HOW TO MAKE MONEY & GROW ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN 2025 (even with 0 followers) Instagram, YouTube, TikTok

you're watching this because you want to grow your business brand or presence on social media and you want to do it fast maybe you're tired of hearing tips like pick a niche be consistent provide value like while that advice is valid in this video I want to teach you some tips and tricks that I've learned along my journey that have helped me grow 10,000 followers on Instagram in one month 15,000 followers on Tik Tok in one month and hit my first 30,000 subscribers and $10,000 on YouTube in the first 5 months so if you want

to learn how to make money and grow on social media even if you're starting from zero or a low number of followers keep on watching what's up friends I'm Millie I'm an influencer coach and welcome back to my channel where you get weekly videos from me every Wednesday teaching you the latest strategies for how to grow your brand business and social media as an inspiring influencer and every Sunday where I take you behind the scenes of what it's like to run a business as a YouTuber and influencer myself as always time Stamps will be in

the description down below because I value your time and you already know why you're here so let's just jump right into it disclaimer the strategies I am teaching in this video are simply what have worked for me and what has worked for my students I know there are so many other strategies out there and other approaches and I'm not saying that my way is the only way these are just simply strategies I know work because I've seen them work multiple times for myself and others I feel like with this video we're dealing with the whole

what came first the chicken or the egg thing you want to grow but you also want to make money but which one do you focus on first I think for this video I want to focus on making money for the first half because I've noticed when you actually have an idea of how you want to make money from the very very beginning you're able to monetize and grow a lot quicker money here are the 11 most common income streams for you to choose from whether you're an influencer entrepreneur business owner affiliate marketing selling digital products

physical products online courses coaching offering a service membership platform monetization brand collaborations ugc or user generated content and nfts non-fungible tokens now I want you to think about where you want to be in the next 12 months and then within the next 5 years what does your social media platform look like how are you monetizing it pick one or two of these income streams and start setting them up today now if you're somebody who is starting from zero or a lower number of followers or maybe you have no idea which income stream would make the

most sense for you in your business these are the four income streams that I believe have the easiest barrier to entry affiliate marketing selling digital products offering a service and platform monetization all four of these streams you can start working on today with affiliate links you can put them in the Highlight section on your Instagram since everyone has access to the link sticker now that's a great way to keep it hosted on your page you can also create a link in BIO with affiliate links and Link all of your favorite products there put that link

on Instagram on Tik Tok and even any items that you mention in your YouTube video put those affiliate links in your YouTube descriptions I have an entire video that teaches you how to get started with affiliate marketing what platforms to sign up with and setting up all the basics so if that is where you want to start I recommend watching this video next you could also create digital products like an ebook templates filters mini courses video trainings a cheat sheet work sheet guides digital products can be as simple as you want them to be and

I make all of my digital products in canva I'll save them as a PDF and then I'll just sell them on my website if you don't have a website you can use the same strategies that I just mentioned previously there are some link and bio tools that allow you to upload your digital products to their platform and sell directly through them without needing a website a tool that I use is called Direct me or direct. me that's my personal favorite link and bile tool it's free and they allow you to sell directly through their platform

when you have that all set up you can put links to these digital YouTube description next option is offering a service you can have people schedule a free consultation call with you to see if they would be good fit I use calendly to have people book calls that match my availability and you could offer coaching Services social media engagement caption writing graphic design anything that you feel like you are pretty good at and you're pretty fluent at you could have people book a call with you or schedule for you to do that service for them

and then with platform monetization I know some of you are thinking don't you have to have a certain number of followers to get monetized yes yes you do so why did you say I could start this thing today well think about it every time you post you get one video closer to monetizing so even though you're not monetized right now by creating content you're inviting monetization to come to your door quicker so no maybe you can't earn money from this today like the other three options I mentioned but you can post a Tik Tok video

you can post to reals you can script your YouTube video today each of those actions will get you one step closer to platform monetization if you're still like um I have no idea how I want to make money then I recommend that your first step should be to create an email list that offers some sort of freebie actually that goes for anybody watching this video if you don't have an email list get that set up the easiest way to grow your email list is to offer a free gift or a free resource to your followers

and that's where you'll direct people to while you grow again I also have a full video that teaches this step by step setting it up picking your freebie so you could watch that when you feel called so why are we setting up our email list or income streams before we start growing let me tell you why I had a student who came to me when she had 2,300 followers she knew someday she wanted to be a coach but she didn't have the proper certifications quite yet to offer coaching so what we did was create a

freebie that was directed to the type of people that she wanted to coach and over the next 3 months she ended up gaining over 30,000 followers on Instagram and grew her email list to over 5,000 people those 5,000 people were all people who downloaded her freebie and how did she get them on on to her email list just by having her free be mentioned in her bio she didn't do any sort of salesy running ads thing just as she grew in her bio she said download this free resource it was a free macro cheat she

if I remember correctly cuz she wented to offer like Fitness coaching but she wasn't certified yet so it said download the free macro cheat sheet start at 2300 followers we created the freebie first and then when she grew to 30,000 followers passively without even trying her email list naturally grew to fit 5,000 people because that cheat sheet was exactly what her target audience needed then after getting her certification she was able to email all 5,000 of those people to let them know that she was going to start coaching opportunities and as soon as she opened

it up all of the spots were filled in less than a week and she ended up putting up her one month's notice at work she was working coaching fulltime because of her email list and Instagram growth in less than a year of us working together this is the power of having an email list first or the power of having some sort of income stream created first before you start growing is it a need to have no but if you want to start making money quicker start with the money maker first before we jump into growth

tips since we're on the topic of money I want to thank this video sponsor millio okay I wanted to take you behind the scenes so I can tell you about millio and why if you're someone who has started your own business this platform can help you cut costs save time and simplify paying your bills I know I know I know no one wants to think about or even talk about bills but let's be honest if you're growing a business you have a lot of bills that need to be paid and other transactions that are happening

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accounting the cool thing about Milo is that they were designed specifically for the needs of small businesses and their dashboard and user interface takes convenience to a whole new level if you're someone right now who's maybe overwhelmed with all of the bills that you have to pay as a small business or even setting up systems so that you can get paid from clients I definitely recommend checking out millio because they are the best when it comes to streamlining bill pay their platform is free to use completely user friendly and efficient which can help you reduce

cost save time allowing you to focus on your business rather than Logistics you can try millio out for yourself and see if it would be a great fit I have a link that you could use down in the description below and you can get started on setting up Milo today now let's talk about growth if you want to grow fast there are two content strategies that you can hone in on know what you want to be known for or who you want to reach if you can identify both great but I know some people might

only be able to identify or answer one of those questions now why is this important if you know what you want to be known for then simply start making videos like that now like if you're someone who wants to review Starbucks drinks or Donuts from your city do that be known for that you don't have to wait to start creating that sort of content if you don't know what you want to be known for there isn't really anything you want to be known for maybe you know what your followers will look like in the next

year or 5 years what do you want your follow follow to look like when I first started posting to Instagram I had no idea how to Niche down I didn't want to Niche down because I was multi-passionate and I couldn't pick just one thing so instead I asked myself who do I want to reach who do I want to follow me and why would they want to follow me at that time my answer was simple I wanted to reach women and I wanted to inspire them or help make their life easier somehow I wasn't a

mom so it wasn't in that aspect I just wanted to inspire other women and help them make their life easier all I knew was who I wanted to reach and that is more than enough information to create a solid content strategy we're going to go deeper into this in a second but first I need to answer this question which is what type of content and topics do you focus on to grow fast the first content type will depend on the platform you're trying to grow on then the topics will cater to this idea of search

friendly content so for Instagram we know that they're pushing reels so post reals to give you a little bit more help if you're scrolling through the reals Tab and you notice this little icon popup that means that this is an audio that is trending or about to be trending hop on the trend for potentially more reach if your goals to grow on YouTube and you enjoy creating long form video content really hone in on making sure those are search optimized if you're already making short form videos and you want to grow on YouTube post YouTube

shorts I know of a lot of creators who have grown their YouTube account to over 500,000 subscribers in less than a year from using shorts alone then for Tik Tok Tik Tok makes it so easy to find trending hashtags and audios because they literally list it on the Discover page for you so you can hop on trends like that which is a great short-term strategy to Kickstart your growth and then for finding specific topics on Tik Tok I like to go to the search bar type in my specific industry for Content ideas and when you

do this and scroll Tik Tok will also show you recommendations of what other people are searching for in that industry now speaking of finding topic ideas of like what to talk about to find what topics that make the most sense for you we're going to go back to the question questions I asked in the beginning of the section what do you want to be known for and who do you want to reach if you want to be known as a fitness coach look up your industry on search engines Pinterest Google Google Trends YouTube this is

where you can see what people are currently talking about in your industry and then you can make videos on that when it comes to who you want to reach ask yourself what are their behaviors what are they looking up on search engines what do they feel like they might need help with right now what do they enjoy watching some other tools tools that are really helpful are answerthepublic.com tube buddy and keywords everywhere I'll link all of these resources below as well but my top two favorites right now are tube buddy and keywords everywhere tube buddy

is such a great resource for YouTubers it is so costeffective I think if you have under 1,000 subscribers it's $4.50 a month and this helps tell you the keywords that are being searched for when you go on Youtube it'll it'll give you suggestions keywords everywhere the payment is a little bit different so I think you buy a bundle of searches and at once I bought the cheapest one and that cheapest bundle lasted me a year because I only turned the extension on whenever I was using it so basically I go to YouTube I type in

an idea that I have or a topic idea that I have and it's going to tell me how many people are searching for that thing every month if something has a high search volume per month I know that is something people are really looking into and I could create content around that topic and it doesn't have to just be on YouTube you could use that as a starting point to tell you what people are searching for for and then create content on Tik Tok answering those questions on Instagram answering those questions even YouTube answer the

public to Buddy and keywords everywhere help with content research for any platform you're trying to grow on believe it or not this simple way of coming up with content ideas is part of something called your SEO strategy yep that scary phrase where after someone says it you tune out everything they're about to say because all of it sounds too intimidating for you you don't do that just just me I'm the only one that does that can't be I feel like everyone over complicates SEO or maybe when they're teaching it it sounds over complicated or even

if you're unfamiliar with SEO you just assume it's this big scary Tech thing when in reality it's not that bad YouTube Tik Tok and Instagram all use SEO logic to find content to put on the explore page and in your feeds and on your homepage and all the places it's not just for SEO on your website and blog post like every social media platform uses some sort of SEO strategy or algorithm so when you use search engines that are l literally saying hey these topics are trending people are searching for these answers you put yourself

at a huge advantage and then just just real quick I just want to kind of touch on this cuz it's not like a huge deal but again this is like a tips and tricks video so I will mention it and that is by using relevant hashtags I'm not saying obsess over hashtags please don't hashtags are not your entire strategy I have an entire video here that talks about the updated hashtag thing in hashtags for 2022 so you can watch that hashtags are not Make It or Break It All or Nothing but they are a great

tool to help categorize your profile and your account for these platforms when I was doing my Tik Tok challenge where I posted for 30 days I used hashtags not in a way to grow but because I wanted to tell Tik Tok hey my account is # influencer tips my account is Hash for influencers right influencer 101 business tips this is what this is how you can categorize my account so you can push my content to the right people so using hashtags as a way to categorize your content puts yourself at at a huge huge Advantage

because you're able to tell these platforms hey if I'm a business account and your algorithm knows what type of users like to digest business tips hello I'm here I'm a business account I give business tips use me to to to talk to those people use me and my content and push my content to the those people because you know the algorithm knows users behaviors better than we do so if we could categorize ourselves it's going to make it a lot easier for them to understand the type of content we're creating Okay so we've talked about

how you can get your business set up so that you could start making more money as you grow and we've talked about what type of content you can create to help you grow but what about content that helps you make money what yeah if you've made it this part of the video comment the phrase started from the bottom now where we're here because I just know that y'all are about to explode your Brands and when you come back to this video a year from now you're going to be like dang Mee you were right you

were right so all right content that makes you money it's a good idea to have a mix of content you want growth content which is what we just talked about this is content that is for the people you want to reach for your target audience you know this will help you grow because it's crafted specifically to attract their attention you have nurture content which we didn't talk about but this is content for the people who already follow you you don't have to convince them to follow you again they already support you so it's mostly interactive

engaging and answering their questions of course there's self-gratifying content which sounds a little naughty but maybe I should come up with another name for it I don't know self-gratifying content this is content that you are just having fun with you love it maybe it isn't always related to your industry but it just makes you happy keep it up and then there's money-making cont content this is the content that will direct people to one of your income streams a lot of people get nervous creating this type of content because they immediately think oh shoot I have

to sell I don't want to sell I hate selling I hate being sold to it doesn't got to be like that this content doesn't have to look like what you think selling looks like ask yourself which income stream do you want to direct people to think about it got it then ask yourself how can I give more value or information to my target audience about this topic here are some moneymaking examples that aren't the traditional selling huls or haul content if one of the income streams that you want to grow is affiliate marketing or affiliate

income make haul videos a good example of this is this Tik Tok user hauls with KB simply by doing Amazon hauls alone she's gained over a 100,000 followers on Tik Tok for this specific account she has other accounts but this one is her haul account and her income stream is through affiliate marketing everything that she talks about on her page she links as an affiliate link on her Amazon storefront which generates her monthly income none of these videos are saying help me make money I'm selling to you it's simply her having fun sharing her favorite

products with her followers in a specific Niche and people love it we love it I love it I follow her I love to see the best Amazon gym outfits you know I got I need some good gym attire so if her goal is to increase affiliate marketing sales a great way to do that is by providing value of the topic of her influence or of her affiliate marketing another example is through review videos we have this Tik Tok user here at Madison Ray hildr and Madison is a fitness coach a health coach she has over

100,000 followers and her income stream that she wants to increase could be getting more clients so how is she going to do that well she wants to First provide value to those clients and one way to do that she does Starbucks review videos she creates like macro-friendly low calorie delicious Starbucks drinks she puts them on her page for free and she's like hey here's a 50 calorie Starbucks drink that tastes like Reese's M that's yummy here's how you order it free value and because that is catered to her specific audience and it's just it's just

review videos she's not selling anything but people follow her for that content and then they start to like her and then they get to know her and her other content they're like wow not only does she give great macro-friendly tips but she also does fitness tips and over time those followers tend to trust her and over time they will book and become clients of hers genius review videos another example is howto content for example this video you're watching right now hi hello this is a howto video and yes I do have ways that I could

sell to you in this video I could say buy this digital product join my course do do doo you know my first thought instead of trying to sell to someone I want to First deliver value I think okay let's say I want people to sign up for my Instagram course eventually down the line right how can I create free value teaching about Instagram so that people will be like dang her tips are good she knows her stuff and then you binge my YouTube channel and you're like wow I really like her YouTube videos imagine what

paying for something would be like and how much more value that could be right so I'm not immediately going hey sign up for my course but by me teaching for free and giving generously the knowledge that I have it creates a sense of trust with my community and that's all it's about I'm not saying you can't mention your products you can absolutely create a reel that says this is how to do this if you want more help buy my pitch templates you know like you can absolutely do those call to actions these are just options

for those who maybe aren't comfortable with those direct sales called to actions y'all I could keep talking I could talk up a storm about this this topic but alas we do not have 5 hours so I would love to hear from you in the comment section if I were to do a part two for this video for this little series what would you want part two to be about is there any specific area that you want me to dive deeper into I'm curious let me know down below if you've made it this far and you're

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