Since acquiring a free $100 facebook advertising voucher, I’m been scouring the web looking for an affiliate program to promote. I’ve never tried affiliate marketing before, but I’ve heard numerous success stories.

I came across Unlimited Wii Downloads and thought that this was something that would be of interest to the facebook crowd. This site supposedly lets you download games, videos, and music to your Nintendo Wii system. A quick search on the internet shows that this site has generally favourable reviews, and that the software works. Unfortunately I do not own a Wii, so I can’t test or vouch for the program.

Membership for the site is either $39.95 (for one month) or $49.95 (for a lifetime). Promising a payout of 75% for each membership sold, I will need to sell either ~3-4 one month memberships, or ~2-3 lifetime memberships to break-even on the $100 facebook voucher.

I’ve applied to create the ad via facebook using the following settings. I’ve heard they are quite strict on accepting ads, but we’ll see. Hopefully persistance pays off.

The wording of the ad is important. I choose a question for the title, a technique known to capture attention more often than a simple statement. A brief description of the service, as well as a call to action is included in the ad description.

I chose the United States as my target market instead of Canada, for the simple reason that the website I am promoting caters first to Americans (the price is listed in USD). I’m targetting people over 18, since those are the ones who posess credit cards. I’ve included both males and females since, despite popular opinion, there are almost as many female gamers as males (I should know, I am a female gamer!). Keywords are restricted to anything containing ‘Wii’.

And finally, I’ve set my daily budget to $5.00 and my max bid per click to $0.10. That means that each time a facebook user sees my ad and clicks it, up to 10 cents will be deducted from my account. I will probably need to adjust this later since this budget is quite conservative.

So now I just need to cross my fingers and hope that facebook approves the ad. I’ll keep you updated!

Edit: Holy that was fast. Within an hour (and before I could even get this blog post up) facebook has approved the ad! I’ll watch it for a couple of days and update the Spiffy Owl with any progress.

Yet another facebook freebie – sign up for the Visa Business Network (it’s a facebook application) and have a $100 facebook advertising voucher sent directly to your inbox!

I haven’t tried affiliate marketing yet but this seems like a great opportunity to get my feet wet. It could make me some cash, or it could be a bust. Basically what I’ll try to do is find a good program that I can promote on facebook to a target audience, and attempt to make more than the cost ($100) back. The good news is that since the voucher is free, there’s really no risk – I wont actually have to spend anything!

If anyone has some programs they’d like to recommend shoot me a comment. If you have a referral ID I’ll sign up under it if I decide to give your program a spin. And of course, I’ll document the whole process on the Spiffy Owl if anyone else would like to try it out!