Finally Success with IG

wassir said:

Hope to see how the application went. Was it expensive?

Heard many weird stories about selling to China, like always going under table, need approval of all China states just to sell 1 thing, buyers trying to screw food exporters by claiming that the lab test failed, or have to smuggle through HK. Would love to know if it's true or just hearsay.

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It is true and this is the case that apply to all developing world. Lots of protectionist regulation you need to care about. Insane tariff on importing product directly. Lack of Trust is one of main reasons why Ebay fail big time in all developing countries. Customer make a deal. Later change their mind and do not do as promised. Delivery is not as quick as same day delivery in developed countries. But hey, things are rapidly improving.

wassir said:

Hope to see how the application went. Was it expensive?

Heard many weird stories about selling to China, like always going under table, need approval of all China states just to sell 1 thing, buyers trying to screw food exporters by claiming that the lab test failed, or have to smuggle through HK. Would love to know if it's true or just hearsay.

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It depends upon your counter party when it comes to under table dealing. Nowadays it is not so much in public for such corruption practices. But it still happens. It is akin to second nature to the Chinese. Thus I doubt it can be completely eliminated, it is like a necessary evil. The application cost is expensive because I am using an attorney. Legal service are crazy. There are so call agents who can do it at a fraction of the cost but you have to rely alot on trust factors. Not something that I would recommend.

Jklmno said:

Government is more trustable than Alibaba? What if they bribe govt official?

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This is why you need to make sure you get any official replies in writing, email or paper form. Not just words.

CPA earnings update for this month:

The advertiser has pulled out of my most profitable campaign so there is a need to look elsewhere for more offers that converts well. I am showing the screenshot of my earning not to boost but to explain the need to change network and offer especially when a winning campaign is no longer available. Do not expect all offers will convert well. For doubters, you can always zoomin at pixel level to check that these are real earnings without alteration or manipulation.

honestIM said:

It depends upon your counter party when it comes to under table dealing. Nowadays it is not so much in public for such corruption practices. But it still happens. It is akin to second nature to the Chinese. Thus I doubt it can be completely eliminated, it is like a necessary evil. The application cost is expensive because I am using an attorney. Legal service are crazy. There are so call agents who can do it at a fraction of the cost but you have to rely alot on trust factors. Not something that I would recommend.

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Does it reach thousands (or more figures) in $$ for legal way?

wassir said:

Does it reach thousands (or more figures) in $$ for legal way?

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Yes thousands at the least depending upon which law firm you are using. The MNC law firm will cost even more

I'm doing the same thing, totally manually with my 2 account, but I guess I can scale it up to 5 now. How many followers you have for each IG account to reach that earning?

honestIM said:

Yes thousands at the least depending upon which law firm you are using. The MNC law firm will cost even more

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Yikes! What a scary figure! Can't apply through government channels? And is this for whole country or just one category or one item? And what's the approval duration?

honestIM said:

CPA earnings update for this month:

The advertiser has pulled out of my most profitable campaign so there is a need to look elsewhere for more offers that converts well. I am showing the screenshot of my earning not to boost but to explain the need to change network and offer especially when a winning campaign is no longer available. Do not expect all offers will convert well. For doubters, you can always zoomin at pixel level to check that these are real earnings without alteration or manipulation.
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Any update for affiliate?

wassir said:

Yikes! What a scary figure! Can't apply through government channels? And is this for whole country or just one category or one item? And what's the approval duration?


Any update for affiliate?

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Yes there is official channel of application. You can visit your country trade department for advise on this matter instead of using a trade attorney to save on cost. It can take between 3-6 months for the application to be approve from the China authority. This is only for a single category of product for the whole country. ( I am referring to China).

Affiliate revenue is confidential due to my agreement signed with the Company. There is different level of commission payout for different marketers.

honestIM said:

Yes there is official channel of application. You can visit your country trade department for advise on this matter instead of using a trade attorney to save on cost. It can take between 3-6 months for the application to be approve from the China authority. This is only for a single category of product for the whole country. ( I am referring to China).

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Thanks for feeding this curious cat! Looking forward to see future "selling to China" updates!

honestIM said:

Hashtag research:
I only uses the inbuild IG app to search for relevant hashtag. Example, when I type fitness, I can see other related hashtag, I uses a spread sheet to jot them down.

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Just started searching tags on IG, when choosing tag, is relevance good enough or need to consider number of posts using same tag?

wassir said:

Thanks for feeding this curious cat! Looking forward to see future "selling to China" updates!


Just started searching tags on IG, when choosing tag, is relevance good enough or need to consider number of posts using same tag?

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Personally I prefer to use relevant tag. That is working for me well.

Have you ever tapped into the instagram influencer market, and tried becoming an influencer?

Just started following people, is there any way to make sure I don't repeat following the same people who I unfollow later? Trying to remember 1000s of unfollowed non-followers not to follow sounds kinda crazy.

How many followers you have right now for each acc after 6 weeks?

That's really really so much effort put into it. I imagine you are working full time with this. Like 8+ hours daily.
Great job though. Nice guide for us newbies out there

in your OP, you never mentioned monthly costs of the phones?
(if you just use wifi, you would not need sim cards?)

Jesus, that 0.74 EPC... have you tried searching this campaign in other networks?

OP, do you outsource any of this work to a VA?

Would location matter?

Lbardhi90 said:

That's really really so much effort put into it. I imagine you are working full time with this. Like 8+ hours daily.
Great job though. Nice guide for us newbies out there

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I have passed on the work to my staff to do. And she is loving it. It is akin to playing mobile game on your phone after getting used to the daily routine.

txholdem said:

in your OP, you never mentioned monthly costs of the phones?
(if you just use wifi, you would not need sim cards?)

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Interesting, I uses 3G as my sim comes with 1 year of free 3G (up to 2GB monthly). I have not tested with wifi yet. If you are testing with wifi, do update with us on this thread if possible.

blackbeans said:

OP, do you outsource any of this work to a VA?

Would location matter?

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I hired my own full time staffs so I just need to deploy and allocate manpower for this task. I am only handling the work in the initial stage to ensure and troubleshoot. Thereafter my staff is suppose to be on her own. She is on a full time payroll with social insurance so she have to work

Location will matter if you are doing live streaming. Pre recorded video disguise as live stream works very well in attracting eyeballs. This method is banking alot of money for me right now. IG/Bigo Live is basically giving me $1k+ every day through CPA offers alone. Simple and easy money. Just strange that fellow members here are still talking about SEO and trying to rank their sites. Whereas they could be working on this setup on the side and making cash.

I am focusing more on the live streaming feature than building up IG followers currently as the live streaming gives me a huge ROI compared to the conventional way of using IG. Lesson learnt, be innovative with your approach and deviate from what the public does and you can make VERY GOOD money. Follow the masses and you will end up trying to make $10 with IG+OGads.

Nice share! Thanks