How to Make Thousands on Social Media

How to make thousands from Social Media

By Des Yaninen 
Many of the jobs we have today will be obsolete and redundant in 5 years time. According to the World Economic Forum, below are the top 10 skills you should have. Interestingly, being an Administrator of a Facebook/Whatsapp/Telegram/LinkedIn group will be a very valuable skill. 
Today you can make tens of thousands per annum being an admin of having a popular page. In 5 years time you'll be able to make hundreds of thousands and few can make over a million Kina. 
What do you now? Create a social media group for a topic or subject you are an expert in. The more it grows the more your influence and value grows. 

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Who are the biggest social media influencers today? Some of them are; 

1. Charlie Gilichibi who created the PNG News group with almost 300k members. He also created other smaller groups. His combined audience is almost a million on Facebook. He also has a big following on LinkedIn. 
2.  Samson Komati who created PNG's largest WhatsApp groups. Think Tank Group 1 to 10. His group influences government policy. 
3. Bryan Kramer who is an Admin on several news groups and his page the Kramer report has over 100,000 followers. His influence won him an election and changes governments. Extremely influential.
4. Amanda Tau is an SME whose Pacificana Png page has over 100,000 followers. She tells positive stories and sells fashion accessories.
5. Sonja Barry Ramoi who also runs news pages with combined readers over 100,000. 
6. Kabbage Gang has the fastest growing organic comedy channel in PNG, growing at the rate of 10,000 a month. At the rate they are going they will be the biggest in PNG by 2021. 
7. Alice Oembari, a UPNG student and model has the largest following on Instagram with over 60,000 followers and growing. 
8.  Lewa Lucille Kana is also very popular and is a paid brand ambassador for Kara Jewellers.
9. Asian Wives of Pom is an Instagram page and YouTube channel that has a large following.
10.  PNG Daddy is perhaps the largest PNG YouTube channel 63,000 subscribers that uploads local music. They can make US dollars from YouTube. 

Who else and what other sites can you think of? If you have a group or page with more than 10,000 followers, you are on your way to becoming an influencer.  If you just finished high school or uni, put your data to good use and set up your own social media group. You'll thank me in 5 years time. 
In the next article I will discuss how exactly to monetize your content and make money from your group or page.

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