How You can Use Facebook to Build Your Business and Make Money Online - Part 2

Below is a list things you can do with your account:

• Build a user base and a customer base.
  

• Research and test a niche to find out whether you can sell a product or service to the niche online.

• Market a website, business or a service.

• Get more clients by using your profile. (For example, if you’re a mentor.)
  

• Use the groups, networks and applications trends to get more ideas.
  

• Beta test a product or service to find out whether it can be sold. Use feedback from your friends to tweak the product and make changes to it.
  

• Use the site for affiliate marketing purpose. Facebook can help you make more affiliate commission but make sure you read the terms and rules and don't break any of them.

The above are just a few ways of how Facebook can be used to build or start a business and make money online. You may explore more ideas when you have got into Facebook marketing.

Tips for Creating Your Facebook Profile
Your profile will be a powerful tool to help you achieve success. When growing a business using Facebook, it is important that you are able to position yourself as an expert. So when you create your profile, you must highlight your expertise in the topic. Why you are qualified to sell the particular product or service or if you are making money with content based website or blog, you should let people understand that why you are qualified to give advice and tips on the theme you are writing.

However, you need to make sure that the content and information in your profile don't read and feel like a sale copy when reading by your target audience as people will not respond to someone trying to sell something. Your voice should be friendly.

Tips for Promoting Affiliate Links
Yes, it is possible to use Facebook for marketing affiliate programs. According to the terms and conditions of Facebook, users are not allowed to insert affiliate links into their profile. So what you can do is place your affiliate links in your blog or website and adding the link to your website or blog in your profile section.

An Explanation about Facebook Applications
Facebook made their developer's platform available in year 2007. The named it Facebook Markup Language. It allows people around the world to build new applications for the site. There are several basic things you can do with these applications:

• Search for the applications that interest you and add them to your profile.
• Recommending them to your friends.
• Making them yourself using the Facebook Developers API.
  

Since Facebook has made its Developers API available to other uses. This essentially allows people to build new applications that interact with the site and the user profile. Facebook applications can be used for various purposes. The main goal is to help further achieve a sense of community between users and encourage community to participate with one another.