How to make money from Instagram posts

making money with Instagram is possible and here I will tell you how to do it. You can imagine living traveling, just dedicating yourself to taking a few pictures every day?

But what do you have to do to make a living on Instagram, how many followers do you have to have, where do you find the advertisers?

Here I explain everything you need to know to be able to live from the social network that is growing the most.

But before getting into the subject, here is Paula Echeverría's Instagram.

Why?

Very simple, because it is the most searched Instagrammer of all Google.es, it is searched by 22,000 people every month and it has more than 3 million followers. Maybe you can stop by to get some inspiration.

Do you know who is the second most searched Instagram account on Google.es?

Sara Carbonero's Instagram, with 9,900 searches per month.

Calm or calm if you are not an actress or actor or have not been with a footballer or singer, you can still earn money with Instagram, and here I explain what you have to do.

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Make money with Instagram

There are many ways to monetize your Instagram account, some will work better than others, depending on your audience profile and your line of business.

The best thing is to try them all and thus see which one suits you best.

 Platforms to connect advertisers and influencers

Monetize your Instagram account, there are already many platforms that put advertisers in contact with influencers, and in most of them, they accept Instagram accounts.

You just sign up for all of them and wait for a brand interested in appearing on your profile to contact you.

• Influence4You

You register and you already have in your panel all the campaigns that are available. Some send you free products, others pay you for sales, or also based on the number of followers you have.

Sign up for Influence4You

• SocialPubli

This is one of the main marketplaces that exist for Spanish-speaking influencers.

Very easy to use and in addition to your Instagram account you can also register other social networks such as Twitter or Facebook.

You Have Launch campaigns that any influencer who arrives in time to sign up can join. For me, one of the best platforms to find advertisers and monetize your social networks, especially when you are starting out.

Sign up for SocialPubli here.

• Amazon Influencer Program

Amazon already had its own affiliate program but for that, you had to have a website. Now it has also opened this possibility to users of social networks for which it has created an affiliate program designed for influencers.

One of the great characteristics of this program that differentiates it from the one that it already had as affiliates is that it allows influencers to create their own personalized product page, ideal to be able to recommend it through videos or to share in the only hyperlink that allows you to put Instagram in your description.

Learn more about the Amazon Influencer Program

• Corbis

Designed more for bloggers and website owners, rather than influencers, but it also has the option of adding an Instagram account.

You choose the price within the suggestions that they make to you.

You can register in Corbis here.

• Influenza

It is not focused on the Spanish market like the previous ones, but it is also one of the most powerful.

They require you to have at least 5,000 real followers and a good engagement (that your photos have likes and comments) to sign up with them.

Before registering, you can quickly check if your account is eligible via this link.

You can Sign Up here 

A sponsored photo is paid to you at an average of $ 2 for every 1,000 followers you have. In other words, if an advertiser hires you to put up a post and you have 10,000 followers they would pay you around $ 10 and if you have 500,000, well € 1,000, not bad, right?

Now calculate what they can pay Paula Echeverría, who has almost 3 million followers

$ 6,000 for a post on Instagram!

Sell   your presets

To be an Instagrammer you have to be a good photographer and you can learn that from true Instagram professionals, from those who spend more time behind than in front of the camera.

The presets are default effects, usually generated with Lightroom and that many accounts that help you with your Instagram, put at your disposal.

Lightroom course to be a true Instagram

Here are two examples:

@Doyoutravel

Lauren Bullen and Jack Morris are the couples that formed this account with more than 2.7 million followers and have turned it into a real business.

They impress you with their photos and then sell you their presets.

You can learn a lot from them, both to create spectacular photos, as well as ways to monetize an Instagram account and everything that can surround you.

@ 7kidz

This Spanish Instagram mentor also sells really good presets. He gives you some to start messing around.

Sell   affiliate products

There are lots of online stores that give you a percentage for each sale you make through their links.

If, for example, you take a super photo with a drone and upload it to your Instagram account, you can indicate that this photo is made with that specific drone and that it can be Buying through the link you provide, for example on Amazon or Gearbest, two large online stores that accept affiliates.

You can find affiliates of practically any type of product. With an easy Google search, you can find the ideal affiliate for your profile.

For example, if you want to find affiliates related to fitness, search for fitness affiliates, or if you want to find affiliates related to cosmetics, search for cosmetic affiliates.

Keep in remember that on Instagram you can only put a single link in your description, do not forget to mention it in your photos so that they go there and click.

One of the links that are seen more and more, especially in fashion Instagrammers, is that of their 21Buttons profiles, which is like an Instagram, but only in fashion, and where you can click on the clothes to buy button them. This way you can make money with your looks.

Sell   your photos

On canvases, t-shirts, and everything you can think of

You can sell your Instagram photos. There are lots of ways, you can make canvases with your printed and signed photos, t-shirts, phone cases and send them to your followers.

It may seem silly to you, but a New Yorker earned more than $ 15,000 in one day.

One page where you can do all of this is Instaprints.com.

In photo marketplaces

You can also sell your photos without creating any object. One of the main marketplaces to sell your Instagram photos to any company that may interest you is Twenty20.com.

Set up your own tent

If you have lots of followers you can take advantage of them and sell your own merchandising products.

You can appear on your Instagram photos with your own t-shirt models and sell them in your own store.

There are platforms with which you can set up an online store in minutes, with your own personalized products such as La Tostadora or Printful.

For each sale you make of your products, you take the extra cost that you have marked and you do not have to do more than design and promote them.

Sell   your Instagram account

You can also sell your Instagram account lots of people sell them through classified ad portals, but the idea is to do it through specialized platforms, such as FameSwap.

Tricks to boost your Instagram account

But you can earn money with Instagram. You not only have to have good photos, but you also have to have people who follow you.

From 5,000 followers on your account is when a brand may be interested in sponsoring you.

Here are a few tips and tricks to gain followers on Instagram and become more influential.

 

Train yourself

Take courses in photography and marketing strategies, they are very cheap and they teach you really well.

Composition and photo editing for Instagram

Content creation and editing course for Instagram Stories You can use tools and platforms to study your account and the competition

There are few very useful tools to get the most out of your Instagram account, something essential if you want to become a professional at this.

One of the most popular is SocialRank.com, where you can see, for example, who are your most influential followers, ideal to know with whom you have to increase your interactions.

Follow for following and interact

one of the Other old tricks is to follow other users, who can return the following to you.

One of the good ways to achieve this is to see the followers of a profile similar to yours and who may be interested in following you.

Make likes and comments on profiles with lots of followers and of course upload at least one good photo a day with hashtags that have many publications and people follow.

You just need a camera, a mobile and you win.

And don't worry, you don't need to travel, in any corner, there are places like the ones you see on the most famous Instagram accounts, you just have to find them, like the Pokémon.