Finally Success with IG

[shubham123s]

Great Journey.
Can you tell me where you are selling retail products?

Thanks BTW

 

[honestIM]

If i understand correctly, you said that you were selling fake nails woth of 5.000$, 150% profit..
so you bought fake nails in bulk worth 2.000$ at the beginning...
I would be too afraid that nobody will buy it and i would sit on the items of several thousands of dollars worth?!

I started off very small before scaling due to demand. Don't sell jewellery and apparels. These are very hardsell items. Go for smaller items like fake nail, nail stickers, seasonal shoes/ heels, makeup brushes, etc. These are necessity for women.

QC in your house ?

When I first started off it was in my office. Now it is on site where the inventories are kept.

Thanks for the thread
I'm confused, do you have 5 accounts or 5 per phone = 25? (manually would be like )
If you have 5 accounts total you are getting 1000 to 2000 uniques to your money site?
If you have 25 accounts you're getting 5K to 10K
Also, you have different landing pages for each profile? And then they all redirect to the same money site? Is that correct?

5 accounts per phone. IG allows you to manage up to 5 accounts per phone. Yes manual takes a lot of work. But remember I started off with the requirement for proof of concept. If I go custom made a bot, buy proxies, etc, it is going to cost me more money before I even turn in profits. And if the project turn out to be failure I lose all the money. In this case, at the least I can sell the phones and recover some capital back.

For CPA, I am using prelander to direct. You can get away with weebly/blogger/youtube etc if you do not want to invest in a prelander. CPA conversion rate is miserable to be honest. Maybe the inbuilt IG browser causes loss of cookies, I don't know for sure about this. Each account focus on different themes, so landing page do not all go to the same offer.

Just to be clear about links i ask.
For wholesale u make live stream- guess different account different items u show?
For affilate with companies just DM
For CPA, and here you got pined link to CPA in every account?
Because i thought you got some website with your stuff
And does your photos you post are selfmade by you showing your stuff? Or you just upload photos from other sites? For example u sell shoes so you show many of them from different sources, or just these that you have on "store" ?

Note live stream is only required if buyer is worry if you own the product. For seeking out buyer, I simply comment/ dm them (if they follow me back). They usually reply quite fast if they are interested.

For CPA offers, I uses prelander so not sure your question, if you can, please elaborate further.

I do not do dropshipping so I do not create website to showcast products. I have product catalogue album that I uploaded to Google photo (free unlimited photo upload)
Dropshipping is just too much work for too little profits in my point of view. And with so many competitors around, hmm.. just not worth my time.
Ok for photo there is trick to it. I uses a high resolution camera to retake the stock pictures so that it looks unique. Google for photo taking tricks to learn on this. For copyrighted images, I uses a bit of photo editing to blur on certain sensitive areas. So far this approach has not given me any problem.

For wholesale products, I uses stock images provided by suppliers. And I do not lie. I simply tell the buyer that I bulk purchase from China. So I am here to make money with some small markup Be sincere with the approach and the buyers will be convinced. Don't do the franklin hatchet type of lying as buyers are not stupid.

Damn all that without bot? You're awesome! How many you follow per account?

Read through my writeup again on this I stated it clearly.

Great Journey.
Can you tell me where you are selling retail products?

Thanks BTW

I don't sell retails products. I sell only in bulk. For less than 30 items order, I direct them directly to my customers who purchase in bulks from me.


Today I received a spam marketing message through DM on iG promoting an email opt in promising a free iphone x. The message is so poorly written, click here to get your iphone x. I will never click such link.

If I were to promote this, I will do as below.

Congratulation you have won a chance to qualify for a Free iPhone X for following us. This is a complimentary gift from our sponsor. Please proceed to xyx.com (t&c applies) to register now. Only 10 sets to be given away on a first come first serve basis.

 

[maxis]

Thanks, most of my question have been answered. About CPA i quiet don't understand the whole thing with prelander, how does it work for you? If i udnerstand well, you got link on your bio, followers go there and first see prelander that is yours/ or collaborate with blogger/youtuber? then they are throw to other adress?

 

[teener]

hi there

noob question about instagram

creating instagram account then upload related my niche images daily, following and unfollowing.

1) where can i post my link on instagram?
2) if its only on bio then why some peoples are selling instagram shoutout i mean some people instagram with eg: 30k followers account they allowed to post , single post they charge $20 and more.... as per followers qty

thank you

 

[Deleted member 719276]

hi

hi mate you PVA the CPA or no CPA the PVA ?

 

[laur.laurix]

Regarding twitter accounts....do u see this low engagement rates and shadowing for new accounts or both new and old accounts. I don't have this kind of issues and I'm thinking maybe the updates didn't roll out in my country.

 

[honestIM]

Thanks, most of my question have been answered. About CPA i quiet don't understand the whole thing with prelander, how does it work for you? If i udnerstand well, you got link on your bio, followers go there and first see prelander that is yours/ or collaborate with blogger/youtuber? then they are throw to other adress?

Landing page is important if you want to promote CPA offers on social network or pop traffic. You only have one chance as these people who visit have very short attention span. You need to capture their attention fast. Make sure landing page loads and loads fast. CTA must be highly visible with a reason why the visitor must click on it.
Link is in bio.

Example,

Giving out 10 pcs iPhone X when you follow and like this post. T&C applies -> DM to your follower -> Hey thanks for following and liking our post. To qualify for the Free iPhone X, please visit link in our bio and complete a short lifestyle survey. -> Direct visitor to your landing page - > Visitor click to offer (Make sure your landing page do not use any terms that go against the TOS for promoting that offer. In this case, the word free and win cannot appear on the landing page.

I am already giving you very detail explaination, anymore, you will need to explore and read up more on BHW sections.

hi there

noob question about instagram

creating instagram account then upload related my niche images daily, following and unfollowing.

1) where can i post my link on instagram?
2) if its only on bio then why some peoples are selling instagram shoutout i mean some people instagram with eg: 30k followers account they allowed to post , single post they charge $20 and more.... as per followers qty

thank you

1) Already answer above.
2) People are selling shoutout to attract more followers for the advertisers. You can also promote your offer but will not be advised to promote link directly in the description section.

Regarding twitter accounts....do u see this low engagement rates and shadowing for new accounts or both new and old accounts. I don't have this kind of issues and I'm thinking maybe the updates didn't roll out in my country.

Yes, I had 90% drop in reach. I cannot believe that this is happening as I have been very careful not to spam. Shadowing happens to both my old and new accounts. I think twitter is rolling out the update progressively and at the same time rolling out their paid ad platform which is currently available only to USA advertisers. Not a fact but my guess as twitter stock prices have been showing signs of accumulation of late. Some big players are accumulating the stock pending for news release I guess.

 

[honestIM]

For following, avoid follow by location as I noticed that the followback rate is very poor when you use this. Also avoid following top accounts follower either.
In my case, I follow by the niche that my account is promoting. Example, fitness, I will look under fitness hashtag and follow the latest post there (not top post) or their followers sometime. This helps to improve my followback rate.

Hashtag wise, try to search under BHW for a list of banned hashtag and avoid using them. I used to commit the same mistakes as well. There are hashtag that you should not use to avoid having your post shadowed. I cannot recall the link to that thread.

 

[maxis]

Thanks for explanation about CPA i think i mostly of it got it. What about wholesellig. As i udnerstood well you just sell directly to buyer, and they transfer cash to your private account, but how about taxes? I mean there should be payout for each money earned ( ofc the thing is to avoid it ) but in bigger scale how you are managing it? Or profits are not so huge that you should be worried about?

 

[MightySlav]

So you follow 100/day with one acc? With 25 accounts that's 2500 follows/day manually?

 

[honestIM]

Thanks for explanation about CPA i think i mostly of it got it. What about wholesellig. As i udnerstood well you just sell directly to buyer, and they transfer cash to your private account, but how about taxes? I mean there should be payout for each money earned ( ofc the thing is to avoid it ) but in bigger scale how you are managing it? Or profits are not so huge that you should be worried about?

I pay zero taxes for wholeselling. As I deal in cash or local bank transfer. Ideally I try to accept only cash and avoid paying taxes totally nor issue invoices. If customer wants an invoice, I will issue one from a shell company.

Setup is as below if customer requires invoices.
Customer pay $1k - > Shall Company pay offshore tax free entity for service fee (95% commission) -> 5% of revenue for taxes less expenses for staff overheads, stationary,etc so that the deductible shows the Company making very little profits (no losses).
Note: Above setup, you need to consult a professional accountant. I uses my own accountant for such tax reduction practices. Do NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY.

So you follow 100/day with one acc? With 25 accounts that's 2500 follows/day manually?

Yes, hmm.. have you tried following/unfollowing via the app? It is actually quite easy to operate and do not consume too much time.

 

[MightySlav]

I pay zero taxes for wholeselling. As I deal in cash or local bank transfer. Ideally I try to accept only cash and avoid paying taxes totally nor issue invoices. If customer wants an invoice, I will issue one from a shell company.

Setup is as below if customer requires invoices.
Customer pay $1k - > Shall Company pay offshore tax free entity for service fee (95% commission) -> 5% of revenue for taxes less expenses for staff overheads, stationary,etc so that the deductible shows the Company making very little profits (no losses).
Note: Above setup, you need to consult a professional accountant. I uses my own accountant for such tax reduction practices. Do NOT FOLLOW BLINDLY.





Yes, hmm.. have you tried following/unfollowing via the app? It is actually quite easy to operate and do not consume too much time.

Nah i just use FL. Saves time for other projects.

 

[wwa2b]

I've spent the past 2 days checking the accounts of users who were engaging on large accounts in my niche and that looked like real people. It seems to me that most real people's individual accounts are set to private.
Most other accounts (of those who were engaging) were either BS comments by professionals in that niche, or genuine comments but from people who were selling something or other and used their public account to promote it.
Wouldn't you say so?
Doesn't this make manual liking/commenting or even following strategies extremely time-consuming?

 

[honestIM]

I've spent the past 2 days checking the accounts of users who were engaging on large accounts in my niche and that looked like real people. It seems to me that most real people's individual accounts are set to private.
Most other accounts (of those who were engaging) were either BS comments by professionals in that niche, or genuine comments but from people who were selling something or other and used their public account to promote it.
Wouldn't you say so?
Doesn't this make manual liking/commenting or even following strategies extremely time-consuming?

I am not sure about this observation as my niche are usually open to following. Are you in the adult niche? Maybe different niche, we require a different approach? Note IG is very huge, I am also constantly learning and modifying the method to suit different niche.

Manual is not a long term approach. I am at the testing stage this is why I am using manual way. However once I start to scale up I will either outsource of hire a coder to code a custom bot. I hate many bad experiences with FL so I am done with commercial bot at this point in time for IG.

 

[wwa2b]

Are you in the adult niche? Maybe different niche, we require a different approach? Note IG is very huge, I am also constantly learning and modifying the method to suit different niche.

I'm in jewelry.
Glad you found a way to make it work. I am still totally lost.

 

[Jklmno]

Hi, nice to see you succeed with wholesaling. My mothers and her brothers and sisters also have long been involved in importing wholesale from China to sell in Medan, Indonesia (fashion products). Most of their sale is still from offline
I myself have only been involved in online fashion shop for one year. You sure have guts huh importing in large quantity. But you say you are lucky since your Chinese supplier run out of supply. If their supply return to normal, how do you prevent your customers from buying directly to Chinese supplier?

 

[JJohn]

What software do you use to have 5 IG accounts in one phone? You use the same IP for all 5 accounts?

 

[honestIM]

I'm in jewelry.
Glad you found a way to make it work. I am still totally lost.

Your niche is ultra competitive and not easy to sell on IG. Have you tried pinterest? Group board sharing on pinterest could help you to sell better if your shipping time is fast.

Hi, nice to see you succeed with wholesaling. My mothers and her brothers and sisters also have long been involved in importing wholesale from China to sell in Medan, Indonesia (fashion products). Most of their sale is still from offline
I myself have only been involved in online fashion shop for one year. You sure have guts huh importing in large quantity. But you say you are lucky since your Chinese supplier run out of supply. If their supply return to normal, how do you prevent your customers from buying directly to Chinese supplier?

I know the product sell very well as I sell a lot of customer demands. Did an indepth study of the market before going into this.
Competition is everywhere. There is no secret to buying in bulk from China so nothing will stop competitors from moving into this lucrative pie of business. Take for example, nail arts, fake nail, nail stickers, etc are selling very well in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia currently. The wholeseller are making tons of money every single day. But the same product does not sell very well in Thailand. The surprising thing is that there are very limited wholeseller in these countries that sell well. Basically no one is competing on price. I will say this particular niche is none saturated at all and I am surprise at the lack of competitors.

I have made in profits total of $100k USD just this month alone through sales from the above countries especially Vietnam where my stocks are totally sold out every single day when shipment arrives. I get my customer through facebook group posting and some facebook ads on topics regarding nail art, nail design,etc in the local languages. There is no secret to this but it is amazing from the lack of competition in this niche.

What software do you use to have 5 IG accounts in one phone? You use the same IP for all 5 accounts?

It is the default IG app from Facebook. Yes same IP residential and manually using different devices (not emulator).

 

[maxis]

Did you consider putting any affiliate links to yours accounts?

 

[gilgul]

Nice work, and thanks for sharing. Never would have envisioned an IG "operation" such as this but you sure got my mind going now...

I did have a couple of questions -

1. Is it safe to assume you never keep any follows in that on any given day you would follow 100 people (and bring your account to 100 follows) then 24 later unfollow the same 100 people (and bring your account back to 0)?
2. Do you like/engage anything by the profiles you follow?