This guide on how to make money online with Instagram will be in a question and answer format.
There are many ways to make money online and Instagram is a goldmine. If you’re an active Instagram user, you must have definitely stumbled upon accounts like kraksTv, Lasisielenu, Maraji, InstaBlog9ja to mention a few, The owners of these accounts make money from them. Let’s take a look at few of these accounts.
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If you notice two things these accounts have in common, it's a relatively large amount of following and a high rate of engagement on their posts.
The power in owning an Instagram account is the number of followers. Not just the number of followers though but the number of real and active followers. If you’re an Instagram user, surely you must have come across an account with a large amount of following but very few likes on their pictures or views on their videos. It is easy to conclude though that their followers are fake, “they probably bought fake Instagram followers”. This might not be the case though, their followers might be real but not active.
How do the owners of these accounts make money with them?
Majority of Instagram influencers (Instagram influencers are people that have a relatively large audience on Instagram) in Nigeria make money through sponsored posts or advertisements.
What is a sponsored post?
Let’s assume you sell T-shirts online and you want more people to see your products so you can get more sales and customers, you can contact an Instagram influencer to help you put up a post about your T-shirts. They’ll charge you for the post, depending on their audience. The post could be pictures or a video of your T-shirts and how your customers can order from you. The post which they put up on their page is a sponsored post.
How can I start making money on Instagram too? I don’t have that many followers
There are many ways with which you can make money from Instagram, making money through sponsored posts is just one of them and you don’t need a very large number of followers to make money on instagram. If you noticed throughout this article, the term “relatively large” was used. You don’t need an account of over 500,000 or a million followers, 5,000 followers is a relatively large number of the follower so is 10,000. 5,000 followers aren’t large, you can get up to that in a two to three weeks, you want to know how? Keep reading!
As stated earlier, selling sponsored posts, is one of the many ways to make money on Instagram. Some other methods include but are not limited to:
- Growing followers on Instagram accounts and selling them
- Promoting affiliate products and earning a commision
- Promoting CPA offers
- Working as a social media manager for a brand
We’ll be discussing the first two methods mentioned because they are the easiest and quickest ways to make money with Instagram, “Selling sponsored posts on accounts” and “Building accounts and selling them”.
Alright Bruh, so how do I grow followers on an Instagram account?
It is really not that difficult. To grow the following on an Instagram account, you don’t have to do comedy skits or whatever, all you simply need to do is engage with real people. That’s right, to engage with real people on Instagram you follow them, like their pictures and comment on them, then watch as your follower base begins to grow.
Don’t rush into it just yet though, you can’t randomly start following and liking just anybody on Instagram. Yes, they might follow you back but will they be interested in what you plan to post? Will they like your pictures or view your videos? Remember, you don’t need just followers, you need real and active followers.
Alright, how do I make sure my followers are real and active
First, select the niche which you want to create your content around. Do you want to upload fashion-related content? Or comedy or gossip news or content about travels. After choosing a niche, create a new account. You can use your personal account if you want, but I usually advice creating a new account. Start posting on your account. You can search for similar Instagram accounts and take content from them, don’t worry nobody is going to arrest you, you’re not stealing anything. Now look for Instagram pages with quite a large number of followers and a high rate of engagement in the same niche as yours and start following their followers. Don’t follow too much though as Instagram can block you from following for a while if you do. You can follow about 30 - 50 people hourly, like some of their pictures and comment on them. Just sit patiently and see as notifications of your new followers flood your phone.
Ok, I have about 5,000 followers now, how can I start making money?
5000 Instagram followers is not enough to start selling sponsored posts to people, it is, however, enough to be sold. Hop on to https://socialtradia.com sign up and get your Instagram account listed.
This is how much accounts between 2,000 to 5,000 followers are being sold on socialtradia. You can grow an account up to 5,000 followers in just 2 - 3 weeks and sell them between $80 - $120, you can do the conversion to Naira yourself.
You can decide to grow your account to a couple more thousand followers and start making money from paid posts.
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