Instagram Journey to $100K

The interesting part of this game is when your account is on the hill to get higher audience, they hit you with PVA or temporal bans even if done genuinely. Are they controlling the success of their members ?
 
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2,000,000 Followers

So why have I not started monetizing yet, what am I waiting for?

Basically I've done a Pivot of my business... I have 25 Accounts with 600,000 followers all in the same micro-niche - they all love the same exact topic and types of products. There will be high-click-thru from this group for sure once I launch my product.

I have another 75 Accounts with 1,400,000 followers across many other niches which may or may not like my niche business. Chances are there will be lower click-through.

I've purchased the Avada wordpress + WooCommerce + Paypal and have already designed my store. This is not that hard, but requires watching a lot of youtube videos to teach, as well as some odd backend issues dealing with the server. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is to design to smartphone mobile devices. If it doesn't look good on mobile, then it doesn't matter what it looks like on the laptop. All my visitors will be coming from IG, not from google, blogs, facebook... which limits this strategy to a very mobile-heavy dependency. This means getting rid of popups, because they suck on mobile devices - sometimes its impossible to find that little x to close the window - that really pisses customers off and they won't return.

In addition to my main digital product, I've decided to also sell complementary products which can be printed-on-demand, so that I hold zero inventory and don't have to worry about shipping. I have hired 5 designers to make designs for me.

What kind of product am I doing? Well without giving anything away - I've had to hire several people off upwork and fiverr, as well as word of mouth. The product development has taken 3x longer than expected (From 6 months to 18 Months). There are numerous other contributors to this product who I don't know because my project manager is doing all the heavy lifting. But with each iteration, and re-iteration, the product gets better, but this takes more time and increases the budget each round. Originally I was developing this product just for myself, something I was very passionate about, but then realized that others may like this too, and decided to formerly make it a business idea rather than just a personal idea.

Also, I wanted several launch videos too, and I've found some people off fiverr/upwork who will make animation videos for $10/hr, and will take them about 2-days per video (roughly 10 hours).

I think the product and launch may be near - in 1 month's time.

Cheers!
 
madblackhatter1000 said:
2,000,000 Followers

So why have I not started monetizing yet, what am I waiting for?

Basically I've done a Pivot of my business... I have 25 Accounts with 600,000 followers all in the same micro-niche - they all love the same exact topic and types of products. There will be high-click-thru from this group for sure once I launch my product.

I have another 75 Accounts with 1,400,000 followers across many other niches which may or may not like my niche business. Chances are there will be lower click-through.

I've purchased the Avada wordpress + WooCommerce + Paypal and have already designed my store. This is not that hard, but requires watching a lot of youtube videos to teach, as well as some odd backend issues dealing with the server. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is to design to smartphone mobile devices. If it doesn't look good on mobile, then it doesn't matter what it looks like on the laptop. All my visitors will be coming from IG, not from google, blogs, facebook... which limits this strategy to a very mobile-heavy dependency. This means getting rid of popups, because they suck on mobile devices - sometimes its impossible to find that little x to close the window - that really pisses customers off and they won't return.

In addition to my main digital product, I've decided to also sell complementary products which can be printed-on-demand, so that I hold zero inventory and don't have to worry about shipping. I have hired 5 designers to make designs for me.

What kind of product am I doing? Well without giving anything away - I've had to hire several people off upwork and fiverr, as well as word of mouth. The product development has taken 3x longer than expected (From 6 months to 18 Months). There are numerous other contributors to this product who I don't know because my project manager is doing all the heavy lifting. But with each iteration, and re-iteration, the product gets better, but this takes more time and increases the budget each round. Originally I was developing this product just for myself, something I was very passionate about, but then realized that others may like this too, and decided to formerly make it a business idea rather than just a personal idea.

Also, I wanted several launch videos too, and I've found some people off fiverr/upwork who will make animation videos for $10/hr, and will take them about 2-days per video (roughly 10 hours).

I think the product and launch may be near - in 1 month's time.

Cheers!
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sweet update man, keep grinding !
 
Don't you receive mass shoutouts request? You don't monetize with these in the while?
 
Are you planning to sell a digital or physical good?

Are you managing all 100+ accounts yourself or using a VAs,etc?

Goodluck with your journey, I think you can easily exceed 100K. Please keep us updated
 
2,040,000 Followers
popoloko23 said:
Hii, which vps do you use? And how many vps?
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Green Cloud VPS. Only 1 server for 1 MassPlanner and 105 Accounts... I'm paying about $50-65/month for one of the budget ones.


thepioneerslife said:
Are you planning to sell a digital or physical good?
Are you managing all 100+ accounts yourself or using a VAs,etc?
Goodluck with your journey, I think you can easily exceed 100K. Please keep us updated
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Digital Goods. It is being developed as we speak.
Yes I am managing all accounts myself. I spent several months and 1000s of hours gathering top content across the internet.
Thanks!

secretunk said:
Don't you receive mass shoutouts request? You don't monetize with these in the while?
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Yeah I've received some, but not interested. I don't want to advertise for anyone at the moment, just myself. I don't want to turn off my audience sending them tons of other offers, and then they will be unresponsive when they see my own promotion once I launch my product.
 
I love your thread, and system. I would love to work with you, to actually do something totally separate to monetize this. Use your example as a case study. Send me a message.


madblackhatter1000 said:
2,040,000 Followers

Green Cloud VPS. Only 1 server for 1 MassPlanner and 105 Accounts... I'm paying about $50-65/month for one of the budget ones.



Digital Goods. It is being developed as we speak.
Yes I am managing all accounts myself. I spent several months and 1000s of hours gathering top content across the internet.
Thanks!


Yeah I've received some, but not interested. I don't want to advertise for anyone at the moment, just myself. I don't want to turn off my audience sending them tons of other offers, and then they will be unresponsive when they see my own promotion once I launch my product.
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2,081,000 Followers

I felt inspired reading some other threads of people with 200-500 accounts. I've decided to add more accounts. Some of the niches I've chosen could use a few more accounts, and theres a few new niches I wish I had gotten into.

The problem is economics... the proxies are EXPENSIVE

So I've modified my plan a little, we will see if it works

I purchased 50 accounts from XGC Media again for about $60
I purchased 50 Dedicated IPs from Mass Proxy for about $26/month

They will also run on my existing MassPlanner setup. My old setup (105 accounts) will remain on their own proxies from SSLprivateproxy.

XGC delivered 55 accounts. 3 of them needed password resets, and 9 needed new Phone Verifications. This is normal when changing IP addresses. This even happens on my own personal account if I use a random restaurant's wifi, I'll be hit with a PVA sometimes....

MassProxy is giving me a different type of proxy than SSLprivateproxy. Rather than the standard 101.101.xxx.xxx type, its IPV6 and looks like 2001:0db8:0a0b:12f0:0000:0000:0000:0001

FYI, last year in 2016, the last remaining IPV4's were sold out completely. Every single IPV4 number in existence (101.101.xxx.xxx) was bought up by private companies, utilities, governments, and consumers.

Bottom line, these new IPV6 addresses are weird, but social media companies are forced to accept them because thats the way the world is heading now.

Lets see how this new idea works! Next step is to change all the bio's, usernames, and add amazing content before I start them following.

cheers!
 
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