Instagram proves itself to be a cost effective marketing medium for businesses of all sizes. A good thing about using Instagram for affiliate marketing is that you don't need to own a blog or website. It would be good if you did but not required. Instagram in a nutshell is pretty much sharing quality images with informative content with your Instagram followers and keeping meaningful discussion going.Instagram is also a great medium for people from all walks of life to stay connected and earn healthy revenue from marketing affiliate programs. It's not too late to get started and see what fruit you can yield from IG if haven't yet created an account.
Unwritten Rules for Success on Instagram
- Be yourself. If you plan on being a niche-based affiliate marketer on IG and organically market your affiliate links by way of personality and relationship marketing, have the same character online as you would in real life. Another words, don't change up just because you're online (it's easy to be anyone you want on the web). If you're a personality based affiliate marketer and your niche is health and fitness, you can market fitness and health related affiliate links by uploading relevant content to a healthy lifestyle. Be sure to cloak your affiliate links when including them in new photo uploads, because people tend to feel iffy, when they see an unattractive looking URL with a bunch of numbers in them. Including cloaked health and fitness related affiliate links in new Instagram photo uploads will definitely increase exposure to your IG followers.
- Use relevant hashtags in every photo upload. Not only use relevant hashtags in new IG photo uploads, but take time to write meaningful and relevant content. Don't copy and paste something from something you wrote possibly on Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. Even if it's 2 or 3 sentences, that alone will suffice when uploading new photos with your affiliate links to your IG account. You may not get a sale from your health and fitness related affiliate link in the moment, but hashtags are powerful mediums in getting long-term traffic and exposure to your IG profile and will definitely result in small and steady increases as time goes by in earned affiliate commissions.
- Promote your IG profile on social networks. Did you know you can use a free 3rd party tool to auto-promote new IG photo uploads to a few good social bookmarking services and social networks without lifting an extra finger? Perform a search in your favorite search engine to locate free third party services under terms like free social network content sharing, and you should yield pretty good results. Any natural increases in exposure to your Instagram profile with affiliate links on it increases the probability of making more money from affiliate programs even without owning a domain name, blog, or website.
Making good money in affiliate marketing and through using social networks is an effort based operation. It can work for anyone who believes they can succeed and does the transformation business work at full strength. No matter how long it takes to earn good money in affiliate marketing through use of Instagram and social media, never give up.
Food for thought about succeeding as a future [side hustle millionaire]: When used the right way, Instagram can serve as a stable portal of free traffic and sales for your online business, especially if you're striving to be a "side hustle millionaire." Using Instagram for business is not to be ignored.