Millions of people across the globe lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This catastrophe has forced us to get in touch with our creative streak and find new ways to earn money from the confinements of our home. The reasons for diversifying the income stream may vary from person to person since not everyone lost their job. No matter where you are or what skills you have, you can use social media platforms to earn money from home.
Where to Begin?
Though earning money through social media is not a completely new concept, it is relatively a novice idea. Most people are unaware of its potential and many don’t even know where and how to begin. For some, it seems like a no-brainer, while others find it quite daunting to use social media platforms. No matter which category you belong to, the first step of this process begins with research.
You need to spend some time using your internet service, justs I used my Charter Internet, to ado some homework before diving headfirst into the world of social media platforms. Figure out what platform resonates with you and which ones you find easy to use. Once that is done, do some soul searching and see what you’d like to do.
Before you jump out of your seat with the idea of creating a blog or YouTube on book reviews or a similar idea, stop. While it is important to do something you like, you have to make sure that your audience will follow your content and engage with you to become profitable. Here are 5 ideas to earn money using social media in the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. Market Your Creative Skills
Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have literally billions of users around the globe. Even if you are not running your own YouTube channel, you must have come across people who create their own content and have millions of followers. Just like that, Instagram is a platform where people post their content and millions of people follow these social media influencers. Facebook also works pretty much the same way. Countless businesses officially do business through Facebook pages. Many tourism companies, Air B&Bs, restaurants, clothing, accessories, fashion and make-up brands among numerous others, run their business through these platforms.
You can generate revenue through these platforms as well. If you are into makeup, art, photography, cooking, baking, or have literally any other marketable skill, you can post videos, pictures, or sell your products online and earn money.
2. Start a New Business
If you have always thought of running your own business but got stuck in the rut of a job and couldn’t do it, take this pandemic as a chance and turn things around. Use this time to find your niche and build your own business brand. Whether it is makeup, fashion, health, baking, cooking, painting, photography, design, or any other skill, you can use one or multiple social media platforms to market your business niche. You must cater to a specific audience. If you are into makeup, then create content on that particular niche and make sure to create the right category and add the correct hashtags. This would allow your content to reach people who are into makeup.
3. Become a Teacher/Instructor
If you like to teach, you have already got your niche. In these trying times, schools had to be closed down all over the planet. Parents became increasingly concerned about their children’s education around the world. In this scenario, you can create a YouTube channel, a Facebook page, a blog, or a website with (one or more) educational subjects. Not only that, you can provide your services as an online teacher and get paid per hour to teach kids from home.
4. Become a Brand Ambassador
Many social media celebrities are earning money by simply becoming an ambassador for a brand. These people get paid to promote a company’s product. Countless brands from makeup, clothing, accessories, healthcare, dietary, fitness, telecommunication, and so many other industries use social media influencers as ambassadors to market their products and services.
5. Create Unique Content
Creating unique content is becoming an increasingly popular idea. Content creation is not limited to only writing blogs or making videos. I found out that I can pay my internet bill using Spectrum phone number from their unique social media marketing campaign. People who make a living by creating unique content often tend to have a huge number of followers. These people are called Social Media Influencers. This is a competitive field. If you are into baking and want to create a baking channel, you must do your research on the most popular baking channels on the social media platforms you want to target. Only then you will realize how you have to be different than others.
6. Sell Feet Pics On Social Media
Selling photos of your feet on Social Media could earn you $100 per day. We have an in-depth guide about selling feet pictures online at FeetFinder also. Instagram is one of the ways to sell pictures on different social media platforms. There’s also a claim that Instagram is a ‘rich kid‘ app, which means users of Instagram are richer than users of other social media sites.
Hi, I am Adam Smith, Admin Of TechSketcher, Creative blogger and Digital Marketer.