Instagram has become a huge platform for marketing now days and a lot of people are using it as a good source of income not just part time but as a full time job as well . It's possible for anyone to make a living out of Instagram who has a good fan base of at least 10,000 followers , even if you don't have that huge number of followers but your target audience is pretty engaged with the page there are chances that you can still get sponsors to pay you for posting about them .
How do you get sponsors ?
Well it's easy if your page is related to luxury , fashion , technology , fitness etc . In this case people running businesses or companies related to such topics will contact you and ask you to post about their product in your regular posts and promote them .
But the question is , is it as simple as it looks ?
Not at all ! It's not a simple process , for anyone to contact you your page should definitely be worth something , in order to check that you need to first change your profile to Instagram business profile so that you'll have access to something called insight .
Insight allows you to check the amount of organic reach your post is getting and the number of people that are actually seeing your posts and liking , commenting etc on it .
To convert to a Business Profile:
1.Go to your profile and tap .
2.Tap Switch to Business Profile.
3.On the Connect Your Facebook Page screen, you'll see all of the Facebook Pages you're currently an admin on.
4.On the Set Up Your Business Profile page, review your business's contact information, make any changes and tap Done.
NOTE : Having a Facebook page related to your niche is a must to setup Instagram for Business .
NOTE : Your description should have a relevant description of what your page is about and should also include your contact address .
Now that the setup part is done , engaging with the right audience is very important , for that you'll have to study relevant hashtags related to your niche and use them in every post so that people who check those tags often will get to see your post as well in the same category . This way you can gain more followers !
It is also important that you yourself engage with your target audience and like , comment etc on their posts . It's like building a relationship between consumer and provider .
After all this we come to the last point where you'll learn to build a huge number of followers :
1.Follow as many users as possible.
2.Update your account once a day to avoid losing followers.
3.Join a micro-community or two.
4.Follow like-for-like and follow-for-follow accounts.
5.Use the Tag for Likes app.
6.Follow and un-follow celebrities repeatedly.
With consistency , in no time you would be able to reach your target followers !
NOTE :
You can also use Fiverr as a platform to start earning out of your Instagram followers by setting up a gig for shout out etc and charge for posting about people or maybe their service etc .