Selling out and making money on Instagram

samue1son said:'Sup gangsters?

I am friends with one and work colleague to another, of two people on Instagram with 80k+ followers. Both of which are making money from sponsors/adverts/products etc. Both of them are female however, one is a selfie queen with surgery and posts random s**t and quotations that make no sense. The other is a literal diet/fitness blogger who lost a s**t load of weight and lives a broadly normal life.

Now, I'm watching a couple of blokes I know (of) starting to make similar kind of money by effectively living it up to the whole "fitness" industry expectation. Going down the #never quit & #beastmode bo***cks posts, with pics of them lifting weights and just wearing a few sponsored t-shirts etc.

Anybody on here making dosh on IG? I mostly just post vids/pics that are legit training and I'm certain I can market myself down that cheap line.

Looking for legit thoughts, especially from experience, about potential of time vs return.

Ham said:Mate if you are certain you can make money from it then do it.

I see it as selling out a little when I do it but people who follow me and others I know with over 1m followers say that some stuff I find s**t and cheesy is actually helpful to them...

So no matter how crappy/obvious/cheesy something seems to you...there is someone out there will love it/be helped/motivated by it...

if you are confident of getting that many followers easily then damn, share with me please

Gordy said:There’s a guy I work with who’s trying to go down that route.

As far as I can see the way to do it is to post about stuff you do in your life that you don’t actually do.

If he sees a video of a more popular instagram fitness guru and picks up a tip/exercise from it. He’s post a video of him doing that thing and write about how he got this tip from @famousfitnessguy, worded in a way that doesn’t explicitly say they know each other but hints at the possibility they discussed it the night before at their favourite avocado bar.

Also make sure when you buy a gym related product, supplement etc, you don’t mention the fact you bought it but instead thank them for sending it to you and give it your seal of approval and a thumbs up emoji. That way people that don’t know you will think it was sent to you for free to get your opinion and therefore your opinion matters.

He continually mentions his followers and comments on when he made good a promise he made to them. Even if it’s something as mediocre as, “promised you guys I’d films some bench sets today…and I delivered, here’s my final warm up set with black bumper plates that no-one knows how heavy they are”.

To allude to non-existent success in other aspects of his life, he’ll put up motivational stuff about ‘the difference between a leader and a manager’. He makes sure everyone knows he’s above being a manager, instead he makes sure he always sets an example to the non-existent employees that report to him (the real reason he isn't a manager is that he doesn’t work in a management role).

Every now and then he’ll put up actual advice that is terrible. Like box squats on a really high box that he says forces him to squat deeper. Or how jumping over hurdles lower than his knees will make him more explosive.

Other advice would just be to mention avocado all the time and having visible abs seems to make you an authority on everything.

I’m not on instagram anymore so I’ve no idea how he’s getting on, he did look like his account was picking up steam though.

Gordy said:There’s a guy I work with who’s trying to go down that route.

As far as I can see the way to do it is to post about stuff you do in your life that you don’t actually do.

If he sees a video of a more popular instagram fitness guru and picks up a tip/exercise from it. He’s post a video of him doing that thing and write about how he got this tip from @famousfitnessguy, worded in a way that doesn’t explicitly say they know each other but hints at the possibility they discussed it the night before at their favourite avocado bar.

Also make sure when you buy a gym related product, supplement etc, you don’t mention the fact you bought it but instead thank them for sending it to you and give it your seal of approval and a thumbs up emoji. That way people that don’t know you will think it was sent to you for free to get your opinion and therefore your opinion matters.

He continually mentions his followers and comments on when he made good a promise he made to them. Even if it’s something as mediocre as, “promised you guys I’d films some bench sets today…and I delivered, here’s my final warm up set with black bumper plates that no-one knows how heavy they are”.

To allude to non-existent success in other aspects of his life, he’ll put up motivational stuff about ‘the difference between a leader and a manager’. He makes sure everyone knows he’s above being a manager, instead he makes sure he always sets an example to the non-existent employees that report to him (the real reason he isn't a manager is that he doesn’t work in a management role).

Every now and then he’ll put up actual advice that is terrible. Like box squats on a really high box that he says forces him to squat deeper. Or how jumping over hurdles lower than his knees will make him more explosive.

Other advice would just be to mention avocado all the time and having visible abs seems to make you an authority on everything.

I’m not on instagram anymore so I’ve no idea how he’s getting on, he did look like his account was picking up steam though.

Gordy said:There’s a guy I work with who’s trying to go down that route.

As far as I can see the way to do it is to post about stuff you do in your life that you don’t actually do.

If he sees a video of a more popular instagram fitness guru and picks up a tip/exercise from it. He’s post a video of him doing that thing and write about how he got this tip from @famousfitnessguy, worded in a way that doesn’t explicitly say they know each other but hints at the possibility they discussed it the night before at their favourite avocado bar.

Also make sure when you buy a gym related product, supplement etc, you don’t mention the fact you bought it but instead thank them for sending it to you and give it your seal of approval and a thumbs up emoji. That way people that don’t know you will think it was sent to you for free to get your opinion and therefore your opinion matters.

He continually mentions his followers and comments on when he made good a promise he made to them. Even if it’s something as mediocre as, “promised you guys I’d films some bench sets today…and I delivered, here’s my final warm up set with black bumper plates that no-one knows how heavy they are”.

To allude to non-existent success in other aspects of his life, he’ll put up motivational stuff about ‘the difference between a leader and a manager’. He makes sure everyone knows he’s above being a manager, instead he makes sure he always sets an example to the non-existent employees that report to him (the real reason he isn't a manager is that he doesn’t work in a management role).

Every now and then he’ll put up actual advice that is terrible. Like box squats on a really high box that he says forces him to squat deeper. Or how jumping over hurdles lower than his knees will make him more explosive.

Other advice would just be to mention avocado all the time and having visible abs seems to make you an authority on everything.

I’m not on instagram anymore so I’ve no idea how he’s getting on, he did look like his account was picking up steam though.

Wayne_Cowdrey said:What a bizarre world we now live in.