Make Money with Facebook Groups with Abbie Unger

Abbie UngerIn this episode, Starve the Doubts host Jared Easley, along with co-hosts Jason Unger and Kimanzi Constable from kimanziconstable.com, interviews Abbie Unger, a wife, a mother, a writer, speaker, a budget stretcher, a former flight attendant, and the mastermind behind Flight Attendant Career Connection, a company that offers community, encouragement, coaching, and resources to aspiring flight attendants. She is the author of the eBook Looking Skyward: Turn Your Flight Attendant Dreams into Reality. Additionally, Abbie is partnering with Kelsey Humphreys as they launched their company shequip, where they offer resources to help women start and build a small business that they love. Having recently been featured in Yahoo! Travel, Huffington Post, Facebook, and Mashable, to name a few, Abbie is a testament of how creating and growing a Facebook group could open doors of opportunity for your business. In this episode, you will learn more about:How the Flight Attendant Career Connection came aboutLeveraging and growing your Facebook groupJason’s thoughts on Abbie’s endeavorsTime spent on managing the Facebook groupWhat doors have opened up for her because of the Facebook groupWhat to expect from her upcoming book!How to make money out of your Facebook groupHow to advertise in your Facebook group the right wayHow to handle the bad apples in your groupThe power of affiliatesAbbie’s thoughts on fameItems mentioned:Starting her own company:Writing her first eBookStarting a Facebook group and growing itReasons for the Facebook group’s success with 9,427 membersEncouraging members to connect with each otherCreating an environment that’s easy for members to connect and become friends in the groupIt’s a safe place! - being vigilant and watching what’s going onHow much does she spend managing the Facebook group?The doors of opportunity that opened up because of the Facebook group:Being interviewed by the Huffington Post, Yahoo Travel, Mashable, and FacebookBeing featured on Facebook StoriesBeing interviewed on an Australian morning showOn her next book: Make Money with Facebook Groups: Build Relationships, Convert Customers, and Create FameHow to set up your groupWhat settings to useHow to get the ball rolling and the relationships buildingWhat to do when someone’s negative to you or to someone else in the groupWhat to do when someone’s trying to sell things through the platform you createdProtecting the people in your groupHow to use the platform to get recognized by the mediaMaking money out of a Facebook group:Using it as your platformCollecting the email addresses of people in your groupReaching all the members in the group with your postsHow she balances advertising in her group and not overwhelming the members“Being generous is the best way to market yourself.” Setting yourself up like an expert and not advertising right away.Other people are advertising for her.Handling the bad applesProtecting your little tribeDoing the advertising for themHow big a group has to be to sell adsSize doesn’t matter, engagement does!The power of affiliatesOn creating fame:It’s okay to be known and have a bigger platformThe problem comes in when you misuse it.Corie Clark’s book The Simplicity Project and Corie’s Facebook groupKelsey Humphreys’ book Go SoloChad Sumner’s Holy City Paddle ToursKnow more about Abbie at abbieunger.orgConnect with Abbie on Twitter @abbieunger or her Facebook page Abbie Unger: Coach, Travel, Speak.To know more about her Facebook group, join and take a look around Flight Attendant Career Connection.Jason’s final thoughts for the listeners:“If your spouse, loved one, girlfriend, boyfriend… if they have a deep down entrepreneurial spirit, just support them, give them the encouragement.”Abbie’s final thoughts for the listeners:“We can’t have everything, but you can pic