[$500/week] Realistic Instagram Marketing Journey

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Hello, I've been a LONG-TIME lurker on the BlackHatWorld forums; partly because I don't really believe in many of the methods posted on the website here (Some do work! But not many actually provide more than a mere $20-50 a month). But I still use some of the core ideas to add spins on methods that I've developed and created personally.

A little bit about myself, I started my Internet Marketing Career on Minecraft at the age of 16. I was pulling in anywhere between $xxxx-5xxx per month with servers (selling items) and sometimes more (In school holidays) this gave me a huge head-start in life but sadly due to my poor money management skills I've now lost most of the $xx,xxx dollars I accumulated. I learnt a LOT about managing money and I'm very glad that I lost all my money at an age where it's not very important to me, it's now 3 and a half years later and I'm still doing various things online making a steady income while I live at home.

My goals, I believe that Instagram is a hugely untapped market and can give me the opportunities to travel the world for free/generate some more steady income throughout my week. (I have a very high paying Friday-Saturday job) thus I spend most of my week managing my some 40 active accounts that I have on Instagram.

Goal: $500/Week
TimeFrame:
December 8th
Completion: 20%

Current Stats:

2 Accounts with 10,000~ Followers
10 Accounts in the 3000-6000 Range
38 Accounts in the 0-3000 Range.
$80~ Week

Instagram has some of the highest engagement of any website I've seen and generally not super SUPER high quality is not needed for a steady engagement (Unlike Youtube :D).

My Goals With The Thread, I sort of want to use this blog to engage with fellow Internet Marketers and help people on a similar journey to me. I'm open to all QUESTIONS! Including questions from my past ventures.
 
Following along mainly because I am interested in Instagram but don't know much about it. Looking forward to reading your updates!
 
Wishes and Prayers be with you from Me. Subscribed to see your progress.
 
Will very much love to follow along and do my own journey as well. See you at the finish line brother.
 
I guess the question is how you monitize. We have seen the likes of autoblog working for years and using twitter as a traffic driver. However, I can picture this being similar in any sense.
 
Nice. I will follow this thread and see if I can learn a bit from you and your journey.
 
what is 80$ a week ... expenses or income already ???
 
Good luck bro! Doing a similar journey myself! :)
 
Again the same question as people already asked on how do you monetize? Are you still doing minecraft servers (traffic from IG) ?
 
Hello, I've been a LONG-TIME lurker on the BlackHatWorld forums; partly because I don't really believe in many of the methods posted on the website here (Some do work! But not many actually provide more than a mere $20-50 a month). But I still use some of the core ideas to add spins on methods that I've developed and created personally.

A little bit about myself, I started my Internet Marketing Career on Minecraft at the age of 16. I was pulling in anywhere between $xxxx-5xxx per month with servers (selling items) and sometimes more (In school holidays) this gave me a huge head-start in life but sadly due to my poor money management skills I've now lost most of the $xx,xxx dollars I accumulated. I learnt a LOT about managing money and I'm very glad that I lost all my money at an age where it's not very important to me, it's now 3 and a half years later and I'm still doing various things online making a steady income while I live at home.

My goals, I believe that Instagram is a hugely untapped market and can give me the opportunities to travel the world for free/generate some more steady income throughout my week. (I have a very high paying Friday-Saturday job) thus I spend most of my week managing my some 40 active accounts that I have on Instagram.

Goal: $500/Week
TimeFrame:
December 8th
Completion: 20%

Current Stats:

2 Accounts with 10,000~ Followers
10 Accounts in the 3000-6000 Range
38 Accounts in the 0-3000 Range.
$80~ Week

Instagram has some of the highest engagement of any website I've seen and generally not super SUPER high quality is not needed for a steady engagement (Unlike Youtube :D).

My Goals With The Thread, I sort of want to use this blog to engage with fellow Internet Marketers and help people on a similar journey to me. I'm open to all QUESTIONS! Including questions from my past ventures.

Goodluck on your journey brother! You already have a strong start! BTW how are you monetizing it, same? OGads?
 
how do you monetize
Goodluck on your journey brother! You already have a strong start! BTW how are you monetizing it, same? OGads?
I guess the question is how you monitize. We have seen the likes of autoblog working for years and using twitter as a traffic driver. However, I can picture this being similar in any sense.

It seems like this is a strong question that a lot of you have, so I'll do my best to answer without jeopardizing some of the methods I am using personally.

I am a strong believable in building a REPUTABLE business model, it's all fun and games making $20-50 a day with OGAds but in reality that method is already long-dead and you'll be lucky to scrape a few dollars a week in my opinion (Feel free to prove me wrong). I spend a good portion of my time on any venture I do thinking about how I can make this long-term and successful; I get this view from back when I did Minecraft servers - Often I would hook up a deal with a 400,000 subscriber Youtuber and I'd see 20,000 unique players to my server in a few days. The problem was, that even though I had a strong player-base for a while no one tended to stay, that was because I never give any incentive to stay on my server more than a few hours. So I came up with an idea, that the next time I'd hire a Youtube to promote my server I'd sell my $100 package (which was surprisingly popular) for $10. Because people thought it was such a good deal they ended up investing money into my Server and as a result tended to stay on my server for weeks-months compared to days. What I'm trying to say is, that often you have to lose money/offer people an unbeatable deal to build up reputation on your businesses. The result of this deal saw my server have a solid 200-300 concurrent players daily for months.

When it comes to Instagram, not much changes. I've often offered deals from my accounts that I'm making no money from (breaking even) - I do this so I can build my reputation with my clients/followers and that when I offer a deal that will make money people are more enticed to actually spend more money since they are a re-occurring customer. I've tried Shout-Outs - which is fine to start out with but I think it looks spammy and makes your account less reputable to followers/potential clients.

Monetizing isn't hard, it's building a reputable model that will make you money that is hard. I could spam my accounts and make $200 this week, but I'd have no accounts after!

what is 80$ a week ... expenses or income already ???

$80/week in Revenue, sorry for being confusing.

Again the same question as people already asked on how do you monetize? Are you still doing minecraft servers (traffic from IG) ?

Thank you for the question, no I am no longer doing Minecraft servers.


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Thank you so much for the support, I hope that the ideas and advice I give on my journey can help you all!
 
why haven't you explained how you monetize your accounts? Please, I would also like to know how you grow those followers
 
Thanks. Mind discussing how to get large followers?

I personally use MassPlanner, and follow people in niches related to the account. It works great until around 7500 followers, then I believe posting high quality content with relevant hashtags is the best way to grow :)
 
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