How To Make Money on Instagram in Uganda
If you’re addicted to social media or looking for possible ways to make money from social media here in Uganda, congratulations ! you’re just in the right place.
Influencer Marketing
Influencers are social media users with a huge following or sometimes a strong command over their following. A lot of brands and companies today prefer paying social media influencers to reachout to their customers.
In Uganda, the self-named social media bloggers promote goods and services of reputable brands amongst their followers increasing the ROI of these brands and at the same time making a fortune for themselves.
So what does it take to make money as a social media influencer?
- Grow your following on all major social media platforms i.e Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It’s also fine to focus on one social media platform for the start. You can grow a loyal facebook group following or create a page for your profile account and begin growing your following slowly.
- Select a niche. A niche is a specific topic that you write about almost regularly on your social media accounts. For example, Fashion, education, politics or technology. Brands are most likely to work with influencers who have narrowed down to a particular a niche.
- Create engaging content on your social media profile often. For example, posting at least thrice on your Facebook account and several times on your twitter account is competitive.
- A clear understanding of the social media platform tools and how to maximize them to reach more users.
How much do social media influencers make?
The amount influencers make on social media influencer marketing depends on the brand or company hiring them to market their products or services. Usually, it’s just a couple of dollars $30 – $100 ( approx. UGx.100,000 – 360,000) just for a mention in one of their social media posts or tweets.
Sometimes influencers are paid commissions on each sale they make for the brands or companies that have hired them.
Influencer marketing is trending mostly on Instagram as compared to any other platforms. Niches such as fashion, technology, and traveling are more profitable on Instagram. You just need to know how the whole influencer marketing system works to earn more.
How to become an influencer?
- Create a social media profile
- Choose a niche you’re passionate about.
- Create compelling posts or tweets, in case of Instagram nice pics for your target audience.
- Grow your following on all major social media platforms.
You don’t necessarily need to go after brands to let you influence for them, you just need to keep engaging your audience and creating compelling content. Advertisers will always look for you, how do I know this? Because they always do.
Selling products like games, smartphones, crafts, fashion.
If you’re someone who has products but can hardly find where to sell them, you can use social media to do so. Facebook has got a lot of Buy and Sell groups where you can post your product and reach thousands of buyers in a short while.
How to sell products on Facebook
- Join at least 10 Buy and Sell Facebook groups of your niche
- Post the products you want to sell occasionally in these groups.
- Ask interested buyers to contact you via private chat.
- Meet the buyers after a greeing on the price and sell your products.
Reselling products from Buying and Sell Facebook groups
If you don’t have any products to sell on Facebook or Instagram, you can also buy goods such as smartphones at cheaper prices from these groups and resell them again to potential buyers. Read Buyers guide to used phones in Uganda.
Note: With this type of method, you need to have some working capital and aware of the risks of losses involved. However, there are chances of high-profit-margin once done correctly.
How to buy and resell products from Facebook Buy and Sell Groups.
- Join at least 10 buy and sell facebook groups of your niche.
- Identify potential products to resell for example Laptops or smartphones
- Inbox sellers and negotiate prices.
- Meet sellers and buy the product.
- Repost the same product on OLX or other social media Buy and Sell groups at an increased price.
- Meet with buyers and resell the product to them.
If you can buy at least 1 smartphone at cost price of UGx.200,000 and resell it at UGx.250,000 per day, you can be assured of making at least 1million shillings monthly from social media.
Blogging
Blogging is one way of making money from the internet. The method works like influencer marketing though with a slightly different model. In this case, you’ll need to open up a website and start creating content in your niche of interest. Then you can monetize this content to make a living out of it.
To make money from the content you put online, you’ll require traffic and this is where social media can come to your rescue. You can share links of your content to Facebook profiles, pages and groups to have people come to read your content.
Social media managers
A lot of businesses have realized the power of social media marketing in their daily life and have decided to hire people with a strong understanding of social media to help them increase sales.
If you’re sure of your strong expertise in running Facebook Ads, creating compelling content and have a strong presence on social media then this opportunity is for you.
Corporate companies pay between UGx.1m – 3m for social media managers to keep their social media profiles active.
Requirements for a Good social media manager
- A good understanding of all major social media platforms, Media editing software, and graphics design.
- A good photography skill
- An understanding of technologies such as PPC, SEO, SEM
To land such juicy deals, you need to keep engaging with industry leaders through their monthly meetups or WhatsApp groups.
Create a shop store on Facebook page
Just like Jumia works, You can also create your own store on a Facebook page and make sales for your products. I have seen friends start and run boutiques from their Facebook page stores and are making huge sums.
Selling a service like a web designer
If you’re a skilled and talented individual, Facebook is one place to sell your skill to the public and best of all potential customers.
How to make money selling your service on social media.
- Create a facebook page and give it a name related to your skill set let’s say “Web designing champion”
- Post a few compelling posts about your expertise or any project you have previously done.
- Post a promotional article like something below.
4. Boost the article targeting potential customers.
5. Keep checking on the Ad as you provide a reply to any potential customers.
Running Facebook Ads may cost you just a few dollars (UGx.3700) per day, I would advise running an Ad for at least a week( $7) before you can analyze its performance.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money from social media.
What is Affiliate Marketing ?
Affiliate marketing is a marketing arrangement by which an online retailer pays commission to an external website or individual for traffic or sales generated from its referrals.
How to make money from affiliate marketing?
There are a lot of platforms that give commissions for every user that signs up to their service through your referral link. A couple of these platforms include:-
Jumia Affiliate Program
Register with Jumia Affiliate program and make a commission of 7%-8% for all customers you recommend to buy stuff from Jumia through your referral link.
How to make money with Jumia Affiliate Program
- Register with Jumia Affiliate Program
- Get a referral link
- Share referral link with friends on Facebook account, pages, and groups
For each sale, someone makes through the referral link you shared, Jumia will reward you with a commission of 7% of the cost of that commodity.
Money SMS App
Money SMS is a mobile application that pays you for receiving test text SMS from big companies like Google, Facebook, and others. The cost of every single test text SMS is 0.25 Euros, on top of that you can also earn a commission of 30% of the money users who registered through your referral link make.
Interested, read this guide to understand how MoneySMS App works here in Uganda.
After getting a referral link or code from the MoneySMS App, you can simply share it with friends and families on social media.
Payoneer MasterCard Referral Program.
Payoneer MasterCard pays $25 (Approx. UGx.100,000) for every person you sign up on their Payoneer Mastercard service and receives the card.
After signing up with Payoneer MasterCard, you will get a referral link which you can share with friends and families on social media.
Paid Surveys
You can share the paid survey apps referral links with friends and families on social media and earn regular commissions from there work.