How to earn money from Instagram.

Okay, so now you know why I think Instagram is a great platform to make money on, and with its vast audience, you might be asking yourself, can you make money on Instagram?

Below I detail seven methods explaining how to monetize your Instagram account and get some money rolling in.

1. Become an Influencer and Earn From Advertising Products

Who hasn’t heard of Instagram influencers? Using influencers is perhaps one of the easiest ways to position yourself well and start making money from the social media giant.

Again, it isn’t viable for people with a few hundred followers. As I stressed earlier, you need a minimum following of about 3,000 followers and a high engagement rate.

To start building followers, all you have to do is post pictures of your interests. Ideally, these images show your personality, helping you establish a glamorous personal brand. If you’re interested, I have a whole blog showing you how I build followers on Instagram.

Sure, you can follow a planned marketing strategy, but Instagram followers love it when you’re true to your authentic self. As you share pictures and build your influence organically, relevant brands are likely to come knocking, rather than the other way round.

2. Promote Affiliate Offers

Affiliate marketing is similar to sponsored posts. The difference is that you only get paid if people buy the product or service you’re promoting, rather than receive payment for your post. Instead, you earn a commission if people purchase the product or service you’re promoting.

There are positives and negatives to both approaches, and your success often depends on your audience.

3.Start an Instagram Shop

An Instagram Shop lets you integrate your e-commerce store with your Instagram profile. This is the only way you can promote your products directly to Instagram followers through your posts, Stories, the Explore tab, and the Shop tab on your profile.

Once, there were large amounts of friction for e-commerce store owners wanting to sell through Instagram, but not anymore. Instagram Shopping completely removes friction, letting customers easily check out products in the app and then head to your store at the click of a button.

4. Become an Instagram Coach or Consultant

If you’re killing it on Instagram and have a massive, engaged following, why not make money by teaching others to do the same?

People want to know how to make money on Instagram—it’s why I’m writing this article, after all. If you know how to do it, and have done so yourself, you can make a lot of money.

5.Indirectly Make Money by Advertising Your Brand

You don’t need a business that’s directly tied to Instagram to generate sales.

Thousands of canny entrepreneurs leverage their Instagram following to make money through a separate business. It really doesn’t matter what kind of business you operate; Instagram is an amazing way to get the word out and generate traffic and sales for your brand.

6.Teach Your Audience and Get Paid

Promoting other people’s products via affiliate links or selling physical products through an online store are both fantastic options to make money on Instagram.

7.Become a Virtual Assistant to an Influencer

If you’d rather work behind-the-scenes, consider becoming an assistant to an Instagram influencer.

Many influencers out there need help – with filtering sponsorship requests, running ads, identifying fake followers, and more. You can offer to be their VA and charge by the hour for your services.