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How to earn money from Telegram app?

Telegram app is one of the most popular messaging apps. It’a a russian app that has emerged as a serious competitor of Whatsapp. But do you know that you can even make money using Telegram app?

There are people who are earning 30 thousand to lakhs of rupees using Telegram app, and that to by just doing copy-paste work. However, we know that Telegram app does not pay directly like YouTube or Facebook. Then how do these people manage to do earn money from it?

There are various ways to earn money indirectly using Telegram. This is what we are going to learn in this article. And the icing on the cake is that, most of these methods will require no investment on your part. You just need a smartphone with Telegram app installed and a decent internet connection.

You can make a Telegram channel using your Telegram personal account, just as you do in YouTube. There are many channels on Telegram app with even millions of subscribers. So, growth potential is huge here.

Table of Contents
  • Share Referral links
  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Setup a digital showroom
  • Share links from other Telegram channels
  • Promote other Telegram channels
  • Sponsorships

There are many apps that will pay you some money when you share their links, and when people install their apps or make an account via your link. Some of these apps will also pay the person who is installing the app or opening the account. So, it’s a win-win situation. It won’t be much difficult for you to convince your friends/relatives to do so.

However, the amount may not be too huge. It will in the range of Rs. 100 to 500 per installation. But if you have a lot of people in contact on Telegram, then you may end up earning some decent amount of money.

Warning

You should always verify that the app or website you are referring is genuine and not a scam, a trojan, virus or a fake one. Some apps that have paid money to people for opening accounts are - InstaMojo, many stock market apps (e.g. Upstox, Angel Broking, Kotak Securities, 5 Paisa etc.), Dhani app etc.

Apps pay people as a part of their marketing strategy (i.e. to gain popularity), especially in the initial years after their launch. Once they gain enough number of installations, they discontinue the referral scheme. So, you will have to keep on exploring the genuine apps that are running these paid referral schemes.

Affiliate Marketing

You can promote others' products and services. You can join any affiliate marketing program, e.g. Amazon Affiliate Marketing program, and share links of products and services via your Telegram account or channel. You will get paid a certain amount of commission whenever anyone makes a purchase via your affiliate link.

Setup a digital showroom

Yes, you can sell online using Telegram app. If you are an entrepreneur or into sales, you should explore this option. If you have a big channel, then you will get a lot of sales from here. You can also use it to promote your services, e.g. your online classes, or your YouTube channel etc.

But before you start selling things, you should focus more on making your channel big. To do so, you can share informational content, memes etc. For example, if you are into education/coaching, you can share notes, infographics etc.

Once you get enough subscribes in public channel, you can create a private channel. This private channel will be like a VIP membership channel. Only those people will be able to access it, who have its link. It will not be available to general public. So, you can funnel the subscribers on your public channel to your private channel, where you can provide exclusive content in return of some fee. That is, you may sale your services like educational videos, notes, e-books, here.

Note

You can make two types of channels on Telegram - public and private. Public channels are shown in general searches, but private channels are only visible to people who have their link.

You can get hyperlinks of various online resources like movies, comics, songs, videos etc. on other Telegram channels. You can take those hyperlinks and use some short-link producing website and make short-links of those hyperlinks. Then share these short-links on your channel. Many of these short-links show some ads and you will be paid some amount whenever anyone watches those ads via your short-link.

Promote other Telegram channels

You can also earn money via paid promotion of other Telegram channels. Once your channel grows, many new channels will offer you some money, to share the link of their channel on your channel. So, you can earn some money through this method too.

Sponsorships

Many businesses and apps also offer money to Telegram channel owners to promote their products.

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