Why Whatsapp?
Over the past few years, whatsapp has become the biggest mobile messaging app in the world. Billions of people use whatsapp to communicate with each other. Just imagine that! Pretty much everyone with a smartphone outside china uses whatsapp. The reason why we say outside china is because whatsapp is not allowed in china.
Now imagine being able to tap into this potential. Imagine being able to position your products and services infront of all those millions of people using whatsapp. You know people pay attention to their whatsapp messages because it is their main medium of communication. Also important messages like from parents and family are passed through whatsapp. This means that the people pay attention to whatsapp messages than other mediums. Actually whatsapp conversion is higher then emails conversion. Many people do not pay attention to their emails like they pay attention to whatsapp.
Now lets go through the many ways of making money with whatsapp.
1. Offer services to people through whatsapp.
You can use whatsapp to sell your services to people across whatsapp. You can send the services offer to your contacts by messaging them. Just please do not spam. Do not start blasting messages to all your contacts spamming them with your services. If you do that whatsapp will classify your account as a spam account.
You can also promote your services on your public profile status. Some people check the statuses of people and if you have written it there, then they will see it and contact you.
You can also use the 24hr status posts to posts statuses promoting your services to your contacts.
2. Sell products to people through whatsapp.
In some countries like USA, Canada, Europe and india, whatsapp has the payments services. This means that you can just get on your conversation and send money to someone through whatsapp. You can leverage this to sell a lot of your products to your contacts friends and family. Please make sure that if the people pay you for the products you actually deliver.
There are other ways of promoting these products such as through short-form 24hr statuses, public profile status, whatsapp groups, whatsapp channels and whatsapp communities.
3. Use whatsapp to provide customer service to your customers/business.
These days whatsapp is not just about personal conversations but also business. There is the whatsapp business. You can use the whatsapp business to provide customer services to your customers. You can provide your whatsapp number on your business website and even social media so that your customers can contact you. The best thing about whatsapp for customer support is that it notifies you immediately on your phone. Then you can respond to your customer immediately. Actually good customer service can lead to more sales because you can use it to persuade potential customers to buy.
4. Online coaching and tutoring via whatsapp video calls.
One of the biggest challenges that online tutors and coaches used to face before was the problem with video communication with students. Well, that problem is no more since you can use whatsapp video call. Just give your students your whatsapp number and tell them whan to call or when you will call them. You schedule the call, you call and coach them or tutor them through the whatsapp call. The best thing is that whatsapp calls are free. The only thing you need to pay for is internet data to your ISP provider.
5. Automate sales through whatsapp with tools like manychat.
These days you can automate whatsapp conversations with your clients through tools like manychat. The way this works is that you create your manychat account, link it with your whatsapp account and start automating. For example, you can set it such that if the person says “hi”, the automation responds “hi, how can u help you?”. Then attached with that response you can give them options such as sales, order problems, list some products/services. Let the person choose what service they want and continue with the automation until it ends up in a sale. Go to manychat and see how the automations work.
6. Use the whatsapp features like groups, channels and communities for marketing.
Whatsapp keeps adding more services. Some of the services they have added like channels can help you do a lot of marketing for your business. A channel is a public profile which can be seen by people who are not even on your contacts. If you take your smartphone and go to channels, you will find a lot of channels there. Some of those channels have millions of followers. Some even have 10s of millions of followers. Imagine if you could have your channels like that. Imagine promoting your business, products and services to millions of people through your channel. Go ahead and create yours today.
7. Advertise for businesses through your groups, channels and communities.
If you have a large group, large community or a channel with millions of followers, you can use that as an advertisement platform for businesses. You can be selling marketing services to businesses and companies by charging them to promote them on your channel or group or community. The fact that you have access to such many people, through your channel or group, its a money making opportunity. Businesses will always pay to put their products infront of many people.
8. Use your large whatsapp channel, group or community for affiliate marketing, dropshipping or ecommerce.
Do not let your millions of followers on whatsapp go to waste. Use that large audience to promote your affiliate links to drive sales. When your audience click on your links and buy the affiliate products, you get paid commission for it. In addition to affiliate, you can use that large audience to sell your dropdshipping and other ecommerce products.
Get a good source of dropshipping products such as alibaba and aliexpress. Then use those products to see to your audience.
9. WhatsApp Group Membership Fees.
If your whatsapp groups provide very interesting content or valuable content, you can charge people for that. Say forexample you are a content creator who makes very good content that people love, you can post some of that content on a paid for whatsapp group. That means you ask people to pay to be members of that group in return you provide them with great content. Just make sure that you provide something of value to your audience.
10. Automation services and other freelance services.
Finally, you can offer your programming services to businesses. These days many businesses want to automate their whatsapp services. If you know how to integrate whatsapp automation, you can offer such services to businesses. For example if you know how to integrate manychat, then you can sell such services to many businesses.
Conclusion.
We have taught you How To Make Money With Whatsapp.We have discussed 10 ways that you can earn money by just using your whatsapp. Just choose the one that works for you and start working. As we always tell you, nothing good in this life comes easy. Therefore it will take you commitment, determination and persistence to make it. If you do it right you can even make a career out of it.
