click and purchase?

Sam

start sending your fans some useful content such as blog post and articles, videos etc before you start promoting. You can't expect your fans to buy stuff from you just after 3 days of becoming a fan. Have you actually tried building a list? I dont think a fanpage is a good place to sell things.

Load them up on more value don't be like a lot of internet marketers and blow them up with offers right after they joined your list. It is a turn off to get offer after offer without adding any value, training, or getting to know them by building your reputation, by giving them more than you try to take. Nothing worse than a greedy marketer.

There isn't much money in sites just about dogs unless you really know how to work it. I had a few dog breed related websites with lots of traffic and only made about $50 a month from the sites, now sites with the same traffic make me $500 or more a month.

Also making money from facebook pages is hard to do, you can easily get your publishing rights taken away if you post to many sales type links

You are not adding value. You know, you actually gotta add something valuable to the internet (your subscribers) other than spamming the cyberspace with affiliate links...

It's only been 3 days you say, hey, people talk, it's facebook after all! Once those few clicks start clicking some sharing buttons you'll have 10,000 likes in record time, clicks will double, even triple and then you'll start smiling.

The key is perseverance and staying positive, always!

As AnilK says, don't just post links, post nice (but short) articles on there, after every 3 or so post a link and be like: "hey, check this out" kinda post.

Keep it up, sounds like you're doing a pretty good job!

Well, step out of your shoes and into your fans shoes for a minute. If you went on Facebook and you became a fan of something you liked, or in this case a type of dog you owned, would you want to see spam looking links constantly. Personally, I would have blocked you or deleted you completely.

You have to give good FREE content and use soft promotions. You cannot just blast out promotion after promotion and expect people to buy or even care about what you have to say. It is like building an email list and it takes time to gain the trust of those that are your fans. I have to deliver on what your fanpage is supposed to be about and overwhelm them with great information for free. Then, promote a little bit and you will see better results.

Benjamin Ehinger

Has anyone here actually made money off of FB Fan Pages? I wanna make sure this will pay off someday

Facebook users are not like Google searchers, people go to Google to look for reviews, to search on deals, etc so they are in the buying mood. facebook users want to socialise and hang out with their friends, they want to see funny pictures, funny videos, read funny news feed, they dont want to be sold to...the point of fan page is to socialise with your fans and then redirect them to your website through blog posts. Dont post affiliate links or promotional messages on your news feed, it will not work.

I used to try to promote Amazon product on Facebook but it is not work much, you must make people think you are real man, believe and trust you. If I see the strange links from a strange people, I scare to click it and buy anything or put any personal info also. I suggest you to give some free gifts to your fan to get more trust before sell anything.

Remember that this is a "social" networking site and it was primarily created for that purpose....Come on it has only been 3 days...you should first build some level of relationship and trust with them, being called "fans" doesn't mean they are all gaga over you or your products...Update your page regularly with fresh content. Get them to interact with one another and perform some activity within the page such as commenting or posting.

At least you're getting some clicks...

I suggest providing value first tons of it..

Then you can promote cpa offers etc.

Cheers,

~Gary

I have tried to implement the tips here. JUst wondering how much longer I should wait. I am nearing 4000 fans but zero income.

Sorry to hear that buddy, I love dogs - but perhaps you should try something a little more 'lucrative'...

Congratulations on building such a good fanbase so quickly.

It can take months of hard work to achieve what you have,
so well done for that.

Selling directly from a link on Facebook can be difficult, so what
you probably need to do is build up a rapport with your fan base first.

You can do this by offering a free report on pitbulls or labradors, just
write something you know the owners would really like, such as favourite
foods or training techniques.

Then in exchange for the free report ask them to join your mailing list for
more free reports as they become available.

You can use Aweber to deliver the report.

Then, in your free report, have a link to one of the items you
are selling at Clickbank etc.

Now you have built up a rapport with your members, you will
find that they will be much more willing to buy from you.

This happens for a number of reasons, one of the most powerful is that you are now a friend and they will want to repay you for giving them a free report.

You will find that you with a list you can make some great money.

You can email them at regular intervals and it is a good way to make
money from your Facebook fans

The reason why you link to your blog and not directly to Amazon is to pre-sell the products.

Imagine a person on Facebook - they are there to socialize, upload pics of themselves, like random things, play Farmville and the like. They aren't in a buying or shopping mood at all!

If you write an article or post with a link to Amazon you are are pre-selling a product or at least getting them into the buying mood.

Facebook -> Dog FB Fan Page -> "7 Funniest Dog Costumes for Halloween" -> Amazon

Warriors, I am starting to see light at end of tunnel. I finally got my first 2 orders. My conversion rate is only 0.83% but it's a start. Thank you so much for the tips and will focus on relationship first and foremost. Selling second.

Just be patience and keep posting. There is a long way from becoming a fan to actually pull your credit card out of your pockets.
Another you could do is to work on taking your fans away from FB by offering them a free email course. Build a deeper relationship with them and then start selling. :-)

Warriors another question. I have noticed through my Sales Insights that I am losing about 10-12 subscribers per day. While this is only 1% of my total FB Fan Page Likes which is now exceeding 5200, it is worrisome. My question is twofold: #1 is there a way to decrease the number of unsubscribes, maybe post less? and #2 IN FB can I ask them to send me an email, which would then capture on my Aweber and then from there send them links to my affiliate links?

if your selling to them right out of the gate your training them to pay less attention to your emails and content - ease back on the pitches and provide content.. build rapport then when you do pitch them they will be more amenable to listening