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How To Build A $100,000 Theme Page Business On Instagram

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0:00In the last 2 years, I've grown four

0:01faceless Instagram pages to over a

0:03million followers and turned down

0:04multiple six-figure offers to buy them.

0:06And I've done every bit of it faceless,

0:08never showed my face, never said my

0:09name, and never recorded a single piece

0:11of content myself. This probably sounds

0:13like a flex, but I'm telling you this

0:14because I want you to understand

0:15something before we start. This is a

0:17real skill and it's completely

0:18learnable. And it's one of the few

0:20things online where a normal person with

0:22no audience can build a genuine asset

0:24from [music] scratch. And in this video,

0:25I'm going to give you the entire system,

0:27seven steps all the way from picking

0:28your niche to eventually exiting your

0:30page for six figures or more. I won't

0:32gatekeep anything in this video, [music]

0:33so do what I say and you're already

0:35ahead of 95% of people who try this and

0:37quit after 2 months. Quick one for

0:38anyone new, a faceless Instagram page is

0:40an account on Instagram built [music]

0:41around a specific topic, a sport, hobby,

0:44industry, or mindset that you grow to

0:45hundreds of thousands or sometimes even

0:47millions of followers without ever

0:48showing yourself on camera because you

0:50are not the brand, the topic is. And

0:52these faceless accounts aren't just for

0:54clout. Some of them are actually turning

0:56into serious money. The most famous one,

0:57of course, is the collection of meme

0:59pages that sold to Warner Bros. for over

1:0185 million dollars. Now, of course,

1:02that's the absolute top and it's not

1:04going to be me or you, at [music] least

1:05for now, but a page that brings in a

1:07couple thousand dollars a month and that

1:08you can eventually sell for over six

1:10figures is very doable because I've

1:11literally done it more than once. The

1:13reason this works is simple because

1:14attention is the most valuable thing on

1:16the internet right now. And a faceless

1:18page is a machine for collecting

1:19attention around a specific group of

1:21people. And once you own that attention,

1:23you have different ways to monetize

1:25that. So, let me show you how to build

1:26it. Step number one is to pick your

1:28niche and everything starts with the

1:30theme. If you get this wrong, everything

1:31else is going to become a lot harder.

1:33Right now, there are two things that

1:34matter. The first one is, are you

1:35genuinely into it? Because you are going

1:37to be researching this topic and making

1:39content about it for months before it

1:40pays you anything real. If you pick a

1:42niche just for the sake of making money,

1:44you're not going to be consistent and

1:46you're never going to get to that point

1:47where it actually [music] starts to pay

1:48you serious money. And I've seen this

1:50happen countless of times where people

1:51pick the wrong niche and end up quitting

1:53super fast. So, pick a niche that you

1:55actually care about so it feels like a

1:56hobby and [music] not work. The second

1:58thing that matters is does the audience

2:00have money and actually spends it. This

2:02is the part that most people actually

2:03ignore, but if you have a lot of

2:04followers, but all people are completely

2:06broke and never spend money on anything,

2:07you still don't have a business. [music]

2:09You actually want an audience that

2:10already spends money on the topics that

2:12you post about. So, a niche that hits

2:14both passion and spending are [music]

2:15usually niches in the three core desires

2:17of people that are health, wealth, or

2:19relationships. So, I always recommend

2:20sticking around those [music] themes and

2:22just pick a sub niche that you're

2:23interested in. So, the sweet spot is a

2:25topic you genuinely love followed by

2:27people who are actively spending money.

2:28And it's just very important that you

2:29don't go [music] too broad and just pick

2:31a topic like business or motivation

2:33because it's too broad and there are

2:35already probably hundreds, if not

2:36thousands, of other pages that are

2:37posting without a direction that are

2:39going too broad as well. So, you're

2:41going to be competing with them if

2:42you're not too specific. So, especially

2:44when you're starting out, make sure that

2:46you create content for only a specific

2:48group of people that you don't try to

2:49reach everyone on the platform. For

2:51example, a page that I grew to a million

2:53is in the philosophy niche. And the

2:54group of people that I'm targeting is

2:55people that struggle with self-worth and

2:57overcoming their problems. So, you can

2:59see that this is a lot more specific

3:00than just posting mindset content. Or

3:02another page that I run is in the tech

3:03and AI space where I share the latest

3:05updates about AI and technology that

3:07people can implement in their daily

3:08lives. And you can see as well that this

3:09is way more specific [music] than just

3:11saying that I post news or business

3:13content. If you do this correctly, you

3:15will have a super loyal audience that

3:16will always engage with your content.

3:18Because if you don't do this and you

3:19post random content all the time, your

3:21followers are not always going to engage

3:23with it and that's going to slow down

3:24your growth. So, that number two is to

3:26set up the account. So, now we're

3:27actually going to build the profile and

3:29it consists of four main parts. The

3:31first one is your username and this

3:33literally represents your brand. So,

3:34keep it short. Avoid numbers, dots,

3:37underscores [music] wherever you can.

3:39Just keep it clean because those things

3:40make your brand look cheap and you don't

3:42want to have that when you want to sell

3:44[music] advertising or any sort of

3:45product. What I recommend to do is to

3:47either go to ChatGPT or go to Claude,

3:49give it keywords within your niche,

3:50[music] and just let it come up with

3:51ideas. Now, of course, AI doesn't know

3:54what names are taken or not, so just

3:55play around a little bit until you come

3:57across something that is available and

3:58you actually like. [music] Just make

3:59sure it's relevant to your niche and you

4:01actually think it's cool and you're good

4:03to go. Next up is the logo and you

4:04shouldn't overcomplicate this part. What

4:06I recommend to do is to look at what

4:08competitors do that are successful, take

4:10their logos, feed it into Gemini or

4:12Claude and let it come up with

4:13alternatives related to your [music]

4:14username and your brand colors. That way

4:16you can go with a logo that's proven to

4:18work already for other pages on

4:20Instagram and you literally don't have

4:21to spend any time on [music] designing

4:22it. Now, of course, don't exactly copy

4:24it. You still got to make changes to it,

4:26but just use a proven framework. And

4:27most importantly, just keep it clean and

4:29minimalistic. If you take a look at all

4:31the biggest companies in the world like

4:32McDonald's, Nike, Apple, they all have

4:35super simple logos. So, don't try to

4:36come up with something crazy because it

4:38won't work. It just needs to be

4:40recognizable. That's all. Next is the

4:42name field and this is something that

4:43literally almost everyone wastes. Your

4:45username is the [music] brand, but your

4:47name field is your SEO. If you've got a

4:48tech page, for example, your name field

4:50should be something like this: tech

4:52news, updates, [music] artificial

4:53intelligence, just keywords that are

4:55relevant to your niche. So, whenever

4:57someone searches for those keywords,

4:59your brand will actually show [music] up

5:01so and it's basically just free

5:02exposure. And finally, we've got your

5:04bio and your first line should always be

5:07the reason why someone should follow

5:08you. Basically, your unique value stated

5:10clearly. So, for a tech page again, it

5:12could be something like the latest tech

5:14news posted every [music] single day.

5:15That way people instantly know what your

5:17page is about and that's what you want.

5:19For the second line, I always go with my

5:20contact details so brands can reach out

5:22to me for partnerships or other stuff

5:23and save the very last line for a call

5:25to action later. But for now, just leave

5:27monetization alone because we're not

5:28there yet. And I want to double down on

5:30this. Be super clear on what the first

5:33line of your bio is and what your unique

5:35values are so you actually give people a

5:37reason to follow you instead of 500

5:39other pages in your niche. [music]

5:40Because if you can't give people a

5:42reason why they should follow you, you

5:44probably have a lot more work to do

5:45before you actually start posting

5:46content. Step number three is content

5:49and this is literally the whole game.

5:50This is the step that makes or breaks

5:52you. So, listen closely because good

5:54content literally makes everything else

5:5510 times easier. Great growth strategies

5:58on top of great content is a rocket

6:00ship, but great growth strategies on top

6:01of average content is like pushing a

6:03boulder uphill forever. But, and this is

6:05important, don't let that pressure

6:07freeze you and here's the reframe. When

6:09you're brand new, this is the safest

6:10time in your journey to be bad because

6:12you have no audience, no one's watching

6:14and you've got literally nothing to

6:16lose. And that is the best environment

6:17to test, fail, and figure [music] out

6:19what's working. The people who wait

6:21until their content is perfect to post

6:23never end up posting. So, start now,

6:25post consistently, and aim to make your

6:27content better [music] every single day.

6:28That compounding improvement is

6:30literally the entire game. Now, here's

6:32the trap that almost everyone falls into

6:34and I fell into as well back when I

6:35started out. They find a bigger page in

6:37their niche and straight up repost their

6:39content. And look, this can work, it

6:41worked for me before as well. You can

6:42grow a lot of followers fast, but you

6:43don't build an actual [music] brand or

6:45community. You're simply not unique. And

6:47whenever someone else starts to do that

6:48as well, you're literally gone.

6:50Leveraging other people's content is

6:52completely fine and I constantly do it,

6:54but you've got to give it your own spin.

6:56For example, add a fresh hook to it, add

6:57your own opinion to it, add context to

6:59it, put multiple pieces of content

7:00together into one into something that

7:02never existed before. The difference

7:03between a repost page [music] and a

7:05brand is that the brand actually

7:06transforms the content into something

7:08new instead of just directly reposting

7:10it. And that is exactly how the biggest

7:12pages on Instagram like Puberty or

7:14Wealth are running their content as

7:16well. And yes, that is slower, it takes

7:18more time, it takes more skill, but that

7:20is exactly why it works because no one

7:22else is doing that. The pages that build

7:24the strongest [music] brands are the

7:25ones that actually took the time to

7:27learn how to create genuinely good

7:28content. Yes, it will slow you down for

7:30a couple weeks, but it will pay you back

7:32for years. Step number four is getting

7:34to your first 10,000 followers and this

7:35is where most people quit. So, let me

7:37give you three levers that actually move

7:39it. Lever one is content. Yes, again, I

7:41know, but if your content is genuinely

7:43good, people will just follow you.

7:44Because the better your content is, the

7:45better the engagement will be, and that

7:47signals to the algorithm to push it to

7:49more people, which in the end results to

7:50more followers. And that is simply the

7:52fastest way to blow up right now. So,

7:53don't try any growth hacks, just make

7:55your content better. Lever number two is

7:57leave genuine comments. This is the

7:59single best free growth strategy that

8:00has ever existed, and it has worked in

8:02every single era of Instagram. Back when

8:04I started out, I literally abused it,

8:06and it helped me just get my first

8:07couple of thousand followers to build

8:09off later down the line. Here's how it

8:10works. You already consume content in

8:12your [music] niche, right? So, instead

8:13of just watching it, what you should do

8:15is leave a genuine comment. That can be

8:17your take on the quote, the news,

8:18whatever, right? Now, your name and

8:20comment are sitting in front of

8:21thousands of people who are interested

8:23in the exact same topics that you post

8:24about. And that is literally the most

8:26targeted audience you can [music] ask

8:27for. So, let's say you leave 50 comments

8:29a day on a post that on average gets

8:31over 500,000 views. That is 25 million

8:34views collectively. And your username

8:35and your comments will show up there.

8:37Now, obviously, only a fraction of the

8:39people are actually going to see your

8:40comments and decide to follow you. But,

8:42a fraction of 25 million can still be

8:43over 100 targeted followers every single

8:45[music] day. And the best part is is

8:47that you can do this for free. It just

8:48takes like half an hour to an hour a day

8:50to do this. This worked back in 2022

8:52when I started out, and it still works

8:53today. Because the human behavior behind

8:55it never changes. Just make it a daily

8:57habit, especially when you're starting

8:58out, because it's definitely worth it.

9:00Lever number three is collaborations,

9:01and I'm going to keep this one short.

9:03But, basically, what you need to do is

9:04find pages with a similar size, or

9:06preferably bigger, and just do

9:08collaborations with them so you can

9:09leverage their audience, and in return,

9:11they can of course leverage your

9:12audience as well. So, you both can grow

9:14faster. It's completely free to do, just

9:16make sure that the pages you do

9:17collaborations with are actually in the

9:18same niche, because otherwise,

9:20obviously, it won't [music] work. Now,

9:21sitting underneath all these three is

9:23the real magic, which is compounding. If

9:25you do everything right, the first month

9:26you may gain 1,000 followers. But, with

9:28the same exact effort, in month [music]

9:30three, you can gain over 50,000

9:31followers. The only thing that changed

9:33is your momentum. Because you got better

9:35at content, the algorithm understands

9:36your page better, or maybe you have a

9:38bigger audience to push it to because

9:39you've gained a couple thousand

9:40followers in the previous months. That

9:42is exactly why compounding is so [music]

9:43important. The best example is Alex

9:45Hormozi. Everybody knows him now, but in

9:47June 2021 he only gained 800 followers.

9:50Look at him now getting over 100,000

9:52followers every single month. Same guy,

9:53same face, and he probably was making

9:55the same style of content years ago. The

9:57difference is he let it compound and

9:58never stopped. Most people run for 2

10:00months and then quit right before they

10:02really start taking off. So please don't

10:04quit before the momentum starts [music]

10:05kicking in. Step number five is

10:06monetization. Most important thing I'll

10:08say for this section is do not start

10:10here. I see people trying to monetize

10:12from day one on, but that's literally

10:14killing their page. And it's not because

10:15the link in your bio will hurt your

10:17reach, but it's because they have the

10:18wrong focus. They try to make money

10:20while they should actually try to

10:21improve their content so they can

10:22[music] actually grow their following to

10:24monetize it later down the line. Grow

10:25first, build the audience and the

10:27system, and then monetize. And when you

10:28do, there are three main ways, and I

10:30would climb them in this exact order.

10:32Number one is sponsored posts. Someone

10:34pays you to promote their page, product,

10:35or business. Depending on the size of

10:37your brand, it can be anything from $20

10:39to multiple thousands for every single

10:41post. Make sure to start here because

10:42it's guaranteed income and it will

10:44actually show you what converts on your

10:46page and what not. To sell these

10:47properly, just build a media kit with

10:49your pricing and just simply test. Offer

10:51stories, feed posts, and bulk packages

10:53for one, [music] three, five, or 10

10:54posts and just simply see how the market

10:56reacts. If everyone buys the promos,

10:58you're probably not charging enough, and

10:59if no one buys, then your prices are

11:01[music] just simply too high. So make

11:02sure you find the sweet spot in the

11:03middle. Just keep in mind that whoever's

11:05paying you is almost always making more,

11:07which is exactly the lesson that you

11:08need to learn in order to move on to the

11:10next step, which is affiliate marketing.

11:12Once you understand what actually

11:13converts on your page, you got to move

11:14up here. You simply promote a product

11:16and you earn a commission, usually

11:17between 30 to 60% for every [music] sale

11:19that you make. Here's the key that most

11:21people actually miss. Just simply look

11:23at your page and see what is going viral

11:25and find a product [music] around that.

11:26Because your top performing posts are

11:28literally the map that shows you what

11:30your audience actually cares about or

11:31what they struggle [music] with. Because

11:33if you have the wrong product, you can

11:34promote so much and still make almost no

11:36money. But if you have the right product

11:37that genuinely fits, you can do a couple

11:39posts and promote it and make a lot more

11:40money than just with sponsored posts.

11:42The only downside here, of course, is

11:43that you don't build your own business.

11:45You're just making someone else money,

11:46but it's good to bring in some cash flow

11:47while you're still learning and to

11:49actually understand what works in your

11:50page and what not. The third way to

11:52monetize your account, which also has

11:53the highest ceiling, is to build your

11:55own business. But obviously, this

11:57requires the most work. You identify a

11:59real pain point in your audience, build

12:01a product, and then simply sell it. Of

12:02course, an ebook, consulting,

12:04done-for-you work, it can be everything

12:06that you can package [music] your

12:07knowledge into. And the most beautiful

12:08thing here is beautiful. So, instead of

12:09charging like $100 for a sponsored post,

12:11you can promote your own business and

12:13land a client that pays you hundreds of

12:15dollars every single month. But of

12:16course, you have to build the skill, you

12:18have to test the offer, and actually

12:20deliver on it as well. So, it requires a

12:21lot more time. [music] So, I recommend

12:23building this in the background while

12:24you're still monetizing through

12:25sponsored posts and affiliate products,

12:27and by the [music] time you have figured

12:28it out, you can start launching your own

12:30business. So, the ladder is sponsored

12:32posts for guaranteed income and actually

12:34testing what works on your page. Then

12:35affiliate products based on what's

12:36already going viral on your page. Then

12:38eventually your own product or service

12:40if you want to reach the biggest

12:41ceiling. Step number six is to outsource

12:44it. This is a step that takes your page

12:45from a job into an asset. Right now, I

12:47have people that are running my accounts

12:49from day to day. I do nothing on it.

12:50Posts go out, pages grow, and revenue

12:53comes in. That's the dream, right? And

12:54it's completely doable. There are two

12:56rules that make it work. The first one

12:57is trust. Because in the end, you're

12:59going to have someone in the account.

13:00So, it needs to be someone that you

13:01actually trust that they're not going to

13:03do anything stupid and take the account,

13:04right? So, this only works with the

13:06right person. So, take your time to find

13:07someone. I personally only hire people

13:09that I've known for a super long time or

13:11I know in person. The second rule is the

13:13payment structure. I'm not a big fan of

13:14paying someone the same amount every

13:16single month. What I like to do is give

13:18them a base pay and then also a

13:19performance bonus. [music] So, that

13:21means that if they do a really good job

13:23and the post grows a lot or you make X

13:24amount of money, that I give them a

13:26percentage of that. So, they're actually

13:27incentivized to do a really good job.

13:29Because if they always get the same

13:30paycheck every single month, of course

13:32they're not going to do the best that

13:33they can. And also, if you have a slower

13:35month, which you will have because it's

13:37not only going to go up all the time,

13:38you don't have to pay as much as if you

13:40were to pay a fixed [music] salary every

13:41single month. But now, of course, you

13:43can't just give someone your page and be

13:44like, "Hey, here it is. Grow it for me.

13:47Good luck." You need to hand them a

13:48system. That means building [music] an

13:49SOP, which means standard operating

13:51procedures. Your content SOP should

13:53include all the things like how you're

13:55finding your content, how you're editing

13:57it, how you've grown your brand,

13:58>> [music]

13:58>> and also a list of competitors for

14:00research purposes. Basically, every

14:02repeatable thing that you do needs to be

14:03written down so someone else can do it

14:05for you. And here's the key. Don't make

14:06your SOPs when you're just starting,

14:08right? Like first fine-tune everything

14:09[music] and actually see what's working

14:10before you create your SOPs. Because

14:12when everything is actually working,

14:14you've got the winning formats, you're

14:15actually growing, you hand them a

14:16winning [music] system. And that's why

14:17it's so important to actually learn the

14:19skills yourself first and actually grow

14:21a following before you start to

14:22outsource this to other people. Because

14:23otherwise, you simply can't manage them.

14:25If you do this correctly, you should be

14:26getting your own results if you follow

14:28the previous steps. And then if you

14:29document everything into SOPs, [music]

14:31your page manager or editor should get

14:32results, too. Congratulations, you just

14:34bought back your time. Step number seven

14:36is to actually exit the page, [music] if

14:38you want to, of course. But first, the

14:40crucial bit. Selling an Instagram page

14:42is technically against the Instagram

14:44guidelines. So, you don't sell an

14:45Instagram page, you [music] sell it as a

14:47business. And that framing changes what

14:49you need to have ready in order to sell.

14:51It means your finances need to be clear

14:53and completely on track. You need to

14:54have a clear overview of how much

14:56[music] the page is bringing in, what

14:57the monthly costs are, and what the

14:58exact net profit is. Basically, the

15:00buyer needs to know exactly how much

15:01[music] the page makes because they're

15:03not just buying followers, they're

15:04buying an actual business for cash flow.

15:06And if you combine that with all the

15:07SOPs that you've built, you're not just

15:09selling an Instagram page, you're

15:10selling an entire business with complete

15:12systems behind it. And that's a

15:13completely different thing and also

15:15[music] worth a completely different

15:16amount. Here's exactly how these pages

15:18get valued. A business like this usually

15:20gets sold for what it makes [music] in a

15:21year times three or times four, which

15:24means that if you make around $30,000 in

15:26profit every single year, you can sell

15:27it for over $100,000. And this is

15:30exactly why the outsourcing part is so

15:32important. A page that runs without you

15:34and with clean books is worth so much

15:36more than a page where you have to edit

15:38all the content every single day and

15:39they actually need you to run it as

15:41well. Buyers pay a premium price [music]

15:42for businesses they can just step into

15:44and run with a couple hours every single

15:45week. So, build the systems, keep the

15:47books clean from day one, and if of

15:49course you get the right offer, you can

15:51sell it. But of course you can always

15:52keep it for monthly cash flow as well

15:54and just keep [music] growing the brand.

15:55That's the entire system, seven steps

15:57from picking your niche to eventually

15:58selling your page. None of this is

15:59complicated, there's no secret hack. It

16:01just takes doing the right things

16:02consistently and showing up long enough

16:04for the compounding to kick in, which is

16:06exactly the point where almost everyone

16:07else quits. By the way, tell me in the

16:09comments down below which of the seven

16:10steps you want me to break down in a

16:12full video. And if you would like to

16:13directly work together with me so I can

16:15personally help you build or scale your

16:16own Instagram business, then down below

16:18I have a link where you can schedule

16:20with me personally where I can see if I

16:21can help you out. With that said, thank

16:23you for watching and I'll see you in the

16:24next video. Bye-bye.

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