Hey thank you for your feedback.
But I though that through advertising, I could get those engaging followers.
I want to be able to live by selling my fine art prints, and create a community around what I am creating.
But despite the child/mother method (which is really pricey) I do not really see how to grow my account and find engagement.
So this is why I wanted to start advertising, not to have ghost followers.
But if you are telling me that advertising mostly attract ghost followers, or that it will then kill my reach and engagement, I would have to think about another strategy, which as you know, is kinda difficult.
I have 10K followers, but I am not using ANY technique to bring new followers, and I lose like 600 followers since 5 months, while gaining no that many, through classics thing like hashtags.
But I am planing lauching my website en project and would want this hard work to pay.
My pleasure.
To be able to monetize said followers, you will definitely need your own platform (website, webshop, etc.) but at least something else than IG (like Shopify, Etsy, etc.).
I did not say that advertising will directly result in ghost followers. I meant to convey the fact you should be able to earn good money (4 digits per month) with that amount of followers presuming they are targeted and engaged.
You keep talking about the number of your followers, again, that is not a primary contributing factor when monetizing art. How well are they engaged - this is a way better question.
You should also launch any website as a tool of monetization ASAP so that you can see how much your audience worth right now. Hope this helps.
Thank you both, since you are kind of saying the same things, I am just replying to both of you at once.
Really grateful for the tips, I understand better now.
Plus my engagement is low, only 3/4 % generally 5-6% on some post so I would need indeed to make the community more awake.
So I was thinking fist engaged more with my followers (through like and DM, not following them).
Then when my website is ready keep engaging with my followers but also proposing a giveaway of some of my prints every two weeks ?
What do you think if on my first giveaway and announcement of the website I advertise this post (but also the next ones which include giveaway) ? While in the same time buying a service I found here who propose european followers (like 500 followers) that engage, like and comment my post to kind of boost those posts especially if advertise. Just at first and then little by little removing them while the account growing ?
The reason I am still thinking about ads after, is to attract ONE COUNTRY followers, I want to market only my country, and then Europe first, since my work include fine art photography but also writing, my goal is make a book, and well, I will feel more comfortable writing it in my native langage. So I want more engaging post yes, but for the selling part, need to be more specific.
Your opinions is really appreciated.
