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How to Make $100/Day Using Instagram Reels

0h 10m video Published Dec 23, 2020 Transcribed Jul 27, 2026 Charlie Chang Charlie Chang
Beginner 4 min read For: Aspiring social media influencers, content creators, and entrepreneurs looking to monetize Instagram Reels with no prior experience.
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"Delivers practical, actionable strategies for making money on Instagram Reels, though some points are basic."

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The video explains five creative ways to monetize Instagram Reels, from building a personal brand and securing sponsored posts to selling your own products and acting as an influencer manager. The creator emphasizes repurposing content from TikTok to Instagram Reels and leveraging affiliate marketing for passive income.

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What are Instagram Reels?

Instagram Reels is a TikTok clone for short-form videos up to 30 seconds, featuring dancing, pranks, education, stories, and trends.

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How to get started on Reels

Pick a specific niche to focus your content on. This makes monetization strategies more effective.

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Strategy 1: Use Reels to drive traffic to YouTube or website

Post content on TikTok, then repost on Instagram Reels with a call-to-action leading to your YouTube or website. Creator built to 200k subscribers and $300k/year profit on YouTube.

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Strategy 2: Sponsored posts on Reels

Brands pay creators for shoutouts or videos. If Reels get over 100k views, you can charge over $1k per post. Counter lowball offers by pitching double your actual rate.

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Strategy 3: Use Reels as part of a multi-platform brand

Being on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube (trifecta) allows you to command higher brand deals by bundling exposure across platforms.

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Strategy 4: Sell your own products or services

Reels provide free marketing for your own products, courses, or consulting. Integrate naturally into content and don't overwhelm your audience with constant pitching.

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Strategy 5: Become an influencer manager or social media agency

Reach out to influencers and take 10-20% of brand deals as their manager. Social media agencies should focus on getting clients consistent Reels posts.

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Bonus: Affiliate marketing on Reels

Promote affiliate links in short videos with catchy intros (e.g., 'how to get 4 free stocks'). Use a link-in-bio service like Linktree to host multiple links. Creator earns $10k/month from affiliate marketing across platforms.

Instagram Reels is a powerful, untapped platform for building a personal brand and generating multiple income streams. The key is to start with a niche, repurpose content, and diversify monetization methods.

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What is the first step to effectively use Instagram Reels for monetization?

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Pick a specific niche to focus your content.

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What strategy helped the creator build a YouTube channel to 200k subscribers?

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Posting content on TikTok and reposting on Instagram Reels with a call-to-action to YouTube.

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How much can you charge per sponsored post on Instagram Reels with over 100k views?

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Over $1,000 per post.

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What is the recommended pricing strategy when brands lowball you?

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Pitch a price that's twice as high as you'd actually accept.

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How can having multiple platforms (trifecta) help you earn more from brand deals?

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You can bundle exposure across platforms and command higher payments.

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What percentage do influencer managers typically take from brand deals?

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10–20%.

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What is affiliate marketing, according to the video?

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Promoting links to products or services and earning a small percentage of each sale.

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What tool does the creator recommend for placing multiple affiliate links in one bio link?

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Linktree.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Repurposing Content Strategy

Demonstrates a proven method to build a large YouTube following and generate substantial profit.

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Reels are the best way to grow on Instagram

Highlights the low competition and high watch time on Reels, making it a prime opportunity for organic growth.

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Pricing strategy for sponsored posts

Provides a practical negotiation tactic to counter low offers from brands.

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Selling your own products builds a business beyond social media

Emphasizes creating a sustainable business that outlasts platform popularity.

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Affiliate marketing with catchy intros

Shows a specific tactic to hook viewers and drive conversions on short-form video.

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[00:01] how to make a hundred dollars per day or more using instagram reels these are creative ways that you can use this new platform to increase your income i just want to say that anyone can do this you don't have to be extremely instagram

[00:14] all the way to the end because i think the last point i'm making is my favorite so first let's talk about what instagram reels is it's basically a tick tock clone and instagram was like let's hop on this trend that tick tock started and

[00:29] will create another platform where people can post short form videos up to instagram reels you'll see that there's a large variety of videos on the platform just scroll through your explore page click on the videos and

[00:42] just keep swiping you'll see videos about dancing pranks education stories trends basically the same type of content that is on tiktok now to get on instagram reels you need to start off with a niche this is extremely important

[00:54] because these tactics will work much better if you have a more focused area the ways that you can use instagram reels to effectively build an audience and make money the first way is to use instagram reels as part of the ultimate

[01:09] works is you're going to first make content on tick tock post it there take that content repost it on instagram reels and on both tik tok and instagram action at the end of your videos leading people over to your youtube or website

[01:24] this is extremely extremely powerful and this is pretty much how i built my youtube channel to where it is right now at almost 200 000 subscribers and with those 200 000 subscribers i'm able to bring in over 300 000 per year of profit

[01:38] now compare this to the amount of tick tock followers i have which is i think at 330 000. that platform probably only brings me about 10 000 per year so you'll see just how important it is to create a following on youtube because

[01:51] mention this earlier but you just have to be able to repurpose content i realized that i could just take those videos and repost them onto instagram reels and as a result my instagram has really grown in the last few months

[02:06] personal brand right you're building authority you're building an audience and especially for instagram this is a pretty hard platform to get new organic and real followers so implementing instagram reels is the best way right

[02:19] now to get new followers there's so many people watching instagram reels but not too many people putting out content and with this huge amount of watch time people are just exposed to so many different creators and if you're able to

[02:31] stand out on instagram then posting more on instagram reels it's the best return to lead you to be able to monetize your personal brand in the future the second way to make money using instagram reels is to do sponsored posts and just like

[02:45] on tick tock you can get brands to pay you for videos where you either talk do a little shout out at the end influencer marketing is growing at a rapid pace companies are realizing that reaching out to content creators and

[02:58] services is the best way to get new clients without spending too much money now if your videos on instagram reels get over 100 000 views which sounds hard but it's actually not too hard you should be able to charge easily over a

[03:12] thousand dollars or more per post keep in mind that companies they'll probably try and lowball you so what i always do is i try and pitch a price that's twice as high as i'd actually accept not every company is going to agree but the few

[03:24] really don't want to overdo this you don't want to saturate your instagram with all these sponsored posts because that's really going to decrease your audience loyalty do this minimally but do it smartly so that you can get paid

[03:37] as much as you can per post the third way to make money with ig reels is to use it as part of your multiple platforms as part as your whole personal brand if you're on instagram reels that means that you for sure are on instagram

[03:50] tock and hopefully you also have a youtube channel now when you do have this trifecta of all these different platforms this allows you to command more money when working with brands for example you can use all these channels

[04:02] to get brands to work with you so for example instead of getting let's say five hundred dollars to a thousand dollars for one post on tick tock you tick tock and i post it on instagram reels can you guys give me double that

[04:15] amount it seems like it's cheating the system but it's really not the audience on instagram reels and tiktok it's different and why not be able to reach twice as many people with the content that you've already made and when you

[04:27] really building your whole instagram account and that's really going to build your authority it's going to raise the value of all of your different platforms even if they are separate number four is to sell your own products on instagram

[04:41] reels so instead of promoting other people's products you're actually just when i say product i actually mean like your service a actual product a course consulting whatever it is you have to think of being on instagram reels as

[04:55] just a lot of free marketing for you and any future business that you built be smart about it don't really overwhelm your audience with pitching your product every single day and try and find more natural ways to integrate your service

[05:07] or product into your content one of the best things about instagram reels is a video so let's say you spend like 10 minutes filming and posting a video that video literally has the potential to get seen by millions of people especially if

[05:21] you're good at creating that viral type of content and if your videos get like 0.01 of them that's still going to equate to tons and tons of revenue so i highly encourage anyone who has a bigger

[05:34] one of your long-term goals should be to have your own product or service that way you're building a business off of your social media presence and we all forever careers normally don't last over five or ten years on any platform so

[05:50] social media fame fizzles out you want to build a business off of that platform later on you'll just have a thriving business that doesn't really require any social media presence so number five on

[06:04] my list is to reach out to influencers and help them put stuff out on instagram reels so in a sense you're basically acting like a manager right and you take 10 to 20 of any brand deals that you're able to get that influencer i truly do

[06:17] believe that instagram reels right now is a very untapped market people don't realize how powerful ig reels is to build a following and how effective it is this is basically what every social media agency should be doing right now

[06:30] for their clients they should be focusing a ton of their energy on making that their creators are posting consistently if you're not doing this this means you're missing out on so much publicity and money so if you yourself

[06:43] don't want to actually be the influencer you can reach out to influencers and actually act as their manager and if you do have a social media agency something that you should be considering doing is opening up a section that is focused

[06:55] service that a lot of people are going to be interested in over the next couple of years and really instagram reels right now is probably the cheapest type of marketing that you can ever do for either yourself or for your clients and

[07:09] lot of people are missing when it comes to instagram reels is the possibility marketing if you don't know what affiliate marketing is it's basically when you are promoting links to products and services that you like and when

[07:24] that product or service you're going to get a small percentage of it as instagram reels is you'll make these short videos about certain services definitely start out with a catchy intro because for instagram reels like i said

[07:38] before the first couple seconds is just the most important one example of something that's catchy would be like how to get four free stocks from weeble instantly people see this and they're like okay if i don't watch this video

[07:50] stocks that's going to hook them in it's going to get them to actually watch the whole thing and when that happens your video is way more likely to be put onto short form videos you want to have a call to action send people to your

[08:04] profile page and then in there have a link in your bio what i recommend for link tree this is a service that basically allows you to put one link in your profile but when people click on that link they actually go to a page

[08:17] with a bunch of different links this way you can promote multiple businesses and get multiple commissions from different brands there's so much money in of the best ways to make money because it's super passive i'm currently making

[08:30] over ten thousand dollars per month doing affiliate marketing on youtube instagram reels and tick tock i use this exact same strategy so if you're looking for another way to monetize instagram reels or any social media platform

[08:42] definitely consider doing affiliate marketing and i will leave a link below marketing it's basically a whole beginner's guide on how to get started guys instagram reels is so powerful if you've watched this video and you still

[08:57] to rewatch it and see all the different ways that you can use it to monetize your social media following i promise you that instagram reels is going to it properly and for a lot of you guys that are already on tick tock if you

[09:11] already made that has done well on tick tock definitely definitely re post that stuff on instagram reels by investing some time into this platform right now you are building equity in your personal brand and your personal brand is the

[09:25] anyways i hope you guys found this video helpful if you guys are interested in learning more about how to build a youtube channel i do have my six figure youtube academy that is going to teach you exactly how i built this channel

[09:38] from the ground up from making zero dollars less than one year ago to making over three hundred thousand dollars of profit per year i'll link that down found this video helpful make sure to hit that like button and subscribe to my

[09:51] this i make a ton of content about personal finance investing in your time and i'll see you in the next video peace

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