How to Make Money on Instagram

Last month I’ve made over $2’000 with one of my Instagram accounts that has less than 10’000 follower

Would you like to know how I do it and how you can replace your full-time income with Instagram?

Do you have an Instagram page but you don’t know how to monetize it?

Well, you come up in the right article

Today you’ll discover how I created this page, how I gained 10K followers in a few months, and how I’ve been able to monetize this Instagram account

Read the article in full and you'll learn everything you need to create an amazing passive income that will bring in your pocket thousands of dollars each month!

In the end, you’ll exactly know what to do to replicate my success and probably do even better than me

So read carefully, maybe take notes, because I guarantee you that this will be worth your time!

What we’ll cover in this article:

How to create your page
How you can monetize your page
The best business models to make money on Instagram
An actionable plan if you have 0 dollars

What to do if you have 0 time

If this is the first article you read on my blog, first of all, welcome!

I’m glad you’re here and if you’re interested in growing your page, making money on Instagram, buying followers, and many other interesting topics, make sure to look around the blog, and maybe you’ll find something that you need and could be useful

Social media are the greatest opportunity of our life: teenagers, moms, grandpas, people of every age, culture, and nation are making hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions

And I’m not talking about big companies or particularly smart people with degrees or masters

I’m talking about regular people, just like you and me, that have the right information, they know what to do and they work hard

In this article, I’ll try to cover everything you need to start, grow and monetize your Instagram page, and maybe have some fun and make new friends down the road.

I know that many of you are interested especially in making money from Instagram, maybe to pay the mortgage, or to quit their 9-5 jobs and travel the world, I don’t know

But I think that if we can make money doing something funny and interesting it’s a great deal, right?

So, now that you know how this article and Instagram, in general, can change your life, switching from using Instagram to watch funny cat videos to using Instagram to make a full-time living, let’s jump into the actual tutorial

When I first started I didn’t know where to look to learn the right information and techniques, so I had to figure out everything on my own, and I wasted months trying different things to find out what’s working and what’s not

You don’t have to do my same mistake

I’ll give you an actual plan that you can follow to start making money in the next 30 days!

Obviously, it’ll depend on your stage!

If you’re just starting, with a brand new Instagram page and you don’t wanna spend money, it will be almost impossible for you to quit your job and live with Instagram the next month, it will require more time

If you want to learn, step-by-step everything you need to grow your Instagram account faster than everyone, without getting banned or blocked by Instagram, read This Full Tutorial (don’t worry, it’s all free)

But if you have already a good following (10K followers or more), you can project to start generating a decent income, at least $1’000 a month in the next 30 days

So, now, let’s start

create your page

The first and most intuitive step is: create an Instagram page

Now you could think “ok, but, I’m not an influencer, a politician, or a star, who would follow me”

Well, you don’t have to use your personal account or even show your face to earn money online!

Either I don’t show my face in all the Instagram pages that I run and I still make a lot of money

Also, running a theme page around 1 specific interest is definitely easier than using your personal account

If you don’t know what a theme page is and how you can succeed on Instagram without showing your face, check before This Article: it’ll be fundamental for you to understand everything I’ll explain in this article

So, now that you know what a theme page is, you have to grow your audience: it’s not enough to create your page, you also have to increase your following.

I can’t explain now everything you need to grow your audience, so you'll need to read This Before, and then continuing with this article or nothing will work

Even if you’re already running a theme page or a personal brand page quite successfully, consider reading this full Instagram growth tutorial to have a better overview of what to do and why

Ok, now you have all the knowledge that you need to grow your page faster than everyone else out there, and you can learn how to do it absolutely for free

If you want to spend some money on Influencer marketing, you’ll speed up the process, but if you don’t have a budget, you don’t have to

Once you’ve created your audience (at least 10K I suggest) you can start monetizing your page and making your first bucks on Instagram!

how can you monetize your audience?

Basically, you need an offer to promote

But be careful: don’t choose the first product or service you find only to make money fast, because in that way you’ll lose the trust of your followers and it'll kill your growth

Instead, you want to find something that serves and help your audience to solve a specific problem

This obviously will depend on your niche, on your audience, and your target

So, what can you sell on your Instagram page?

It could be a physical or digital product

I always recommend selling a digital product (if you’re not an established business, if so sell the products you’re already producing)

With a digital product, your profit margin will be higher and you won’t have to deal with the shipping of the products.

sell your course or ebook

Sell your ebook or course

So, if you have any knowledge in your page’s niche, create a small course or ebook that help your followers solving a specific problem (it could be teaching your dog how to sit down, how to lose weight training at home, how to make your dream girl fall in love with you, it could be everything)

And you don’t have to write a romance or create a 20 hours long course: you can create a 20 pages easy-to-read ebook or a 3 hrs course that helps people in your niche solving their problem and you're done.

If you’re just starting, I would recommend create an ebook on amazon and promote this ebook on your Instagram page, because it’s much easier, but you can sell it for a lower price

If you don't want to write your book, you can hire someone on Fiverr to write the book for you for a few bucks.

You only have to give him your topic and he'll write a professional ebook for you

Then, you can publish your ebook on Amazon for free and then promote it on your page

Every time someone buys your book, you get a commission

The best part is that everyone is scrolling through Amazon searching for books, could see yours, and end up buying it, making you even more money!

If you are interested, I’ll link a full tutorial that teaches you exactly how to write and sell an ebook on amazon

The beauty of creating an ebook on amazon is that, once it’s uploaded, everyone can buy it, and it could become a really good form of passive income, even if you don’t promote it on your page!

Instead, if you want to create a Course, there are a few steps you’ve to consider:

I've tried so many hosting platforms, and I found that Teachable is the most user-friendly and powerful out there

So, if you want you can try other ones, but in my opinion, if you are just starting out, this is absolutely the best choice

Buy a camera to record yourself (you could use also a phone if it has a good quality camera)

And then edit your course (you need basic editing skills to edit a course like this and you can find a ton of tutorial on Youtube)

Creating a course it’s a little bit longer and difficult (nothing impossible, it only require a little bit of extra time) but if you like to talk and you’re comfortable in front of a camera, you will make way more money and you'll be able to scale your business faster

Many people can live a dream lifestyle just by selling course!

Make always sure that what you teach is really helpful and you provide the most value possible

But, what if you don’t want to create your course or ebook?

Well, there are other very lucrative options

My favorite one is called Affiliate Marketing

affiliate marketing

Basically, you want to promote other people products and, each time you make a sales, you get a commission

This is probably the best business model out there because it’s almost completely passive: you don’t have to create your product (and if the product you’re promoting doesn’t work, you can change it easily), you don’t need any customer support and, for any problem, only the owner of the product or service is responsible

Your only goal is to drive traffic to your affiliate link and making money!

Affiliate marketing is one of the greatest opportunities and it’s an absolutely unsaturated market!

It means that if you jump on right now you can be the guy who says: "I did it!" and live his life at his terms, with all the free time and the money that he needs

Yes, there are a lot of scammers and bad products that could hurt your reputation and won’t make you any money, but with a little experience you can make big money without worrying about anything

If you’re interested in learning more about this awesome business model, make sure to watch this Free Training

Another way you can monetize your Instagram page is by linking your page to a dropshipping store

dropshipping

What is a dropshipping store?

Dropshipping is a business model that allows regular people to sell their products online without stoking the items themselves.

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This allows you to reduce drastically your initial investment

You can set up your entire e-commerce store with as little as a couple of hundreds of dollars

But, where can I buy the product to resell?

When a customer buys something from the store you created online, you’ll buy the actual product from a third party and the product will be delivered directly to the customer

So, if you sell a make up product for $25, you could easily buy the item on Alibaba or Amazon for $5

The difference will be your profit

And since you’re selling this product on your page, you won’t spend any money on advertising: you need only 5 people to buy your product to make 100 dollars a day of pure profit

It means $3000 a month

Not bad right?

And if you think about it, 5 people are only 0.05% of your audience!

(If you have a page with 10K followers)

If you think that dropshipping is saturated, look at this graph from Kinsta

The e-commerce trend is only rising over the months and years, especially after this coronavirus pandemic

People who start today, without listening to all the ones that say: “dropshipping is dead”, “you can’t make money with e-commerce anymore”, will be the new rich of tomorrow

If you’re interested in learning more about dropshipping and how to start your first e-commerce, check this article

paid shoutout

This is probably the easiest way to make money on Instagram because it doesn’t require any previous skills or a lot of effort

Once your page starts growing (above 10K, but especially above 20-30K), other pages or business will contact you asking for a paid promotion

Generally, they want to sell their products and services to your audience or they run pages similar to yours and they want to grow their audience by getting exposure on your page

Once you reach 10K followers, you will start to receive offers in your DM’s asking for paid shoutouts

This could be a good initial offer, then you could diversify, it’s up to you

This means that they can choose if they want only a story post with the swipe up for 24hrs, a post+story for 24hrs, or a 48hrs post+story

Plus you will have to add their link in your bio

This is a really easy and passive way to make money because you’ll only have to post the photo or video with the caption that they want and you’ll get paid

Easy, right?

My suggestion is to not overdo paid sponsorship because your page will end looking like a sketchy sales page

It depends on how many posts a day you publish, but if you post once a day, consider doing only 1 or 2 promotions a week

If you post like 4-5 times a day (as I suggest if you run a theme page) you can have up to 3-4 sponsored posts a week

Remember, you don’t want to compromise your page integrity to make some quick bucks: your goal is the long term

How much could I charge them?

Well, I can’t tell the best rates because they vary so much from niche to niche and it depends on the number of followers you have

My suggestion is to start low ($5-$10) and then increase it until you find the perfect price, where you make the most amount of money without compromise your page’s growth

It’s better doing 2 shoutouts a week for $30 each than 5 for $15 each, even if you’re making more money the second way

flipping instagram account

This a little bit different from the other business models, because now you’re not creating and growing your page

You’re buying existing Instagram account at a relatively low price and then selling them for a higher price, keeping in your pocket the difference

This work quite well especially because people don’t know how much their account is worth and they could end up selling it at a discounted price or buy it at a high price

Another reason is that, after a while, people get rid of their account: it takes a lot of time running an Instagram page, so they could sell their account to make money fast

I’ve done some flip in the past, but I would recommend starting this kind of side hustle only if you are already quite experienced

My best deal was to buy an Instagram account with 300K followers from a person that needed money fast for $1400

I’ve grown this account to 450K in a few months, and then I resell it for $12’000!

But it’s not that easy like it seems: you have to find the great page at the right price, make sure that he hasn’t bought his followers and his likes, (to learn how to check this article), control where most of his audience come from and still, chances to get scammed are high

So, don’t even consider this business if you’re not already quite an expert in growing and managing traditional Instagram pages, because you could easily lose all your money

If you want to start flipping account, make sure to start with a small budget, that you’re comfortable with

Think about it as an investment, with the possibility of losing your capital and being scammed

Don’t go all in at the beginning: you have to build up your knowledge and your experience, and then invest more money

I usually like to search a lot until I find a great deal, maybe buying from someone who wants to get rid of his account or maybe he needs money now and then I resell it almost immediately

Bonus tip

Never trust someone who you don’t know and you can’t even see: always use a middleman for the transaction

The cheapest one that I found is the Playerup’s middleman.

This a platform where you can buy and sell accounts, but you can also use only their middleman service.

You can also type on Google “middleman service” and you’ll find a lot of websites that provide this service.

Always make sure to complete your transaction safely using Paypal

Instagram client management

This is an awesome recurring revenue business model, perfect if you want a sustainable income coming into your pocket almost every single month

You can charge your clients every month, and these are clients that usually pay for years and years

But what are you going to offer?

Well, once you start understanding how to grow a page, you can set up your own Social media marketing agency and charge your client to grow their Instagram accounts

Usually, you want to manage businesses and entrepreneurs’ pages because they have larger budgets and they need to increase their audience

You can offer a different type of services, you can:

Grow their account
Managing their content
Managing their ads and their marketing strategy

This is probably one of the most lucrative ways to generate a full-time income from Instagram

And this is because you don’t need so many clients (if you charge $200 per client per month, you need only 10/20 clients and you’re done)

And then, when you'll have enough experience and testimonial, you could offer your services to bigger business and brands and charging a thousand dollars a month or even more

Now, if your services are good, entrepreneurs and people who need to grow their audience will directly reach out to you because your existing clients are recommending your agency!

There are people out there that make 5-6 figures a month just for managing other people’s Instagram accounts and the demand is only going up!

If you want to learn more about this business model, make sure to Watch This

growing and selling theme pages

This is another very lucrative way of making money on Instagram

Basically, you want to start and grow pages from scratch in specific niches (I’d suggest going for the fitness, the business, or the travel niche because these are the most profitable) and then resell them for a good profit

Once you get a good following, you can list your account on a marketplace like Fameswap, so everyone interested in buying a page could see yours and maybe purchase it

This is the perfect way to start your Instagram Business if you need quick money

With the strategy that I explained here and all the growth strategy, tips, and tricks that I’ve taught you in this blog, you can easily create 5-10 different pages and growing them to 2’000 followers in a month, and then sell them for like $100 each

You’re probably spending around 2-3 hours a day and you can make quite a good amount of money from them

When I first started, I had no money. 0

So I created 10 different theme pages and I ran them for about 2 months.

I haven’t all the information that I need and I wasn’t able to buy a course, so I only gained about 2’000 followers on each page in 2 and a half months

Then I sold all of them for about $1’200 and I reinvested around $1’000 to buy an online business course and $200 in influencer marketing for a new page that I created

In that way, I’ve been able to grow this page faster and I also understood what I needed to do to really make money and succeed online

how to start for free

If you don’t have money right now, you can easily make your first $1’000 selling Instagram pages or shoutout, or maybe your digital product

Then, reinvest that money on Influencer marketing and sponsorship and buy some online course that walks you through this world and teach you exactly what you need to do to make 5, 6 figures a month online

I recommend buying a course about affiliate marketing or drop shipping or any business model you like the most because everything you need to know about Instagram is already in this blog for free

Instead, if you already have a budget, I would suggest you think at Instagram as an investment, and maybe start doing from the beginning some Influencer marketing and buy a course on the business model that you’re interested

Choose the business model that you prefer, don't look at the most profitable: it could be affiliate marketing like me or dropshipping, or maybe the SMMA (social media marketing agency)

This is what rich people do: they make big money with little money

Start from scratch and then reinvest your money in your business and your knowledge

This is what will allow you to quit your job, travel the world, and live your dream life!

make money on instagram with 0 time

But, what can you do if you already have some money to invest, but you have no time?

Maybe you work so much, you have to take care of your family, you'd like to keep your social life, but you also want to create a side hustle on Instagram that brings in your pocket a couple hundred or even a couple of thousand of dollars each month?

Well, my #1 recommendation is to rely on a Social Media Marketing Agency

They basically do all the hard work for you, from the growth strategy to the monetization part, Everything!

You only have to withdraw your money at the end of the month!

Over the years I tried so many SMMA and I can almost guarantee that most of them will charge you thousands of dollars for Nothing!

The absolute best one that I find is This One

They are the most professional experts that I found online, they are always at your disposal for any clarification and their customer service is awesome!

Plus, they charge their services at a really cheap price for the quality that they offer: it's probably the best deal that you can find

While they grow your audience organically (no bot, or fake followers!) you'll be able to focus your attention on finding the best offer to promote to your audience and make the most money off

You'll create a cash cow machine that makes you money while you sleep and it keeps growing every single day!

You can obviously try other SMMA, but if you're like me and you don't wanna waste your time and money, I can only suggest you to go with Them

conclusion

As always, I hope this article has been useful and worth your time.

Now you know that you can make a lot of money on Instagram and you can start a long term business that brings in your pocket thousands of dollar each month

There a lot of business models, these are the ones that I prefer and the ones that I think could make you the most money and, at the same time, give you the most freedom possible

The ultimate goal is to fully enjoy your life, have time for the things that matter: your family and yourself!

If you have no money, no problem: start 5-10 theme pages, grow them to 2-3K with the strategies that I teach you here, and sell them on Fameswap

Then, reinvest this money in a course and to grow 1-2 pages even faster and repeat the process

Choose the business model that you prefer, that fit the most your characteristics and your preferences and stick to it

Don’t jump around because doing so you’re only wasting your time

And most important, enjoy the process!

Now you know everything to monetize and make your first one thousand bucks from your Instagram page

If you’re just starting, remember that success doesn’t happen overnight, but you have to put in a lot of work and energy before!

So read my others article to understand everything you need and then go out there and take massive action

This is the only way to succeed!

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