[METHOD] How to Become a Successful Influencer

Zeyrel said:

I have over 10k+ real followers and have only done a couple ads

Any tips on where to find interested business that want me to advertise their products?

I got the couple of ads by just DM'ing randoms

Also what is the current market pricing? 10k = $100?

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I cannot really give you any specific advice until I know what your niche is and the quality of your account posts. You are welcome to PM me the details and I will take a look.

But on average you'll need more followers and your being overly optimistic about your shoutout rates. To see industry averages go to shoutcart register for a free account as a buyer and you will see what similar competitors charge, it is a lot lower than $100 per 10k.

The real question is: why am I not doing what I know I should be doing...?
What I need is a marketing specialist who is also a psychotherapist

wwa2b said:

The real question is: why am I not doing what I know I should be doing...?

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You are correct, fundametally it is straightforward what you have to do to be an influencer, it is having the discipline to keep doing it day after day that makes you successful.

mikeoff said:

great post and advice!

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Thanks for that. I noticed your site, feel free to pm me and tell me a little more about what you do, as there might be some stuff we can work on together.

i like it

Thank you for posting this method

GringoMonkey said:

If you are just starting out get the crappist, yes, including buying them, followers, just so it looks like your new account has some people interested in it.

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When you say this, how many followers do you think we should buy?

Also,

Is it okay to do this when having an ig agency? For example lets say I find a potential client who has a poorly managed ig account with only 50 followers, can I create a new account for this company and add 3k fake followers and some fake engagement, then if he buys, I start growing the account and removing the fake followers from time to time (If he gets 300 real follower in a month, then i remove 300 of the fake ones)?

Thanks

Shel said:

Thank you for posting this method

When you say this, how many followers do you think we should buy?

Also,

Is it okay to do this when having an ig agency? For example lets say I find a potential client who has a poorly managed ig account with only 50 followers, can I create a new account for this company and add 3k fake followers and some fake engagement, then if he buys, I start growing the account and removing the fake followers from time to time (If he gets 300 real follower in a month, then i remove 300 of the fake ones)?

Thanks

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If the account is brand new, then make a few posts and buy no more than 1000 followers. As it grows the expected rate of bots is about 40-50%. So make sure no more than that.

If your charging a brand for a service unless they specifically say otherwise, in my opinion you should protect their brand and go white hat on their account and buy none. The most straightforward method for growing a brand based ig account is the mother child method. With the brands ig account being the mother.

I have had quite a few members contact me asking if their Instagram account is ready to monetize.

You have a better chance of being able to monetize if your account is public not private. You have an engagement rate of around 5%+ and 25,000+ followers.

Hi. Is there any good site to schedule posts that is safe and hopefully free.
Or is this something IG bans?
What do you recommend?

kommaihag said:

Hi. Is there any good site to schedule posts that is safe and hopefully free.
Or is this something IG bans?
What do you recommend?

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I cannot recommend a free tool to schedule posts, because I don't use one. I am not an influencer, I own an agency that matches brands with influencers.

tkk said:

You seem to think that your advice above is useful and unknown. Be better, post often, be good, know a lot, communicate with your audience --> for whom is this a secret? I thought one should be bad, post once in a year and call their followers idiots.

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I kinda have to agree with this post as all OP does is kicking in open doors, these are all basic rules that everyone should do to have some success on IG. Still, that doesn't make you an influencer that is interesting enough that you get deals for advertisers, we all know that we need to post quality content to even have a bit of LT success that is with all publishing methods, be it social media or websites or whatever....

fc-dh said:

...we all know that we need to post quality content to even have a bit of LT success that is with all publishing methods, be it social media or websites or whatever....

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It might be obvious to you and me but it isn't to the vast majority of people. Just look at most social media accounts / websites. They are low quality and they don't add value.

The point of the thread is to explain to people it is not complicated to be a successful influencer and earn big money if you follow, what you consider, obvious steps. If everybody did that already then everybody would earn big money. Instead the majority are trying to get along by selling shoutouts for $10, some cpa content locker hack or whatever.

I am saying this from the perspective of the brands as the guy who manages them and pays $000's to each influencer I work with based on their actionable engagement rate.

The money is there you just have to be able to deliver and what I outline in this thread is what we are looking for. To the best of my knowledge saying it in that context has not been emphasized on BHW before. Or not that I could find.

GringoMonkey said:

The point of the thread is to explain to people it is not complicated to be a successful influencer and earn big money if you follow, what you consider, obvious steps. If everybody did that already then everybody would earn big money. Instead the majority are trying to get along by selling shoutouts for $10, some cpa content locker hack or whatever.

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It is very hard to get an account that will sell you $100+ shoutouts or get advertisement endorsement and just stating post HQ content isn't going to do jack fucking shit. You need a good follow/unfollow strategy, shoutout strategy a very good hashtag strategy and even then it is hard as hell to get at that level, to have double digits engagement stats, cus that is what you need to become a moneymaker

If it was that easy as you claim it is then everybody was an influencer, the reason they are not is that it takes hard work and dedication and a great strategy far beyond the obvious stuff like HQ content.

Your "method" doesn't even scratch the surface of what is needed, i am sorry if i come across as a dick but it is the truth and people need a reality check instead of the pipedreams sold in this thread.

@fc-dh you seem to have a read a post not the thread and what else I have been saying.

follow/unfollow strategy - I outlined the best method is the mother/child method. There are threads here on BHW that explain that

#research - Again there are numerous threads here on bhw.

Shoutout strategy - don't have one, it is peanut money and as you say hard to do. Your best creating immersive hq content in conjunction with the brands. If readers don't know how to get brand endorsement ask me, I will look at their account and give them a more detailed analysis. I have done so with numerous that have sent me a PM.

This thread is intended as an overview plan not a step-by-step spoonfed guide on every detail of what you must do on every social media platform, for every single niche to be successful as an influencer.

Obviously, you don't need an overview, that's great, good luck making your money as an influencer. But others do and the point is with this overview thread coupled with the BHW search button for the specifics you need to find out you have access to all the information you need.

If there is something you feel you can say that adds value to the thread and you want to explain in step-by-step detail, then by all means contribute to the thread, that is how BHW works.

I did not collate all the relevant threads here on BHW, because there are simply too many, with some offering paid options and some free.

Plus, if someone asks a specific question I will do my best to give a specific answer as I have done.

How to PM? I don't think I have enough posts

but maybe send me a PM and I can reply?

Hi GringoMonkey.

Is this a viable plan?

I want to build 5 accounts in Hotel/Travel niches with 200k followers each. With those accounts I want to sell a subscription to 5-star hotels to post their photos once a month on each 5 account, for 299€/month.

In order to do that here's my plan:

1. Buying 5 aged account and buy 100k fake followers for each of them.

2. Add content daily (hotel photos) and buy fake engagement (likes, some comments). Add content until I have 20-30 posts.

3. Contact a lot of 5-star hotels and offer them to post a picture of their choice on each 5 accounts, once a month. For 299€/month.

4. Use earned money to create a legit account and grow it using mother/child.
-> I make 180€ benefit from the 299€/month. So if I have 100 clients, I get 18k€/month. If I use these 18k I can grow an account to 200k real followers and real engagement using mother/child. I do this until I have 5 accounts with 200k real followers (or 1 account with 1m)

5. Promote hotels on my new, legit accounts and forget the 5 fake accounts.

For me it's sounds doable, maybe it's a good idea worth to try? But I often have good ideas that turns out to be bad so... I need advice from someone who's expert in IG

I hope I am explaining clearly enough

Which app/service you use to purge fake followers?

Shel said:

Hi GringoMonkey.

Is this a viable plan?

I want to build 5 accounts in Hotel/Travel niches with 200k followers each. With those accounts I want to sell a subscription to 5-star hotels to post their photos once a month on each 5 account, for 299€/month.

In order to do that here's my plan:

1. Buying 5 aged account and buy 100k fake followers for each of them.

2. Add content daily (hotel photos) and buy fake engagement (likes, some comments). Add content until I have 20-30 posts.

3. Contact a lot of 5-star hotels and offer them to post a picture of their choice on each 5 accounts, once a month. For 299€/month.

4. Use earned money to create a legit account and grow it using mother/child.
-> I make 180€ benefit from the 299€/month. So if I have 100 clients, I get 18k€/month. If I use these 18k I can grow an account to 200k real followers and real engagement using mother/child. I do this until I have 5 accounts with 200k real followers (or 1 account with 1m)

5. Promote hotels on my new, legit accounts and forget the 5 fake accounts.

For me it's sounds doable, maybe it's a good idea worth to try? But I often have good ideas that turns out to be bad so... I need advice from someone who's expert in IG

I hope I am explaining clearly enough

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I understand what you wish to do, but hotels would have to be pretty stupid to agree to your proposal though.

Revenue for influencers is determined by engagement, particularly actionable engagement. So if your followers are all fake you won't get any.

The best you will get is a some newbie marketing manager who does not know what they are doing and pays you a few $ for a test shoutout. They will see it doesn't work and so you will get 0 repeat business.

You won't be able to fake actionable engagement. Either your followers will book at their hotel or they will not. And on your plan it is going to be a will not.

So if I was you I would start your plan at the legitimate stage, you don't need too much money to do the mother child method legitimately, just time and dedication.

GringoMonkey said:

I understand what you wish to do, but hotels would have to be pretty stupid to agree to your proposal though.

Revenue for influencers is determined by engagement, particularly actionable engagement. So if your followers are all fake you won't get any.

The best you will get is a some newbie marketing manager who does not know what they are doing and pays you a few $ for a test shoutout. They will see it doesn't work and so you will get 0 repeat business.

You won't be able to fake actionable engagement. Either your followers will book at their hotel or they will not. And on your plan it is going to be a will not.

So if I was you I would start your plan at the legitimate stage, you don't need too much money to do the mother child method legitimately, just time and dedication.

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Thanks for this answer,

But how can they know if somemone from my page has booked a room or not? How can they track that?

So if I start legitimately, at how many followers can i start contacting hotels?

Also, do you think that my pricing is realistic and that hotels would accept to pay monthly subscription for this?

Thanks for your help

GringoMonkey said:

3. It is only worth monetizing when you have a decent amount of followers. If you are just starting out get the crappist, yes, including buying them, followers, just so it looks like your new account has some people interested in it. If you are following less than are following you, then you look like a bit of an authority. Fake it till you can make it

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Ps you also said this in your method and Im not sure why Its not possible in my case