Q&A for How to Make Money on Instagram

On Instagram, you're usually considered a micro-influencer if you have over 10,000 followers. You're a macro-influencer if you have over a million. However, there are also different levels in between. Up until 100,000 followers, you usually receive some free products now and then and some modeling gig if you fall into that niche. However, true monetization really starts through partnerships that start appearing at 100K+ followers.

Instagram itself doesn’t pay you. You need to connect with businesses that want to advertise through your Instagram account, either with sponsored posts as an influencer or by using affiliate marketing services that partner you with businesses; this process is explained above in Part 3. You can also make money on Instagram selling your photos (see Part 4 above) or curating/running Instagram accounts for a business (usually this would be as part of a paid social media job, like a communications officer, but freelance opportunities to do this also exist). You can also use Instagram to sell a product (physical or digital) or your services––basically, it’s a way for you to advertise these things in a picture-rich and fun approach.

There tends to be a sweet spot of follower amounts that varies depending on what sort of things you’re influencing others to buy or use. While an amount of 1,000 or under might seem small, sometimes this is a sufficient amount because the engagement with this group is more important than the numbers, making it more likely that the followers will actually purchase the goods or services promoted than would be the case with someone who has over 1 million followers and is barely engaging with anyone. A company will look at your level of actual engagement with your followers, and whether you have 1,000, 10,000 or a million followers, what will matter is how much (and how well) you are interacting with and getting interaction back from your followers. But a ballpark figure that possibly can earn you a decent amount would be around 5,000 followers, again providing you have excellent engagement with those followers.

The amount an Instagram model makes varies as much as any modeling job; some models are in high demand and can make a million dollars for every sponsored post (such as Kylie Jenner) while other renowned models make an average of $15,000 a post. For micro-influencers, Instagram model posts tend to range anywhere from $50 to a few hundred dollars per post. How much you might be able to make depends very much on how well known you are, how many followers you have, which brands want to connect with you and your general appeal to the audience.

Instagram makes its money mainly through advertising. That means your presence is essential to Instagram’s survival, as with any advertising model, because the advertisers need to be assured there are sufficient viewers likely to want their products present. At the moment, that’s not something Instagram needs to be worried about though, as it has plenty of users! Instagram would also have various promotional and affiliate arrangements directly with companies and, as with any large company, it would have likely monetary investments for the longer term.

The money will be given to you by mail, but in order to do that you will need to go to the Instagram web page and fill out the information for you to get the money.

You need around 1,000 followers to start making money through Instagram.

You can make money through modeling sponsors and self promotion.

No, you cannot. Anyone must be able to view your content in order for you to get paid.

You have to find @successcourse (just search for it). At the top of their page, there should be a blue box that says '+follow' inside it. Click that box and you are officially following them.

No, you can also get Patreon where content creators can earn money. Mostly Youtubers use it, but Instagrammers make money using it, too.

Yes, just keep doing stuff like posting videos, images, cool stuff, cute pics of animals, and fun stuff that you do over the weekend.

You just need to take pretty (or trending topic) photos, then you can use an app to help sell them. You can also sell them directly on Instagram and include your PayPal or another website that can transfer money.