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☆ 4 ways an Instagram influencer grew from 4,000 to 140,000 followers in just 3 months
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In May, Jaden Versluis started posting regularly on Instagram to grow his reach and his business. On top of running his own accounts on TikTok and Instagram, Jaden Versluis works as a manager for other creators, primarily in the fitness industry. For two months he exclusively posted Reels, Instagram's short-form videos, after he heard that the platform would shift its focus to video content. One of them, signed in August, paid him $12,000 for a TikTok video and three Instagram Stories. For instance, the caption of an Instagram video showing affordable travel destinations asks, "What's another place that is cheap to travel to?"

☆ Instagram is making it easier for influencers to earn money from brand deals with new tools like creator portfolios and campaign listings
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Instagram's creator marketplace is also being updated to improve discoverability. In November, Instagram will begin to let some influencers build media kits within the app through a new feature called "creator portfolios." Creator portfolios are part of the Meta-owned platform's broader creator marketplace offerings, which are currently only available to select influencers within the US. Instagram is adding tools that will help make sponsorship opportunities more visible within its creator marketplace. InstagramThus far, Instagram's creator marketplace has been relatively quiet, according to several influencers who Insider spoke with last month.

☆ Instagram is expanding its creator marketplace to improve discoverability of brand deals and let influencers include media kits
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Instagram's creator marketplace is also being updated to improve discoverability. In November, Instagram will begin to let some influencers build media kits within the app through a new feature called "creator portfolios." Creator portfolios are part of the Meta-owned platform's broader creator marketplace offerings, which are currently only available to select influencers within the US. "A media kit is really important in that relationship between the brand and the creator, so the fact that they now have a creator marketplace, media kits are a natural fit." Instagram is doubling down on its creator marketplaceAlong with the media kit update, Instagram hopes to improve discoverability on its creator marketplace with "Projects" — Instagram's name for brand sponsorship campaigns.

☆ Burger King, Popeyes, and Jack in the Box cut ties with ghost kitchen Reef as the SoftBank-backed startup continues to face operational issues
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jack in the Box, Burger King, and Popeyes have ended their expansion plans with Reef. Burger King, Popeyes, Jack in the Box, and Del Taco have ended their partnerships with Reef Technology, a ghost-kitchen startup. Health inspectors in Austin, Texas, suspended four Reef food trailers after a recent inspection last month. In mid-September, Philadelphia inspectors cited a Reef kitchen trailer for having the wrong retail-operating license, food-safety inspection records show. Are you a Reef insider with insight to share?

☆ I'm a 62-year-old Instagram influencer who also owns a PR firm. I worried what my clients would think, but being on social media has actually helped my career.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Julie Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

When I got my contract, my agent told me, "You're going to need to post on Instagram." I found myself thinking, 'If I have to post on Instagram, let me write'Dian Griesel. Being on social media has also generated work for me as an advisor to companies looking to understand the 50-and-up demographic. If I'm on set, that's an eight- or 10-hour day. There's the side that you have to get the job done, yes, that's business.

☆ How much an Instagram influencer earns with 34,000 followers from 4 revenue streams
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In July, she launched her first DTC product: a deck of affirmation cards highlighting Black women. Frisbey, who has 34,000 Instagram followers and 30,000 YouTube subscribers, finds that her business is often at the whim of brands' budgets and changes in the market. Recently, those changes have affected the industry as some influencers see canceled brand deals and creator economy companies lay off staff. In July, Frisbey launched her first DTC product: a set of affirmation cards titled "Letters to Myself." "Letters to Myself," a deck of affirmation cards, launched in July as Frisbey's first DTC product.

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☆ How much money Instagram influencers make
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-28 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Influencers on Instagram earn money in a multitude of ways. And they don't need millions of followers to earn money on Instagram. Insider has spoken with dozens of Instagram influencers about how much money they charge brands for sponsored content and how else they make a living using the app. Here's a comprehensive breakdown of Insider's Instagram money log series:How much money Instagram influencers make from brand dealsMany influencers earn money on Instagram by working with brands on sponsored content. 35 Instagram influencers told us how much they charge for and have earned from sponsored content.

☆ How much an Instagram influencer with about 20,000 followers earns in a month
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-14 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When Mary Margaret Boudreaux started "taking social media seriously," she had 1,500 Instagram followers. Less than a year later, Boudreaux made over $8,000 in a month and now has about 20,000 followers. She now has about 20,000 followers on Instagram and about 27,000 on TikTok. Most deals — about 80% — are for Instagram, Boudreaux said, with a small percentage of collaborations occurring on TikTok. She shares tips on how to start monetizing content, land brand deals, and grow on TikTok and Instagram.

☆ Inside a secretive management firm for OnlyFans stars, where former staffers say they catfished fans to dupe them into paying to sext: ‘You're basically a professional scammer’
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-16 | by ( Amanda Perelli | Kat Tenbarge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Even for account managers like Emma, the money could be "life-changing," she said, adding that she sometimes earned more than $10,000 a month off just 2% commission. Many OnlyFans models (including Unruly clients) offer a free feed of photos. They can add a larger "tip" to be added to an influencer's VIP area to get unlimited chatting (often between $100 and $200 for Unruly models). For instance, it's free to subscribe to Rao's OnlyFans account, but she charges between $5 and $99 for fans to "unlock posts." At the time, Gathrite was dating Jessica Sunok, a model who started an OnlyFans account in May 2019, and who he began to manage.

☆ Luxury resort quarantines — Gen Z's 'old money' aesthetic — Infinity-pool shortage
▼ + stars: | 2021-10-08 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The wealthy have figured out a way to bypass the United States' travel ban: by quarantining at luxury resorts in the Caribbean and Mexico. The CWGen Z and millennials are bringing back an "old money" aesthetic — think country clubs, dinner parties, polo, and yachts. On Wednesdays she has "CEO days," where she focuses on the big picture — business planning and creating ideas. Courtesy of Neave GroupThere's a luxury pool shortage. We spoke to seven luxury pool designers, who described the unprecedented demand.

☆ How entrepreneurs use apps like Poshmark to turn side hustles selling clothes into full-time gigs earning 6 figures or more from home
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-09 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The average price brands pay Instagram influencers for sponsored posts surged to $1,642.77 in 2019, Business Insider previously reported. The global sneaker resale market alone could be worth $6 billion by 2025. Many start as college students and homemakers, and some are able to grow into a full-time business earning six figures or more in annual sales. Poshmark cofounder, Tracy Sun, told Business Insider that a lot of sellers scale as they procure more inventory. Business Insider spoke with two Poshmark sellers who turned their side hustles into successful full-time businesses.

☆ (longread) „Numa’ la sex (nu) vă gândiți.” Dreptul persoanelor cu dizabilități de a primi și oferi plăcere
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-03 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +37 min

Diagnoza mea e destul de specifică, sunt multe tipuri/subtipuri și e greu să vii cu anumite recomandări, cu un ghid, fiecare caz e individual. Nothing About Us Without UsDomeniul drepturilor sexuale și reproductive ale persoanelor cu dizabilități a fost mai puțin explorat în Moldova. „Personalul medical a refuzat în mod repetat să ofere consiliere pentru contraceptie și planificarea unei sarcini, motivând lipsa timpului, și a amânat discuția pentru altă dată. Mark O’Brien a fost un poet, jurnalist și activist care, în urma poliomielitei căpătate în copilărie, a rămas paralizat și a fost nevoit să-și petreacă o mare parte a vieții într-un ventilator cu presiune negativă, numit și plămân de fier (iron lung). La solicitarea de a scrie despre sexualitatea persoanelor cu dizabilități, a înțeles că nu o poate face neavând nicio idee despre propria sexualitate.

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☆ How the $36 billion vitamin industry tricked a generation of adults into believing sugary gummies were the ticket to good health
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-07 | by ( Rachel Premack | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

But some consumer advocates and doctors worry that those supplements don't have as many benefits as people think. "Our gummy vitamins have been on fire," CEO Matt Farrell told investors in a July earnings call. He said that Hero Nutritionals, founded in 1995, created the first gummy vitamin for the American market. A Perrigo representative said it no longer manufactured gummy vitamins, and it did not respond to further inquiries.) But the doctor had something to admit: He takes a gummy vitamin every day.

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☆ The definitive story of how a controversial Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-13 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

In 2017, he became the CEO of data company Helios & Matheson Analytics. At that price MoviePass would start losing money when a subscriber used the service more than once a month. MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Helios & Matheson CEO Ted Farnsworth after the company hit 1 million subscribers. The same day MoviePass reached 1 million subscribers, a milestone it hit faster than Netflix and Hulu. Related storiesTo draw a crowd, MoviePass blasted out an invitation to the Big Boi show to its then 2 million subscribers.

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It doesn't take a million followers to start earning thousands on Instagram, as Emily King and Corey Smith of @wheresmyofficenow have learned. Users with a few million followers, like the couple Jack Morriss and Lauren Bullen, make six-figure incomes and as much as $9,000 per post traveling the world and snapping eye-popping photos. The second most popular post was of King wearing a bikini, standing on the van's front bumper. In the next most popular, King is in a bikini, slicing lemons. "'They want to see Emily in a bikini, they want to see a sun flare, they want to see the van,' Smith said.

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