Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to monetize your Instagram channel. You don`t need to create any products or services. You only need to choose a niche and learn how to market it.
What`s better is that there are many companies offering affiliate programs. Some even have instant approvals so you can start promoting immediately and make money.
Let me give you a simple and quick breakdown of how to do it even if you have never done affiliate marketing.
Pick a Niche
This refers to a targeted specialty.
People will easily understand and follow you if you focus on a particular specialty. Covering multiple unrelated things makes people misunderstand and ignore you.
To stay focused and increase the chances of attracting and convincing people to purchase, choose a niche/specialty.
A niche can be your talent i.e. music, poetry, football, etc.
If you are in any profession, like painting or teaching, you can make that your niche.
If you can`t find a niche, find free courses on platforms like Hubspot. Pick courses like email marketing, freelance writing, or content marketing and learn.
That will enable you to pick products you are knowledgeable about, making it easy to produce content that easily attracts people and converts.
Here is more about how to pick a niche for your online business.
Pick Affiliate Products
After picking your niche, find relevant companies offering affiliate programs and apply to be an affiliate.
You can find these companies by typing your niche plus the word affiliate programs. For example, if your niche is email marketing, you can type, "email marketing affiliate programs," and search.
You will find many email marketing tools offering affiliate programs. Choose some tools and apply to be an affiliate.
However, ensure the tools have $50 or above commissions. That will enable you to reach your target even when you get one sale per day.
If you are accepted, you will get a link through which you can promote the products. When somebody clicks and buys through your link, you earn commissions.
Market Your Affiliate Links on Your Instagram Channel
Marketing is one of the most challenging parts of affiliate marketing. This is when many marketers give up. That`s because you have to market consistently for some time and build trust before people start buying.
To make this easy, optimize your Instagram channel for your niche.
Your profile should showcase your specialty. That makes it easy for people to relate to what you offer and increase trust.
That involves creating an attention-grabbing bio and putting an attractive profile picture.
In the case of email marketing niche, your bio can be,
Teaching you how to earn money through email marketing. This makes people curious about how their emails can help them make money and follow you.
Then upload your real photo. That enables people to resonate with and follow you.
Afterward, convert your Instagram profile into a business profile. This enables you to access more tools like analytics to help you know your content performance, audience active times, etc. so you can create the right content and post it when people are online. That increases your content reach and conversions.
Check how to set up a business Instagram account.
After creating an attractive profile, you will have to build a landing page. This is a place where you will collect your email list.
An email list makes it easy to contact your clients and promote your products. That`s because emails are confidential and audience reach is not dependent on algorithms.
When you have an email list, you can contact your clients at any time and have your content read.
You can use platforms like GetResponse, one of the best landing page builders, to build a landing page.
See how you can create a landing page with GetResponse here.
Create a landing page and set an automatic email that`s sent to people who click on the landing page and submit their emails.
Then include your affiliate links in the email convincing people to click and purchase the products.
But ensure the emails teach people how they can make money. That`s will help you build trust and increase the potential to make sales.
Check out this content and learn how to create perfect emails that drive conversions.
Create Helpful Content
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You will attract people to your affiliate links only if the content aligns with and solves your audience`s needs.
Therefore, create content that shows people the benefits they can get by purchasing your products. To do that, you should know your audience`s pain points.
You can know your audience`s pain points by researching your competitors. View the relevant Instagram profiles and examine the trending videos to know what they cover and take insights.
Then create your content around those topics and you will have the potential to rank and drive conversions.
However, don`t forget to put calls to action to your content, telling people to click on the link on the bio.
That`s because people may watch your content and not see your link. Encouraging them to click increases the chances of getting them to click and buy.
Also, ensure to create content consistently to build trust with your followers and easily persuade them to purchase.
The good thing is that you can create mass content and schedule it to have it posted in the future even when you are offline.
Here is how to schedule content on Instagram.
If your content is helpful, you will get engagements and followers. If somebody follows you, inbox them and offer to help them make money (tell them the services you offer).
You can send a message like,
Thank you for following me. Would you mind if I helped you make money through emails like I do?
That will help you build a conversation. If somebody accepts the offer, send them your landing page link.
If they subscribe send them emails showing them how to do the business and convince them to purchase your products. If they buy, you make commissions.
You can also put calls to action in your content, encouraging people to comment with certain words, like show me how.
Anybody who comments with that word shows they are willing to learn. Send them your landing page link so they can subscribe. Then send the emails teaching them the business and encourage them to purchase your products.
Check out this video and learn how to make money on Instagram through Instagram DMs.
Keep creating content and within one to three months, you will start seeing leads and commissions coming in.
Keep Making Money on Instagram
If you are a beginner, doing affiliate marketing on Instagram can feel undoable, especially when you haven`t started earning. But as your followers increase, the money also piles up, and business thrives.
The process is simple:
Pick a niche and learn how to market it. Then find affiliate products and use GetResponse to create a professional landing page.
Then link your landing page on the bio, create helpful content, and encourage people to click on the like.
Whenever somebody clicks on the link and submits their email address, send them promotional emails persuading them to purchase your products and you`ll make commissions daily.
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