Half come to me, half I go out and get. I'm not a part of one of those websites though. Military Niche. I advertisements things for apparel companies, outdoor companies, gun companies and knife companies.
Military Niche
Monetising Travel Instagram Account. Help needed!
- Thread starter dzanzil
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Half come to me, half I go out and get. I'm not a part of one of those websites though. Military Niche. I advertisements things for apparel companies, outdoor companies, gun companies and knife companies.
Military Niche
Samtondon
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- May 29, 2015
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You should go for powerlikes. After you have successfully grown your account, you can colaborate with big brands. Also you can sell shoutout on websites like shoutoutcart.
absolut182
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- Aug 28, 2015
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Ok, so I pretty much do what you want to do with this. I'm at 45k followers. Sorry if this post is a bit all over the place, I'm adding bits as they come to mind!
So in my experince, I only started monetising in the last year or so. 2 years ago I started being approached by brands. I've found most companies I work with approach me via Instagram or email. I didn't start gaining a lot of interest until around 20k followers. I was really lucky the first brand that approached me was very well known in my niche, which helped me like a snowball effect, one big one wanted me then others followed. I've also been approached by agencies and work with them on certain campaigns. While I keep an eye on some online "influencer platforms," I haven't found much on them yet.
What I've discovered, as a personal brand, I don't make money off my travel content, I get paid for either my personal image, or my following/engagement. Luckily my lifestyle is actually what I portray on IG, but it's a very expensive lifestyle. You need to have it as a passion and not as "money maker". Most of the brands I work with don't pay me yet, but they give me thousands of dollars of gear for me to use, which makes travelling much cheaper. I'm about to do 2 overseas trips in collaboration with 2 tour companies. One trip I'm also collaborating with a major airline. But I'm not being paid. But the experience and network opportunities will be worth it and I have a lot more to leverage when approaching big companies. And luckily these are trips I would probably do myself anyways, so I save a few grand not paying for them. The jobs that seem to pay for me are more lifestyle modelling and presenting, so my goal is to try and work towards more presenting and travel videos. I have noticed a lot of video content in my niche gets crazy engagement and better chances at going viral (eg, and account with 7k followers has videos with 110k views from going viral) Stories are a must if your travelling. People love the "behind the scenes" type stuff and you get a lot of comments and engagement. In my experience this pushes you to be more visable to more people. Plus you can make a bunch of mediocre content and still use it, instead of waiting to post the harder to make good content. Also be careful with paid posts. They have to seem really organic, or followers just don't dig them. Really intergrated it into your content rather then be like "this company gave me this, its cool." I only do sponsored posts if I can create the content and I feel it's a good fit. Luckily most brands and companies are all for this.
I started botting a few years ago and only doing likes. I got on the bandwagon before everyone in my niche did so I got a solid head start. I've started using powerlikes and they've work really well. I've seen my engagement triple in some cases. I had a bit of a shitty spell and would get maybe 2000 likes a photo naturally. Now I use powerlikes (between 400-600 per post) and some posts have been hitting the 5000-6000 mark. Definitely worth it.
Anyways, all I can think of at the moment. If you wanna chat more send me a PM, getting to the legit influencer stage is my goal this year!
So in my experince, I only started monetising in the last year or so. 2 years ago I started being approached by brands. I've found most companies I work with approach me via Instagram or email. I didn't start gaining a lot of interest until around 20k followers. I was really lucky the first brand that approached me was very well known in my niche, which helped me like a snowball effect, one big one wanted me then others followed. I've also been approached by agencies and work with them on certain campaigns. While I keep an eye on some online "influencer platforms," I haven't found much on them yet.
What I've discovered, as a personal brand, I don't make money off my travel content, I get paid for either my personal image, or my following/engagement. Luckily my lifestyle is actually what I portray on IG, but it's a very expensive lifestyle. You need to have it as a passion and not as "money maker". Most of the brands I work with don't pay me yet, but they give me thousands of dollars of gear for me to use, which makes travelling much cheaper. I'm about to do 2 overseas trips in collaboration with 2 tour companies. One trip I'm also collaborating with a major airline. But I'm not being paid. But the experience and network opportunities will be worth it and I have a lot more to leverage when approaching big companies. And luckily these are trips I would probably do myself anyways, so I save a few grand not paying for them. The jobs that seem to pay for me are more lifestyle modelling and presenting, so my goal is to try and work towards more presenting and travel videos. I have noticed a lot of video content in my niche gets crazy engagement and better chances at going viral (eg, and account with 7k followers has videos with 110k views from going viral) Stories are a must if your travelling. People love the "behind the scenes" type stuff and you get a lot of comments and engagement. In my experience this pushes you to be more visable to more people. Plus you can make a bunch of mediocre content and still use it, instead of waiting to post the harder to make good content. Also be careful with paid posts. They have to seem really organic, or followers just don't dig them. Really intergrated it into your content rather then be like "this company gave me this, its cool." I only do sponsored posts if I can create the content and I feel it's a good fit. Luckily most brands and companies are all for this.
I started botting a few years ago and only doing likes. I got on the bandwagon before everyone in my niche did so I got a solid head start. I've started using powerlikes and they've work really well. I've seen my engagement triple in some cases. I had a bit of a shitty spell and would get maybe 2000 likes a photo naturally. Now I use powerlikes (between 400-600 per post) and some posts have been hitting the 5000-6000 mark. Definitely worth it.
Anyways, all I can think of at the moment. If you wanna chat more send me a PM, getting to the legit influencer stage is my goal this year!