I was growing up in an ex-Soviet country
which was a mess of a country because a 70-year old communist empire just fell
down and what was left on its ruins Was poverty, a deficit of food and clothes,
criminality on a huge rise and all that stuff. And there was a shit from children dreaming to
become an astronaut when they grow up to dreaming To become a member of Russian mafia. You can’t
blame the children. All they knew was that mafia Had a lot of money and power. They had everything
that children from normal families didn’t have. Well, I am only telling you this because I find
it funny how these days children apparently dream To become a Youtuber or Tiktocker or another sort
of influencer on social media. Why do you think is That? Again, same old story. Because children
somehow know where the money and power IS. And YOU too probably have
an idea that social media is THE place to make money in our day
and age, but if you came to this video It’s because you want to know HOW you can
actually earn a living with social media. Hi! I’m Anastasia of anastasiablogger.com and on
this channel I share my tips on online business, Pinterest marketing and blogging. I’m on a mission
of reaching a million of people and helping them Transition to online income streams as fast as
possible. If that sounds interesting to you, Subscribe and hit the bell button to
get notifications about my new videos. So here is how this video will go. First,
I will tell you how I personally make Money with social media, how much money I
earn and which platforms are my favorite. Then I will show you some additional ways to
earn a living on social media which I know work Really great for other people. And just so you
know, we’ll not talk about super influencers, You know about guys like Ronaldo who make millions
with their sponsored campaigns on social media. We are going to talk about folks like you and I, So all the money-making strategies I’ll show you
today I totally doable for any average person. The first way I started making money
from social media was through free Traffic that was coming to my website
from Pinterest. Posting on this platform Paid off for me very early in my blogging
journey. By the end of the first year blogging I managed to get my first month with Mediavine
and that earned me almost $1400 in that month. Keep in mind my blog was brand new to
the platform and my RPM which is how Much you get paid for a 1000 of visitors, was
still quite low. It tends to get the optimal Numbers for each publisher in the first
3 months since joining the platform. I looked back into my Google Analytics for the
same dates and oh my god, literally like 95% Of all traffic to my blog at that
time was coming from Pinterest. I even had on some days
huge viral spikes in traffic Like this here reaching about 13,000 users
in just one day, all from Pinterest.
Over the years, free Pinterest traffic
generated for me thousands upon thousands Of dollars from Mediavine ads, just on this blog. If you want to learn how I achieved
all these results with Pinterest, Check out my Pinterest SEO Traffic Secrets course, The link will be up here in the info icon,
and in the description below the video. Now let’s talk about this platform
where you are watching me. Youtube! Alright so here you go, in the last 365
days I made $12,5k only with Adsense – Which is simply ads you see in my videos.
This is kind of a passive income stream for me Because I would anyway make my videos on Youtube, It’s just a nice bonus that I can get this
extra income from ads in my videos. The indirect ways of making money from Youtube
are much more valuable to me. I have built A solid brand name thanks to this Youtube
channel through educating my audience about Online business, blogging and Pinterest
marketing. I share a lot of free information And I know for sure it inspired many
of you to start your own website! Here are just a few comments you guys
left me under my videos, thank you so Much for this kind feedback! If you want to get
features in one of my future videos and have Something positive to say, go ahead
and comment below this video right now! I wish it was easy to show how
Youtube affects my income overall, But Google Analytics reporting of the
product sales are never 100% accurate. That’s Because people usually don’t buy online courses
from the landing page. They first want to Learn from your free content, they want to
understand if they can trust your information. So when I show you that in the last 365 days, in
my Google Analytics almost 18k were attributed Directly to course sales coming from my Youtube
channel, that’s still an understatement because A lot of people would go from my channel
first to watch my free Pinterest masterclass, And then would buy – certainly a portion
of this number over here with 34,000 USD is also thanks to Youtube
and other sources of traffic. I filtered in my analytics all the traffic
sources that brought users to my free Pinterest masterclass for the last year, and
I wasn’t surprised to see that Youtube was The top traffic source, followed by everything
else like Google SEO, Facebook, Pinterest And internal clicks on my website (it’s when
people find my blog posts first and then inside The website people sign up to my email list
through my forms and popups on the website). So definitely for me personally Pinterest and
Youtube are the top income generating social Media platforms. And as promised, I showed
you all the juicy details with analytics And real numbers that worked the best for me. If
you like this kind of transparency in my videos,
Give me a like right here as a
feedback. Did it turn blue already? Great, thank you so much! I appreciate all of your
support! It does really help my channel grow and Achieve the goal of reaching 1 million people to
help them transition to online income streams. Now let me just tell you like anybody else, I
am always a work in progress and learning from Watching others achieve great results with their
best monetization strategies on social media. And the next way of making money I’d like
to show you can be used all across different Platforms. It’s affiliate marketing. I actually
just published recently a very detailed video On how affiliate marketing works, I’ll link
it up there and, in the description, below. I will just say here that affiliate
marketing can work on any platform, Here, on Youtube you can leave affiliate
links in the description below your videos. On Instagram it’s a bit harder because
you can only give a link in a Story after Reaching at least 10k followers. But a great
alternative would be Pinterest where you can Add direct affiliate links to your pins. So,
people will click on the image you created And go directly to the affiliate product you
are promoting. I’ll drop also a link to my Other video that’s entirely focused
on affiliate marketing on Pinterest. But to tell you my honest opinion, I think that
the best way to use social media for affiliate Marketing by sending traffic to your website
first. On the blog or website, you need to talk About the product you are promoting, you need
to warm up the audience so that they don’t just Get to the product page and leave it. If they come
from your blog post that showed them all the pros And cons of the product, they are more likely to
actually convert, to purchase the product. And so Your chances to earn an affiliate commission
are higher if you use social media that way. This is just one nuance I can share from my
experience as a full-time blogger for 4 years now. But you can get a lot more of these
nitty-gritty details that can be Otherwise learnt only the hard way – by
joining my Blog Your Way to $10K Program. It’s all about solving the money problem that most
bloggers have. Not only beginner bloggers have No idea how to tackle the monetization of their
blogs. I’ve seen people trying to make at least Something with their blogs for several years,
unsuccessfully. This has to be fixed guys! No matter why and how you started your blog,
you should know if what you are doing is Moving you in the right direction to finally
making some decent income from your blog. Check out this program if you want to up your
blog monetization game – I’ll link it up here. One of the ways to make money through social media
is actually by getting qualified leads to your own Services. You know, if you are a freelancer or a
small business owner and you are looking for ways To get more clients, definitely you should use
social media because opportunities are endless. Just as an example, what you can do completely for
free is start a Facebook group and name it around
The thing or service that you want to promote.
People will find your group on Facebook group Search, you will manage a community of people who
talk about the stuff that you want to offer. And As the admin of this group, you’ll be the only one
allowed to post about your services or products In the group. Yes it does take time to grow
and manage FB groups but this is an entirely Free tool and you as the group admin can decide
to promote your stuff at any time in any form. Here is a real example of a group I’ve seen
grow really quickly in front of my eyes And making a ton of money to the group admin.
Let’s say you are an independent real estate agent Offering properties in Portugal to wealthy
foreigners. We are talking about selling houses That cost over half a million dollars, usually
way more than that. And the real estate agent Might be getting between 3 and 6% of commission
from each deal like that. What is the group about? Well, it’s a group about moving to Portugal Where people ask each other questions,
talk about the documents they need, About the prices here, about medical system,
schools, about everything they need to know Before moving to another country. Most of the
conversations actually are user-generated content. Just questions people ask and other members
of the group answer from their experience. The admin of this group doesn’t even need to
create much content for the group to keep going. All they really need to do is shut down some
spammers or occasionally inadequate users and Internet trolls. And of course, from
time to time they remind the community About their services and post the
new properties they have to offer. I can tell you more, the real estate agent working
through this model, is not a millennial, it looks Like he is baby boomer who just figured out how to
use social media to promote his services for free, And he never paid a cent for ads on
Facebook, and his business is thriving. Brand Collaborations The next way to make money on social media
is more obvious to most of you guys but I Still wanted to bring it up because even if
you know it’s possible, you often don’t know How it even works, how do you find
brands or should they first approach you, How much to charge for sponsorships and so on. You need to be realistic about brand
deals, they usually don’t come to you When you are brand new and your following is
very small. Even if they reach out to you, It’s usually some kind of barter deals where
they give you a free sample of product or A free trial month if it’s a service, and you
have to give them a review basically for free. Even when your social media following is growing
bigger, often times they will reach out to you Expecting to pay $20 per sponsored mention or
even for an entire video review on Youtube. You might even accept those deals
when you are just starting out.
These kind of brand partnerships will not make
you reach, so I would say, if you do accept them, Be very selective and make just enough of them To build a solid portfolio which will help you
negotiate much better conditions on the future Deals that will happen later, when your
social media accounts are getting bigger. Also, don’t come to your brand collaborations
from the place of being a poor content creator, Bring to the table that even if your following
is still small, you have other advantages. Your audience might be still small
but super focused on a specific topic And there is a fit for your advertiser, it
should increase your pricing for the brand deal. Remember when it comes to sponsorships,
it’s not only about the number of followers, It’s more about the quality of your audience,
it’s about the relationship of trust you’ve built With your people. Don’t let any potential sponsors Undervalue your audience quality and if you know
your audience is very engaged, they reply to your Posts in comments, they ask you questions, etc.,
do mention that when you negotiate your prices. So here you go, we’ve just talked about
these 5 ways of making money on social media: – Driving traffic to your
website and making money with ads – Selling your own digital
products on social media – Affiliate marketing using social
media like Youtube and Pinterest – Selling your offline services – I gave you an
example of a Facebook group but definitely you Can think of many other ways to attract
your ideal clients through social media – And we talked about sponsored
content and brand collaborations. This is all I wanted to share with
you today! If you found this helpful, Subscribe and hit the bell button. Also,
before you leave, check out my other videos On the channel that I hand-picked for you
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there. And I’ll see you in the next videos!