Instagram Journey to $100K
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marbinx
Junior Member
- May 2, 2016
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1.2 Million Followers
Total Revenue: $100
Total Profit: $75
# of Sales: 17
Promotion #1: "We're Open Check Us Out" - Blasted 1 ad daily across 20 Accounts for 1 week. Generated 200 unique visitors, no sales
Promotion #2: "Check out these cool products" (12 different Ads with different products) - blasted for 4 days across 30 Accounts, 200 unique views, 1 sale
Promotion #3: "Free Product! Just pay $X.XX for Shipping" - Currently running across 30 Accounts for the past 6 hours... 15 Sales
Other: 1 Sale from Upsell email 3-days later. (Thanks for your purchase! Heres an additional 15% off your next order. Expires in 2 weeks)
Commentary
So Promotion #3 is clearly the winner... During the promotion some customers purchased high quantities - On AliExpress I only pay once for the E-Packet, so the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc items from the same seller get it for free. This is extra profitOther customers purchased random products not related to the sale.
Longer Term, I also have 17 Customer Email Addresses for further promotions, sales, newsletters, cross promotions, which may yield anywhere from 25-200% more profit down the line.
Another Learning: I only had 1 account that was 100% in this microniche, the other accounts overlap but are not in this microniche. For my next follow cycle, I have updated 30 accounts to all follow followers of the microniche. Estimate: 30 accounts x 7500 x 15% followback = 33,000 potential microniche customers. I'll monitor this, and keep mass-growing the microniche across all my accounts.
And I appreciate everyone's feedback! I definitely have gained insights from your comments and experience.
Getting 1.2 Million Followers isn't the finish line. It's just the beginning
Great info, thanks a lot. I was indeed looking for stat about promotion post on IG.
May I ask a question? You said you had 15sales for the 3rd promo, but how many unique visits? around 200 too or a lot more?
Thanks in advance and all the best
hammad latif
Junior Member
- Aug 15, 2016
- 126
- 11
Good luck mate
madblackhatter1000
Power Member
- Oct 29, 2015
- 570
- 261
1.27 Million Followers
The "FREE" promotions are working (*Just pay for shipping). I had a 2nd 72-Hour Sale over the weekend, blasted 50 Accounts with 1 advertisement, each day, with a possible reach of 500,000 people (of course with IG's popularity algorithm it was much fewer).
From each 3-Day Ad Blasting Promotion, I get 200 unique visitors, and 20 Purchases. There are also an additional 30 people that don't buy, but give their email address.
From both "FREE" campaigns, I now have a total of 100 email leads, 50 orders, $300 in revenue, and $130 of direct profit (after product & shipping costs). This "profit" doesn't include operating expenses like SSL proxies, VPS, Shopify+Apps costs or my time.
So I didn't become a millionaire overnight, but for only 3 weeks of being open, 50 orders isn't bad. It proves people are willing to buy from my store, and are willing to buy the promoted products. Also, 100 Leads for free is very good (Actually its better than free, making money generating these leads).
CHALLENGE: Customers appear to only be purchasing the FREE promotion and not anything else in the store. hmmm
Next Promotion will be a: 40% off coupon 72-Hour Sale.
The "FREE" promotions are working (*Just pay for shipping). I had a 2nd 72-Hour Sale over the weekend, blasted 50 Accounts with 1 advertisement, each day, with a possible reach of 500,000 people (of course with IG's popularity algorithm it was much fewer).
From each 3-Day Ad Blasting Promotion, I get 200 unique visitors, and 20 Purchases. There are also an additional 30 people that don't buy, but give their email address.
From both "FREE" campaigns, I now have a total of 100 email leads, 50 orders, $300 in revenue, and $130 of direct profit (after product & shipping costs). This "profit" doesn't include operating expenses like SSL proxies, VPS, Shopify+Apps costs or my time.
So I didn't become a millionaire overnight, but for only 3 weeks of being open, 50 orders isn't bad. It proves people are willing to buy from my store, and are willing to buy the promoted products. Also, 100 Leads for free is very good (Actually its better than free, making money generating these leads).
CHALLENGE: Customers appear to only be purchasing the FREE promotion and not anything else in the store. hmmm
Next Promotion will be a: 40% off coupon 72-Hour Sale.
dedicatednoob
Newbie
- Oct 19, 2012
- 47
- 18
Great thread. Been following and love your attentionnto detail and patience. Just wonderig, since u have 100 accounts, have you ever experienced any acc where tags dont work?
As in your account being ghosted. Dramatic drop in engagement because hastags dont appear in public feeds anymore. Even if you use a special hashtag, it wont show. Everything else works perfectly.
Has anyone ever experienced this?
As in your account being ghosted. Dramatic drop in engagement because hastags dont appear in public feeds anymore. Even if you use a special hashtag, it wont show. Everything else works perfectly.
Has anyone ever experienced this?
instagramgram
Regular Member
- Jan 11, 2014
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madblackhatter1000
Power Member
- Oct 29, 2015
- 570
- 261
1.35 Million Followers
BAD NEWS, EFFFFFF
1. So accidentally on my last campaign, I created only 1 post, with no spin-text. It was scheduled to hit 50 destinations... After 25 destinations, I noticed all my accounts getting banned!
2. I quickly shut the campaign down.
3. Half of the accounts had PVA screens that don't work. After entering Phone Number, nothing happens... Hit the submit button and the screen is frozen. This was true on MassPlanner, my iPhone, and 3 browsers on macbook.... This occurred on 13 accounts.
4. Luckily on 12 accounts, the PVA worked, and got the account back right away
5. Submitted "I was hacked" forms to Instagram
GOOD NEWS WOO HOOO
6. Got most of my accounts back. Took less than a week. Phew!
So Lesson Learned for next campaign.... Post more variety advertisements + include spin text is a must!
I use SSL Private Proxies Virgin IG.
BAD NEWS, EFFFFFF
1. So accidentally on my last campaign, I created only 1 post, with no spin-text. It was scheduled to hit 50 destinations... After 25 destinations, I noticed all my accounts getting banned!
2. I quickly shut the campaign down.
3. Half of the accounts had PVA screens that don't work. After entering Phone Number, nothing happens... Hit the submit button and the screen is frozen. This was true on MassPlanner, my iPhone, and 3 browsers on macbook.... This occurred on 13 accounts.
4. Luckily on 12 accounts, the PVA worked, and got the account back right away
5. Submitted "I was hacked" forms to Instagram
GOOD NEWS WOO HOOO
6. Got most of my accounts back. Took less than a week. Phew!
So Lesson Learned for next campaign.... Post more variety advertisements + include spin text is a must!
I use SSL Private Proxies Virgin IG.
marbinx
Junior Member
- May 2, 2016
- 145
- 28
Oh shit, bad stuff happens sometimes. GOod that you had your accounts back. But what do you mean by "campaign"? Is is paid Ad? Or just a promotional post?
madblackhatter1000
Power Member
- Oct 29, 2015
- 570
- 261
I created an advertisement for my online store. The idea was to post that advertisement on numerous instagram accounts pointing to my main online store account with the url address.
Next time I will make different flavors of the advertisement for both the photo and the caption...
onelettershor
Supreme Member
- Aug 4, 2015
- 1,295
- 454
Where did you buy your proxies from? I thought that "virgin" proxies don't exist! I'm looking to buy some safe proxies for botting as well, are yours working fine?
buy ads for 1account instagram / all bot account? instagram allowed many same account,same image?
madblackhatter1000
Power Member
- Oct 29, 2015
- 570
- 261
SSL Private Proxies - I got one of their NYE Packages for 25% Off. I think they're running a September special now on 15% off. IG Virgin proxies do exist, they just cost a little more too.
Never had a proxy-related problem with them so far (11 months so far). I only put 2-3 accounts on each one, so I don't try pushing the limit like other crazies on this forum with 20 per proxy and then wondering why they all get banned after a week.
onelettershor
Supreme Member
- Aug 4, 2015
- 1,295
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I'm pretty sure "virgin" proxies no long exist, but instagram proxies are probably the most "virgin" ones
Thank you for that! I'll check them out
dedicatednoob
Newbie
- Oct 19, 2012
- 47
- 18
Great journey. Im havig a hashtag problem too. Since u have so many accounts, have u had any where they were ghosted and hashtags dont work anymore??
Also, how did u manage to recover accounts which the submit button dont work?
Yiur feed back will be greatly appreciated. Following this thread closely