How do people make money using Facebook groups?

Not directly from Facebook. Facebook won’t pay you to create a group as of now.
But yes, you can definitely make money by simply following few steps:
1. Creating a group which is indeed needed and attracts a lot of people to come and join.
2. Keep your group open for organic content, sharing and caring. Once you have reached a good number of members and people are posting advertising stuff, charge them to do so.
So if somebody wants to promote something, you can simply ask a certain amount of money.
3. You can also promote affiliate products and services using your group/members.
4. You can create a blog/website and bring in traffic from Facebook to your website.
5. You also have option of selling things in your group/page, you can start selling products too.
Groups have higher engagement rate than pages, if you have great number of members, you can monetize your group in a lot of different ways. If you are catering to a niche and your content is exclusive, you can also charge people to join.



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