How to make a full-time income online as an influencer?

A lot of people are trying to become influencers and some people if they work hard get to the point that they build a large following but something interesting occurred along the way.

While there are a lot of influencers that are making a full-time income online the majority is mostly getting a few hundred dollars a month or free product and nothing more.

If you’re interested in becoming a full-time influencer I’d advise you to read this post because I’m going to give you a few tips that can help you with earning a full-time income online as an influencer.

Pick a profitable niche

Can you make money just by creating content revolving around your lifestyle?

Sure but because you don’t have an audience interested in specific things it’s going to be harder to attract companies willing to spend a lot of money.

They’d offer you free products, but getting them to pay money is going to be a lot harder.

I’d make a list of things you’re interested in beforehand and then look at what kind of companies sell products that are compatible with that.

This also makes it easier to make an estimate of how much you possibly could get paid for doing sponsored posts.

Grow your audience with collaborations

This is an obvious tip but I wanted to give some insight about how to do that. First off, you can’t grow a following without high-quality content but after that, I’d double down on doing collaborations.

Collaborations make it possible to leverage each other’s audience. You’ll notice on social media and especially on Instagram that influencers are posting other people’s content.

This is often an exchange done on both their accounts.

There are special groups on every platform dedicated to influencer team-ups. Join them and start doing as many collaborations as you can.

Stimulate engagement on your platform

Companies are ideally looking for influencers that have audiences that are invested in their content. The best way to see if that is happening is by looking at how much engagement an influencer has on his platform.

You’re going to have to stimulate this by making your content as interactive as possible. Create as many calls to action that are reasonable on your content as possible.

Apply for influencer networks

Stop waiting for companies to come to you. You need to go on the offense and pro-actively look for opportunities. One of the best ways to do that is by applying for influencer networks.

Influencer networks are websites that connect companies with influencers. You can sign-up on these websites and start looking for companies that’d be interested to pay for a sponsored post.

These influencers networks can be a huge help to getting started but what you need to look out for that there are a lot of fake influencer networks out there too.

This is why it’s important to know what kind of red flags you should be looking for just in case you run into a fake influencer network. Here’s a fake influencer network product review that gives some good pointer when it comes to spotting fake influencer networks.

Send cold emails to companies related to your niche

When I said go on the offense I really meant it.

Make a list of every company you can find that sells products that your niche would be interested in buying and email them about whether they’d be interested in a collaboration.

You’d be surprised how many companies will say yes when it comes to collaborations. In the end, it’s a win-win situation.

Final Words

Making money as an influencer isn’t that hard the moment you have an audience but the most essentials steps begin before you have an audience.

It’s important to know what kind of audience that shares your interests bring in the most amount of money. The moment you know that you can start building your following.

Rogier is a podcaster, digital marketer, and the founder of Real Digital Success an initiative that wants to show people what it really takes to create a business online.