I Hit $1k This Month on Facebook

Hey there,

It’s been a while since I’ve updated you on my experiments and progress. If you don’t remember, you probably signed up for my newsletter from my Journey Explorer Tool. I send infrequent emails about the online money-making activities I’m working on.

Hit a Goal with Facebook Content Monetization

I have three pages in the Facebook Content Monetization program. This program pays you to post to your Facebook page. This program replaces the previous Facebook Bonus Program.

Facebook had demonetized my reels and videos. This was likely a mistake by their algorithm. They started automatically reversing this ban, and now I can earn from reels again.

I started out manually posting content, and I grew my following to 100k likes on this page through Facebook page likes ads. I spent $0.02 - $0.05 per like, so it cost me a couple thousand to build this page up, but I hope to make that money back from monetization.

If you know me, I like to automate things if I can. It’s the only way I can scale without hiring. So for this page, I’ve automated the image, video, descriptions, and scheduling using a custom Python application.

At this point, Facebook is actually recommending that I post 276 posts per week. I’m really hammering this page with content at the moment, but the reach is looking good.

This time of the year is also one of the worst times to earn money from ads. There is a summer ad spend slump in June, and it’s the end of the quarter, so advertisers start to run out of budget. If this trend keeps up, the fall holiday season should be great.

Other Things I am Working On

I didn’t want to make this email too long, so here are a few other things I have going on.

• Vibe coding to the max - I’m pumping out a ton of websites, automations, and tools using AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

• Directory Websites - I built three directory websites a few months ago: 2 in the food niche and 1 in the health niche. I’m working on scaling these out with backlinks and a method that simulates a page going viral.

• Other Facebook pages - The two other Facebook pages that are monetized are not earning much. I’ve taken one that is in the viral news space and fully automated it. I gather ideas from a few other pages, create my own version of the article for WordPress, and then remix the image to make it unique. I post these to the Facebook page, along with a unique description and a link in the comments. This is starting to drive engagement, monetization, and traffic to my website (which I hope to monetize with display ads soon).

• Content Goblin - This is my AI Content Generation tool that is used by a lot of Pinterest creators. I’m adding new features and plan to expand beyond Pinterest and into SEO and Facebook. I’ve recently added Recipe Roundups, Pin Editing, and a pretty sweet Infographic Generator. I also managed to secure ContentGoblin.com to help protect the brand.

• Pinterest WordPress Plugin - I’m working with a partner to develop a WordPress plugin for Pinterest users. This won’t only be another Pin button plugin, but it will have some advanced features that none of the other plugins have at the moment. More on this soon.

I have dozens of projects I am working on. I’ll try to update more frequently and give more details on how I do these things. I’ll share a couple of the sites so you can see real-world examples.

Latest Video

I’m really slacking on YouTube lately, but here is the last video I posted about vibe coding my directory websites.

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading!

— John