Learn How To Make More Money Using Social Media
Most people are aware that there can be a number of benefits to be derived from using social media. Marketing and advertising executives have made great usage of the social media to spread the message about their products and services, and to increase brand recognition for their companies.
Millions of other users have found the social media to be a very convenient and very effective way of communicating with friends and acquaintances all around the globe. For a really enterprising person however, there is one more way that you can use the social media to your advantage – you can actually make money through your social media accounts. Here are five of the best ways to go about doing that.
Become a social media manager
This may not enrich your bank account or put you into the next tax bracket, but if you find the right paying job, it can earn you some pretty serious money. If you’ve been on the social media for a while and have grown comfortable with getting large numbers of people to notice your posts on various social media platforms, then you are already qualified to become a social media manager. Granted, most of the larger companies will hire marketing or advertising personnel to fill this position, but there are tons of smaller businesses and startups which don’t have the budget for such personnel.
If you can find one or more companies like this, you might be able to pitch your job skills to them and convince them that you are capable of handling their social media marketing campaigns. With a little luck, you can rise up the ladder and become responsible for all of their social media strategy, and manage all posts going to the various platforms that your particular company wants to use.
Earn money from videos
Not everyone will have a knack for this income potential, but if you have the right skills and the right personality for it, you can you can end up making some pretty good money at it once you’ve established a YouTube channel. You can become a vlogger and post your own videos, and if any of them happen to become outrageously popular, the money will start rolling in. Even if none of your videos go viral, you can still earn some considerable cash by joining the YouTube Partner Program, which will allow Google to insert advertisements at the beginning of some of your videos.
If you are comfortable in the role of instructor, you can use your videos as tutorials, and have them sent out over Skype or even in emails. If you have a particular area of expertise or a specialty that you have a good store of knowledge about, you can offer your services on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook, and charge a fee for your services. You can also upload videos to YouTube, and then use the other social media platforms to promote them, and earn cash for them.
Make money from your photos
If you can build up a following and make a lot of users aware of your work, you can make a good bit of money from selling your photos. The best way to go about this is to become a solid Instagram user, and over a period of time post really good original photos on the various social media. You can promote your work in any number of ways, and in the beginning you may even want to offer your photos for free, so people can use them on their websites.
This will get you some initial exposure, and then you can join sites which pay, such as iStockphoto or Shutterstock. If anyone really likes the quality of your work and appreciates the photos that you’ve posted, they’ll have to pay for your pictures before they include them in their own posts.
Set up your Instagram account for money-making
You probably aren’t aware of this, but you can use your Instagram account to sell products and make money. Instagram offers some unique features which make it a terrific forum for featuring your work and your products. Your followers will be able to purchase things they see in your feed after making just a few clicks.
To set up your Instagram account for this kind of commerce, you’ll have to add a third party app such as ‘Shop Instagram’ or ‘As Seen on Instagram’. Both of these will work very well because you only have to add them onto your homepage before you are in business and ready to go. You can also link them to your website, or link them into Instagram on your biography page, so that traffic can be directed your way.
Sell your artwork and songs
Two of the best platforms for selling your artwork are Tumblr and Instagram, and when you get good responses on either one of these two, you can then broaden out your initiative and begin selling prints or other products through e-commerce stores like Big Cartel or Etsy. If you have musical talent, and you have a knack for creating jingles or good music, or possibly some very appealing beats, you can use platforms such as Soundcloud to get some serious attention for your work.
After you’ve experienced a little bit of success using Soundcloud, you can link it to all the social media platforms you normally use, to get rapid downloads. One of the great things about this approach is that you never know who might be downloading your productions, and you never know who might take an interest in your work. If you are a good writer, you can also do some freelance writing and promote it on your social media platforms, for instance by creating an e-book which would have value to a number of readers.
While these are some of the most obvious ways to quickly earn money using your social media accounts, there are a whole catalog of other ways, and if you have the entrepreneurial spirit, you should certainly be able to come up with a number of them on your own.
Heather Hart
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