How to make money from your facebook application

Posted on June 26th, 2007 in Facebook API, PPC-Affiliates by jason

Probably the most asked question after how to make an app for facebook, is how to make money from a facebook application. Since alot of developers may not be up to speed on what are the best methods on making money online, im going to give it a shot.

Of course there’s the best of the bunch Adsense, but i’m not really sure how the facebook framed pages fit in with the Adsense TOS, my gut instinct is no, but i would bet it would go on a case to case basis depending on the nature of the app.

Right now i think the best bet is probably going to be Chitika and their eminimall PPC ads. With a wide variety of canvas page size friendly banners and fully customizable colors they will fit in nicely in any application layout. And since you pick out which products (keywords) that the ads are on, you can accurately target the ads directly to what your visitors would want. Bringing you even more money than contextual advertising could. You have access thru the API to find out what your users interests and hobbies are, so you already have the data technically. For example say your application is the nascar top 5, with Chitika you can in addition to just general nascar ads, you could fill in the keywords with the drivers name and display ads on merch just for those drivers, or is the users hobby fishing? What’s their favorite movie? Band? All that info is available thru the standard FQL query that gives you the user’s name and id. The limits to what you can target is only how many if/else’s you want to code lol. I have also received permission to use the eminimalls on facebook from Chitika, though they did want to check out the applications first. You also get paid thru paypal on a net 30 basis(you get june’s check the end of july) after accruing just $10.00 in a month.

Get Chitika eMiniMalls
I’m going to list out a few more choices that includes both pay per action (PPA) which is where you are paid per action, like selling a product, or getting a user to submit a form. and pay per impression (cpm) which is where you are paid for each time a visitor views your page, and of course PPC which is where you are paid on a pay per click basis.

PPC - PPA - CPM

Adbrite PPC - CPM

Text Link Ads Sell text links by the month

shareasale.com PPA - PPC

Axill CPM - PPA

Amazon.com PPA

Commission Junction PPA

Burst Media CPM - PPC

The Golf Shot of My Life

Posted on June 24th, 2007 in Rants and Raves, Geek Stuff by jason

120 yds out, uphill on the Mancation 2007 golf scramble, i believe it was hole 10. Scott hit a wedge, short and left, Brian a 9 iron short and left. Brian tells me to go grab my 8 and hit it. So i do, and it heads right to towards the pin hits the green bounces once and goes out of site. We take the carts up to the green im expecting a 5-10 foot birdie putt, but my ball is no where to be seen. Scott and Brian where it’s either in the hole or off the green, realizing my skill level, luck level and the extremely fast greens i was thinking it was off the green, and turned around to get my wedge. When a shout of IT’S IN THE HOLE comes from behind me. Yes i had sunk it for an eagle to give my team a 2 stroke lead, which we of course ended up losing by 2 anyway. But i was too stoked to care. What was the secret? Due to having a few too many the nite before, i had a slight case of the miller lite flu, i finally gave in and had a beer on the turn, the next hole….eagle.

if you are in kenosha county in wisconsin
http://www.co.kenosha.wi.us/publicworks/golf/brightondale.html
check out this course, while it is laid out someone different now than what the site shows, it is still one heck of a course and at 27.50 per person for 18 and a cart a hell of a deal. You can’t bring your own cooler, but beer girls in carts, and a snack shop on 9 makes sure you have plenty of cold ones be it coke beer or water for your round

New Blog

Posted on June 24th, 2007 in Uncategorized by jason

As you can tell by the dates on the post, i kinda of fell behind here, but since i felt like i needed to do some testing with wordpress as well as giving something back to the community. So expect this to be more of a tutorial type of blog than anything else. Right now i am liking this version of wordpress alot beter than the one i was using before and other than the pain of trying to get code to post i am liking it better than the version of nucleus i was running.