How to Make Money From Your Instagram Profile

Course content (8 lessons)

Driving traffic through the link in your Instagram bio is one of the most effective ways to make sales from Instagram. In this lesson you’ll learn the step-by-step process to optimize it!

Even with Instagram a big investment in shopping features driving traffic through the link in your Instagram bio is still one of the most effective ways to make sales from Instagram. Of course you can’t just plug-in the link into your bio and then hope for the best. In order to make money from your Instagram profile you need to optimize your bio and add clear calls to action
to your posts. So here’s a few tips for you. First ad calls to action in your Instagram posts and in your stories. This is really key because this simple act of including a CTA in your caption or inviting your audience to click on the link in your bio it goes a really long way when it comes to driving sales and reminding people to visit your profile so
try to make your call to action as clear as possible. Some brands use language like shop our bio or click the link in our bio to shop. Whatever your approach. Make it clear to followers that they can find the products they’re interested in by visiting the link in your bio Second you’re going to want to add a call to action to your Instagram bio. I didn’t a call to action to your bio.
Takes about two minutes but it can be a real game changer when it comes to driving more traffic and sales with just a quick line of copy before your LinkedIn bio such as shop our feed or tap to shop any post you can instantly make your link in bio more actionable and exciting. Finally, make sure that the website that you’re linking to is optimized for mobile traffic.
For this, we recommend using the Lincoln bio tool that lets you turn your Instagram feed into a clickable mobile optimized landing page. This is a much better and easier strategy than updating the link in your bio Every time you want to direct your followers to a new page with a link in bio tool you can create a single page that links your Instagram post to specific product pages.
Blog posts and more and there are actually quite a few tools on the market that let you do this. So depending on the tool that you use you’ll be able to drive more visits measure clicks make sales and find out exactly how much revenue you are making through Instagram at the end of the course, we’re going to share more about the tools that labor has specifically created to help you drive and track your revenue from Instagram.
It’s important to remember each business’s sales strategy is going to look different depending on your product goals audience in a variety of other factors. So how do you choose the best strategy for your business. First, it’s important to set milestones and goals. I suggest getting started by grabbing a piece of paper and writing down what your strategy is going to look like.
This can help you determine what you want to achieve and how you plan to do it. Which shop features. Will you try it. How long will you test each feature. What types of posts are you going to create. What type of images will you use. How will you measure your success. Remember it’s not just about the feature.
It’s about the strategy behind the feature. Depending on your audience and your products you need to find the shopping feature that works best for you by trying out Instagram’s features testing new content and analyzing your efforts. You’ll start discovering trends that can help you make more informed decisions about your strategy.

As we wrap up this module, answer the following questions to help build your strategy.

Which shoppable features will you try?

How long will you test each feature?

What types of posts will you create? (video, image, carousel)

What types of images will you use? (lifestyle, UGC, flatlays, product shots)

How will you measure your success?

How to Make Money From Your Instagram Profile

Course content (8 lessons)

How to Make Money on Instagram

01 |Open Your Instagram for Business

02 |Convert Your Followers into Customers