Note: What I'm going to post is not revolutionary or special or even worth reading to most people here so go fuck yourself if you read this and tell me you've just wasted 10 minutes of your life 
This small little tip is about Facebook Page targeting. Lots of people have Facebook Fan Pages which they are using to promote products and services but how can we leverage this for our affiliate marketing purposes? More specifically how can I generate quality leads to a particular offer using Facebook Pages and have that traffic targeted?
This is best illustrated using an example and I'm going to use something from the past because I kick myself every day of the year since I overlooked at how much cash I could of brought in if I was not such a dumb fuck.
First find what you think is going to be a somewhat popular product to promote, find something that you think the affiliate networks will eventually pick up or something closely related to what the networks are already running.
For this example lets say that product is the iPhone (Yes I could have killed this in the past but failed to execute due to stupidity and being otherwise preoccupied by other work).
Before all the affiliate buzz about the iPhone and before the networks picked up iPhone offers, the iPhone was announced during one of the infamous Apple conferences, which means the second you hear about a potentially popular product you get to work on this and you DON'T WAIT, not even for 10 minutes, don't go grab a coffee, don't go for a smoke, don't leave the computer until you've at least thought about a game-plan to promote the product or service.
Anyway take your product idea (The iPhone in our case) and run over to Facebook and setup a Facebook fan page around that product. Now this is the important part, DO NOT DESTROY your Facebook page by immediately trying to sell to potential users. Users don't like advertisements, they don't like to be sold to on Social Networks, if you do this you will FAIL (Not always but yeah you'll fail more then you will succeed).
Anyway once you have your Fan Page created, start posting QUALITY images, news, and information around that product, try to post any type of content that will generate a buzz on your page, engage your potential readers, ask them questions, ask them what they think, ask them for their opinions, get them engaged and interacting with your page.
Now send this page to your friends if you think they'll like it and go over to your Facebook Ads account and spend $50 or $100 (Doesn't have to be much) and promote your Facebook Page, make your ad engaging as well, at this point your call to action is "LIKE MY PAGE".
Your only goal at this point is to have users LIKE and ENGAGE with your Facebook page, your not trying to sell them on anything. Now let this take hold over the next couple of weeks and continue to post news, information, videos, and images about the upcoming product.
Also I forgot to mention that the Facebook page traffic can come from anywhere at the start but try to gain as many likes from the type of traffic you think the networks will allow. For instance the iPhone offers when they first came our were mainly for Canada and the US, with some UK offers coming in later and then Australia, Germany, ect....
Anyway now comes the time sensitive aspect. At this point you have probably had at least a month or two to promote your page and gain your likes and engage people on your page before the offers hit the networks and before the product hits stores.
Now the second the product hits the networks or when they go up for sale, what you do is this. You write another post saying hey XXX company is offering people a free iPhone check this shit out, its insane and sweet and bla bla bla, make your message appear to be informational and not so "Click here buy this and make me money" type of thing.
Now sit back and roll in the bucks from this Fan page, rinse and repeat and your now a winner on the Social Networking websites. (Keep reading). Ok you may be asking "But Aequitas how do we separate the US traffic from the Canada traffic?".
That is a good question, because since our page has mixed traffic we don't want to send Canadian traffic to a US offer, that just won't work, they will be re-directed to something else that doesn't convert.
Just after you write out (or even before you write out) your promotional message on your fan-page (the one that sends them to the affiliate offer) you save the message and you duplicate it across all countries, changing your links for each.
For instance you may have an affiliate link for Canadian traffic, US traffic, and UK traffic. Make 3 copies of your message and switch out each link for the traffic sources, so the first message will have your Canadian link, second will have your US link, and third will have your UK link (IMPORTANT: Don't get these messages mixed up, I've done that before, it sucks trust me, shit hits the fan and your neighbors will call the cops cause all they'll hear coming out of your house for the next few hours is "YOU MOTHER FUCKER, FUCK, SHIT, ASSHOLE" ).
Now that you have your three messages you take the first message with the Canadian link paste it into the status update box and just before you click "Share" look for the little drop down right beside it, select "Customize" from this drop down list and a input text box will appear that says "Location" and below that one it says "Language", in the first box type in "Canada" and then "English" as the language and click Okay, now share your message.
Rinse and Repeat for all of your messages, what this will do is show your Affiliate link only to the Canadian traffic on the page, and it will only show your US affiliate link to the US traffic on your page. Now your affiliate links are correctly targeted.
And I'm tired of typing so this post is over, unless you have questions about a few things I have left out, feel free to ask away and I'll share my knowledge as best I can with ya. Anything from "Why Don't You Sell To Facebook Users Right Off The Bat?" to "Why the fuck did you make me read this asshole?".
This small little tip is about Facebook Page targeting. Lots of people have Facebook Fan Pages which they are using to promote products and services but how can we leverage this for our affiliate marketing purposes? More specifically how can I generate quality leads to a particular offer using Facebook Pages and have that traffic targeted?
This is best illustrated using an example and I'm going to use something from the past because I kick myself every day of the year since I overlooked at how much cash I could of brought in if I was not such a dumb fuck.
First find what you think is going to be a somewhat popular product to promote, find something that you think the affiliate networks will eventually pick up or something closely related to what the networks are already running.
For this example lets say that product is the iPhone (Yes I could have killed this in the past but failed to execute due to stupidity and being otherwise preoccupied by other work).
Before all the affiliate buzz about the iPhone and before the networks picked up iPhone offers, the iPhone was announced during one of the infamous Apple conferences, which means the second you hear about a potentially popular product you get to work on this and you DON'T WAIT, not even for 10 minutes, don't go grab a coffee, don't go for a smoke, don't leave the computer until you've at least thought about a game-plan to promote the product or service.
Anyway take your product idea (The iPhone in our case) and run over to Facebook and setup a Facebook fan page around that product. Now this is the important part, DO NOT DESTROY your Facebook page by immediately trying to sell to potential users. Users don't like advertisements, they don't like to be sold to on Social Networks, if you do this you will FAIL (Not always but yeah you'll fail more then you will succeed).
Anyway once you have your Fan Page created, start posting QUALITY images, news, and information around that product, try to post any type of content that will generate a buzz on your page, engage your potential readers, ask them questions, ask them what they think, ask them for their opinions, get them engaged and interacting with your page.
Now send this page to your friends if you think they'll like it and go over to your Facebook Ads account and spend $50 or $100 (Doesn't have to be much) and promote your Facebook Page, make your ad engaging as well, at this point your call to action is "LIKE MY PAGE".
Your only goal at this point is to have users LIKE and ENGAGE with your Facebook page, your not trying to sell them on anything. Now let this take hold over the next couple of weeks and continue to post news, information, videos, and images about the upcoming product.
Also I forgot to mention that the Facebook page traffic can come from anywhere at the start but try to gain as many likes from the type of traffic you think the networks will allow. For instance the iPhone offers when they first came our were mainly for Canada and the US, with some UK offers coming in later and then Australia, Germany, ect....
Anyway now comes the time sensitive aspect. At this point you have probably had at least a month or two to promote your page and gain your likes and engage people on your page before the offers hit the networks and before the product hits stores.
Now the second the product hits the networks or when they go up for sale, what you do is this. You write another post saying hey XXX company is offering people a free iPhone check this shit out, its insane and sweet and bla bla bla, make your message appear to be informational and not so "Click here buy this and make me money" type of thing.
Now sit back and roll in the bucks from this Fan page, rinse and repeat and your now a winner on the Social Networking websites. (Keep reading). Ok you may be asking "But Aequitas how do we separate the US traffic from the Canada traffic?".
That is a good question, because since our page has mixed traffic we don't want to send Canadian traffic to a US offer, that just won't work, they will be re-directed to something else that doesn't convert.
Just after you write out (or even before you write out) your promotional message on your fan-page (the one that sends them to the affiliate offer) you save the message and you duplicate it across all countries, changing your links for each.
For instance you may have an affiliate link for Canadian traffic, US traffic, and UK traffic. Make 3 copies of your message and switch out each link for the traffic sources, so the first message will have your Canadian link, second will have your US link, and third will have your UK link (IMPORTANT: Don't get these messages mixed up, I've done that before, it sucks trust me, shit hits the fan and your neighbors will call the cops cause all they'll hear coming out of your house for the next few hours is "YOU MOTHER FUCKER, FUCK, SHIT, ASSHOLE" ).
Now that you have your three messages you take the first message with the Canadian link paste it into the status update box and just before you click "Share" look for the little drop down right beside it, select "Customize" from this drop down list and a input text box will appear that says "Location" and below that one it says "Language", in the first box type in "Canada" and then "English" as the language and click Okay, now share your message.
Rinse and Repeat for all of your messages, what this will do is show your Affiliate link only to the Canadian traffic on the page, and it will only show your US affiliate link to the US traffic on your page. Now your affiliate links are correctly targeted.
And I'm tired of typing so this post is over, unless you have questions about a few things I have left out, feel free to ask away and I'll share my knowledge as best I can with ya. Anything from "Why Don't You Sell To Facebook Users Right Off The Bat?" to "Why the fuck did you make me read this asshole?".
