Each time I open my mailbox, I'm seeing emails asking me to buy courses related to making money from Facebook. And, oh yes, let's not forget invitations to attend those "free" Facebook webinars that pitch me to sign up for some high priced program. Believe it or not, there are just SO MANY programs out there teaching about Facebook right now that are full of BS nonsense.

What the heck. Let's do it anyway.

So I plunged myself into this whole Facebook game and within a short period of time, I got suckered into all of the promises of making hundreds of thousands of dollars from Facebook. Those "push button" magic software.

I soon realized that all of the salesletters that had income claims of making $1,425 PER DAY, $12,709.65 a week, $283,191 per month or $3,011,771 a year are not as true as they say they are. (By the way, these are the numbers shown on their websites -
I am not making up some numbers.)

It didn't take long for me to figure out that these products just have great marketers behind the scenes and they got a bunch (more like hundreds to a thousand) of JV partners endorsing each other. It's sick, I know. Not because of the brilliant product promotions, but for selling information and software that do not work.

Apparently, most of these courses teach the same strategy, which is this:

Put up a Fan Page and promote it like crazy. No rocket science here.

Weirdly enough, seems like everyone and their dog is doing it. So I spent months learning to create and promote Fan Pages to make money from it. This next statement may sound stupid but frankly, I thought it was going to work.

I mean, the game is outright simple - just get plenty of Facebook fans. But when I finally managed to get fans for my Fan Page...

The fans weren't responding to my offers at all! And yet, I was told by all these FB "gurus" that putting up Fan Pages with fans can make a killing on Facebook! What a bunch of baloney. I started to think that all of these so-called money making Fan Pages were just a big lie. You know what, maybe they are. It will work well for big companies like Starbucks, Porsche, and Coke, but not for ordinary people.

I wanted to give up. In fact, I DID GIVE UP that time. Let's face it, do you know how much work it involved to "socialize" on Facebook? Hours spent on Facebook to update status, replying to comments, adding images, putting Likes on other Fan Pages, interacting with fans and so on.

Look - It might work for other people but this is not going to work for me. I'm a marketer and the fact is, I'm only interested to use Facebook as a platform to generate income.

But the thing is this... I might have given up on the "conventional" way of Facebook marketing, but I'm not going to give up on the Facebook opportunity -- there is just too much money there.

The bottom line is that I need to create a SYSTEM... not just by putting up Fan Pages and leaving comments every day. A system that can be duplicated over and over again to get Likes and most importantly - getting sales from my Fan Page!

I know that if I were to create this system, I need to do things differently to get different results. And I accidentally FOUND IT when I was using Facebook for fun...