Can I Skip A Website And Just Use My Facebook Page For Affiliate Income?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Kevin, who asks if he can forgo his website and rely on Facebook for his affiliate income. You can bet I have opinions! Kevin’s site is http://soccerpracticevideos.com/. In this episode, I talk about my buddy, Chris Ducker: http://www.chrisducker.com/; Gary Vaynerchuck: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/; and Tim Ferriss: http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/. Do you have a question about Facebook? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Ask, AskPat.com.
0:10.8	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 164 of Ask Pat.
0:15.7	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.3	Before we get to today's question from Kevin, I do want to thank today's sponsor, which is freshbooks.com, a site, one of the many sites that I wish I knew about when I was first
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0:55.3	in the How Did You Hear About a section to start your free trial today. Awesome. Now,
1:00.8	let's get to today's question from Kevin. Hey, Pat. This is Kevin Sibilli from Soccerpractic
1:06.8	Videos.com. And I have a website and I have a Facebook page. And my question is, can I forego
1:13.8	having a website page and just have a Facebook page and do the same things to generate income
1:21.9	via affiliate marketing or ad placement on my Facebook page.
1:28.2	Appreciate any help.
1:29.3	Thanks for everything you do.
1:30.7	And have a wonderful day.
1:33.0	Kevin, thank you so much for your question today.
1:36.1	It's interesting because I know a lot of people who are generating an income with their
1:41.0	Facebook page.
1:42.1	I know a lot of people who are generating an income solely on Twitter or on LinkedIn
1:46.0	or even on YouTube, yet they don't have a website.
1:49.7	And every time I hear one of these stories, it's like I cringe a little bit.
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