Hi so I got a message today on my facebook, this guy wants to buy my fan page off me and he understands that I lost my publishing right. can you monetize a facebook fan page even if you lost your publishing right? or should I just sell him the page but for how much? Im sorry I am really new at this , if anyone can point me in the right direction for information I would be very greatful..
Sell it for a much as he will buy it for... and tell him I have a few too lol. You can use big pages still in the sense that you can create an FBML pages and use a force "like" system to promote your site or make money with linkbee (or whatever it is). Odd of it being successful if not many people are clicking the page anymore = LOW Doing it yourself = purchase of a $50-75 scripts + breaking facebook policy + breaking spamming laws. It's not worth it.
how can you still publish if you lose your publishing rights? I think I heard someone say you can still update the page with your information (ie. you can put your website link on it etc) but as for the wall, that's blocked. Or are you saying you know a way around that?
The idea is that even if you don't have publishing rights, someone is going to view the tab with a link to your website or something of that nature and make it worth the little bit of money they payed for it. If it has that many members, there's also a good chance it will continue to grow and more users will view that page. Publishing privileges make it work a lot better, but it can still work without them. As for losing the privileges, if you have a large fan page but you don't own the subject of the page (such as a page for "cookies" when you do not own all the cookies in the world), you can lose the publishing privileges for absolutely any reason. Also, if the fan page publishes updates that have nothing to do with the page the privileges will get revoked pretty quick.
There are still ways to monetize it but not as effectively without publishing rights. You might want to give it a shot and email facebook to recatogorize your page as a community page but I doubt that might do any help. Additionally you can still monetize it with the profile information such as the cornor box for incoming users. You can also use it to get traffic to your site with a FBML code depending on the topic of your page and how you choose to set it up. Sort of offer an incentive.
You can still monetize it by creating a website and putting it in the description. Im pretty sure you can still send messages to your fans right? Send them all a message telling them to look at your new website etc.
I thought that was the point of losing publishing rights, that you could not post on your wall, or send messages to the fans. If that's the case then I can't see how the page could be of much use. I know that you can put a new link or banner on the fan page so that any visitors will see it, but I wouldn't think many people will actually go and visit the fan page would they? The power is really in the posts that show up in people's news feeds.
Once you get a few thousand fans on a Page, it'll usually continue to grow even after the virality dies down, even if it grows slowly. With 180k fans already, this Page is still valuable even without the publishing rights and should continue to grow. As others suggested above, just throw up a LP tab on it and promote something, making the users like the page to access some content, or linking to other stuff you make. You may not make as much directly without publishing rights as you would with them, but I'm not sure how big of a difference it makes... One other nice thing is that the FB team probably won't pay much attention to it once publishing rights are gone, unless it gets a ton of reports of course. Think about this; when you utilize publishing rights, and send out feeds as the Page, what do you send out? Do you send out a link to the Page itself to all of the fans? Hopefully not... This would just give them the chance to come back and Unlike what is likely a junk page. If you know what you're doing, you will be sending out links to other Pages you have created, that will allow you to keep generating lots of viral traffic once the original Page gets deleted altogether, as it inevitably will. So the point is, you aren't losing anything but the ability to promote new Pages you create, and this has nothing to do with the actual performance of the Page itself. In many cases I don't think the loss of publishing rights will affect how much you can directly earn from the Page's performance at all, just it's usefulness
I would like to a add to Andrews comment above (don't freak coz i know your name - I bought a few of your products back in the day) but there are a few loopholes in the system to get round the publishing rights. For example there's an application (silly me I've forgotten the name) that has an option to update your pages status through the app.
180k pages will be around $75-100 dollars. You may get more depending on what the page is about if it's a high paying term like law then maybe it's worth $200-300 ect If it's about music it's only worth about $75 bucks lol Get the idea? Good luck bro.