HOW TO EARN ON INSTAGRAM

There are various Social Media platform from where people are making money. Be it Facebook or Instagram, there are ways to earn a descent amount of money from both. In this article, we will be discussing ways to earn using Instagram. Lately, Instagram has gained more user interaction as compared to Facebook. People are now shifting from Facebook to Instagram. Instagram is more convenient as it has to do everything with pictures. Pictorial representation provide more interaction as compared to written. Most people don't like to read but love to understand the same in the form of a picture.
Instagram is a platform where you earn from 3^rd party and not from the app itself. Here, 3^rd party means any other person using Instagram or a company trying to sell it's products on Instagram and you working as it's Affiliate or you owning a company on your own and trying to grow your business.
Before thinking about earning, you 1^st need to know what steps you need to perform to set up your account. Here, they are

1. Create a Business or a Creator account
2. Decide your niche
3. Set up your bio
4. Upload about 10+ posts on your Instagram account
5. Before uploading any post, present each of your post (use hashtags, etc) to get more interaction and profile visits
6. Update your Story daily
7. Follow Unfollow technique

1. Create a Business or a Creator account

   

   In order to make money from Instagram, it is necessary for you to make a Business account, if you have a Business to grow, or a Creator account, if you want to work as an Affiliate and promote 3^rd party products.
   Now, why is it necessary to make a Business or a Creator account and why not Personal account? This is because in Business or Creator account, we have Account Insights, which gives us the overall performance of our account (Accounts Reached, Content Interaction and Total Followers) where we are informed about,
   

   • the reach of our posts and story
   • Account Impressions
   • Profile Visits
   • Likes, Comments, Saves and Replies
   • Followers Breakdown, Gender Percent (Male/Female)
   • and the most important, when our users are most active. This decide at what time you should be posting to increase our interaction and growth.
   So, it is best to create a Business or a Creator account rather than a Personal account. Moreover, Instagram also gives organic reach to your profile and ultimately more number of followers.

2. Decide your niche

   After you have created your account, you need to decide your Niche or rather you can say Topic of Interest that you would portray from your account, It can be Fashion, Gaming, Travel, Influencer, Blogger, Digital Marketing or anything, but a topic or subject that your profile is based on. It is very necessary to specify your niche as it helps the Instagram SEO to bring you followers, who are interested in your type of niche. It also help you get discovered in the Discovery or Search page.
   Remember : always choose the niche, you are interested in and not, which can earn you more (BIG MISTAKE).

3. Set up your bio

   

   Bio describes the content of your page and other page related details in few words, seeing which the visitors decide whether to follow the account or not. This bio also helps in performing the SEO of Instagram and gives you broader organic reach. The bio needs to clearly deliver the theme or the purpose of the account
   Remember : to keep the bio short, consisting of emojies, so as to give more clearance of the page to the visitors.

4. Upload about 10+ posts on your Instagram account

   

   After you have completely set up your profile and bio, upload certain number of posts. This is really an important thing to do before sending any Instagramer a follow request. You can imagine, you have got request from some profile to follow, what would be first thing that you would do? Surely, you would go to that person's profile and check his/her posts. And when you find them interesting, you follow the page. This is the same for your profile, too. Captions are very important when it comes to uploading a post on Instagram. You need to have User interactive captions, which means that when visitors read your caption they are compelled to comment and interact bringing out the emotions in them for the post you have created.
   Remember : Upload high quality images and never forget to mention your Username in the caption of the posts.

5. Before uploading any post, present each of your post (use hashtags, etc) to get more interaction and profile visits

   

   This is another important task you need to do in order to increase the reach of you post. Instagram has something called Hashtags. These hashtags are collection of stories, photos and videos belonging to the same category, say #travel will have all photos, stories and videos related to travelling to different places and locations which are uploaded by Instagram accounts around the world. So, using these hashtags will place your photos in them and people following them will be notified by Instagram. In this way, you can get more organic reach to you Instagram profile.
   Remember : don't just use any hashtags to get views and likes. Always use hashtags related to your post.

6. Update your Story daily

   

   Instagram introduced the story feature for it's users to post their daily activities. These stories remains only for 24 hours after which it can only be seen in the Highlights section of your profile, only if you wish to set it there. Story is a follow booster as it gives you more number of organic followers. If your story is attractive and people like them, then surely, you would get followers any any cost and your interaction will also increase.
   Remember : to daily update your Story.

7. Follow Unfollow technique

   

   Many people use the Follow Unfollow technique in order to grow their followers. But, let me tell you, this is a short term technique and won't give you more interaction. Now, you can simply understand this, when a person following you on his own, is a person who have visited you profile and liked your posts and the way your account is presented. He will remember your account and when you upload any photo, there are more chances for him to, like and interact with your post. Rather than the Follow Unfollow technique, where most people just see that they have a follow request and accept them and only a few may follow back. This technique is not very efficient. Instagram may also consider you spam and block your account actions temporarily for following and unfollowing too many people on a single day.
   Remember : if you are using this technique, make sure that you follow and unfollow only 200 account each on a single day till you reach 1000 followers. After getting 1000 followers, reduce you follow unfollow activity to 50.

NOTE :

• Never use any 3^rd party application or website to grow your followers. They are just fake and you won't get you good interaction and impression from doing so. Although, you will have huge number of followers, but your posts will receive very less likes and interaction.
• Upload your posts on daily basis.
• Make use of your Insights for improving you activities.
• Keep a watch, when your followers are active and act accordingly (upload posts)
• Don't try to run behind growing the number of followers. Instead be more focused on the engagement on your profile. Many accounts, you can find, that have huge number of followers but their engagement is very low. So, having that many followers are of no use.

Initially, everything is tough. Your engagement will be less. But, you need to stay positive and just think about your daily targets. Don't visit highly interactive profiles and regret and get demotivated. Remember that, they too have started like you from 0 and rose to that position. Stay positive and learn from them.

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