Earning Money On Social Media



Remember one thing, the primary purpose of Social Media is to build social connections but that does not mean that you cannot use it to earn money. In fact, the social media ads like Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads or LinkedIn Ads are meant for leads/sales generation only. So it makes sense to not spam your users with promotional offers.



Earning Money On Social Media By Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. Affiliate marketing, in a nutshell, is a way to make money by promoting products of other companies (like Amazon.com etc.) using your unique affiliate links, which you get after signing up with them.

Apart from Amazon (which doles out 4% to 10% of commission per sale), there are many other networks like ClickBank (for Digital Products), Rakuten, CJ Affiliate, Booking.com (for Travel) etc., which offer lucrative affiliate commissions.



Here is a detailed post on how you can learn Affiliate Marketing and start earning money on social media and other digital mediums.

How To Earn On Social Media Via Your Own Products





How To Earn Money From Social Media Using YouTube


Once you have at least 10,000 public views of your channel videos, you are deemed eligible to apply for YouTube Partner program. You can visit  youtube.com/account_monetization to check your channel’s total view count. Apart from this, your channel should adhere to YouTube’s Partner Program Policies to get approved.


Here is a detailed post about YouTube AdSense earnings.

Earning Money On Social Media By Starting A Coaching Business

If you have some skills which you feel you can teach someone online, then you can start a coaching business. You can conduct online sessions using video calls on Skype, Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger.

One way to do that is first of all to build your personal brand. For example, if you are an expert in business coaching, then you should start building your personal brand on channels like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. You should create a social media strategy and should have a content calendar handy, to create an engaging content and build community.


Earning Money On Social Media By Providing Freelance SMM Services

You can also provide freelance social media marketing services to your potential clients. You can provide services like social media auditing, Facebook page management, social media content creation, social media advertisements (PPC Ads on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), running social media contests etc.


If you can create and share quality content (which is actually helpful to your target audience) on a regular basis, you will soon start getting inquiries from potential clients to handle their social media marketing. And once you do a quality work, you will start getting word-of-mouth references too.

You can also ask your friends or others acquaintances in your professional circles for any social media relating projects in case they are looking for someone to handle the same.

Another way to search Freelance social media marketing jobs is via Freelance sites like Freelancer.com, Upwork.com, Guru.com, PeoplePerHour.com etc. Just create an account on any of these sites. Add your complete professional details and work samples and you are good to go.

You can also get such inquiries by being on top of different social media job groups on Facebook and LinkedIn as lots of clients look for freelancers on such groups.

NOTE: You can also opt for full-time social media marketing jobs in different companies. One advantage of a full-time job is relative job security and sustainable source of income as long as you perform well as per the requirement of your employer.

In case you are a fresher and looking for some courses to prepare yourself for social media marketing jobs then you can check the course offered by Digital Vidya.


I am sure this article will help you earn money social media way.

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