Okay, today we're goingto talk about how to make money on Instagram,now before we dive into some of the tips andstrategies, I have Blake with me, my social mediadirector. My secret weapon when it comes tosocial media and also Instagram. He's the onethat helped me go from 50000 Instagram followers to now, 800000 plus Instagram followers.Now when first Blake came to me, I was actuallyvery skeptical, right? Just a little bit. Just a little bit, Iwas like, well Instagram I don't know, is itworth while, do I want to spend money and resources and time on it.
Do people just look atpictures and actually people I think, I should go spending money on it, right? Right. Do actually people buyfrom Instagram so I was very, very skeptical. Soat the time I had 50000 subscribers. So whathappens, Blake came to me. So I came to you and then it was like I was getting sloppyseconds all of the time.
Yeah, that's right. (laughing) Whatever we get fromYouTube or other photos we find in the annex, youknow, go ahead and use those. No strategy, no love. No love, no love at all.No love, no resources. Yeah. So basically, Blakesaid "okay, see Daniel I think we did somethinghere. Yeah, I think you should pay attention to Instagram". Like nah, I don't wantto, I don't have time. He's like "just giveit a chance", so Blake created a full blown marketing plan. Yeah. Like basically a proposaland I was looking through like hmm, I stilldon't know about it and he was asking me different things like number of request and Iwas like nope. Nope. No I'm not gonna do this.I'm not gonna do that. He's asking "I want thesekind of photos". No, I don't give you a shitbasically. No, no money. It's like scraps, nolove, very little effort.
No attention, I was likehere you go, just do whatever you could, right.So Blake helped me to go from 50000 subscribers to then 100000 subscribers and then Iwas doing a little bit of marketing, right. Alittle bit of promotion on there and then suddenlywe were seeing sales. Yeah. And I was like hmm maybeI should pay attention and from there, we got alittle bit more serious. We did. A little more serious. So let's talk about how do people actuallymake money on Instagram like what's some of theways that they can do that? Well, first off there's a lot of ways you can make money on Instagram. Yes. We'll cover a few. Oneof them actually is the just selling your photos. Ah, yes. You know, there's a lot of photographers on Instagram, they take amazing, beautiful photography and actuallyI think there was an Instagram account thatthe guy was just making photos and stuff likethat, he sold his photos for like 15k.
Yes, because Instagram is a perfect way to showcase your artistic ability. (mumbles) People like the photo,being like, yeah and even I see a lot ofartists where they showcase their pieces, theirartwork or different things that yes, people can seethat oh, this is great. Like, I want to buy one of these! Or even, cartoons, right? Yeah, cartoons. Yeah. They make money froma few hundred dollars, like for a photo or totens of thousands of dollars, absolute-very, very powerful. Even you have people whoare, second way to make money is what? Selling your products or services? That's right. (clicks fingers) You can sell your ownstuff. You can sell your products and services.
If you've watched Million Dollar Listings, Right. On New York, Fredrik,Ryan and they promote their real estate listingsand properties and properties that they'reselling on Instagram. So you have real estateagents posting their photos selling multi-milliondollar properties through Instagram. Ifyou think about it, it's mind blowing. It's mind blowing. It doesn't matter what business you're in, it could be you are ina service business, you coach, you're a consultant,you're a thought leader, you're a realestate agent, you are a speaker, you're a mortgagebroker, even you own a restaurant, right? Yeah. You own a gym, you canshow before and after photos of your clients.So many different things you can do. Now to sell,the problem is with selling, what is a goodway to, so people see our photo, how would peopletake action? What do we do to get them to take the next step? Well there's a lot ofways you can do it, if you're still underneathyour first 10000 followers Yes. The best way that you can monetize your Instagram, there's justlike, number one just getting your message,getting your branding and everything set up andgetting that out there. But the link in the biois typically the number one thing that you canstart off with is you do a post, you do asimple plug to if you want more photos like this Click on the link in the bio. If you want to come, exactly. If it's a restaurant like yousaid, it's a certain menu item, maybe it's a coupon? Coupon. Click the link- Click the link in the bio, get the coupon coming on Wednesday and claim it, right? Yeah. Anything like that. Yes. So that's thesecond way, promote your own products and services. Third way, which isamazing. This is actually surprising to me andI found out about this a little bit later on.When you have a lot of followers on Instagram, companies and entrepreneurs anddifferent brands, they will actually pay you Uh-huh. To have you post a photo, a post on your Instagram account. Basically, it's a sponsorship post, right? Exactly. How does that work? So yeah, if you buildup your account to even, I've seen people as few as a few thousand followers A few thousand. That's it. It just takes a couple thousand followers and you'll havepeople start reaching out to you that arewithin your niche as long as you're clear on what your niche is and what you're going after.You'll get products and people reaching out to you. Yeah and people offeryou free stuff all the time, I'm not sayingthat you want free stuff and that's why you doit but you do get people Yeah. Offering you a lot offree stuff, we turn down most of the free stuff.But, yeah, people offer you free stuff. Right? Yeah, and then- So, how much can theyget paid like propose what's a good- Depends on the size ofthe account but it's anywhere from 50 to500 dollars when you're somewhere between 5000 and 50000 followers but then the bigger you get, the more commission you can make because the more eyeballs you're puttingthat product in front of. Do you know Kardashiansand all that, how much they charge per post? (oof) A lot. I think over a million per post. Wow! And I know some Instagrammers charge like 15, 25k only. Yeah, oh yeah. per post. Well you don'tneed to do a lot of posts to do, you know,one post a week, you're doing quite well. (laughing) Yeah. How hard is that, you just the person, or theclient will give you the Right. photo, the copy, themessaging, everything, the product- (sarcastic) oh, it is so tough. (laughter) I gotta, I gotta hit, Igotta, I gotta hit this. I gotta. Whoa, 15k. Shit, this is good. This is amazing, boom. Last way. Another way to do it is through affiliate programs.
That's right. Which is something weteach as well to you, that is to promote otherpeople's products and services and when youmake a sale, you'll get an affiliate commission. That's right. It means that you don't have to create a product, you don't haveto do the fulfillment, you don't have to dealwith the customer service. Handle the building,anything like that. You just have a link, could be in the bio Yeah. People click, you talk about a product or maybe you take a picture,this is what I like to use and boom. There you go. There you go. So four simple ways to make money on Instagram, if you want to know more about Instagram and how Blake and I, we grew our Instagram account from really, 0 to now 800000 followers inrecord time. We went from 50000 subscribers to80000 subscribers in less than one year. If youwant to know how to do that, we're doing aspecial online event for Instagram secrets. I'llput a link here if you want to join us, if youwant to get a ticket and learn more about how Instagram works. It doesn't matter whatproduct or what services you want to promote, oryou just want to gain more followers, clickthe link and get a ticket and join us March 11.It's a one time only event so click on the link andI'll see you in class.