Greetings digital hustlers! It's time for the next post in our social media monetization series. This post is going to list ways that you can make money with Pinterest. Before we get into our list, allow me to share some stats with you that make Pinterest an ideal platform to make money on. Here they are: > Pinterest has more than 320 million active users. > 71% of Pinterest users are female. > 52% of millennials use Pinterest monthly. > 63% of users say that Pinterest helps them discover new brands or products. > 89% of pinners use Pinterest for inspiration on their path to purchase > 98% of users report trying new things after browsing Pinterest. > 1 in 2 people make a purchase after seeing a promoted pin. > At least 50% of users have an annual household income of over $75K The above statistics should tell you that the monetization potential of Pinterest is huge. Although Pinterest may not be the largest social network, it certainly seems to have the strongest influence on its users. What's more, Pinterest is full of active online shoppers with a lot of disposable income. This translates to an opportunity for just about anyone and everyone to use Pinterest to earn some easy cash. Now that you understand the opportunity that Pinterest presents, let's talk about some things that people are already successfully doing to make money through Pinterest. 21 Ways to make money through PinterestThe following activities are things that people are already successfully doing to make money with Pinterest, so these are things that you can do as well. Keep in mind that these certainly are not the only ways to make money on Pinterest, but they are things that anyone can begin doing today for little or no investment. 1. Become a Pinterest influencerIf you've read any of my previous posts than you know that an influencer is a term that marketers use to describe a social media user that has a significantly large following. If you are one of these lucky people, you are considered to be an influencer, and this means that advertisers want to give you money to promote their products and services to your social media following. If you believe that you have a large enough following to be considered an influencer, and you're interested in monetising your influence, one great platform to check out is Loop 88 which works with Pinterest influencers specifically. 2. Become a Pinterest VAPinterest VA is actually a website where you can sign up to become a paid Pinterest Virtual Assistant. This means that various Pinterest users would pay you to perform certain tasks on Pinterest that they need done. To visit Pinterest VA, just visit the URL below. https://pinterestva.com/ 3. Become a Pinterest ConsultantIf you know all their is to know about Pinterest, you can monetize this knowledge as a Pinterest Consultant. Individuals and businesses looking to advertise through Pinterest need someone with your know how and would probably pay you well. 4. Affiliate marketingPinterest is probably one of the best places on the internet to place affiliate links. Whenever you post content to Pinterest, you can have it link to any URL that you want it to, including an affiliate link. If you can create an attractive, attention grabbing pin that connects to an affiliate URL for a relevant offer, this could be easy money in the bank! 5. Monetize your creativityIf you are in the business of creating and selling hand crafted goods, or perhaps you are a painter, an illustrator, an animator or any other sort of creative, then what a better place to showcase and sell your work than Pinterest? 6. Drive trafficThere is no shortage of websites out there that are in constant need of traffic. In fact, when you own a website, driving traffic to it is usually the name of the game! So, if you have a knack for creating pins that people want to click on, you can use this talent to drive valuable traffic to people's websites for them, and you can charge quite a bit of money for such a service. 7. Sell your own productsIf you have products that you sell online and you are not showing them off on Pinterest, then shame on you! Showcase your products on Pinterest with pins linking to a landing page where visitors can purchase your products. 8. Promote your servicesPinterest is perfect for promoting any services for which you can show visual results for. Some examples would be landscaping, interior decorating, gardening, hair styling, etc. 9. Teach Pinterest design & marketing strategiesOnline courses are very popular nowadays, and people are making a full-time living simply from selling courses on whatever it is that they are knowledgeable about. If you know a thing or two about Pinterest marketing or design, you can create and sell an online course for it. 10. Promote sponsored contentThis activity falls into the same ballpark as becoming a Pinterest influencer. If you have a large enough following, advertisers will pay you quite handsomely for posting sponsored pins for them. 11. Photo editing servicesThis is an ideal service to promote on Pinterest. If you are a professional photo editor, you can publish pins showing before and after photos to show off your skills, and have those pins link to a landing page where people can order your services. 12. Lead generationPinterest can be used as a tool to generate leads. You can then turn around and sell said leads and, depending on the industry, one qualified lead can be sold for quite a bit of money. 13. Graphic DesignHere is another service that is ideal for promoting on Pinterest. Each time you design a graphic, you create a pin showcasing your skills, and have that pin connect to a landing page where people can order your service. 14. Sell recipesBeing that Pinterest is an image based social network, it can be a great medium to sell things like recipes. You would just take awesome looking photos of your recipes that look delicious and appeal to people's hunger, use them to create a pin, and have that pin connect to a landing page where you can offer the recipe for sale. Being that Pinterest's user base consists of mostly women, your bound to make some sales quite easily. 15. Sell stock photosIf you have a talent for capturing amazing photos that look like they should be on a postcard, why not sell your photos? You can showcase them through Pinterest on pins that link to a purchase page. Before you go publishing your original photos on Pinterest, you'll want to make sure to put some kind of watermark on them so that people can't steal your work. 16. Photography as a serviceLike the previous activity, this is another activity for photographers, but instead of selling your photos, you offer photography as a service which is, of course, another ideal service to promote though Pinterest. 17. Become a Pinterest managerThis is a service that most small business owners need, especially those who run their businesses online. Business owners are very busy people, yet having an active Pinterest profile for their business is something that they are better off not doing without. So this is where you come in, as their reliable Pinterest account manager, which frees up time for them to focus on other aspects of their business. 18. Sell access to your boardWhen you create a board on Pinterest you have the option of restricting access to your board to only those that know the correct password. You can use this feature to create boards with premium content that people have to pay for access to. 19. Pin design serviceThere are a lot of people who are not so much the creative type that constantly need content for their Pinterest profiles. If you are the creative type, you can offer pin design services to these people. 20. Sell Pinterest templatesHere is a digital product that could really only be successfully sold on Pinterest. 21. Sell your Pinterest accountBelieve it or not, there are actual online marketplaces that are specifically for selling social media profiles. So if you've built up your Pinterest account with a sizeable following, you can flip it for a nice chunk of change! Closing thoughtsI hope this post has inspired you to pursue additional sources of income, especially if you are an active Pinterest user. Remember, the activities listed above are things that people are already successfully doing to earn money on Pinterest, so you know that they can and are being done. There is a page on this website where you can access a ton of resources that will help you make money online whether you are using Pinterest to do so or not. This page is called The Entrepreneur's Resource Vault, and I add new resources to it regularly. Access to The Entrepreneur's Resource Vault is reserved for my subscribers. To get access, you just have to subscribe to my newsletter. As a subscriber, you will regularly receive tons of awesome tips, tools, resources, and exclusive content to help you make money online that is only available to subscribers. To become a subscriber, click on the button below. Aside from the activities mentioned above, there are actually many other ways that you can make money on Pinterest, so now it's your turn. What are some ways that you can think of to monetize Pinterest? Tell us in the comment section below. Thanks for reading! SourcesDemo, R., Enterprise, F., Agencies, F., Business, F., Management, F., Care, F., Advocacy, F., Intelligence, F., Features, V., Difference, T., Sprout, A., Sprout, W., Blog, S., Thinking, B., Center, R., Updates, P., Tools, F., Studies, C., Publication, R., Social, S., Measured, S., Demo, R., Social, S., Measured, S., Trial, S. and Demo, R. (2020). 11 Pinterest facts (and 30 stats) marketers must know in 2020. [online] Sprout Social. Available at: https://www.google.com/amp/s/sproutsocial.com/insights/pinterest-statistics/%3famp [Accessed 16 Feb. 2020].
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The time has come for us to discuss some ways to make money with yet another popular social network, LinkedIn. Many people tend to underestimate LinkedIn's reach and influence. Although it may not be the most popular social media network overall, LinkedIn is certainly the most popular professional networking platform, as it is the #1 platform for business professionals to find jobs, recruit job seekers, and offer B2B products and services. Take a look at the following stats which you may not have been aware of: > LinkedIn now has over 500 million members > Over 260 million LinkedIn users log in every single month > At least 40% of LinkedIn users log in daily > LinkedIn is the most used social media platform amongst Fortune 500 companies > LinkedIn has over 63 million unique mobile users monthly > LinkedIn is the #1 channel B2B marketers use to distribute content at 94% > There are over 9 billion content impressions in the LinkedIn feed weekly > LinkedIn is responsible for over 50% of all social traffic to B2B websites and blogs > 91% of marketing executives list LinkedIn as the top place to find content > LinkedIn has a perfect MOZ domain authority of 100 > 80% of B2B leads come from LinkedIn > LinkedIn generates 3X more conversions than Facebook and Twitter combined Obviously LinkedIn has some pretty incredible stats. If your smart, when you read statistics like the ones above, you don't just see stats, you see opportunity. LinkedIn's popularity and influence can be and is being leveraged by ambitious individuals to generate an income, so why not be one of those individuals? I'm now going to discuss some things that people are already successfully doing to make money through LinkedIn so that you have some ideas to help you find ways to monetize LinkedIn for yourself. 21 Proven ways to make money through LinkedInThe following activities are things that people are already successfully doing to earn money through LinkedIn, so you can make money doing these things also. Here we go. 1. Sell your own productsLinkedIn has a section specifically for posting and promoting products. Now, it is important to note that only certain types of products will get people's interest on LinkedIn. Keep in mind, that this is a professional networking platform, so you can't just promote any type of product on LinkedIn and expect to get results. However, if you have the right products, you can get outstanding results. The types of products that do well here are B2B products, information products, and any product meant for businesses or business professionals. 2. Offer B2B servicesLinkedIn also has a "services" section where you can list and promote your services at no cost. Once again, bare in mind that only certain types of services are going to attract interest on LinkedIn. If you offer business services, then by all means list them in LinkedIn's services section and you should get great results. 3. Affiliate marketingLinkedIn is a great place to post affiliate links if you have a decent sized network, and if you are posting links to B2B products or services. 4. Content CreationThere is no shortage of businesses, influencers, and business professionals that are in constant need of fresh content to publish for their LinkedIn followers, but finding the time to create the content is usually a challenge. If you offer this as a service and you can create quality content, busy business owners will gladly pay you for this service. 5. Sponsored contentIf you regularly publish content on LinkedIn, and you have a sizeable LinkedIn following, then you should have no problem finding brands that would be happy to sponsor some of your posts which always comes with a nice paycheck. 6. LinkedIn ProfinderIf you offer freelance business services and you haven't heard of LinkedIn Profinder, it's time to get with the program. LinkedIn Profinder was created so that freelance service providers can promote their services to the LinkedIn community. If you offer services that most businesses need, you should get excellent results. 7. Professional RecruitingThe main function of LinkedIn is to connect employers to job seekers. For employers, a reliable and hard working job candidate that meets all of the employer's criteria is not easy to come by. As a pro recruiter, you can charge an agreed upon sum for any candidates that an employer hires which you personally found. Many people make a full time living this way. 8. LinkedIn account set up or revampingMost employers and job seekers understand the importance of having a great LinkedIn profile, however, many of them have no clue how to use LinkedIn. If you know the Ins and Outs of LinkedIn and can design amazing looking LinkedIn profiles, a lot of people will pay you to create a profile for them, or revamp an existing one. 9. LINKEDIN account managementFor busy employers who see a lot of activity on their LinkedIn account, this is a valuable service. Many business owners hardly have time to tend to all the needs of their business, so actively managing their LinkedIn profiles, forget it! That is why they will pay you to do this for them! 10. Group ModeratorThis is much like managing people's LinkedIn profiles for them, accept your doing it for a group they run instead. There are quite a few active groups on LinkedIn, and many group owners may not have the time to moderate their group all the time, but their group is a source of leads for their business, so hiring a moderator is an investment that they would be willing to make. 11. Lead generationSpeaking of leads, LinkedIn can be a great source for finding prospects. If you set up a group centered around a specific topic and publish content regularly, you'll begin to accumulate members. For certain companies, each member of your group can be a valuable lead. These are leads that you can sell several times to several different companies. 12. Resume writerSome people just have a knack for creating amazing looking resumes that stand out from the rest. If you are one of those people, this is a valuable service that you can offer job seekers. What a better place than LinkedIn to offer such a service? 13. Influencer marketingIf you are one of these lucky people to have a massive following on LinkedIn, or any other social media platform for that matter, you are considered by marketers to be an influencer, and your influence is in high demand amongst advertisers. If you are not monetising your influence, it's time to wake up! 14. LinkedIn Ads consultantThere are a lot of business owners who would love to place ads on LinkedIn, but they have no idea how to set the correct parameters on their ads to make them effective. If you know how to set up ads on LinkedIn so that they'll be effective, you can offer your services as a LinkedIn ads consultant. 15. LinkedIn ads designerIf you are more of the creative type, this could be a service that you would excel at. 16. Sell PowerPointsLinkedIn owns a platform called SlideShare. If you've never heard of it, SlideShare is a place where people can post PowerPoint presentations for public view. Most of the PowerPoint presentations on SlideShare are free, however, you can post premium PowerPoint presentations for sale on this platform. 17. LinkedIn Learning instructorLinkedIn Learning is a place where people can go to take online courses on various topics. If you are confident that you can teach a course on a specific topic, you can apply to be an instructor on LinkedIn Learning. 18. Build up & sell groupsI mentioned earlier that LinkedIn groups are sources of leads for many business owners. If you are able to build up a sizeable group centered around a particular topic, you can then sell that group to a relevant brand for a considerable amount of money. You can then turn around and offer your services as a group moderator to that same brand. 19. Offer paid reviewsThis falls into the same ballpark as influencer marketing. If you have a large following on LinkedIn, you can offer to do paid reviews for advertisers. If your following has the right demographics, advertisers will jump to pay you to review their product or service. 20. Professional profile photosNowadays, a person's LinkedIn profile is just as important as their resume, so it is important that their profile has a professional looking photo. If you have any photography experience, you can offer this as a service. 21. Monetize your connectionsYou may have someone in your personal network that would be a valuable contact to have for certain people. Being the outgoing person that you are, you would be more than happy to introduce people to this person, for a price, of course. Closing thoughtsThe activities that I've listed for you above are really just a handful of things that you can do to make money on LinkedIn. I have a lot of resources available to help you make money online in The Entrepreneur's Resource Vault. To get access to The Entrepreneur's Resource Vault, all you have to do is subscribe to my email newsletter. As a subscriber, you'll receive all kinds of awesome tools, resources, freebies, and exclusive content that is only available to subscribers. To subscribe to my newsletter and get access to the vault, just click on the button below. The 21 ways to make money on LinkedIn that I listed above are some of the more popular ways that people are using to monetize the professional networking platform, but they are definitely not the only ways you can do so. What are some things that you can think of to do to make money on LinkedIn? Tell us in the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! Sources Foundation Marketing. (2020). 48 Eye-Opening LinkedIn Stats For Marketers In 2019. [online] Available at: https://foundationinc.co/lab/b2b-marketing-linkedin-stats/ [Accessed 7 Feb. 2020].
In previous weeks, we looked at Ways to Make Money With Facebook, and Ways to Make Money With Twitter. In this post, I'm going to discuss ways to monetize another social media giant known as Instagram.
Due to the fact that Instagram is mainly an image based social platform along with it's massive popularity, some unique opportunities have emerged that definatley should not be ignored. From an advertising standpoint, Instagram is the perfect platform for brands to promote their products or services and reach a massive audience. Take a look at the following statistics:
Surefire ways to monetize your Instagram
Instagram is a unique platform that brings with it quite a few unique opportunities. This is why the majority of businesses are starting to use Instagram as one of their major marketing avenues. Below you will find quite a few ways that you can begin making money using Instagram right now. These are things that people are already successfully doing, so if they work for someone else, you can get them to work for you too.
1. Sell Your Smartphone Photos
If you are a decent photographer, you can showcase your work on Instagram, and sell your photos through a stock photo company such as Crestock or Dreamstime.
2. Showcase Art & Handcrafted Items
If you are an artist, Instagram is a perfect place to display photos of your art. You can include the URL for people to purchase your work in the description underneath each photo, so when somebody wants to buy one of your art pieces or products, all they need to do is visit that URL which takes them directly to the checkout page.
3. Real Estate Photography
This is a service that you can offer real estate agents and property owners looking to sell their property. They need photos taken of the properties that are being listed for sale so that they can show them to potential buyers and, if you can take good photos that make their listings look appealing, you can easily charge for this service. Over time you'll build up a portfolio which you can showcase on Instagram.
4. Vehicle Photography
This service is similar to real estate photography, accept you'll be taking photos of vehicles that people want to sell. As you build up your portfolio, you promote your work on Instagram. This service does not need to be limited to cars, trucks and vans. You can also offer this service to those looking to sell boats, motorcycles, RV's, quads, dirt bikes or any vehicle really.
5. Event Photography
Their are numerous events that people need photographers for such as weddings, birthday parties, tradeshows, corporate events, school dances, sporting events and many others. This is another service that you can easily promote using Instagram. If you have an awesome portfolio, and your services are reasonably priced, people would be happy to hire you.
6. Product Photography
More and more people are getting involved with e-commerce, selling items through Amazon, Ebay and other platforms. Of course, these people need good photos of their products that they can post online for potential buyers to see, but not everybody has a knack for it. If you have a talent for taking professional looking photos of items that people want to sell, and you make this service inexpensive for people, you'll begin to make good money as you build up your client base.
7. Culinary Photography
Here is yet another type of photography service that you can promote using Instagram. This is a service that you can advertise to chefs, restaurant owners and catering companies.
8. Sponsored Grams
The idea here is the same thing as doing sponsored posts, but for Instagram. If you have a large enough Instagram following, many brands would pay you for sponsored content that promotes their brand. 9. Affiliate Marketing Anyone can monetize their Instagram account using affiliate marketing. If you're going to try this, then promoting physical products is your best bet. What you need to do here is post photos that arouse curiosity or make people want to see more, and in the description below each image you would put your affiliate link. There are quite a few PPC (Pay Per Click) ad networks that you can work with, that way your income is not dependent on people making purchases, they simply need to click on your link for you to get paid. One such network like this is Social Clicks. 10. Instagram Manager Many business owners recognize the value of promoting their brand on Instagram, but they are too busy to manage their brand's social profiles themselves so they will often outsource this work, why not be the person they outsource it to? As an Instagram manager your responsibilities would include posting daily content on behalf of your clients, responding to messages, and weeding out inactive followers. 11. Instagram Influencer If you are one of these people who are lucky enough to have a humongous following with hundreds of thousands of followers, then you are considered by advertisers to be an influencer. Many advertisers are chomping at the bit to have certain influencers promote their brands and are willing to pay them handsomely. I recommend signing up with a good influencer ad network like Ifluenz, because they will find the best brands to partner with for you so you can focus on growing your following.
12. Fame Swap
If you know how to build up Instagram accounts with a huge following, and being a paid influencer doesn't appeal to you, then you might want to consider building up and flipping Instagram accounts. You can then list your accounts for sale on platforms such as Fame Swap which is a marketplace for Instagram accounts & YouTube Channels.
13. Product Reviews
Instagram is a great Avenue to do reviews of physical products. There are two ways to monetize this. You can either offer paid reviews where brands compensate you for reviewing their products, or you can monetize your product reviews with affiliate links and, in some cases, you can even do both. 14. Print-on-demand There is no shortage of platforms available where you can sell your original designs on tons of different products. As you design different products to sell, you can, of course, showcase them on Instagram. One awesome print-on-demand platform you can try is Printify where you can set up your own online store for free and sell your designs on tons of different products.
15. Viral Accounts
This is another platform for influencers to monetize their Instagram accounts. If you believe that you have a large enough following to be considered an influencer, consider selling your influence on Viral Accounts.
16. Content Marketing
Many brands are interested in providing their products or services through Instagram. You can offer your services as a Content Marketing Consultant. If you get good results, many brands will pay you big bucks to continue promoting them. 17. Content Provider Coming up with ideas for new content everyday is not always easy. You can create and post content that you think would appeal to brands in specific industries, and sell that content directly through Instagram. 18. Buy Sell Shoutouts If your Instagram profile has at least 50,000 followers, you can sell shoutouts on this platform starting at $100. 19. Instagram Stylist If you are a stylist and you're not promoting your work on Instagram, wake up! Instagram is the perfect place to promote your talent. 20. Sell Fashion Instagram is ideal for showcasing fashion. You can take photos of yourself modeling different fashion items and monetize those photos with affiliate links, or by selling items yourself directly.
21. Link My Photos
Link My Photos enables you to monetize your Instagram by getting your followers from your photo feed to your awesome content. Link My Photos also enables you to sell through your Instagram feed by linking your PayPal.
22. Travel Photography
At first, you may not have the capital to travel all of the time, but this is something that you can do everytime that you go on a trip or a vacation. Whenever you travel, make sure to take a lot of great photos of the scenery, and of the attractions that you visit. If you have photos that look like they can be on a postcard than your photos are sellable. Who buys travel photos? Hotels, airlines, travel magazines, travel agents, you get the picture. Showcase your photos on Instagram.
23. Animators
This is another skill that is perfect to promote on Instagram. As you progress in your career, use Instagram to develop a portfolio of your work.
25. Modeling
Here is yet another career that can be showcased on Instagram. Use your Instagram account to build your profile and promote your work.
26. Photo Editing
If this is something that you're interested in or are currently doing, you'd be crazy not to show off your work on Instagram. How you would do so would be by showing before and after photos side by side in the same image so that you can make your skills stand out. 27. Meme Design Memes are extremely popular, and I don't feel as though they are going to go out of style anytime soon. People love memes and if you are good at designing them, you can showcase them on Instagram, and sell the rights to them.
29. Infographic
DesignInfographics are extremely popular among internet content creators, because readers love them. Infographics often drive a lot of online traffic, and many content creators know this, but they're not all great at creating infographics. If this is something that you have a knack for, you can offer this as a service to other content creators and promote your work via Instagram. 30. Graphic Design Are you a professional graphic designer? If you are, are you promoting your work with Instagram? If not, why not?
31. Instaorders
Turn your Instagram into an online store within minutes! 32. Logo Design If this is something that you have a talent for, Instagram is certainly a great Avenue to show it off. A lot of people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a great logo. Cha-ching! 33. Sell Photo Products There is a website called Create Photo Calendars that enables you to make money selling photo products & merchandise. You can set up your own online store for free, and sell your photos on several different products which, of course, you can promote with Instagram.
34. Paywitty
This is an awesome platform that enables you to sell products to customers right within your Instagram comments. Think of your Instagram page as your E-commerce website, and the comment section as your add-to-cart button. Paywitty is free to set up, and they only take 2% of all your sales. 35. Pet Photography If you like animals you can offer your services as a pet photographer, and promote on Instagram. Who would you offer these services to? Pet stores, dog groomers, vets, and anyone in a business involving pets.
36. Illustrators
Here's another profession that is ideal for promotion on Instagram. 37. Accts-market This is a quick & secure social media marketplace where you can sell your Instagram account or any other social account that you have.
38. Photography for service providers
There are tons of independent service providers, such as landscapers, gardeners, and interior decorators, that need great photos of their work so that they can promote their services. This is a service you can offer and promote through Instagram. 39. Dropshipping This is a business model that works great with Instagram. There are numerous dropshipping companies that you can sign on with for little or no cost, and Instagram can be one of your advertising mediums. Some great dropshipping suppliers I recommend checking out are Ali Dropship and Dropship Me.
41. Fan Centro
This is for those of you who are interested in getting into the adult industry. With Fan Centro you can monetize your fans with private pay-to-view profile feeds and premium Instagram accounts. 42. Sell Instagram Knowledge If you know a thing or two about Instagram marketing techniques, building your following or becoming an influencer, you can monetize your knowledge by packaging it into an online course or an ebook which you can then sell. 43. Membershyp Club This is another option if you are interested in the adult industry. If you are a webcam model or would like to become one, Memershyp Club enables you to sell access to your private Instagram. 44. Instafeet Yet another option if you're in the adult industry. This one is a little strange. Instafeet enables anyone to connect to admirers of their feet and get paid for their exclusive content on Instagram.
45. Generate & Sell Leads
If you are good at growing your following, this one is for you. The majority of your followers probably have some common characteristics, characteristics that are exactly what certain advertisers are looking for. As long as you stay compliant, you can sell your followers' contact info to different advertisers. 46. Mobile Prints Turn your Instagram photos into a profitable online business with the world's fastest growing mobile photography community.
47. IGTV Videography
If you have a knack for creating videos that attract viewers, you can offer this as a service to advertisers who need promo videos for their products or services. 48. IGTV Monetization (Coming soon) At a VidCon fireside chat, Jim Squires, vice president of business & media for Instagram, said monetization would come "soon", although he didn't say when or how it would work. One thing is for sure is that, if it came out of the mouth of a vice president at Instagram, then it is a for sure thing. Now, I like to follow all the latest news on all the major social networks including Instagram and, based on what I've seen from them since I started following social media news closely, I'm predicting that Instagram will enable IGTV monetization in the second quarter of 2020, of course I could be wrong. Closing thoughts
I just listed for you almost 50 different ways that you can make money with Instagram, so I'm sure that you can get one of them to work for you. There is an excellent resource called "The Ultimate Instagram Toolbox," which will help you a lot if you're interested in making money with Instagram. To access this resource, you must first subscribe to our weekly newsletter. As a subscriber, you will regularly receive exclusive tools, resources, and other freebies to help you make money online, along with other privileged content only available to subscribers. You may become a subscriber by clicking on the following button.
I would like to point out that, of the monetization methods that I discussed, many of them can be combined with one another creating multiple sources of income. I would also like to mention that the activities that I've listed in this post are just the ones that I could think of off the top of my head. Now, it's your turn.
What are some other things that you can think of to do to make money with Instagram or IGTV? Tell us your ideas in the comments below. Thanks for reading. Sources Profitableventure.com. (2019). 50 Best Instagram Business ideas for Beginners in 2020 | ProfitableVenture. [online] Available at: https://www.profitableventure.com/best-instagram-business-ideas/ [Accessed 19 Dec. 2019]. About the Author <!-- Bio may contain link markup, a. (2019). 37 Instagram Statistics That Matter to Marketers in 2020. [online] Hootsuite Social Media Management. Available at: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.hootsuite.com/instagram-statistics/amp/ [Accessed 19 Dec. 2019]. This post may contain affiliate links. In the event of a sale, I may earn a small commission, at no cost to you.
Just last week, I published a post titled 26 Ways to Make Money With Facebook. If you are an avid Facebook user, or if you have a large following on Facebook, then I encourage you to go read that post as all the strategies listed in it are things that people are already doing to earn money with Facebook, so the strategies work. Now, Facebook is not the only social network with an enormous user base, so I figured that I should write a "ways to make money" post for each one of the most popular social networks so that you can learn about things that people are actually earning money doing using these social networking super giants.
In this post, I'm going to list some things that you can do to make money on Twitter. Keep in mind that the money making activities listed in this post are things that people are already doing and they're making great money as a result. Now, before we get into the ways that you can make money on Twitter, take a look at the Twitter stats listed below, some of them are pretty mind blowing:
Opportunity to do what? Opportunity to promote your business, to find prospects, to network with influencers in your industry, to become an influencer in your industry, and to do so much more. So, read on to discover some ways to make money with Twitter that you can begin implementing today! 20 Ways to make money with Twitter
Some of the activities listed below require you to have a fairly large Twitter following in order to be implemented, however, most of them do not. Let's get into it.
1. Sponsored Tweets Sponsored Tweets is a networking platform that connects popular Twitter users with brands looking to sponsor them. If you have a sizable Twitter following, you can get your tweets sponsored by popular brands and get paid for doing something that you're already doing, tweeting.
2. Affiliate Marketing
Twitter is an excellent place to promote affiliate links, because many of your Twitter followers are warm prospects, in other words, they are people who know you, like you, and trust you and they have a higher chance of converting. If you are new to affiliate marketing, I don't recommend just diving into it without learning a thing or two about it. So, unless you are an experienced affiliate marketer, I encourage you to read the books listed below so that you can learn proven strategies to win in affiliate marketing.
3. Monetize Your Influence
If you are one of the lucky people to have hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers, then you are considered by marketers to be an influencer and, if you but knew it, you are in very high demand! That's right, there are quite a few brands out there which are more than happy to make your pockets fat for promoting their products & services to your following. Now, if being a paid influencer is something you're interested in, but you don't quite have a massive following, you may still be in luck. If you have a Twitter following of just 1,000 or more, then you are still considered to be a micro influencer, and advertisers are still happy to pay you bank to promote them. If you are like the majority of people, and just don't have a large enough following yet to become a paid influencer, that does not mean that you can't build your following up quickly. Here are some books that I recommend reading which will teach you how:
4. Sell your own products
Twitter has a couple of resources available now that enable online sellers to use Twitter as one of their sales outlets. If you don't know what Twitter cards are, they are a way for you to enrich your tweets with additional info and media. You can even implement Twitter cards with calls to action, making them an excellent selling tool. A relatively new tool that is available on Twitter is the Twitter "buy" button. If you have an online shop, you can implement Twitter buy buttons enabling your followers to buy your products directly from your Twitter feed, which can be a total game changer! 5. Promote your services If you are a service provider, and you are not using Twitter to promote your services, it's time to wake up! Twitter cards make excellent tools for this. You can create Twitter cards with call- to- action buttons that link your followers to your company website where they can order your services.
6. Twitter account management
Most business professionals understand the importance and the value of having a presence on platforms such as Twitter, however, they are often way too busy to be active on Twitter. Twitter account management is a valuable service which you can offer to busy business owners and other entrepreneurs. This service includes things such as sending out promotional tweets, tweeting company news, growing your client's following, and responding to direct tweets. Smart business owners would be more than happy to pay for such a service. 7. Paid Per Tweet They describe themselves as "The world's first paid to tweet marketplace. " This is a platform where you can get paid by advertisers to send out promotional tweets to your following. The amount of money that you are paid per tweet is determined by the amount of followers you have.
8. Create Twitter Ads
Twitter allows advertisers to pay for ads on their platform. These ads can be sent to specific groups of people and can be filtered by demographics, interests, geography and several other factors. These advertisers want to make sure that the ads which they are spending their money on are going to be effective ones. If you are a graphic designer, or can write professional ads, you can offer these services to advertisers interested in advertising on Twitter.
9. Twitter Content Writer
If you have a talent for content creation, this is another service that you can offer individuals & businesses. You can charge for each tweet you write, or you can offer package deals, or both. A lot of people, especially business owners, do not have the time to think of fresh content on a daily basis and then there are people who just aren't great at creating content, so this is another valuable service that many are willing to pay you for. 10. Sell tweets on gig markets There are quite a few platforms where you can promote & sell freelance services. Fiverr is probably the most well known of these platforms. On platforms like Fiverr you can charge people for sending promotional tweets on their behalf to your following, and many of these platforms will allow you to list your services for free. Some additional online gig markets where you can sell tweets include:
11. Sell re-tweets
There are plenty of people who will even pay you to retweet their original tweets. You can offer these services using the same type of platforms as those mentioned above. 12. Generate & sell leads If you know how to generate leads, especially targeted leads, their are plenty of businesses that will pay good money to buy leads from you. The first element you'll need is a lead magnet which is essentially a bribe that you give people in exchange for their email address, phone number, or mailing address. Now, by bribe, I don't mean a monetary bribe. A lead magnet is normally some sort of digital download which provides value to your prospects such as an ebook, swipe files, useful templates, e.t.c. Once you have your lead magnet, you then need to find a good list building service or content locker which requires prospects to submit an email address or some other information in order to receive the lead magnet. Once you have everything in place, you would simply tweet out a link for people to get your lead magnet at least once per day. If this system is set up correctly, and you have a good lead magnet, you can begin to see the leads come pouring in which you can then sell to multiple advertisers that are looking for people in the same market group as your leads. 13. Twit Pub Here is another platform that is specifically for buying and selling tweets. Twit Publisher helps you get paid by simply posting on Twitter.
14. Monetize your Twitter knowledge
If you know how to use Twitter for marketing purposes effectively, you have a skill that many people would pay money to learn. You can monetize this knowledge by publishing & selling an e-book, creating a Twitter marketing course, or by packaging your knowledge into some other type of information product. 15. Twitter account creation & optimization services Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who know that they should be marketing their business via Twitter, but they have no clue how to use Twitter or even set up an account, and the thought of attempting to do so terrifies them. This creates the opportunity for you to offer this as a service. Even people who do have a Twitter account, would be willing to pay someone to optimize their Twitter profile for their business needs. When people hire you for this service, a door to another opportunity then opens up, which is Twitter account management services (refer back to strategy # 6) 16. Pay U 2 Blog Pay U 2 Blog is yet another website where you can get paid to tweet and retweet. 17. Media Studio Media Studio is a newer feature on Twitter that enables you to create videos that are formatted just for Twitter. Each time that you create a video using Media Studio, you have the ability to monetize your video with in-stream video ads. When you enable the monetization option in Media Studio, Twitter shares any ad revenue that your video generates with you. 18. Video creator services If you are a video creator, you can offer this as a service to brands looking to have promotional videos posted to Twitter and, if you are good at it, this is a service that you can charge a substantial amount of money for. You can also use Twitter's Media Studio to create promo videos for your own products or services. 19. Partner With Influencers This strategy involves recruiting Twitter influencers to promote your affiliate links to their massive following. The first thing you'll need to do for this strategy is find a good CPA offer to promote. The reason why it is best to use CPA offers is because, to be compensated, your prospects do not necessarily need to make a purchase so you'll typically see a higher conversion rate with CPA offers. Once you have your CPA offer that you want to promote, you will then need to find an influencer whose following would be interested in your offer. To maximize your earnings, you should recruit an influencer whose follower count is at 6 or 7 digits. If you cannot find an influencer with that large of a following, you can still see a good success rate by recruiting a micro influencer. Make sure that the person you recruit has a follower count of no less than 5 digits, otherwise it's not worth the time or the effort. To recruit your influencer, you are going to reach out to them and tell them that you have something that their following would really be interested in. Make sure to tell them that their followers are not required to purchase anything, because many people are uncomfortable with the idea of selling things to their followers. Tell your chosen influencer that, given the size of their following, they could potentially make a quick $500 to $1,000 by simply tweeting your offer to their following a few times over the next few days, and you will split any revenue that your offer generates with them 50/50. Once you have your influencer on board, you just send them the tweet with the offer link. At that point it's time to kick back and watch the money come in! You should pay your influencer their share of daily revenue each day, and perhaps even send them an extra $100 as a thank you. This will encourage your influencers to continue tweeting your CPA offer generating the both of you more profits! I learned this strategy from a book titled The Laptop Millionaire by Mark Anastasi. If you want to learn some proven strategies to make money online, then the book is a must read. I can honestly say that it changed my life!
20. Sell your Twitter account
If you have a Twitter account with at least 50,000 followers, you can list your account for sale on a platform called Viral Accounts, where you'll find advertisers who are willing to write you a fat check to buy your Twitter account. This is a great option if the above strategies don't interest you. Closing Thoughts
I believe that anyone who has a basic knowledge of how to use Twitter can use at least one of the above strategies to easily make money using Twitter. Aside from the strategies that I just discussed, there are plenty of free or inexpensive tools available that you can use to help you use and monetize your Twitter activities efficiently. In fact, I have a curated collection of Twitter tools that will really help you bring your A game, it's titled The Ultimate Twitter Toolbox. This toolbox is available to download for those whom I have granted access to The Entrepreneur's Resource Vault. To gain access to the Entrepreneur's Resource Vault, you simply need to subscribe to my weekly newsletter, which you can do by clicking the subscribe button below.
Anyway, those are just the strategies that I could think of off the top of my head for you to make money with Twitter. Now, what are some other things you can think of to do to make money with Twitter? Tell us in the comments below.
As always, thank you for reading! Sources Smith, K. (2019). 58 Incredible and Interesting Twitter Stats and Statistics. [online] Brandwatch. Available at: https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/twitter-stats-and-statistics/ [Accessed 12 Dec. 2019]. This post may contain affiliate links. In the event of a sale, I may earn a small commission, at no cost to you.
The social media super giant known as Facebook has come to have quite an impact on our culture and on our lives. Since it’s inception, Facebook has grown to over 2.8 billion users. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world.
Wherever there is people, especially a lot of people, there is money that can be made. Facebook’s massive userbase has created opportunities for those who would take advantage of them. I’m going to talk about some of those opportunities in this post. Here are 25 ways that I could think of to make money with Facebook. Ways to monetize Facebook
1. Facebook Marketing Services.
Most businesses understand just how big the userbase on Facebook is, but many have no idea how to use Facebook to promote their products or services, or their not getting the results that they would like to. If you can provide effective promotion for some of these companies, they would be happy to pay you the big bucks to do so. 2. Facebook Page Design & Setup Many people don’t know the ins and outs of Facebook, or maybe they are not in touch with their creative side. If you are creative and have a great looking Facebook page, some people will pay you to design one for them too. 3. Lead generation services Most business owners are extremely busy people and do not have the time to sit on Facebook for hours and grow their following, so if they are smart, they will be happy to pay you to do this for them. 4. Become a paid influencer When your following on Facebook grows to tens of thousands of people you are considered to be an influencer. As an influencer, brands will pay you a lot of money to promote their products or services to your following. Your going to want to get involved with an influencer ad network, because they already work with a number of brands, and they will ensure that you get paid. Now, there are quite a few influencer ad networks out there, so don’t work with the first one that you find. You’re going to want to look at a few of these companies to compare their pay rates for influencers, this way you can go with the one that will put the most money in your pocket. 5. Become a micro influencer If you don’t have 100,000 friends on Facebook, but your following is larger than most people’s, you can still get into the influencer marketing game as a micro influencer. In fact, their are ad networks that work with micro influencers specifically. Again, don’t jump on board with the first ad network that you find. Compare several ad networks so that you can work with the one that will be the most lucrative for you. 6. Facebook Audience Network Facebook Audience Network is an ad network that helps app and website publishers monetize their content. If you are an app developer, game developer or video creator, you definatly should consider working with Facebook Audience Network. 7. Sell on the Facebook marketplace If you have something to sell, Facebook has a marketplace where you can list items for sale for free. Considering that Facebook has a userbase of over 2.8 billion people, listing items for sale in the marketplace is a great way to get a lot of exposure to your products. 8. Design Facebook ads for people If you are creative and think that you would be good at creating attention grabbing Facebook ads for people, you can charge a considerable amount of money for this service, and many brands would be willing to pay it! 9. Facebook page or account management As I mentioned before, most business owners do not have the time to go on Facebook a lot, they have a business to run! This creates an opportunity for you. You can charge businesses a monthly fee to manage their Facebook pages or accounts for them. 10. Facebook Videos If you are a video creator, their are several ways to monetize your videos through Facebook, especially if your content gets a lot of views. Here are the ways you can monetize video content: • Video ads – if you allow Facebook to place ads within your videos, they will pay you for this. • Video subscriptions – if you have a fanbase that loves your videos, you should definatley consider charging your viewers a subscription fee. Facebook will allow you to do this, and it will provide monthly reoccurring revenue from each one of your subscribers. • Sponsored content – many brands will pay you big bucks to promote them in your video content. • Video creation services – if you are a professional video creator, you can start or expand your business on Facebook, and charge people money to create videos for them. 11. Sell ad space within your public feed If you have a large following, you can charge companies money to place their ad in your public Facebook feed. 12. Develop Facebook apps If you know how to develop apps, you can create Facebook apps that people will want or need to use. Once you do this, there are 4 ways to monetize your apps: sell the app itself for a large lump sum, charge people money to use your apps, monetize your apps with in-app purchases, or monetize your apps through the Facebook Audience Network. 13. Open a Facebook store If you have products to sell, why not take advantage of Facebook’s humongous userbase and open a Facebook store? There are quite a few apps and ecommerce platforms that enable you to create a store on Facebook, and most of them will give you a free trial. 14. Buying and selling groups Aside from opening a Facebook store and selling in the Facebook marketplace, there are buy/ sell groups that will allow you to promote and sell your products to their group members. 15. Affiliate marketing If you are an affiliate marketer, Facebook is a great place to post your affiliate links. 16. Facebook bug bounties If you can find bugs or security issues with Facebook, they will pay you what’s referred to as a bug bounty to make them aware of these issues. 17. Social media consultant If you are good at posting content, growing a following, or marketing on Facebook, you can act as a consultant for people and charge for this service. 18. Professional content creator If you know how to consistently create great content, their are a lot of people and brands that will pay you to create content for their pages. You can charge people per post that you create for them. 19. Facebook marketplace agent If you are great at sales, you can find items in the Facebook marketplace that people are having trouble selling, and offer to help them sell their items in exchange for a commission. 20. Sell likes and shares If you have a large enough following on Facebook, you can charge money for likes and shares. 21. Build up and sell fan pages If you can build up a flowing quickly, you can create fan pages for a specific topic, build up the following for these pages, and then flip the fan pages. For example, you can create a fan page that has to do with camping. You would then spend the next couple weeks or month building up a following of camping enthusiasts. Once your camping fan page has a sizable following, you can then sell it to a company that sells camping gear. 22. Build up and sell groups To do this, follow the same process for building up and selling fan pages. 23. Start a premium group Facebook allows group administrators to charge people a membership fee, so if you have a group with a lot of members, this could be a great source of reoccurring revenue. 24. Become a Facebook news reporter Facebook now has a news tab where anyone can publish articles and receive a share of Facebook’s ad revenue. 25. Facebook Gaming If you are a game developer, Facebook has a platform called Facebook Gaming where you can develop and monetize games. Closing Words
As you can see, thanks to Facebook, there are quite a few money making opportunities in their social network, you just need to be creative and have the motivation to make it happen.
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500+ Tools & Resources for business professionalsLadies and gentlemen, I am very excited to announce that I’ve just published a new book. I am very confident that this book will end up being a must have resource for many business professionals for years to come. The book is titled "The Ultimate Business Toolbox : 500 + Tools & Resources to Help You Take Care of Business!" "The Ultimate Business Toolbox" is a collection of online tools and resources that are absolutely essential for every business professional in the age that we now live in. If you but knew it, we are in the midst of perhaps the greatest revolution that the world has ever seen, even greater than the Industrial Revolution, and that is the Digital Revolution. Automation and e-commerce are rapidly changing our way of life, and businesses must adapt to these changes in order to stay in business. Unfortunately, the majority of people are blind to this revolution taking place, or they don’t have the proper resources to adapt to the changes that have been happening. In order to succeed in this digitized world, one must have the proper resources to adapt to the rapidly changing way of doing business, and it is for this purpose that "The Ultimate Business Toolbox" was created. This book has all of the tools and resources necessary to manage every aspect of a business in this digital age. Whether you are the owner of a company, or an entry level employee, if any of your work requires a computer, you will find that "The Ultimate Business Toolbox" is a must have, and the purpose of this post is to show you why that is. I am going to outline for you some of the resources that are found in this toolbox and, by the time I am finished, you will begin to realize just how crucial having a resource like this is in today’s society. Let’s begin. You Get resources for every aspect of your businessWhen I was creating "The Ultimate Business Toolbox", I spent countless hours researching the vast expanses of the World Wide Web to ensure that I could include in it valuable resources needed to manage every aspect of a business. With that being stated, you will find that "The Ultimate Business Toolbox" has been broken up into different sections, each containing different types of tools to help you manage a different aspect of your business. The different sections are labeled as follows:
A look inside the Ultimate business ToolboxI will now go over each section of The Ultimate Business Toolbox individually so that you can have a sneak peak of all of the tools and resources that you’ll find inside.
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