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Who hasn’t heard about Instagram today?
Instagram is one of the most famous social networking websites. Here you can connect with your friends, family, entertain yourself by watching the pictures of other people.
You can also post your own pictures to make others see how your life is!
In a very short span of time which is not even seven years, it has become one of the most famous social media platforms.
It was earlier only an app that was merely for sharing of your photographs, but now it is used for so many other things.
If you think that the followers needed to earn money with the help of Instagram is too much, then that is not right. Of course, more the number of followers engaged with you, the better it is. But not many are required.
There is a great world of possibilities which is provided by Instagram to it’s creators who have with them and have created large audiences.
These creators can build themselves an empire or just earn themselves some cash or free stuff.
There are some of the ways with which you can earn money using Instagram.
Some of these methods are:
#You can start working with brands these days to spread out word about their products.
You must have heard about the word “Influencer”. Influencers are the people who have made themselves famous by sharing some awesome stuff online and earned good reputation.
To the audiences, these influencers are trend setters.
The job of such people is to get themselves starting to work with some of the brands. These influencers help these brands to spread the word about the brands of their products. These brands instead of doing sponsored posts make use of the influencers to enter the market.
How to find brands to work with?
If you are very famous and have a huge number of followers then there are chances that the brands will find you.
But there are ways with which you can also reach out to these brands to work out a deal with them. Else you can list yourself on a influencer marketplace like:
- Grapevine: If you have more than 5000 followers, Grapevine is a great market place for you to find opportunities once you are listed here.
- IndaHash: Participate in the campaigns which have been put up by the brands and post your pictures. But the criterion for this is that you should have a minimum of 700 followers in your profile.
- Crowdtap: If you do not have a large audience, this is a great place to find opportunities where you can do small and easy tasks like creation of the content. This will help you earn rewards.
But this is only available in the United States of America.
#Open your own online store
You can use this huge platforms used by people all over the world to sell your own products. The kind of products you can sell through Instagram can be:
- Print on demand service. Here you can print T-Shirts, cups, plates, pillows and many more stuff like that for your customers on their demand.
- Digital products like templates which are customized, e books and so on can also be sold on this platform.
- You can also make use of Instagram to sell your own product which is originally yours which might be a book also.
#Selling your own photographs online or on other things
If you have got the skill of getting clicked in a beautiful way, make full use of it to earn money with the help of Instagram. You can sell your pictures which might get printed on some products.
You can get your pictures listed on some of the websites. The brands which need pictures for their products, might pick your pictures up from these websites. They can get them licensed for their products.
This might become a fun activity for you where you can earn money. Also get your hobby fulfilled of getting yourself clicked.
#Make videos for the Gram and get paid
All of this like making funny videos or making videos with your pets, started as a hobby. But today it is used by the people to earn money through this great platform.
Videos made by people of food, travel and so on have also helped them to earn money and getting paid.
#Become an affiliate
An affiliate is not the same as an influencer. An influencer might only be related with creating awareness in front of the audiences about the product of the brand.
But the job of an affiliate is more than that. He is concerned about creating awareness about the product of the brand he is working with. But he is also concerned with the sales of the products.
More the products sold of that brand, more commission will be earned by the affiliate through it.
For this you can consider in your mind the idea of the brands who offer affiliate programs in which you can participate. The alternate to this is to explore some of the market places to find opportunities. Some of the most famous market places to explore for this job are:
- Clickbank: This is a great platform for the affiliates to earn commission and the best part about this is that it is open to everyone.
- Rewardstyle: A great percentage is offered as commission to the affiliates here which is 20%. But this network works for only fashion and lifestyle.
- Amazon’s affiliate program: This is a great platform for the affiliates and is one of the most famous options. The commission that is offered to the affiliates here is 10%.
#Selling drop shipped products
Drop shipping is a kind of business for which you do not have to hold your inventory ever. You just have to receive the order given to you by your client. The supplier who is in contact with you will ship the product directly to the customer.
The best thing about this kind of business model is that you never have to worry about activities of the product. The packaging, storing or for that matter the shipping of your products.
All you are concerned about in this form of business model is to sell the products to the clients.
For setting up business models like these, we have e commerce platforms which can be contacted. Some of the most famous e commerce platforms used for drop shipping business models are:
- Shopify e commerce platform which is free for only 14 days. After this, it is paid.
- Oberlo’s forever free plan drop shipping app.
For those people who are thinking and wondering why they should make use of Instagram to earn money?
The answer is that the number of users of this app is increasing every moment and the number behind this is staggering. It is catching up really fast with the growth of Facebook.
It won’t be surprising if it surpasses the growth of Facebook also in the coming time.
The active number of users on Facebook is 2.07 billion every month. But the number of active users on Instagram has increased already to 1 billion in a very short span on nine years. It was launched in 2010 and reached this high in numbers in the year 2019.
For providing evidence to the above stated statement, some stats can be used, like:
- 1 billion users are active every month on Instagram
- 500 million users are active every day on this app which is more than double of the population of the United States
- In the year 2017, 70.7 percent of the business man in the United States made use of this app
- There are 2 million advertisers on Instagram every month
- 80 percent of the users on Instagram follow at least one business account.
- In the year 2016, 48 percent of the brands in the United States made use Instagram to promote their brands. Thus becoming a great opportunities for influencers and affiliates.
The figures given above are definitely worth considering once for the business purposes and for the fact of making use of Instagram to start earning money.
More the facts which have been stated above, show that Instagram offers never ending opportunities to people to earn money through this. They can make their hobbies of sharing pictures, videos and so on, their source of earning money.
But for all this to be done, there is a basic requirement of having a strong following built on your Instagram. For that, some of these suggestions can be followed:
#Your profile should be optimized
For optimization of your profile, your user name should not be very long because then it might become difficult to understand. It should not be more than thirty characters.
More over your bio should also not be very long. It should not be more than 150 characters and it is a great idea to have a clickable link of your website in your bio.
#Create and promote a hashtag
You should create a hashtag which is related with your profile or your brand. This will help you know the conversations or the promotion of your brand being done.
So you should promote this hashtag as much as possible.
#Participate in the conversation related with your hashtags
If there are more number of users who are using the same hashtag as you are doing, you must give your contribution in their conversation and follow them. This will also get new followers to your own account.
#Post regularly
You should keep posting consistently on your profile which will help the users be in touch with you on a regular basis and know you better.
#Make use of Ads to reach more people
You can also make use of paid advertisements to reach out to new people to let them know about your profile.
Make sure that the ads you are using are very interesting so that the people who watch it get attracted to your profile. They also start following you.
#Make use of contest to invite more people
Contests these days are becoming very famous on Instagram to increase the number of followers on your profile. The contest that you create should be the one which makes sure to invite more people to your account.
They should be attracted by the prizes that you offer to the winner of the contest.
So not you know all about the ways with which you can make use of this great social media platform to earn money. Go ahead now and start earning with the help of this!!!
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