OP, is it still doable to make, let's say... €10-50k with affliate marketing, with zero experience, starting today.. in 2016?

Absolutely yes - it is possible.

But you have a long journey ahead of you.

You have already grasped a concept most newbies can not understand. The amount of pages I see with under 500 likes, zero ad budget trying to spam Bet365 is enormous.
I did a survey in one of my groups and over 1000 people answered it. 85% of them had a Bet365 account meaning if you are advertising to those lads you are trying to hit the other 15. IF I was starting new I would promote a smaller bookie that no one has heard of.

Right now, I doubt you could grow a page without ad budget. ALOT has changed since I started this thread. I would be stunned if you or anyone for that matter could make a successful tipster page with zero ad budget regardless of how good your tips are. There is no such thing as free marketing on Facebook anymore. If anyone disagrees with me I would love to hear your story.

Sort of. IF I was doing it, I would go into facebook groups as a fake profile, post tips etc and when they win, add the people who followed. Rinse, repeat then when you start your page you will have instant likes. In terms of conversion I dont really have any way of tracking if the people who signed up are from my fake profile

Thanks for reading.

Oh god yes.... If you had 5 grand ad budget, you could easily create an affiliate account yielding that.

Right now, All I am doing is flipping pages...

Start new page --> cram ad budget --> grow likes --> post links until page is no longer active --> start a new page

Why would the page be no longer active? Is it against FB terms / policies now?

You will find that a page reach is not consistent.

EG, page with 10k likes may reach 3000 people per post but page with 100,000 may reach 4000 per post...

No point continuing to pay to increase likes when reach doesnt change much...

after you stop advertising the reach will slowly disappear... and then you make a new page

Only just saw this - he is approaching 4m likes. Will PM you the page. Hes a friend and I would like to help him and his agent monetize it.

This is a level right?

Why would you want my help when everything I have said is Bull****, Bravado and pretend ballerness?

I know your friends page. If he is not a millionaire already his manager should be sacked.

I made almost half a million from a page with barely 40,000 likes.... Or maybe thats BS too... Who knows

PS.... Ill be in Vegas in June if anyone wants to shoot the breeze some time...

What would you recommend to somebody just starting out today??

Pretty vague question which could have 10000 answers depending on who you are and what you are wanting to do (So I assume you are a complete noobie) so I would suggest setting up some pages and just messing about and see what sticks. I think there is enough advice in this thread already to get you up and running.

gotcha, will have to try this out and do some research, thanks for making this thread!

How are things going in 2016, how is FB treating you? Did you try something new since 2014?

Would be cool to read new stories on how things advanced.

2016 is different to 2014. By different I mean its much much much harder to do this.
The main points for me are
- Virality is dead. 100,000 shares on a post does not mean anything anymore. IE, one of my posts got over 400,000 likes on it but my page only grew by 65 people. Your average person is no longer liking pages just because they enjoyed a post that turned up on their news feed
- Reach is impossible to get for free. It would appear that no matter how many likes/comments your post gets, they tend to reach roughly the same amount of people. IE if I make a post with an affiliate link on it on one of my pages with 60,000 people on it, regardless of activity on it it will always reach between 4000-12000 people. Never 2,000, Never 20,000
- I now spend ALOT of money on ads. I think I spent about 30k in the last 12 months. Its worth it long term.

Players still continue to deposit/bet/lose consistent amounts each month. I might do some stat analysis sometime to post on here to give you an idea of how consistent people are.

I have a worldwide unique website for Online Poker, Sports Betting and Casino and look for traffic from Facebook in exchange for commission/revenue share.

Can you please pm 2 or 3 links of your websites to get an impression about what you consider as simple?

Thanks.

Do you still post advice when someone pm his website link?

what advertising do you do? I see facebook offering advertising but its for a small amount of likes

is promoting your FB page even worthwhile these days? You can buy likes for really any page but the users aren't organic and prob have no interest in your page....the problem is if you spend money on ads you get essentially fake likes, and if you try to reach out through FB groups and what not FB limits your exposure.....is there a way to make it work on FB anymore?

Average spend per like the last few months is about 50c
When you consider that only about 1 in 20 of those likes will see your posts (Due to facebook algorithm) that means 1 actual like costs $10
I would estimate each sign up is worth $500 to me so the question is, can you convert 1000 of those Likes @ 50c into 1 sign up?

the problem is if you advise waiting to grow a fanbase before advertising sign up links someone with no experience has to shell out some real money before seeing if they can make a return....maybe joining groups is the best way to get some organic interest....

btw I see you have a Pokemon page - how do you monetize that? Are you just selling Pokemon products and getting a commission?

Its sort of ingrained in me at this stage that anytime something new hits the news, to make a Facebook page for it and then have a look if there are any opportunities to do anything with it while it gets a load of free likes.

Have not looked into Pokemongo to be honest.

maybe these days you need to attempt to monetize earlier on in the page building process as costs are high and its hard to gain a following without spending the money

100% Correct.

Pre 2013/2014 you would build a nice big FREE pie and once it got big enough to grow by itself you could spam the F* out of it.

These days you have to milk every person from the off.

when you advertise do you promote the full page or certain posts? trying to figure out whats most effective.

OFA whats your click to signup ratio