How to Buy Cheap Instagram Shoutouts: Two Methods That Work Extremely Well Right Now

In this article I’ll share my favorite place to buy cheap Instagram shoutouts.

Instagram influencer marketing is extremely underpriced right now.

It’s an affordable alternative to Facebook ads which makes it great for beginners who don’t have a lot of money to invest. If you have less than $100-$1,000 to promote your site, I recommend starting with Instagram influencers. It’s the fastest way to make your first sale online.

I’ve used Instagram influencer marketing a lot in the past to sell drop shipping products.

Many followers, friends and students of my paid programs getting are great results with Instagram influencers at the moment. For example, Dale made a bit less than $30,000 in 20 days from influencer marketing. He sells free plus shipping products on his Shopify store.

What’s the Best Way to Buy Cheap Instagram Shoutouts that Work?

There are many different ways to buy cheap Instagram shoutouts. Most commonly, you simply DM Instagram accounts or contact them on the KIK messenger.

Keep it simple and ask if they sell shoutouts.

And remember:

It’s all a numbers game.

Don’t expect everyone to respond. The majority of pages you contact will either never get back to you or it will take them a while. That’s why you have to reach out to plenty of Instagram pages. Sending out one or two direct messages will get you nowhere. Start by messaging at least one hundred accounts. Reach out to pages that have at least 100,000 followers or more.

It’s usually not worth buying a shoutout from smaller pages.

In my opinion direct messaging is still the best way to buy cheap Instagram shoutouts. Just cold message a whole bunch of Instagram pages and once they respond do your “due diligence”.

I wrote an article a while ago called: How to Tell if an Instagram Account has Fake Followers

Read it before buying a paid promotion.

Direct messaging pages is not the only way you can buy cheap Instagram shoutouts. There are plenty of marketplaces where you can purchase sponsored posts. Some of them are overpriced. But on others you can find reasonably cheap promotions from legit Instagram pages.

Buying Sponsored Posts on Shoutcart

One of my favorite marketplaces for sponsored Instagram posts is Shoutcart.

I’ve used it a couple of times in the past.

The benefit of using a marketplace is that you can save a lot of time on the research side. Direct messaging Instagram pages is time consuming. Contacting too many pages in a short amount of time can also get your messages temporarily blocked. Instagram does this to prevent spam and messaging bots. You might also run out of new Instagram pages.

Or maybe you simply get bored of doing all the work “manually”.

That’s when marketplaces like Shoutcart come in really handy.

Once you’ve set up your account, you can browse thousands of Instagram accounts. You can sort accounts by follower size, shoutout price and Shoutcart Scores.

What’s the Shoutcart Score?

It’s a simple score that indicates the authenticity of an Instagram’s engagement and followers.

Usually, the higher the Shoutcart Score of a page is, the more reach and engagement you’ll get. But you shouldn’t rely solely on a mathematically generated score. I still recommend you do your due diligence and check which influencers are legit or not before buying anything.

I usually sort by follower size.

There are a whole bunch of smaller Instagram pages on Shoutcart. Since I’m aiming for pages with at least 100,000 followers (usually between 100,000 and 10,000,000) I don’t want to scroll forever before getting to the type of Instagram pages I’m looking for.

What else is important?

Longer shoutouts tend to do better than shorter ones. Whenever possible I try to book 24 hour shoutouts since those get me the best results. One or two hour shoutouts can be a great way to test a page before buying a longer promotion. I also recommend starting with smaller pages rather than getting overly excited and spending hundreds of dollars on a shoutout.

Book a few smaller promotions first to test your product and see if you get traffic and sales.

Once you’ve identified a winning product and a good niche, you can start “scaling” by buying shoutouts from bigger pages or searching for similar Instagram pages. One of my followers literally booked hundreds of influencer shoutouts at the same time for Black Friday.

You’ll probably experience a few losses when starting with influencer marketing.

Some of this can be prevented or minimized by doing your due diligence. Like with everything, you get better with practice. The more you work with influencers, the better you’ll get at determining which pages are profitable. Also, keep in mind that sometimes it just takes a single successful shoutout that results in tens of thousands of dollars profit.

It’s definitively worth exploring Instagram influencer marketing and getting onboard while prices are still low. I expect Instagram shoutouts to stay underpriced for another 1-3 years.

Now is the time to get started.