How to MAKE MONEY from INSTAGRAM

How can you make money from your instagram account

Can you imagine living traveling and just dedicating yourself to taking some pictures every day & making a living from it? Well, you do have to the option and it is your Instagram account.

Instagram is one of the most promising marketing tools of this generation so you can use it to make money with a little patience and some entrepreneurial techniques.

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

Learning how to monetize is a challenge within marketing and can be very beneficial if done correctly, both organically and through Instagram advertising.

Of course, we must bear in mind that today there is more competition than a few years ago. So, it is necessary to work very well on the profile, the information that is put, the hashtags that are chosen, the time of publication and publish videos and images of very high quality.

Taking into account all these aspects, here are the tips to grow and monetize your Instagram account in 9 steps.

1. Images and videos of very good quality
The photos are the soul of this platform and if you want to stand out from the others you have to worry about the quality of the images you upload.

You can take photos or videos with a mobile phone, but make sure that you do so with a quality camera. Or simply use a camera that gives you that differential bonus to your profile.

You should consider:

• The megapixels are important for a good snapshot
• Good light sensor - The size influences the performance in conditions of low visibility and in a better dynamic range
• Good lens
• The maximum aperture of the camera, which tells us the amount of light that can enter our sensor (f / 1.7 has more light than a f / 2.2)
• The processing of the image
• Look if the device has two rear cameras, it is the most advanced technology now and allows to create wide-angle images, apart from other virguerías
• Think also of the framing of the image. It is important that the focus of attention is on what you want to have in the photo.

Instagram also offers you several filters and parameters, but if you want to professionalize and monetize your Instagram account, it is better to use professional applications. Such as:

• Lightroom - It is a very useful and user-friendly tool. It allows quality photos to have a professional finish. You can retouch light and contrast, cover small details that you do not like and order the photographs by folders.
• Photoshop - The mother of all image editing programs. It is for advanced levels, but if you know how to use it you can get great outputs with your images.
• Canva - This online application is very simple to use and allows you to quickly and intuitively frame the images, decide the size of the photo, add effects or texts and put some filter.

2. Choose your market niche
To get attention and attract more visitors & followers to your professional account, you must specialize in one specific niche market.

People do not see your account as a personal profile, but as a window to the world of your business.

According to a recent study, the average user of Instagram is that of a woman between 16 and 45 years old.

Hence the rise of these sectors:

• Food / Cooking
• Handmade products
• fashion
• Beauty (makeup, hairdressing, tutorials)
• Jewelry
• Accessories
• Wedding products

In the bio of your profile mention in detail about what you do, put your contact email and the link to your online shop.

You can link Instagram to the Facebook Business Manager to professionalize your account. With this, you will be able to add a contact button: "Send Message", and get data with Instagram Analytics.

3. Ready to publish
You are ready to start impressing the world with your photos and videos. I recommend you follow these tips to get the full potential of your content:

• Avoid using photos with a lower resolution. For e.g. resolution lower than 1080 x 1080 pixels.
• Take care of the description of your photos as it can turn a mediocre image into a viral one.
• Use between 10 and 15 hashtags that are concrete and descriptive.
• Label other accounts whenever relevant.
• Find the best moments to publish - in the morning from 8 to 11, in the afternoon between 5 and 6 and at midnight, because there is less competition.
• As for the frequency, start with one or two posts per day and go up to 3-4 per day when you reach 5000 followers. 

Finally, start interacting with your followers as soon as possible. Do not forget that in them lies the key to your success.

4. Instagram Stories and live events
If you want to progress and monetize your Instagram account you should not miss the opportunity that Stories offers you as It generates a great product engagement.

The other possibility that Instagram Stories offers you is to broadcast live. Go daily to your users. Become close to your community, be close to the message and tell them valuable stories.

5. Sponsored posts in your account
To monetize your Instagram account there are already several platforms that put advertisers in contact with influencers, and in most of them, they accept Instagram accounts.

You just have to register in all of them and wait for you to be contacted by a brand interested in appearing in your profile.

One of the popular websites you can register with is Ifluenz.com

You are required to have at least 5,000 real followers to sign up with them.

A sponsored photo will pay you an average of $ 2 for every 1,000 followers you have. That is if an advertiser hired you to post and you have 10,000 followers, they would pay you around $ 10 and if you have 500,000, then $ 1,000, not that bad, right?

6. Sell affiliate products
There are many online stores that give you a percentage for each sale you make through their links.

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

You can find affiliates of almost any type of product. With a simple Google search, you can find the ideal affiliate for your profile.

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

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

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

7. Set up your own store
If you have many followers you can simply sell your own merchandising products.

You can appear on your Instagram photos with your own T-shirt models and take advantage of them to sell them in your own store.

You can set up an online store in minutes, with your own customized products on Viralstyle.com

For each sale, you make of your products you get 30% of its value and you do not have to do more than design your own products and promote them. 

8. Sell photographs
Another good idea to take money from your Instagram images is to sell the photographs.

If you are a professional photographer or amateur, Instagram is an excellent way to publicize your photographic works. There are many professionals in the world of photography who are already doing it. That's right, add a watermark to your photographs and add a link in the biography mentioning where you can buy them.


Use the appropriate hashtags to attract people to your images and have a conversation with influential photography agencies.

Below is the list of some of the web portals where you can sell your Instagram photos:

• Twenty20:  A marketplace for your Instagram photos.
• Instacanvas:  In this website, you can convert your images into canvases and buy them for your house or put them to sell in the same portal.
• Foap: One of the best marketplace where you can upload your Instagram photos and make money.
• Instaprints:  This website allows you to upload your images and then convert them into bags, mobile phone cases, bathroom curtains, pictures, t-shirts, greeting cards ... They will be responsible for selling them.

9. Sell your Instagram account
You can also sell your Instagram account. Many people sell them through classified ads portals, but the ideal way is to do so through specialized platforms, such as:

• FameSwap

Well, that was it! Do you have any more advice to succeed in this network? Come and share with us all in the comments!