re: Anyone ever paid to "boost" a post on FB?

I'll give you some advice, and you don't have to take it, but it is worth what you make it.

Facebook advertising is great to an extent, but do not get caught up in the "likes" you have on your page. Paying to "Boost" a post is one thing, paying to "boost" your page for likes is another.

DO NOT DO THE LATTER.

In case that doesn't make sense. DO NOT PAY TO BOOST YOUR PAGE.

Here is why...

When you pay to boost your page to get some more likes so that your business looks legitimate, you will get more likes and your business WILL look more legitimate. However, what you don't realize is that you just put a permanent paper (money) shredder onto your page. Let me explain.

There are these things called "click farms" which are really rooms full of poor people in other countries desparately trying to find new shite to "like". They get paid pennies to like hundreds of pages a day. How all this works is another thread. When YOU pay Facebook to find you new likes, you will get them. However, you will get them from the all of the wrong people, specifically these people working at click farms who have no interest in your business whatsoever and are just trying to like things to get paid.

What's the problem? You have a bunch of new likes and now your business looks legitimate. You are happy... right?

WRONG. Now that you spent $300 and generated 2,000 new likes on your page, it is time to actually get people to start buying some of your stuff. Well now there is a problem. You make a post, and after an entire day, only 30 people have seen it. How is this possible? You have 2,000 likes? The reason is that of the 2,000 people that liked your page, only 20 were legitimate people who are interested in what you have to say. The other 1,980 were done by people who are getting paid to like shite they don't care about.

Want to get a message out to your followers? Now you have to pay to "Boost" your post. To reach 1,000 people costs $5, but the problem now, is that when you "Boost" your post, it is showing it to 1,000 people, but 990 of them don't give a shite about your product because they are from a click farm. Suddenly, 99 cents of every dollar you spend is wasted advertising because it isn't going to a legitimate customer because you tried to boost your numbers by paying for likes. Bad idea, bad returns. Grow your page organically. Don't pay for it. Pay only to boost your own posts to the people that follow you. Do not pay for new follower, because you can NEVER get rid of them, and they will always eat up your future advertising that you pay for when it could be going to legitimate customers.

TLDR: Don't pay to boost your page for likes, only pay to boost your posts to your current followers. Thank me later