Everyone wants to know how to make money on Instagram. We’re all on it all day anyways—usually spending money instead of earning it.

In the past few years, Instagram’s endless feed of gorgeous photos has evolved into something between a glossy magazine, your best friend’s taste, and a boutique shop.

With over a billion monthly users, 71% of whom are under 35, Instagram is the platform of aspiration, inspiration—and now, in-app checkout.

There are three major ways to make money on Instagram.

• Work as an influencer to post content sponsored by brands
• Be an affiliate marketer selling other people’s products
• Become an entrepreneur and sell your own products

Read on for our best advice on all three tracks.

Bonus: Download a free checklist that reveals the exact steps a lifestyle photographer used to grow from 0 to 600,000 followers on Instagram with no budget and no expensive gear.

How to make money on Instagram

Okay, ad revenue is the most obvious way to make money on YouTube. But it’s not the only way—or, to be honest, the best way.

(Spoiler: the best way to make money on YouTube is all the ways.)

YouTube is half the internet: that’s 1.9 billion users logging in every month. But at the same time, 500 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute.

So you already know this article is not going to be about how easy it is to buy a Swiss watch with the ad revenue from your YouTube views. (Though if you have millions of views, you could probably at least rent one. Wait, don’t.)

Read on, and we’ll lay out six ways to earn income from your YouTube channel. Namely:

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When one of indie kid lit author Cat Michaels’ books wins an award, she doesn’t just pose for a grip and grin at the awards banquet. Michaels, who has won four book awards in the past two years, makes sure her audience hears the good news, too.

For example, when her Sweet T and the Turtle Team was named the best environment category book for children by the Literary Classics Book Awards, Michaels documented her week at the organization’s conference and awards festivities through photos. The marketing-savvy writer turned the images into social media shares, a blog post, and even a video.

Winning is good, but it’s not enough

By Naomi Nakashima

Installing a well-planned and thought out chatbot can invite your audience to engage with your page in a whole new way. Naomi Nakashima goes into detail about the changes to Facebook marketing, including how building a chatbot into your Facebook strategy can help you connect with your audience.

Below is an excerpt from Naomi’s post.

Using Facebook to market your writing is not only relatively easy, but it’s inexpensive and (better yet) it’s effective.

PLUS, THERE ARE SOME BENEFITS TO MARKETING YOUR WRITING BUSINESS ON FACEBOOK THAT OTHER PLATFORMS CAN’T OFFER:

A writer in the modern era will likely have some relationship with photography, and may decide to get involved in photo creation and marketing as another aspect of creation and monetizing.

We started this discussion in my post, Can You Make (And Even Sell) Your Own Photos?

Followers of Joel’s modern-publishing ecosystem are generally authors and writers developing and selling their books and articles. But what about selling photos? How does that happen if you decide to create and sell your photos?

The short answer is: Your photos get found and licensed because of words correctly embedded in them.

However, what is the process? Moreover, where does the photo need to be on the Internet to get “discovered” by a willing buyer?

Several of you wrote me, “Tell us how this all works.”

Here is a practical example that illustrates the reality.