5 Tips on Making Money on Instagram in 2020

Plans to Making Money On Instagram

5 Tips on Making Money on Instagram in 2020

Instagram continues to be a dominating social media network with over 1 billion active users of June 2018, and consumption grows midst a pandemic. Instagram belongs to Facebook and has played a central role in shaping pop culture and creating a new marketing term Influencers. With the social dilemma shining a light on the dark side of Instagram, social influencers need to understand their role as they play a key part in shaping their followers whether they want too or not.

  1. Launch a Video Streaming Service
  2. Teach What You Know
  3. Create Sponsored Content
  4. Sell your own Products
  5. Sell Affiliate Products

According to Shopify, IG accounts with 10,000 to 100,000 followers can make around $200 a post by acting as influencers for ideas or interests or by sharing photos and posts about sponsoring products. Accounts with 100,000 to one million followers can make $670 a post.

Monetising Video Content

Expand on your creativity by looking at ways to create valuable videos for people who are already hooked on your IG feed. Instead of posting content every day and flooding your IG page, you can create funnels for other platforms. Allowing you to expand your content but by boosting the quality above the norm as you will be more motivated on ensuring your fans are loved. Design your content you want to monetise by being able to passively earn for your hard work – the best part, you can use snippets of what you do to help promote your paid streams by also providing value for your free streams.

Teach What You Know

The fastest way to ensuring your financial freedom is to monetise your self. Organise your knowledge and skills into a digestible format, commonly e-books, audio, and video courses on Skillshare or Udemy. (We are also launching a platform like this, stay tuned!). Find a common question for your areas of expertise and create post series answering them, and then have a call to action to a platform where they’re able to purchase your skills.

Here are more examples:

  • Design: How To Create a Unique Logo With Calligraphy Tools
  • Parenting: How To Take Social Media Safe Pictures Of Your Kids
  • Wellness: How Music Boosts Our Productivity 
  • Dance: How To Choreograph An Instagram Reel 
  • Foreign Language: Common Phrases You Need To Know 

They don’t cost much to create and you can sell them in a wide range of prices, from $9.99 all the way up to $1,000

Create Sponsored Content

Everyone knows brands & businesses benefit from paying influencers, but did you know eight out of ten consumers make a direct purchase based on a recommendation by an influencer.

Generally, there are three types of posts, brands will ask you to do:

  • Tutorials
  • Giveaways
  • Unboxings

The key to making the most is having a high engagement rate as having an account with a huge following with a low engagement rate is not the key to passive income. 

Selling Products

Financial freedom in 2020 is revolving around income streams where you are able to monetise the hard work you already have put in. If you spent the last 5 years creating an Instagram account and have become an influencer – it may be time to start considering monetising your account.

Find businesses or brands willing to provide you with a unique URL link or code which you’re able to put into your posts and receive a percentage of every purchase made. Affiliate marketing should be the first step for anyone who has an Instagram account and needs an additional revenue stream.

If you purchase from a small-business frequently, consider reaching out to them if they’re able to provide you with an affiliate code. You can expect to earn a commission percentage ranging from 10% up to 50%.

Design Tips We Wished We Heard When We Started

Design Tips We Wished We Heard When We Started

By now, you should be well entwined with the ethos at Lavon, we like to keep things simple. The time you spend thinking on a business idea leaves more time for your customers to find someone taking action. I have four key areas of design I’ve come to love when it comes to website design, and they are: Navigational Architecture, Simplicity, Colors, and Responsiveness.

Simplicity

It is a trend recently for companies already with an established customer base, to increase the complexities when it comes to purchasing or learning about a product. Let’s take Samsung note 20 – a scroll-based website on key features of the product. There are many reasons why companies do this, one being an online experience, but I think it’s essential to consider the different user experiences in a premium product. I would like to see the heatmaps on this page to see whether not people reach the end or end up leaving the page sooner.

Navigational Architecture

Intuitive navigation is hard to master, but it is when you have your UX team on-board when designing the interface of your website. Prototyping, and receiving feedback on what your customers want during their journey. Ideally, a visitor should land on your site and not have to think extensively about where to click next. Moving from point A to point B should be as frictionless as possible. Designers have come to this by having menus which follow as you scroll, or a sitemap in the footer. Don’t offer too many navigation options per page. Again, simplicity! Include links within your page copy, and make it clear where those links go. Try wireframing your website based on a users journey to see where they end-up.

Don’t make users dig too deep. Try making a basic wireframe map of all your site pages arranged like a pyramid: Your homepage is at the top, and each linked page from the previous forms the next layer. In most cases, it’s best to keep your map no more than three levels deep. 

Colours

Basically, don’t use a lot. The Handbook of Computer-Human Interaction recommends using a maximum of five (plus or minus two) different colors in your design. Typefaces: The typefaces you choose should be highly legible, so nothing too artsy and very minimal script fonts, if any. For text color, again, keep it minimal and always make sure it contrasts with the background color. A common recommendation is to use a maximum of three different typefaces in a maximum of three different sizes. Graphics: Only use graphics if they help a user complete a task or perform a specific function (don’t just add graphics willy-nilly).

Consistency

In addition to keeping your navigation consistent, the overall look and feel of your site should be similar across all of your site’s pages. Backgrounds, color schemes, typefaces, and even the tone of your writing are all areas where consistency has a positive impact on usability and UX. That’s not to say every page should follow the same layout. Instead, create different layouts for specific types of pages (e.g., landing pages, informational pages, etc.). By using those layouts consistently, you’ll make it easier for visitors to understand what type of information they’re likely to find on a given page.

Responsiveness

We are all using them, don’t think your customers aren’t – they require a dynamic experience across multiple channels, don’t let your customers choose others who are better

Before Launching a Start Up Try These Tips

We know that for all those who have the thought of launching a startup, they must get pressed with some questions about launching and running a successful business.

So, for you that have the thoughts;

If you should work with a co-founder, if you seek funding, don’t get disturbed because it is normal to get pressed with lots of questions, yes, lots of questions.

Startup culture is all about the hustle. For some, it is about working 18-hour days and living on protein shakes, and for others, it isn’t.

Yes, it’s true many works with the latter (working 18-hour days) that is why we want to share an alternative path because there’s another way to build a business.

Bootstrapping is an excellent way to build a business, but the hustle is a lifestyle, not just a retro dance move. Here are a few points to consider just before launching:

  1. Find a Job to make ends meet

A great job can fuel your startup dream instead of drowning it.

The term “day job” has developed negative connotations, but for aspiring entrepreneurs, a steady gig can be invaluable.

As long as you’re working for a healthy and productive company, you can learn important lessons about business, teamwork, and communication.

2. Partnership

Many investors prefer to work with co-founders because they can bring different skills to the table. The partnership makes magic happen particularly when founders pair up with marketing and sales experts.

3. Passion

What do you find importnat?

There is no reason to deny that entrepreneurship is not an easy road. It can be tough with challenging days that test your commitment. Therefore, it is expected of you to know as an entrepreneur/startup that the potential for freedom and control can be intoxicating.

Helping the Australian Economy Recover through Digitally transforming Victorian Businesses

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Lavon Global is helping Victorian businesses recover faster by providing transformative digital initiatives. Providing businesses with new opportunities in a pandemic struck-world, the uncertainty of the economy weigh heavily on small businesses.

The Australian Treasurer mentions the roadmap of recovery for the Australian economy is dependent on the digital transformation plans of small businesses unlocking innovative solutions. It is time to step up and take a stance on creating an Australia united by the small businesses of the country.

Governments are struggling to stabilise economies, and populations are struggling to face reality: entrepreneurs and small businesses who need to stand up and make a difference. Lavon Global wants to help decrease income disparity, help connect businesses to Victorians, and Victorians to local small businesses.

We believe we must aspire on transparency, innovation, continuous development, but most importantly ensuring our words leads to actions.

UI/UX design. Two great tastes that taste great together.

Lavon UI UX Design

The New Focus on UX Design in Technology

 The phrase, “form over function” is a perfect description of a problem that was common in technology interfaces prior to the introduction of UX design. Technology developers were primarily concerned with how their device, app, and website interfaces looked. UI, or user interface designers had a field day cooking up slick, futuristic interface displays, with high-tech looking buttons and visually-arresting animations. It was all about eye candy, and it was Halloween and Easter every day of the year.

Unfortunately, this focus on form made function an afterthought. It simply wasn’t that important how the interface worked as long as it was flashy and exciting.

And this ushered in the dark ages of interface design, a period filled with cool-looking interfaces that were clunky and confusing, interfaces that often worked against the user instead of being helpful. Imagine an eye candy store where all the confections were thrown randomly onto shelves, without signs letting you know where to find what you were looking for. You’d have a store filled with visually-delicious items that no one wanted to shop at because they couldn’t locate anything.

Enter UX Design

In response to this candy-coated explosion of visual confusion, UX design became increasingly important. UX, or user experience design became necessary to reign in the excesses of UI designers fat on their steady diet of optical confections.

UX design isn’t at all concerned with how an interface looks. Most UX design is, in fact, done with wireframe buttons and simple interface elements devoid of discernible aesthetics. UX designers instead focus entirely on how an interface works. They’re concerned with how people experience the interface.

UI Designer: “Hey, you got your user experience in my user interface!” 

UX Designer: “You got your user interface on my user experience!” 

UI/UX Designers: “Delicious!” 

“UI/UX design. Two great tastes that taste great together.”

Is the interface intuitive? Is it clear to users what buttons do and where a click is likely to take them? Does the structure seem clear or does the interface element layout feel arbitrary? Does the interface help users feel they’re able to accomplish the tasks they came to the app or device to accomplish or is the interface getting in the way?

These are some of the questions UX designers try to answer. They work to impose useful structure on the visual designs of the UI designers. The two disciplines complement each other, which is why the whole field is now referred to as UI/UX design.

UI/UX Design is Born

By working together, UI designers are free to make stuff look cool, knowing that the UX designers will organize their visual designs in a way that creates a positive user experience. And the UX designers can spend their time building powerful user experiences that flow intuitively, knowing that the UI designers will flesh out these formless interface hierarchies with dynamic visuals that enhance the user’s experience, creating a beautiful interface that cleanly facilitates users doing whatever it is that they came to do.

To sum up, UI/UX design is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of app, web, and device interface creation.