How To Find Ideas That Create A Viral Facebook Following

I remember when I first discovered the viral nature of Facebook, It was when I first opened my Facebook account back in 2008. All my friends had joined and I had practically been forced to join in order to avoid the constant friend request spam. I recall looking at my friend’s homepage and seeing the topic “Randomely laughing because you remembered something funny.” (And yes they even spelt “Randomly” wrong). I refreshed the page after looking through a few comments and just in the small space of time I had been on the page 10 new people had joined it and there had been another wall post. I then refreshed again and 10 more people had joined and 2 comments on the new wall post had appeared. At this stage I thought “Wow this is incredible”.

Facebook has become a really hot topic on the internet lately and not only for its Privacy issues. Since the release of its Open Graph, marketers have been a-buzz with testing new techniques, scripts, software and incorporating Facebook into their every day on-site activity. The question for most businesses now has become “How can we take advantage of this fast growing medium which looks set to take over from Google search if it continues to grow as it has done for the last 3 years?”

Since the time I first joined it has taken Facebook till now to truly offer marketer’s good opportunities to profit from this viral traffic. Now online business owners have a big opportunity to produce a viral group they can make money from.

So how do we, as online business owners, create a viral Facebook group?

Well first of all you need to understand that the groups that go viral don’t go viral without reason or by chance. Often viral groups are well thought out, humorous or opinionated topics that encourage users to join.

You can find ideas for these viral groups everywhere; however, the places that I have had the most success from are celebrity news websites and magazines. These two mediums have a knack for writing compelling, opinionated and humorous one liner’s which lend themselves to a viral Facebook group.

Another place you can look is the popular social media websites such as Digg.com and YouTube. These websites deliver popular content on a daily basis that you can guarantee will be popular on Facebook as well. I have seen some of the most popular groups in Facebook existence birthed from these two websites. I joined a group last week entitled “Pants on the ground” which now has 6 million members and was based on a funny American Idol YouTube clip which attracted worldwide attention.

I would encourage you to spend time on the websites I identified in this article in order to create your own viral group on Facebook. All it takes is one good topic to start making money online automatically while generating a rapidly growing viral following. It isn’t a hard process but it is one that will take time. Get it right from the start and you will one day have the pleasure of refreshing your viral Facebook group every 5 seconds to see that 10 more people have joined.

Sam Bakker has been making money online for the past 7 years and now coaches and trains his clients how they can do the same. If you would like to learn more about Sam or Making money online you can visit his website about internet marketing