I gained 80 followers on Instagram in 24 hours just from posting it on my Facebook.
So promote yourself shamelessly. Use it as your signature.
So promote yourself shamelessly. Use it as your signature.
Quote: (01-25-2016 03:08 AM)HonantheBarbarian Wrote:
The thing is, I'm just not getting the action I would like, in terms of followers, likes, pretty much everything. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to why certain pieces are liked a lot and others aren't. Like I'll post a picture of a finished piece that I know is good and it will get like 20 likes. Another day I'll post a pic of something stupid like the pencils/markers I use and it will get over 40 likes. It makes no sense.
Another thing I can't figure out is some of the other artists out there on Instagram are at the skill level of a 6th or 7th grader on grade school, they have only maybe 23 total posts (which, not to be a dick, but their not even very good) and still manage over 1k followers. Every piece they have garners several hundred likes. None of my pieces have even broken 100 likes. I can't figure it out for the life of me. Are they buying their followers as well?
Quote: (03-20-2016 02:33 PM)bigrich Wrote:
According to the Daily Mail, you can make this much money through instagram. Anyone doing instagram for cash?
Quote: (03-21-2016 09:11 AM)carbassboy Wrote:Could you elaborate? Are you a regular civilian or how do you justify having such a following?
Quote: (03-20-2016 02:33 PM)bigrich Wrote:
According to the Daily Mail, you can make this much money through instagram. Anyone doing instagram for cash?
This is not correct or I'm doing something very wrong. I have 300,000 followers and i dont make anywhere near that amount. I still have a normal job
Quote: (03-21-2016 05:04 PM)Ringo Wrote:
Could you elaborate? Are you a regular civilian or how do you justify having such a following?
When you say you don't make anywhere near that amount, have you been approached by possible sponsors/advertisers? Or did you go after them yourself?
Quote: (03-21-2016 09:11 AM)carbassboy Wrote:
Quote: (03-20-2016 02:33 PM)bigrich Wrote:
According to the Daily Mail, you can make this much money through instagram. Anyone doing instagram for cash?
This is not correct or I'm doing something very wrong. I have 300,000 followers and i dont make anywhere near that amount. I still have a normal job
Quote: (03-23-2016 06:15 AM)frenchcorporation Wrote:
Quote: (03-21-2016 09:11 AM)carbassboy Wrote:
Quote: (03-20-2016 02:33 PM)bigrich Wrote:
According to the Daily Mail, you can make this much money through instagram. Anyone doing instagram for cash?
This is not correct or I'm doing something very wrong. I have 300,000 followers and i dont make anywhere near that amount. I still have a normal job
The figures are about right, mayble slightly high.
I wrote a python script for someone who started a bodobuilding instagram account. the script would follow users who were already following bodybuilding instagrams, and then some of those users (about 20%) would follow back. When the python script had followed the max amount of accounts instagram allows, all accounts would be unfollowed & the process would begin again
Last time I checked, the instagram account had over 50k followers , and the client was getting offers from nutrition/protein/fitness companies to advertise their stuff on his account
Because the accounts followed were high quality (i.e non-robot accounts already interested in fitness) the account had a high interaction rate
Quote: (03-22-2016 06:01 PM)bigrich Wrote:
That is an impressive timeline. I see a lot of pages like that on Instagram that get no traction at all. Is the secret consistency?
I have several social accounts and was contacted by an agency for monetization. I feel like I am too small to make it worthwhile but with 300K+ followers, you may want to look into working with an agency.
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if it happened to you it’s your fault, I got no sympathy and I don’t believe your version of events.
Quote: (03-22-2016 11:46 AM)carbassboy Wrote:That makes sense. I was under the impression that you had a personal account with that many followers, which would be very impressive.
I am a regular citizen and I have 3 Instagram accounts
One where i post funny pictures with 231,000 followers, another one where i post hot girls with 51,000 followers, and one where i post funny videos with 22,000 followers. I am just a regular civilian (304K total and i started January of 2015)
I make money in two ways
1. People buy advertising from me (Example: i help them grow their accounts or I advertise their product/service)
2. Affiliate Marketing- affiliate marketing is hard to explain. I basically get paid every time someone visits the website I am advertising or buys the product/app I am advertising. Here is the definition from google.
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.
I have been approached by sponsors and i could probably make more money if i went out and looked for sponsors myself but its hard with my busy work schedule.
Quote: (03-23-2016 09:11 AM)storm Wrote:See above.
If you guys are thinking of using ig to make money, be aware that you are one policy change away from going out of business.
Quote: (03-23-2016 02:34 PM)Ringo Wrote:
Quote: (03-22-2016 11:46 AM)carbassboy Wrote:That makes sense. I was under the impression that you had a personal account with that many followers, which would be very impressive.
I am a regular citizen and I have 3 Instagram accounts
One where i post funny pictures with 231,000 followers, another one where i post hot girls with 51,000 followers, and one where i post funny videos with 22,000 followers. I am just a regular civilian (304K total and i started January of 2015)
I make money in two ways
1. People buy advertising from me (Example: i help them grow their accounts or I advertise their product/service)
2. Affiliate Marketing- affiliate marketing is hard to explain. I basically get paid every time someone visits the website I am advertising or buys the product/app I am advertising. Here is the definition from google.
Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.
I have been approached by sponsors and i could probably make more money if i went out and looked for sponsors myself but its hard with my busy work schedule.
In this case you are essentially republishing content created by third parties (pictures, videos, etc), correct? Do you attribute credit at all?
I'm interested in how you deal with this, because if the above is true you are probably making money on other people's creations and infringing copyrights.
Quote: (03-23-2016 09:11 AM)storm Wrote:See above.
If you guys are thinking of using ig to make money, be aware that you are one policy change away from going out of business.
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One majorly successful example is @NewYorkCity, an account run by 25-year-old Liz Eswein. On top of a fee for taking a specific number of images, she charges $1 per like gained on each sponsored post. To give you an idea of what she earns, many of her sponsored photos gain over 20,000 likes each.
Quote: (05-05-2016 03:30 PM)RandomGuy1 Wrote:
Whenever I read such manuals as the above one I just scratch my head and come to the conclusion that I'm just too dense to figure out such stuff.
I don't get it at all. There is this girl who posts stupid variations of food at various places around the world.
https://www.instagram.com/girleatworld/
How is that possible to be at so many different locations every week? I watched some pictures carefully and found this on mysterious so to speak.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBMDsNxoSn4/...rleatworld
You'll notice that the light comes from the right at this beverage carton but when you look at the islands you won't see any shadows. Photoshoped or not?
Quote: (05-06-2016 01:33 PM)whiteknightrises Wrote:
Kind of nuts how big social media is
Personally, I can't be fucked with that shit anymore. Maybe if I was doing it for some money-related purpose but the OCDness of thinking in terms of "what can I take a pic of to get likes on Insta" was too much considering lack of returns / real enthusiasm when considering time/mental energy invested
Some westernized girl I went on a date with a few months back asked me to see my Instagram almost right off the bat so she could "get to know me better." I understood where she was coming from but damn
I'm fully aware of money to be made and free shit to be had from sponsorships and such but would be interested in stories of banging chicks via Insta with some proof
I technically did bang a Korean girl off Insta once but it was more business-related than Insta presence related (can post or PM pics/story upon request)