Feb
14
Posted by admin
I yesterday put together a new facebook app that I am quite proud of. Well, to be honest Im mainly proud of most of my facebook apps, but this one is a bit special!
http://apps.facebook.com/costadelpoker/ is a facebook application that serves real money and free poker, in all variants (Texas Holdem, Omaha, Razz, Stud, Telesina, Americana - and tournaments of most variats, along with sit and go’s). It works in conjunction with the software at www.costadelpoker.com but allows you to get your poker fix without leaving the facebook interface.
There is another poker app at facebook, pitbull poker, so why is this one different? Well primarily because www.CostaDelPoker.com is a successful poker site in its own right, and has thousands of online players 24 hours a day already - so there’s always a game to be had.
So, support your favorite blogger, install the FACEBOOK POKER APP today!
Feb
03
Posted by admin
We all know that facebook is the hot new internet app and the main barrier that most people have to making money with it is the lack of knowledge as to how it works. Well for all those people that havent got up to speed with the new platform yet, I am writing this SUPER EASY to follow step by step guide to actually making money with the facebook platform.
Before people start reading this guide, I would just like to reinforce my authority on this subject, my various apps have over 250,000 installed users in the last 33 days (since the start of this year) and have netted me a decent four figure sum so far this year.
1) You NEED an application.
You cant make money on facebook without an application. You can go about this in a few different ways, basically its not hard, there are quite a few good guides to setting up a facebook application, and if you have good prior knowledge of php then you can custom code pretty much anything to work in the facebook platform. For those users that are au fait with coding, check out these great guides to setting up your first facebook app: Building Facebook applications or Create a facebook app in 10 minutes. If you DONT have coding knowledge, or if you just want to get started a whole lot quicker, then you can buy turnkey sourcecode for many different popular facebook apps at the site Turnkey Facebook Apps - this will save you time and get you started with a decent app a lot quicker, and would be my recommendation.
2) You NEED Users installed
Your application is worthless without users. Users are the lifeblood of facebook apps, to put it in more general webmastery terms, all you need to do is think of it like this: your facebook app is really just a website, and its users are your surfers. You can have the best possible website in the world but no surfers, it is then worthless in comparison to one that has a thousand unique viewers a day.
The Great thing about facebook though is that user installs are actually a lot cheaper to buy than anyone thinks. There are loads of different facebook specific advertising companies, BUT A WORD OF WARNING: I have seen bad or poor (even downright awful) reviews of EVERY company on this list, so use them at your own discretion.
On the plus side, you can buy traffic (read installed users) for as little as $0.05 per person if you shop around a bit. The list is:
http://www.adblade.com/
http://www.adchap.com/
http://www.appvert.com/
http://www.cpastorm.com/
http://www.cubics.com/
http://www.fbexchange.com/
http://www.rockyou.com/
http://www.socialmedia.com/
http://www.facebook.com/apps/applica…39088&b&ref=pd
http://www.videoegg.com/
Also, as long as your app is viral, then your user numbers should multiply, so for every thousand users you buy you should get another two thousand users over each month that your app is active, at least.
To put these numbers into context lets assume that you have paid $50 for a turnkey app from www.turnkeyfacebookapps.com and $100 on clicks from one of the facebook ad companies above. So far that has cost you $150 and you have an app which by the end of week two will have two or three thousand users installed. Naturally if you can afford to spend say $250 then you would buy an app and $200 worth of clicks and have four or five thousand users installed after two weeks.
3) Cash in on your app
There are two ways to do this, one long tail one short term. As an online entrepreneur I personally prefer cashing in quickly to avoid any uncertainty in the marketplace on the longer term, regardless I will look at both ways of earning money:
Sell your App: simply put, a facebook app is worth far more than the sum of its parts - all you need to do is check the valuations that facebook apps get sold for on www.sitepoint.com/marketplace or forums.digitalpoint.com to realise that facebook apps with active users are worth MORE than the cost of the app plus the cost of the users! This is a REALLY EASY way to cash in and make a few bucks, if you invest $250 then you should be able to turnaround the app for $750 to $1,000 in as little as 10 to 14 days, thats a 300% increase in your money on the short term - which really cant be beaten by ANY other online business I have ever run.
Sell advertising on your App: Using any of the companies that I mentioned above you can SELL clicks on your application. Ofcourse the advertising company take a cut and you wont make hundreds and hundreds of dollars, in the first week like selling your app, but you would expect to recoup the total cost of your app + users in a two to three month timescale, then everything you earn after that is pure profit.
Of the two methods I recommend selling the app, as you can always start another one, after all you already own the source code to do it again, and this time you would have more money to spend on PPC installs. Also you never know whats going to happen in a month on facebook, so by cashing in you are guaranteeing a profit margin.
4) Notes
There are a few extra side issues to think of. 1) you will need hosting, so bear that in mind. Most webmasters already have hosting so I havent looked at that separately (but if you buy your app from www.turnkeyfacebookapps.com you can also buy hosting from them for $10, which seems a good deal to me) . Also, regarding the PPC companies I mentioned, I have seen BAD reviews of each of them, not paying their publishers, not giving good tracking etc. I think that turnkey facebook apps are offering a $25 free clicks deal when you buy an app from them this month, so perhaps that would be a wise way to test the waters before you commit to spending hundreds on a PPC campaign with one of the other companies.
Anyway, so thats my step by step guide to making money off facebook apps, if you have enjoyed this post PLEASE bookmark it using one of the links below, or link to it from your own blog or website, any links or bookmarks would be gratefully received!