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Let’s talk about a sneaky way that you can make money on Instagram without going through the hassle of building your own Instagram pages. I have been talking about how you build an Instagram page that you can use for a variety of activities, such as dropshipping.
I understand that some of you do not have the time and energy to go through the process that I described in the other article, so here is a shortcut.
Flipping Instagram pages is the practice of buying an Instagram page and then reselling it for a profit. You have not heard of this because Instagram does not allow it. Most of the pages are sold via PayPal. I will give you guidelines of how you flip Instagram pages.
I am also going to talk about how you can use the Instagram page you purchase, to launch your own eCommerce store. After reading this article, you will take Instagram more seriously.
Why You Should Buy An Instagram Account
I explained the phenomenon when I introduced you to the concept of Instagram theme pages. The main idea behind growing Instagram pages is to change your life.
Instagram offers you one of the cheapest routes into six figure incomes. With a lot of work and about a $500 investment you can have an eCommerce store that replaces your day job overnight. A six figure income allows you to diversify into other areas of business and the rest will be history.
An Instagram page allows you to operate at a scale that is much bigger than you can normally operate at, on a certain budget. eCommerce is about finding a winning product that you can scale on advertising platforms like Facebook. Finding a winning product takes trial and error and Instagram provides the cheapest, most valuable, traffic source that you can use to test products.
An Instagram page with 20 000 followers will give you as much traffic as $20 000 worth of Google adverts. When you use Instagram theme pages the quality of the traffic is very high.
Basically, that is the main reason for a person to have an Instagram page. A cheap shot to the big time, that you can build for free or purchase for a low fee.
How To Buy Instagram Pages
There are websites and exchanges where people buy and sell Instagram pages. Examples of such websites include socialtradia.com and fameswap.com.
We don’t use social account trading sites to buy Instagram pages because people who try to sell their social profiles usually do so after realising that the profile is useless. Having a lot of followers does not count if the account does not get a lot of engagement. On the trading websites the chances of coming across such useless accounts is very high, so stay away from those.
The other reason that you want to avoid trading websites is that people who sell good accounts will have already put a markup on the account. The markup ensures that you do not make much from the account if you try to flip it. We need to cut the middleman and get to the source of these valuable Instagram accounts.
What you do is to buy Instagram pages from someone who is not thinking of selling their page. There is a very good chance of catching someone slipping and getting a great price for an Instagram account in this case.
A lot of people with big pages are on Instagram for fun. They build huge pages with no other plan in mind, like using them for eCommerce. After a while, a person might get bored and look to dispose of the page. Most people on Instagram do not know the true potential of the pages, so go in there and grab a bargain.
Identifying Instagram Theme Pages
I show how to identify a theme page in this article.
You look for a page which posts the same content every day. The easiest way to identify a theme page is in the caption section. Theme pages give credit to the original creators of the content, so the caption of the content is something like this:
-Caption
-A call to action to follow the theme page
-A tag to the page where the content has been copied from. The tag gives credit to the creator of the content to ensure a win-win scenario.
An example of the phenomenon above on a theme page is:
“A sunny day in the highlands of Scotland
Follow @scottishparadise
Follow @scottishparadise
Follow @scottishparadise
Picture by @johnnyhighlander
For a complete example, check out the article in the link above.
Below is a list of some of the niches that you can look into to get you started:
Power Tools
Tech Supplies
Lifestyle Niche
Beauty and Health
Drones And Accessories
A good way to see if a niche is worth it, is looking for advertisements on the big theme pages in the niche. People advertise constantly when they make a profit from the adverts. Scroll through all of the content on the page and if you see adverts, it is a good niche to consider.
Negotiating For And Buying Instagram Theme Pages
Knowing the stage at which to buy Instagram pages is critical. The sweet spot is when a page is between 20 000 and 60 000 followers.
When a person is creating an Instagram page they usually do not know that at this stage a page explodes. From 30 000 followers a page gets to 500 000 followers very quickly.
The main reason is that a lot of the posts go onto the explore page at this stage, bringing in a lot more followers to the page. All you have to do when you buy the page, is grow the page further. most of the hard work has been done for you at this stage.
In this article I explain how you can grow Instagram theme pages. Click on that link and get started on Instagram, today.
Like I said above, a profitable niche is one in which the big pages are running advertisements. You identify the smaller pages with between 20 000 and 60 000 followers and approach them in the inbox. Be straight with them and make sure the first sentence of your question shows exactly what you want.
A simple question like, ‘How much are you selling your page for?” is enough. If the owner of the page declines, ask them to contact you when they decide to sell.
Always be ready to negotiate downwards as sellers are willing to negotiate, especially when a person is tired of their page.
Only attempt to buy pages that have a lot of engagement on every post when compared to the total number of followers.
Handover & Takeover Of Instagram Pages
When you pay for an Instagram page, only use PayPal. There are a lot of scammers out there, so PayPal helps secure your transaction.
Make sure you use the PayPal Goods and Services option. PayPal Goods and Services ensures that you get a refund if the seller does not deliver the Instagram page as agreed. The downside for the seller of the page is that PayPal takes a commission from the transaction. PayPal business transactions also take a longer time to be processed when compared to Friends and Family transactions which process on the same day. As a result, sellers usually try to negotiate so that you use the Paypal Friends and Family as there are no charges on the seller’s side. The downside is, if you get scammed, there is no way to get your money back.
Another critical step is to ask the seller of the page to not log out of the account before letting you into the account.
When the seller gives you the account, they get a notification that a login has been attempted from another device. The seller only gets this notification if he or she is still logged in. As soon as the seller gets the notification, tell them so accept your login, and then they can logout.
As soon as you get the account, change the email address. This completes the transfer of ownership of the Instagram account. Changing the email address prevents the previous owner from accessing the account by sending account reset instructions to their email address.
Making Money From Flipping Instagram Pages
In line with the topic of this article, the main way to make money from the Instagram pages that you buy, is by selling them.
You can sell it immediately on the websites I mentioned above. The issue with that is, without adding more value to the account, you stand to make a small profit.
The best approach is to use the strategy I outlined in previous articles, to grow the page.
If you get a page with 50 000 followers and grow it to 200 000 followers, you can sell it for much more money than you bought it.
You can sell an Instagram page for up to 25 000 dollars. 25 000 for a page that you buy for 300 dollars is a great investment.
Another way to make money is to signup on a website called Shout Cart. On shoutcart.com you sell shout outs and get paid for advertising other people’s products. Shout Cart is a way to get your investment back and probably start it as a side hustle as well. I talked about shoutouts in one of the earlier articles in this series, check it out.
The better approach is to test products on the page with the aim of finding a winning product. In previous articles, I mention the fact that you can make six figures with a good eCommerce store, and it all starts with Instagram. The 300 or so dollars you spend buying the page is nothing compared to the amount of traffic that you get from an Instagram page with very high engagement. You will get your money back in terms of traffic, within days. Instagram pages with great engagement give you the power of an online budget that most do not have access to. The traffic alone, puts your eCommerce game on another level.
The Shopify part of the series is coming soon, so stay tuned.
Flipping Instagram Pages Is Like Real Estate
Just like in real estate, you purchase an Instagram page for a small amount. You bank on the fact that you can add value to the page and then sell it for more at a later stage. In that sense, flipping Instagram pages is like flipping houses.
Another idea is to turn the page into a commercial asset, using the traffic to sell products. The beauty of Instagram is that you sell products worldwide, and not just locally. Using an Instagram page to sell products is just like buying a home and turning it into a business.
The most important thing is you start all of this with next to nothing, especially when you compare the potential returns to the initial investment that you make. It is unbelievable, it’s like stealing from the world. A house will cost you at least 200 000 dollars for something decent. Instagram pages cost 300 or so, and yet the returns are the same as with homes.
Move with the times, be smart, and start flipping Instagram pages.
