Instagram has become a powerful tool for affiliate marketers in 2024 and it would be a let-off if you don’t get a piece of the pie. While there are several other ways to make money on Instagram, especially in this current era, affiliate marketing has recently stood out loud and proud.
Utilizing the strategy in this article and automating the whole process could guarantee you a source of passive income if done properly. Although you can use any affiliate marketing platform/program you want, Clickbank is the most recommended.
Create An Instagram Page
The first step in the strategy is to create a brand new Instagram page or rebrand one that you already have. Then select a niche or a cluster of closely related niches that your page is going to be all about. Some of the best niches for Instagram are fitness, motivation, wealth, and nutrition.
After completing the process above, you should brand your Instagram page in a way that suits your chosen niche. This branding primarily involves the page’s name, display photos, preferred color scheme, and generally what your page is going to be about should be stated on your bio.
Start Posting Content
Now that you have finished creating and branding your Instagram page, a process that typically takes less than an hour, it’s time to start making and posting content that matches the niche that you have selected in the section above.
Before you start creating content, you should check out the five best-performing pages in your niche to find out what they are doing to go viral on the platform. Study their best-performing posts, and reels and pattern out their content strategy.
In this line of work, you don’t need to completely reinvent the wheel, you can copy what already works and implement a similar methodology.
When it comes to creating content for your Instagram page you can use free video-making software like Capcut to edit reels and no it’s not as complicated as the other advanced tools like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Also, you can use AI video makers like Opus Clip and Invideo to repurpose content from platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and other sources of long-form video content. Although these tools are paid, most of them offer a free plan that you can make use of.
For photos, you can use Canva (also free) to make simple graphics and carousels. I advise you to focus more on reals because they tend to get the most engagement rate and the tendency to go viral is much larger. Hence, you should be posting at least three to four reels daily.
Grow Your Page To 5,000 Followers
If you repeat the whole process above for about three weeks consistently, due to experience I estimate that you should have gotten at least 5,000 followers, or more than that if more of your articles go viral on the platform.
At 5,000+ followers, this is when the real business starts, because at this point it is safe to start actively looking for ways to monetize your page and grow even further. Contrary to what many other social media marketers say, you don’t need hundreds of thousands of followers to start monetizing.
As already mentioned in this article, we’ll be monetizing the Instagram page with affiliate marketing, using the Clickbank affiliate marketing network to source products and offers that best suit the niche that has been chosen.
Go To ClickBank and Pick A Product
After creating and successfully growing your page to 5,000 followers, go to the Clickbank affiliate network and sign up for an account if you don’t already have one. Navigate to the products page and select the category that best matches your niche.
Sort the products in that category and sort by gravity to see the products that are performing best, pick a product with a respectable commission rate (at least $10) and get your affiliate link.
Create A Landing Page For The Product Selected
Now you need to create a landing page for that offer as it would be unethical to promote the raw link and Instagram could also not permit it. To create a landing page you can use popular link-in-bio makers like Linktree, Beacons.ai, and Taplink if you want something simple.
However, a better way of doing this is by creating a sales funnel for the product you are promoting. To do this, simply head over to Systeme.io and create an account with them for free.
Systeme.io is an all-in-one marketing software and with a free account, you can create up to three different sales funnel. If you are new to marketing, you must be wondering what a sales funnel is and for simplicity, it’s simply a step-by-step pathway that online marketers use to sell a product with convenience while also having the option of collecting other important details from the client.
To create a sales funnel on Systeme.io, go to the funnels option on the menu bar and create a new one. Your funnel should contain just two steps:
- An Opt-in page: this is a page where you will collect the names and emails of your buyers in case you have another product to promote now or in the future you can reach out to the said customers via email and pitch it out to them.
- The Affiliate Product Page: this is the page that has your affiliate product and all the details the buyers need to know before they make a purchase.
Using Automation Software to Promote Clickbank Products on Instagram
There are several social media automation software out there that can be used on Instagram, but for this particular strategy we’ll be focusing on just two; Business Suite and Manychat.
Business Suite
This tool was created by Meta.Inc., which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. With the Meta Business Suite, you can automate most manual processes on your Instagram page like posting reels, photos, stories, and automatic replies to messages.
With Meta Business Suite you can spend just six hours scheduling posts, reels, and automating messages on your Instagram page for a whole week, or even an entire month, this saves you a lot of time and enables you to actively go about other ventures.
ManyChat
This is a tool that many creators on Instagram have been using to go viral lately and it works like magic. You can create comment-to-message automations with ease. This means that you can tell your viewers to comment on a certain keyword and if they do so, you can automatically message them with a premade template.
This tool has a whole lot of other features but for the sake of this article, we’ll be focusing on this particular one. For example, when you make a post or reel on Instagram, you should create value and ensure that your audience is very interested in what you have in store for them, and at the end of the reel or in the caption, you can tell them to comment a specific keyword if they want to learn more, and when they do so, the automation will be automatically triggered.
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Conclusion
Affiliate marketing could be a great way for you to build a steady source of income, especially if you have the right knowledge and skillset at your disposal. If you gained any value from this blog post, kindly check out my other articles below.
