Earn money by posting on Instagram!
Instagram still remains an unexploited gold mine that promises huge financial rewards if you do it just right. With a substantial following under your belt and some persistence, you too can also join the bandwagon of people profiting by merely posting on Instagram. To help you navigate the murky waters of the trade, here are a few pointers on how to milk this bulging cash cow:
1) Affiliate marketing is your best bet
Affiliate marketing is the most common and easiest way to earn money on Instagram. It involves promoting a company’s products or services by posting pictures and accompanying links on your account and convincing people to try them out. It’s basically being a sales person for a specific brand only that instead of knocking on doors you’re pitching your sales talk online.
Be sure to reach out to as many brands as possible and target those who have been known to be receptive to recruiting influencers in the past. Sharesale, Stylinty and Ebates are a few good examples of companies that you could try out.
2) Tailor your business around Instagram
If you are also running a business on the side, then there is no better way to give clients an in-depth tour than through Instagram. People are suckers for behind the scenes images, therefore post these kinds of pictures coupled with happy customers just going about their business. You are bound to turn a few heads and bring in more customers.
Snazzy infographics are a unique feature of Instagram and offer a great way to put up posts about special offers. And once it catches on, you will have people re-graming faster than you can count. User Generated content is an extremely effective Instagram feature that could give your business a big boost.
3) Embrace Instagram photography
Instagram was built with this sole purpose in mind: to showcase amazing moments captured and preserved artistically through the lens of a camera. If you are fairly good with a camera, then you could sell the photos themselves and get good money for your efforts.
You can pitch your stills to the public or better yet to the relevant agencies themselves. Couple beautiful shots with individual hash tags so that people have an avenue to express and share their opinions of the photos. Twenty20 and Community Foap offer great avenues to sell such pictures.
4) Be an unpaid brand ambassador
Getting an official brand ambassadorial role can be an uphill task so why not do it for free first until you make it. Your application has higher chances of success when filled under the “unpaid” category and you’ll be among the first in line when an official post opens up.
What’s more, companies more often than not silently hand freebies to their unpaid partners so it’s not as unpaid as its name suggests.
5) Your Instagram account itself has a price tag
Well, you could go all in and just put your account up for sale. There are many people out there willing to pay through the nose at a moment’s notice provided you have the following to make it worth their while. If you are ready to call it quits, then visit websites like Viral accounts and Fame swap that offer a huge platform and are sure to bring buyers sniffing your way.
To make it in the cut-throat world that is the business of Instagram, your account really needs to have a good following; the larger the better. Activities proven to rapidly increase followings include using actively followed hash tags, promoting your account on other established social media profiles, always posting quality content round the clock among many others. Without a sufficient following, it will be extremely hard to get anything out of Instagram.
True, without a subsistent following you would hardly get anything out of Instagram. I had this business account that has 300 followers and even though I post amazing stuffs, I’ve not had any leads yet. It’s kinda frustrating sometimes.
Hmmmm. This got me. So I can actually sell my account out. It’s a good thing there’s an option to change username when I decide to sell it. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll keep that in mind.
Are there any Brands you can suggest that accepts unpaid ambassadors? Or does one need to just start promoting their products without notifying them?
Selling products on Instagram is like the best idea. A lot of people are now turning there looking for the next cool stuff to buy. If you have a store and you are not using Instagram to promote your business, then you still have a long way.
Lovely posts you’ve got here. Instagram is a great place to make money but you just know how to play your cards well cause there’s no getting lucky if you don’t go by the rules.
Wow. I just got this major idea now reading this. Truly Instagram has given us lots of benefits and we just have to tap into that.