How to Earn Money from Telegram
Making money on Telegram is often an overlooked topic when doing marketing for your channel.
You have a passion, and you have members, so why not learn how to make money on Telegram from all your efforts?
In this article, I will explain to you how to earn money with your Telegram channel effectively using a variety of methods:
- Paid Sponsorships
- Affiliate Programs
- Website Ads
Paid Sponsorships:
This is the simplest one. If you have a Telegram Channel with plenty of followers, one of the most common methods to make money with it, is to accept paid sponsorships to promote other channels. What does it mean?
It means that you can sell advertising space on your channel, more commonly a paid message (or a series of paid messages), that you can broadcast to your channel members in exchange for money. Many smaller channels use this technique in order to grow. All you have to do is either search for Telegram groups that offer cross-promotion or pin a post on your channel stating that you are available for paid promotion. You have to make sure that your channel is alive, though. Because if you have 10,000 members, but only 100 views per post, it’s going to be hard to get some deal. If you want to be paid for the visibility, you have to offer it, and out there there are a lot of channels willing to pay in order to get new members. You most probably are, will or were one of them.
More members you have, more engaged they are with your post more you can ask for one promotional message. So it’s pretty hard to tell how much you can get out of it. Let’s say that a small channel can ask $5 per message and a bit one more than $60 per promotional message.
Affiliate Programs
You can use affiliate marketing to earn money from Telegram. Affiliate Marketing is an arrangement with other online merchants where you gain a percentage (or commission) based on the sale that you, as an affiliate, help them generate. Every major company has its affiliate marketing program: Amazon, eBay, Aliexpress, Microsoft, Coursera, Udemy, also us. We have our affiliate program as well, even if we are not a major company yet.
This kind of advertising is called pay-per-sale, or PPS, and it’s performance-based. Basically, you can earn money promoting items on Amazon. This technique is nice because you don’t need to own products to make money. Also, you don’t have to deal with shipping, invoicing, returns, or angry customers. All you have to do is sign-up to popular affiliate programs such as the Amazon one and start promoting products with your affiliate link. You can promote famous brands, very nice discount offers, luxury items, whatever you want? no! Of course you must promote only things that your audience might like. Because (1) otherwise they don’t buy and you make no money, and (2) if you are too pushy promoting uninteresting things, they might mute or leave your chanel, which is against your interest.
A great way to help you out making money on Telegram is using Dealan Bot as a marketing Automation Tool. Dealan is a service that lets you fully automate your affiliate earnings with Amazon. It creates a stream of affiliate products that are sent directly to your channel, and you can uniquely customize it with the brands you want, you should really try it out for free to know what I mean: click here for a FREE trial. Dealanbot searches for offers h24, meaning that you don’t have to do anything else once you have set it up. A fantastic opportunity to earn time and money from your Telegram channel!
How much you get out of it? depends. The Amazon commissions range from 3% to 12%, they change with time, on the category, and on the country. Despite they tend to be pretty much the same for all the EU Amazon, others can defer quite a bit. Brazilian Amazon do not offers the exact precise percentage of Amazon US.
Since these a commissions on price, you earn different amount of money according with the different selling prices.
Also, you have to take in account the behaviour of your audience. How many will purchese? it’s hard to tell.
In the overall, with pretty much 6k members it’s pretty easy to get few hundreds of USD per month only with the Amazon affiliate program. You can also optimize and use other affiliate programs but remember, post only relevant offers!
Website ads
With Ads, you can generate money by sending users to your website, where you can publish valuable content or information that can help your audience or entertain them. You can do that by signing up to Google Adsense and placing banners on your site that generate money for each user that clicks those links. This kind of marketing is called pay-per-click, or PPC, and you get paid directly by Google or other advertisers. Make sure that your content is relevant. Otherwise, your audience won’t be interested in click on your messages in your channel, and as I already said for the affiliation, you make no money and you can lose members.
Among all the ways that you can use to earn money with a Telegram channel, the last one is absolutely the less profitable by far.
If you have other ways to make money with Telegram please let us know in the comment section!