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His Blog Post Made $466 Profit in 7 Days via Facebook
💬 Hasib Alic tweets…
Facebook arbitrage is working really well, just like in the old days.
We spent $127 in the past 7 days to boost this article on Facebook and made $593 on Mediavine. That's a 360% ROI.
(Mediavine = Premium display ad network.)
Per Hasib's bio, he and his team are…
Managing a portfolio of 20 content sites with 15M+ visits a month.
He also runs Strevio, which offers…
A centralized dashboard to easily track, analyze, and report on the performance of Facebook pages.
Hasib goes on to lay out how he achieved that $466 profit on one article in 7 days 🤑
(He doesn't reveal his website or the exact article, btw.)
The first key is choosing the right article to promote 👇
1. Log into your Strevio account, select the timeline for the last 2 weeks, and sort your best-performing posts by number of clicks.
2. Check the CTR for those posts. It's a really important metric.We look for a CTR of 5%+ to make sure the arbitrage works.
3. Visit your Mediavine/Raptive dashboard and review the RPM of these posts. It needs to be at least $30 to be effective. The higher, the better.
Hasib uses his own paid tool (Strevio) for steps 1-2, but you could probably use Facebook’s own analytics for free or another FB analytics app instead.
Next step is to create a Facebook ad to promote your article 📢
Hasib's tips…
1. Standard link posts are the best for arbitrage
2. Target the US audience, ages 30 and above, and use really broad interests within your niche
3. Set a daily budget of $10
4. Track performance daily, comparing earnings on Mediavine against what you've spent on FB ads. If you see a positive ROI, gradually increase your daily budget, but do so cautiously, with a maximum of 50% daily budget increase.
5. Scaling can be approached in two ways: either increase the budget on one post or create multiple posts to boost. Both methods are effective.
I thought the days of Facebook arbitrage for bloggers were long gone, but apparently not.
And given Google’s recent updates and rise of AI, it makes sense for bloggers to diversify their traffic sources and not be so dependent on search engines.
Lastly: how about turning this idea into a service business? 🤔
Reach out to some established bloggers you like and offer to run Facebook ads for them, following Hasib's tips above.
If they're hesitant, tell them they only need a budget of $10/day for the ads, and you could work for free until they see results. Or figure out some kind of profit share 👍
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Free Spy Tool To Boost Your Business
👉 Check out F5Bot…
a free service that emails you when your selected keywords are mentioned on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters. Use it to monitor your brand, your projects, or just topics that you're interested in.
Heard about it via this tweet from Guilherme Oenning, where he jumped in a Hacker News conversation and subtly plugged his product, resulting in a sale 😎
Could be worth trying for your product or service.
But of course don't go overboard and use it to spam people.
Guilherme writes…
I don't plug on every notification I get, only when I feel like it's relevant (like when they ask).
💬 Someone replied…
F5bot is awesome, but not only for monitoring your mentions. I also use it to monitor similar products like me, to know what people said and check if i can do the same in a better way.
So you could also use this to keep an eye on your competition and get ideas to improve your own product or service 💡
🗂 $8.7K/Month Helping People Write Thank-You Notes
From the archive, published May 2023…
Heidi Bender’s website is Tons of Thanks.
According to a recent interview, Heidi started the site in 2014…
I started my website… to help people write thank-you notes. Before becoming a full-time writer, I worked as a data management consultant for twenty-two years.
Nowadays, Heidi says the site receives millions of visitors each year, with 99% of the traffic coming from search engines, and she’s earning $8,700 per month via display ads 💰
Heidi learned about blogging a couple of years before she started her website, and brainstormed a few different ideas she could focus on…
One idea that I shortlisted was thank-you note writing. My mom taught me at an early age to write thank-you notes, and I continued writing them as an adult. I surveyed my friends about the idea and learned that some had never written a thank you.
To further validate my idea, I found websites already helping people write thank-you notes. And several books had been written on the topic.
However, many of the example messages others were providing felt too generic. I could provide better examples of what a good thank-you note looks like, which would help people write their own meaningful thank you messages.
This is the origin story of many successful businesses: someone looking around for a particular thing, not finding the existing solutions to be good enough, then setting out to make something better 😎
It was a long slog for Heidi though. Sounds like the site earned less than $1000/month for several years, and she only started earning enough to quit her day job in 2021.
All that said, I can’t help but wonder how sites like Tons of Thanks will survive ChatGPT 🤖
Today, my first instinct if I want to write a thank you note is not to google around for a template. Instead, I go to ChatGPT, write a quick prompt, and instantly get back something good enough.
What do you think?
Will info sites like Heidi’s soon be a thing of the past? 🤔
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