He bought one page when it had 40K followers. That grew to 863K, and is now worth around $10,000.
Users are purchasing Instagram pages, growing their followings, and then reselling them at a higher price for profit. Buying and selling accounts violates Instagram’s terms of use. But some of these users, like 23-year-old Ramy Halloun, have made flipping Instagram FB, -1.29% pages their full-time career.
Soon after he sold his fashion page, he found several Reddit forums where other users were trying to sell their accounts. He realized he could make some money. “I started making more accounts and reselling other accounts until I made a formal business,” Halloun told MarketWatch. Theme pages, on the other hand, repost other users’ content. “With a theme page, it doesn’t really matter who the owner is since people are following the page for content relating to the theme of the account,” said Vlad Biaheza, an 18-year-old YouTuber and social-media marketer who has flipped a number of theme accounts.
But accounts with the same follower count are not necessarily worth the same. The value comes largely from the engagement posts receive, Werner Geyser, the founder of Influencer Marketing Hub, said. High engagement means a high percentage of an account’s followers like and comment on its photos. That gives an account value.
‘I bought [one account] when it had 40,000 followers. The page ended up growing to 863,000 followers within a year and is now worth around $10,000.’ So how much are accounts with real followings and high engagement worth? While the most Halloun has made from selling an individual account is $2,400, others are bringing in much more.
Once he had an account, Biaheza would change the username to “something memorable and catchy,” update the bio, and begin posting what he calls “viral content” related to the account’s theme. “Posting this type of content leads to your page receiving a lot of exposure, which translates into followers,” he told MarketWatch. After building a following, he resold most of the accounts at a higher price.
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