Monetizing hints?

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tommynego95

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• Apr 19, 2019

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Hello all,
I' ve been in the Instagram Marketing world for 5 months or so, i do consider myself a beginner.
I' ve successfully grown 2 pages over 10k followers and a third one will hit 8k time to time.
I tried in every way possible to sell shoutout or paid ads via Fiverr, mails directed to shopify shops and so on. Yet no one bought a single post/story from me.
The pages are in the gun and food niche and they have 14 and 7 engagement respectively, that is not bad.
Also, i consider my prices pretty average ($5 for a story, $10 for a 24h post, $15 story+24h post).
I can' t find out why it does not work for me. Any hints?

Kind regards.

 

bartosimpsonio

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• Apr 19, 2019

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tommynego95 said:

The pages are in the gun and food niche

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I'm not sure that's a niche.

 

seoz87

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do some dummy shoutouts and stories to make it look like that companies are buying your service...

 

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Walt&Disney

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• Apr 19, 2019

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Test a post to check for engagement. Something that you think would sell with that niche. Then show it to others or maybe here.

 

Gadot

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tommynego95 said:

The pages are in the gun and food niche

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bartosimpsonio said:

I'm not sure that's a niche.

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Yes it is

 

Gwizzy

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• Apr 20, 2019

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bartosimpsonio said:

I'm not sure that's a niche.

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Lol I think he/she means that one page is in the food niche and the other page is in the gun niche.

 

Runitt

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• Apr 20, 2019

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Represent yourself as an established brand so people really take your page seriously. I also recommend looking into affilate offers. Plenty of ways for you to make money with IG. Line multiple things up and before you know it you'll have multiple streams coming in from one IG page.

 

Runitt

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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." - Sun Tzu

 

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tommynego95

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Thank you all for the answers.
Obviously i didn't mean the gun+food niche but 1 food page and 1 gun related page.
That @Gadot image tho was funny lol.
Anyway, I will look into affiliate offers. (@Runitt thank you, could you link some good sites where I can find the offers? )
@Walt&Disney your idea seems good, gonna give it a try!
If you don't mind I ask, how was your journey your first instagram related income?

 

KeySara

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if you have enough followers .. you can do shoutout.

 

bartosimpsonio

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Gwizzy said:

Lol I think he/she means that one page is in the food niche and the other page is in the gun niche.

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tommynego95

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KeySara said:

if you have enough followers .. you can do shoutout.

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Yeah, I know this. The problem is no one get in touch with me to buy it.

 

ilovetobun69

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tommynego95 said:

Yeah, I know this. The problem is no one get in touch with me to buy it.

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So? Message people and you will find people.

 

kindablack

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You should contact 100 businesses to get 2/3 clients Sales is not a cheap or easy skill.

 

Gwizzy

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bartosimpsonio said:

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Interesting. I had no idea this was a thing. This inspires me to think of more creative niches.

 

bartosimpsonio

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Gwizzy said:

Interesting. I had no idea this was a thing. This inspires me to think of more creative niches.

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Guns and Roses has historically been a profitable niche too.

 

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tommynego95

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ilovetobun69 said:

So? Message people and you will find people.

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The fact is I'm messaging a lot of people daily but no one answer me back. Do you DM via Instagram or just email?

 

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tommynego95

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kindablack said:

You should contact 100 businesses to get 2/3 clients Sales is not a cheap or easy skill.

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I think I hit 100 people milestone ahah

 

apfeltheif

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• Apr 21, 2019

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Maybe try contacting some local businesses, if you find that they are interested try to increase your pages' followings locally and see if it works out.