I Made An Extra $1,000 By Making This Small Change on Facebook. Here’s What Happened.
Do This Yourself to Get A Similar Result
I joined a Facebook group in my niche and made $1,000 in the first month. This is the story of how it happened.
About Me
First, a bit about me. I’m an internet entrepreneur. I started online almost 10 years ago. I have done a bit of everything from freelance writing, social media management, digital marketing, ecommerce, dropshipping, Amazon, and more.
I love to have my hands in multiple pots. It keeps me going and it’s a lot of fun for me.
Today, you can find me online at my blog Millennial Nextdoor and I recently started writing on Medium.
My goal is to help people reach their goals, whether it be to pursue their dream of financial independence, avoid living paycheck to paycheck or start a successful side hustle.
How The Facebook Group Came About
I join groups all the time.
Facebook groups are these little communities on Facebook.
They’re free.
And they are comprised of like-minded people.
A group is usually created from a niche, like vegan lifestyle or newbies to Houston looking for friends, small business owners, finance bloggers, etc.
There is a community on just about everything.
I admin about 5 or 6 groups myself:
- Pinterest blogging community
- Making money
- YouTube growth and strategy
- And, a handful of groups that serve as communities for students that take my courses (find my courses here)
Here’s what I did when I joined the group.
The group was filled with my target customer.
Pro Tip: Join groups that are filled with your core customers then, add value and never sell to them.
This pro tip I took myself and it helped me score $1,000 within a month of joining the group.
So first, I joined the group.
Then, I stood back and paid attention. I watched how the group interacted. Looked at the questions being asked. I reviewed the group rules and then, I started….
PARTICIPATING
Participation looks like this:
- I joined in on discussions
- I answered questions
- I asked questions
- I shared my experience and background
What I didn’t do?
I didn’t post a thread.
Posting a thread, unless you’re asking a question, can feel kind of salesy. It puts attention on you and even if your goal is to provide value, hold off if you’re a newbie to the group.
Wait to be known a bit first.
Let people see you interact in the group and answer questions, etc.
Then, later, feel free to post. This is just my personal experience. Take it with a grain of salt and do as you wish.
How I ACTUALLY Made $1,000
I had heard about attraction marketing.
If you google this, it says:

I tried doing attraction marketing for a project I failed at a few months prior (all business ideas are not winning business ideas and even successful entrepreneurs still have failures).
That biz was in cannabis. In short, I joined an MLM for hemp oil and tried my hand at selling it for about a month. I ended up quitting that because it was too expensive to keep up with, without seeing a return. And, the tactics they recommended were super spammy.
Anyway, I did attraction marketing with that project and it worked. I got a ton of people who were interested though few signed up, in part because it was so pricey to maintain.
I tried attraction marketing joining the Facebook group, and this happened…
I got dozens of PMs on Facebook daily.
I had people ask me to share about myself and request to see my courses.
I had people ask me to coach and mentor them.
I got praise for the value I provided in the group.
The $1,000 I earned was from course sales!
And, the best part is, I didn’t even have to ask for the sale.
Everyone who bought inquired from me, I didn’t have to push my products, for once. And it was so refreshing and felt incredibly easy.
I wonder if I did this with 2 groups per month if I could make $2,000/month or $24,000/year?
It might be worth the experiment in the future.
But, there would have to be dozens of groups in niche, which I would have to check.
What Do You Think?
And, that’s how it went.
Have you ever done something like this with groups? Share your experience and questions below!
