by Eric Bailey

Created on: July 09, 2010

The concept of how to use Facebook to increase earnings from your Helium articles is relevant for member contributors for a couple provocative reasons; firstly, the promise of bigger payments; and secondly, the affirmation that online articles can be a meaningful part of the social media experience.

Facebook has firmly established itself at the top of the internet heap and shows little signs of slowing down. For Helium writers looking to boost their earnings to the next level, or to start looking into marketing their works for the first time, Facebook makes sense as a starting point.

But many member still wonder how to use Facebook to increase earnings from Helium articles, not knowing where to begin or how to implement any useful, beneficial system. Using Facebook to increase Helium earnings need not be a complicated endeavor; in fact, there are just a few key concepts to remember.

Promotion

For members looking to earn on their articles by means other than upfront payments and residual search engine results, promotion may be their next significant step. Promotion is simply the idea of putting your articles out there for the public to read; on Facebook, this would mean exposing your articles to your Facebook friends and possibly other members. Usually, this can simply mean posting a link to the article in a status update, some tools to help would include linking such updates to a Twitter account, and shortening the URL using shorteners such as bit.ly. Then, every time a status update includes a link to an article (with some enticing text to provoke a click), every time someone reads the article, you earn.

Networking

Helium, as proven by its active community sections and competitive member base, is a supportive hub of fellow freelance contributors. Many of them can be found on Facebook, and not only will often gladly return friend requests, but also even read the articles promoted through status updates, as they share their own as well. Furthermore, they can offer insights and assistance into relevant issues, along with possibly passing along solid leads on the site also.

Creativity

Otherwise, it is up to the creativity of individual users to determine how to use Facebook to increase earnings from your Helium articles. Do you have an impressive enough portfolio to warrant a fan page to showcase your writing? Are you web-savvy enough to incorporate scheduled status updates via free services such as HootSuite? Can you correspond submitted articles with current events, shared media, and other ways to make them more likely to provoke clicks and reads? How can friends and family support you via cross-promotion?

In some ways, the world wide web is still the wild wild west, in terms of industrious, courageous internet cowboys seeking the edges of the frontier for innovative ways to share their content and earn the big bucks. Ultimately, knowing how to use Facebook to increase earnings from your Helium articles is just one small part of the larger puzzle.

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