Knock knock!

You received a $30 credit from Instagram!

Claim your INR 300.00 ad credit!

Or something else!

Whatsoever the line or price it may be, it seems like these pop-ups are now on top of the company’s head as not just one or two, but a whole lot of new creators are receiving one of such notifications.

Read that again…

I mentioned…

NEW CREATORS!!! (not old ones.)

So if you have recently switched your personal account to a professional one, there are good chances that you might also get some credit from the Instagram side.

Side Note- Any bluffing by switching the already professional account to a personal account and then changing it back again to previous settings won’t work in the above case. Instagram has a record of all its accounts so the credits are ONLY given to newly switched creator’s accounts.

Now that being said…

How to get the credit if you recently switched to a professional account?

If you recently switched to a professional account, either creator’s or a business one, my number one tip would be to post consistently.

FYI- Posting consistently doesn’t mean posting daily.

If you post once a day, post once every single day.

If you post thrice a week, post thrice every week.

And so on…

Consistency is all about maintaining the momentum of content.

So just make sure you maintain the frequency of actions, and your part first is all done.

The next step is clicking on the promote button, but never proceeding till the end.

I did this twice or thrice.

Also, many of my connections tried this technique.

And it worked!

If you click on promote and don’t proceed till the end, it hints to the platform that something is stopping the user from investing in the ads.

And as Instagram wants more users to opt for ads, it sends credits to such accounts so they proceed further.

And that’s how this credit thing works.

That said…

You don’t have to do this daily.

Just do it 3-4 times on different posts, and you will see Instagram notifying you about the credit balance.

Although I discovered it accidentally on one of my accounts, the steps mentioned above are all I did.

Moreover, the ad credit depends on location and account’s legitimacy too.

Since I received it on one of the fake accounts that I use for testing purposes the amount was close to $5 (I didn’t use it though), but it could be $20, or even more if your account is legit.

So…

The next question…

How to redeem the ad credit? Is there any code?

First thing first…

You don’t have to put any code somewhere in such cases.

The steps are all same as when you create a normal promotion.

However, just in case if you don’t know how to do it, here is the short explanation about it-

Just click on the notification, and click ‘Create Promotion’ to start the campaign.

Select the goal i.e. ‘more profile visits’, ‘more website visits’, ‘more messages’ according to your necessity (just in case if you are confused among the given three options, click on ‘Learn how to select a goal’ at the bottom of the same page to learn more about it).

The next comes the target audience which again depends on your promotion type and niche as well.

You can let Instagram select the right users for your promotion based on your current followers, or you can create your audience by manually entering the target options.

Proceed next, and select the budget and duration that suits you, or click on ‘how to set the right budget for your ad campaign?’ at the bottom of that page if you want to learn more.

Now review the whole entries and add a payment method (and some amount) to activate your promote credit.

After you have done all this, click on create promotion!

Ta-da!!!

That’s it.

Your post would now be shown to different audiences based on the preference that you selected while creating the campaign.

Now I know many of you would be like-

‘But why do I need to add some credit from my own if I already received some credit?’

So before you jump into any wrong assumptions, let me make a few things clear from my side.

Adding a payment method ensures your account’s credibility and it helps Instagram sort out the fake accounts that could have used the promotion credit to spam the platform if campaign creation went through without any checks.

Moreover, if you are concerned about the money that you have to add from your side, it’s no such worry to be frank.

One of my friends from Nepal received approx. $10 from Instagram and he only added 2 dollars for verification, and everything worked quite smoothly.

Getting a reach of 10k-12k for 2 dollars is an awesome start.

Additionally, you could convert those viewers to followers if your posts are good, and if your profile is well optimized.

So you see…

It’s not that expensive!

The value that you get in return from this FREE credit (except for the fact that you need to add a very little amount) is absolutely worth it.

However…

Since it’s your account, I leave the final call with you.

I just revealed every part of this ad credit thing, the rest is all your choice.

Let me know if you face any issues while executing any steps, or queries in case you have any.

Also, please share this post if you found this helpful.

Till then?

See you next time!

Bye-bye.

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