Starting a Lucrative Social Media Business from Quarantine: How to Make Money with Instagram

If you are trying to take charge of your finances right now in quarantine, and/or if you are trying to create a business online, you may want or even need to take advantage of alternative means of revenue in order to get ahead financially during the pandemic and weakened economy. Therefore, social media platforms such as Tik Tok, YouTube and Instagram represent positive, viable streams of revenue that a young business can tap into to help get themselves off the ground. In fact, some businesses end up taking advantage of social media platforms in order to get their main streams of revenue. If you are trying to learn how to make money on Instagram as a teenager, then you can do so with the help of a couple quick, easy tutorials.

Being able to establish a brand or a particular angle on your given market is the key to standing out on platforms like Instagram or Tik Tok. Genres, such as #cooking, #makeup, #crossfit, or #speedracing may seem overly general. In fact, it can be hard to see how including your business in such a vast sea of content housed under a single popular hashtag can make your content stand out at all. However, even if your hashtag doesn’t get much traffic on the Discover page at first, including the hashtag has two major purposes: informing your consumer about the type of business you are, and creating a presence within the existing genre that you choose. Over time, if you include content under a single hashtag, it will make its way to the top. If you are learning the basics of how to make money with Instagram, genre curation is a great starting tool. 

Taking Charge as a Gen-Z Entrepreneur: How to Make Money on Instagram as a Teenager

Naturally, the ones who have the best sense of how to make money with Instagram are those who grew up on Instagram. If you are a gen-Z’er, you have the added advantage of Instagram fluency. In other words, you didn’t have to grow up and learn about Instagram like most millennials (the writer of this article included), you grew up using Instagram, and seeing the ways your peers navigate the platform. You may have the added bonus of intuition that comes with fluency and familiarity with the ‘Gram. One of the trends you may find is that businesses value ‘young influencers.’ Being a part of Gen-Z makes you instantly marketable in a way you might not be as an older person. You can take advantage of your age, even if you have no business background, by tapping into your age-based demographic market. If you can demonstrate a real connection with the rest of Gen-Z, making money on Instagram as a teenager can actually be pretty straightforward. 

If you are figuring out how to make money on Instagram as a teenager, you have the added bonus of having peers who are both knowledgeable about the platform as well as the main target audience for much of your content. The key at the end of the day, though, is also having product and market knowledge to back up your access to the Gen-Z mindset.