Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Julie Solomon: How to Monetize Your Instagram Brand Even with a Small Following | Marketing | YAPClassic
12 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yap fam, if you've ever felt like you're shouting into the void on Instagram, posting endlessly but not seeing results, then this episode is your wake-up call.
Chapter 2: What does Julie Solomon define as visibility in influencer marketing?
In this Yap Classic Conversation, I'm joined by Julie Solomon, business coach, author, and the host of the Influencer Podcast. Julie is a master at helping entrepreneurs and creators turn their online presence into profit without the burnout or oversharing.
In our chat, Julie breaks down how to craft magnetic content that builds trust, position yourself as an authority, and create offers that actually sell. You'll learn her strategies for showing up confidently, leveraging DM automations to drive conversions, and transforming your audience into loyal, paying customers.
But before we dive in, if you're a new listener, don't forget to follow Young and Profiting wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss an episode. Julie, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.
Chapter 3: Why is value-driven content crucial for Instagram success?
Thanks for having me back, friend. It's good to be here. I actually found out something new about you that I had no idea about. I went on Instagram and I saw this viral post. And it was like a pretty serious post where you talked about the fact that you're an influencer.
Chapter 4: What foundations are essential for building a magnetic Instagram brand?
You're a top thought leader in influencer marketing. You're an influencer yourself. You're married to an actor. but you're really private and you're actually an introvert. And so I wanted to ask you about that because I feel like I've got a lot of listeners out there who are entrepreneurs, business owners.
They know they've got to put themselves out there, but they just feel like they're not social media people. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
Chapter 5: How can you create a profitable Instagram ecosystem?
I did a post about what is real behind the Instagram facade. And one of those things for me is that I tend to be a pretty private person when it comes to my family, when it comes to my faith, when it comes to just a lot of things. There's a lot about my personal life that is very sacred to me, and it's just not up for mass consumption.
However, I battle with that because it's so easy to go on a platform like Instagram and to start seeing people that just... It feels like it's just so easy for them to just share everything and... give everything and let people into just the really, what I would call very private and personal aspects of their life.
And for a lot of those people, that is actually what helps build that following and build that engagement and build that community. And so I'll second guess myself with this double-edged sword, if you will, of how do I show up vulnerably and how do I let people in, but I do it in a way that feels right for me.
Chapter 6: What strategies can automate Instagram sales and messaging?
I do it in a way where I don't feel like I am basically marketing my family as a way to gain a following or using that as a way to build a business. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I have lots of friends that are in the content creator space that their brand and their business heavily relies on their lifestyle and their personal life and their family dynamics.
But for me, that just never felt in alignment. And so I have to battle that. But the way that I like to focus on it is, and this really goes back to why I do what I do as a coach and why I love to help people build brands is that, yes, vulnerability is important and we need to be vulnerable no matter what we're sharing.
But vulnerability does not necessarily equal having to open up every aspect of your life. Just as having a large following doesn't mean that you have to be overtly visible. You get to decide what visibility means to you.
Chapter 7: How can small audiences be monetized on social media?
And the way that I really like to hone in on that is you can be inspiring and be visible without opening up aspects of your life that you want to keep private. You can build authority and create authority-based content doing that. You can... be educational and share educational-based content doing that. You can be funny and share entertaining-based content doing that.
So it's really about getting clear on what you want your brand to be because brand at the end of the day is just your reputation. It is the perception that people have at whatever it is that you throw at them. As long as that is corralled mostly to where you want it to be, then great. But I think that's where people get lost is that they don't have it corralled mostly to where they want it to be.
They don't have that clarity in place. And so they either find themselves oversharing or they find themselves holding completely back and it makes them feel like they're wrong in the process of trying to grow.
I love what you're saying here because it's so smart. You've got control over what you share and you can position yourself in the way that makes sense.
Chapter 8: What marketing tips can boost engagement on Instagram?
So you're an educator or you're a thought leader and people can still get a lot of value from your content without you having to share your kids' faces. For example, like not everybody is that type of an influencer. You don't have to be that type of an influencer anymore.
So I still hear to this day, entrepreneurs, especially in person, like when I'm at conferences and stuff, I'll meet successful entrepreneurs and I'll ask them about their social media and they'll tell me, well, I'm not a social media person. Do you feel like entrepreneurs can afford to not be social media people anymore?
I mean, not if they're trying to use the internet as a way to market and sell their products or services. And it's kind of the same way where even that word influencer, every person that is listening to this podcast, I know, I don't even have to know who they are to know that they're an influencer. They are a person of influence.
And they could hear me say that and be like, well, no, but I'm a coach, but I'm an entrepreneur or I'm a course creator. Yes, but you still are a person of influence. you are showing up every day to serve, share, and sell in hopes of persuading someone to think differently, move differently, create differently, buy differently.
And so I think that it's about us really just realizing that we're all in sales, whether we want to admit it or not. We're all creating influence, whether we want to admit it or not. And it's really about shifting that mindset to really own that.
Because I think that entrepreneurs are doing themselves a massive disservice if they aren't trying to the best of their ability to show up online and create visibility and create influence, because that is what ultimately leads to conversion. And there's only two problems that people have when it comes to growth. They either have a conversion problem or a visibility problem.
And most of the time that is due to their lack of or their resistance towards really building a brand that attracts that visibility that they need.
So for a long time, I was really focused on LinkedIn and I'm crushing it on that platform. And that was all I needed. But now I know that I need to step it up on Instagram and really start creating content just for Instagram.
And I'm wondering, what are your top tips for business owners and entrepreneurs to create content on Instagram that's not going to overwhelm them, but will help drive leads and sales?
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