The Beginning
Making money on Instagram all started for me back when I was still using the app for recreational purposes. At the time, I was following an Instagram page related to super cars that posted photos of Ferraris and corvettes.
One day, I noticed that the page I was following was doing sponsored posts. It was advertising t-shirts, luxury car accessories and even high-end wallets.
At first, I figured that the page was advertising its own products. But as time went on, I realized that the luxury car Instagram page was simply promoting products for companies. Even BMW was using this page to promote its new clothing line.
Out of curiosity, I began to do my research, wondering how much these Instagram users were getting paid to post. I contacted several pages, asking if they’d spare me a minute to answer some questions over Skype.
Eventually, I found a guy named Pat, who agreed to Skype me for ten minutes or so. He explained to me that he made $100 every time someone purchased a sponsored post on his page, which at the time had, 600k, followers.
I then asked him how much time he spent running his Instagram page. The answer?
Only 20 minutes each day.
For the time commitment, that was a fantastic return! And what was even better was that people with over a million followers, were making $500 plus per post.
After that Skype call, I instantly jumped into the Instagram game, learning everything I possibly could about the platform. It’s now my main and greatest source of income, making me over six figures each year.
The best part being that you can run an Instagram page from anywhere. In a coffee shop, in a hotel, and it only takes minutes of your time to post. You don't need to be a master at creating content, or even be an entertaining character. All you need to do is find quality pictures that you can repost.
The Mindset
Always Expand your Knowledge
To start this book off, I'd like to personally thank you for purchasing my e-book and taking a chance on me to further your knowledge and expand what you know about Instagram. By taking this first step, you have already proven that you are willing to invest in your education. This is a crucial idea that you will have to embrace in order to become successful online. The reason being that the online world of social media is constantly changing. From my experience, the people that make the most money on the Internet, are the ones that are constantly learning and teaching themselves new tricks and techniques to further their business.
So keep that in mind as you begin to make extra income off of social media and the internet. Always set aside a portion of your earnings that you will use to further develop your knowledge and understanding of Internet business and Internet marketing. There’s always something new that can be learned, and even the slightest detail can give you the upper edge.
Just to give you an example of this, a friend of mine was making a great deal of money from his Facebook page that he used to target a very specific niche.
Using Facebook ads, he quickly grew his business and began making a lot of money selling various health related products to his targeted following. As time went on, the niche that he was targeting started to become more and more saturated, making it harder for him to make a large profit on the products that he was selling. In short, he was forced to shrink his profit margins.
Another friend of mine, that I actually met at a conference, was in the same sort of business, using Facebook groups and Facebook ads to sell an arsenal of different products. However, unlike my first friend, he educated himself daily and discovered that there was enormous potential on different platforms besides just Facebook. Using his knowledge, he quickly expanded his business on to Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and even YouTube.
The two friends both started in relatively the same place. However, one chose to adapt to the changes in the social media realm, making his business triple while the first friend's business shrunk.
In the world of online business, it is essential to be constantly expanding, and researching how you can further develop your audience and customers. Now, I know this book is about Instagram, but I just want you to keep all of this in mind while you are reading. Instagram is probably the hottest social media platform for making money today, but that doesn’t mean that it will always be this way in the future. Furthermore, I predict that Snapchat will in fact dominate in the years to come. With this being said, you should try to use the growth that you will experience on Instagram to build an empire of social media followings, spread across a variety of different networks.
The Instagram Battle
In order to make money on Instagram, you need a large following of people.
The more followers that you have, the more money you will make. With that being said, gaining followers on Instagram can be extremely tiresome and grueling.
Always remember the endgame, and constantly remind yourself why you are doing this in the first place. There will be days during your Instagram journey when you just don’t feel like posting, and feel like you are making no progress. This is all part of the process.
Gaining a following on Instagram and building up a network of niche related followers is something that requires an insane amount of patience and persistence.
You don’t need to necessarily be smart to make money on Instagram, in fact, anybody can do it. The only skills that you need are patience and persistence, like I said above. If you have those two qualities, you are more than capable of building accounts that will have over 1 million followers.
The Time Frame
So now that I have explained how difficult this journey is going to be, you are probably wondering how long it is going to take before you start noticing real results on Instagram. Personally, it took me around a year to build a 200,000 follower Instagram pages, and 2 1/2 years to build a 1 million follower Instagram pages. Once you pass the 1 million follower mark, you will easily be making over $100,000 per year, assuming that a large portion of your followers are engaged.
So if you look at that time frame, you will potentially be making one hundred thousand dollars in a timeline of almost 3 years, assuming that you stick with it every single day and never give up. If you think about it, that’s not really a long time to go from making zero dollars, $100,000. College students have to stay in schools for four years just to get a degree!
Also, once you have a page with 1 million followers, it will be a lot easier for you to grow even more pages and expand on to other social media platforms. I will explain all of this later on in the book, and will teach you how to grow on social media exponentially.
Just keep in mind that the first milestones are always the hardest. The first thousand followers and the first 100,000 followers will always be harder than the next.
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