Instagram is the messaging app owned my Meta along with WhatsApp and Facebook. Do you know you can really make money on Instagram? If you’re looking for ways to make money on Instagram, consider to put Instagram on your top priority social media to make money with or without followers. With a billion of download on Google play store as well billion of active member per month you can use it to make passive income wether you’re business owner, startup, or university or college student.
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Best ways to make money on Instagram right now
The following are the approved ways to make money on Instagram in Tanzania without anything investment or followers;
1. Create Instagram shop
With an Instagram Shop, you can integrate your e-commerce store with your Instagram profile. This is the only way you can promote your products directly to Instagram followers through your posts, Stories, the Explore tab, and the Shop tab on your profile.
There used to be a lot of friction for e-commerce store owners who wanted to sell through Instagram, but not anymore. Instagram Shop completely removes friction, letting customers easily check out products in the app and then head to your store at the click of a button.
Let’s say you’re a clothing store and you want to promote an outfit. Simply upload a picture of your model wearing your outfit, and Instagram will let you tag up to five products per post (you can tag up to 20 products per carousel.) You can also promote products in stories and videos, too.
2. Become social media manager or community manager
You can also make money on Instagram buy just act as Instagram community manager, managing your client Instagram account through posting, reply dms (private message) and making client Instagram account active. There’s a lot of freelancing marketplace where you can register and apply for Instagram account manager for instance Fiverr, Upwork or Freelancer.com
3. Be Instagram media buyer
As media buyer you will be responsible on creating and managing Instagram ads on behalf of your clients. I’m also a media buyer and I earn passive income through it. Media buyer always paid at least over $300 per month.
4. Be Instagram influencer
Instagram influencers are those person with high number of followers, fame in Instagram. By being an Instagram influencers you can easily make money on Instagram through partnership with big brand then you will promote their service, also being influencer you can also promote your own service or product and make money from it. Example of big Instagram influencer is Christiano Ronaldo, The Rock, Kylie Jena, Diamond Platnamuz etc
5. Make money through Instagram monetization
You can also make money on Instagram by just launching Instagram ads (IGTV). Though Instagram monetization is not found in all countries right now but Instagram user from UK, United States and Australia can still make money through it, just like YouTube ads. You will see Instagram ads on Instagram video, from there creator can make money on Instagram. But currently creater can earn 55% from allowing ads in his Instagram video.
6. Make money through affiliate commission
Through Instagram one can make money through affiliate program. For example you can patner with one of the big brand in your country and tell them that you will promote their products and at the end of the day you will receive commission once you made a sale. I have one of my friends he already make over $4000 through affiliate. He usually promote one of the products of big brand in my country.
7. Through buying, selling and promote Instagram account.
Though this method will look illegal in some people mind, but still you can use such method to make money on Instagram. So the question is how do you make money on Instagram through this method? In case of buying and selling Instagram account is that, you create Instagram account, promote it, and once such account has a large number of followers you sell it. Also you can buy a Instagram account cheap and sell it at higher price.
Also you can find and client with low number of followers, and help him to grow a number of followers. From there he will pay you a passive income. Personally I made over $3000 USD by just promoting my client Instagram to grow from 1K followers to 500K Instagram followers.
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