Social media as we know it, took a massive turn in 2006 when the two biggest platforms, Facebook and Twitter, started gaining tract. What began as an interactive site for people to meet virtually has now become a giant that is running billion-dollar businesses.
Facebook alone has a market cap and net worth of about $527b. This is solid proof that social media is a gold mine, and it has not even reached its peak yet. There are many social media sites through which people can make money without too much hassle.
The following are some of the ways you can make money off your social media pages.
Copywriting
Copywriting is creating informative text for advertising and marketing a product or service. The product or service in this instant is the copy, and the content detailing how it works the write-up. Copywriters have originally been involved in writing advertisements for traditional magazines, billboards and newspapers.
On social media, they are involved in online campaigns where they link e-commerce websites to potential clients. The median annual salary of a copywriter is $47,000. It varies for freelancers.
Social Media Management
Every major business brand is on at least one social media platform. Having an active online presence is vital in the current market environment. It is how businesses interact with their clients and get feedback on how to improve themselves. A social media manager is the person who handles all these interactions.
Their work involves communicating with customers directly on their pages and asking for feedback from them. They also design campaigns to attract new customers on top of ensuring the pages are continuously active.
Youtube Channels
In 2019, YouTube generated $15.1 billion in ad revenues. That is a lot of money that shows how advertising depends on social media platforms. YouTube creates opportunities for people to get a piece of the billions: all you need is to pick a lucrative niche.
Robotics is one topic you could choose to explore as it ganners a lot of interest these days. You could choose to review the latest robot technologies and get revenues from the views. Another option is linking up with certified industrial robotic arm makers like EVS and simply talk about their products on your channel, for a fee of course, but you will need to have a large audience first.
Sell Your Art
Before social media, you needed to have your art displayed in an art gallery for it to have any chance of being bought. Getting your art even to be considered for an art gallery was another matter, especially if you were an unknown artist. That is no longer the case anymore.
Art based sites like Tumbler, Instagram, and Pinterest have become the equivalents of public art galleries. You can post your digital art and ship it to anyone interested in buying.
Others like Teepubliuc allow people to sell custom-printed t-shirts. They handle the printing and shipping on behalf of the artist. All you have to do is create the art, upload, and wait for your payments once they sell.
Stock Photos
Stock Photos are big business in the current digital era. Online publications, e-commerce websites, and others need ready-made photos for their pages. Sometimes hiring a photographer to take the images takes too much time. That is where stock photos come into play.
Stock photos are photos that showcase different things that can be used as media in publications mostly. Stock photo sites like Flickr and Shutterstock pay photographers royalties in perpetuity every time their image is used for commercial purposes. You will, however, need huge sales to make substantial amounts.
Blogging
Blogs make a lot of money if they are correctly managed. Just like YouTube, having engaging written content attracts traffic; in turn, the traffic attracts advertisers. Advertisers are money. Blogs can be about anything; you will need to find a niche and turn it into a consistent platform.
You could write about motherhood if you are a mother, anything you have experience in. The trick is to be as interesting as possible so that you can get subscribers who come back for more. For this to properly work, you will need to have your domain, a negligible investment that pays eventually.
Online Writing and Editing
If running your blog is beyond your abilities, you can always turn to writing and editing articles for other blogs. There are millions of blogs online, and each has to generate content every day to maintain readership. Most of the blogs usually hire outside writers who come up with interesting articles for their blogs on a daily or weekly basis.
Some even pay in excess of $100 per post. It could turn out to be a regular gig that pays all your bills. Finding genuine blogs that do that is hard. However, once you land one, it usually opens up doors for more as you gain experience.
E-Commerce
It is not hard these days to set up an online shop for literally anything you can think off. You can choose to set up your own domain, which does not cost much, and open an e-commerce website. Create a delivery system and start selling and delivering items straight to your clients. You can link it to your social media pages for promotions and publicity.
Conclusion
The internet is full of opportunities for those who know where to look. In a fast-changing world where people get laid off their work by machines, social media is the remaining lifeline. It is the age of creativity; all you need is content since the platforms are free and unlimited.
As expected, there are scams that take advantage of people looking to make money online. Always be vigilant, vet people you get into business with to avoid being taken for a ride.
