Whatsapp is such a big platform that billions of people all over the World use everyday to communicate with loved ones, friends, family and also to engage in business transaction.
But, do you know you can convert your Whatsapp to a Money Making opportunity for yourself?

How?

WHAT DO I NEED TO EARN MONEY USING WHATSAPP STATUS?
A smartphone and Internet Connection.

HOW TO CREATE A WHATSAPP TV

1. Discover your Niche
This may be the very first step to take towards starting your WhatsApp channel. You can engage your viewers through memes, jokes, motivational talks, educating posts, news. Your viewers can then trust you to view your status for exciting content of the many in this world. A big tip to finding your niche is this, what do you love to discuss about? You don’t want to get bored talking about what doesn’t interest you at all. Find a topic that you can spend hours reading up on and making researches and you’ve definitely found your niche.

2. Setting up your Whatsapp TV
It’s more preferable if you use Whatsapp business and another number for the WhatsApp TV, you can keep your private number safe and free from all the cluster you’d start to experience from all the messages and status updates of your contacts when they start to rely on you for posts in your niche.

You are soon going to have a lot of contacts on your mobile. Be sure to at least save your new contacts in a folder or group, different from your main contacts so that you don’t go through the stress of trying to sort your contacts when you need to or call a different number with identical names in your phone book. I'd you save the numbers to Google just in case your phone gets stolen or missing.

3. Define your brand
Think of a Catchy name that captures the purpose of the Whatsapp TV perfectly. A very memorable name that is not too long and isn’t violating or infringing on anyone’s copyrights. Check your name on www.uspto.gov

You can also create a logo to brand the identity of the channel. Humans are visual beings, so more people would respond if your images or videos are as visually appealing as possible. You should also decide which colours you want for your brand identity. The logos should be created with those colours. A logo is important also because it would be used as your profile picture. You want your Whatsapp TV to be easily identified. Possibly at a glance.

A brand is beyond just a name and a logo. It’s most importantly, your promise to your customers. So, get a short description of the Whatsapp TV, write down your vision and goals for the Whatsapp TV with the centre of attention being your viewers.

4. Awareness
You have decided the niche you’re delving into, defined your brand, set up your account. Here’s the never-ending part, getting people to save your contact so that they can see your status updates.

You have got to create awareness so that more people can view your status, which people would be appealing to pay for a place for an ad.

Create a Broadcast message, include your phone number in the format, https://wa.me/234XXXXXXXXXX/.

(and encourage them to click the link, send you their name so you could save their number. Also, encourage them to save your number as your Whatsapp TV name.

You could also personalize the link (Whatsapp Link to Chat feature)so that your users don’t forget what to do when they click your link. E.g: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=234XXXXXXXXXX&text=Hello,+I+want+to+be+a+part+of+the+Family

The customized link sends: Hello, I want to be a part of the Family

Notice that the link contains mainly your Whatsapp TV’s phone number beginning with 234 and the text – “Hello, I want…” The text is normal, as it’s not a big deal to create. Just that you want to substitute any space with the ’+’ sign.

You could customize that link to show anything you want your viewers to see. Play around with your link but be careful as to make sure you check if it works as expected. Be sure you have a working link before you start to share it. This also helps if you want to use your personal WhatsApp to start your channel. It helps filter messages from viewers from personal messages.

5. Post Regularly
Have the habit of regularly updating viewers as that is what they most likely want from you. Content can come in the form of written text, images or even videos. Spice things up and mix it all up a bit. Also, before you post, make sure to always place a text of your Whatsapp TV's name and number on your images or videos.

WhatsApp has a feature you can use to insert the text right before you start to upload either images or your video. They may want to be re-posted or shared by your contact with others. That way, you ensure that other people know that the content came from your Whatsapp TV and they may just add you up and that way your viewers/subscribers are growing.

6. Engage and Relate with your viewers
You shouldn’t just get and publish content all the time. Engage and relate with your viewers. Give out gifts sometimes maybe airtime or tickets. If you don’t have, try to come up with activities that your viewers can participate in.

The aim is to get your viewers emotionally attached to your Whatsapp TV and that’s how you achieve it even if you don’t give out anything.

Some Whatsapp TVs I know usually organize matchmaking Fridays or Thursdays and people actually record getting into a relationship through that Whatsapp TV. Some viewers send in their pictures and basic information and the people behind the Whatsapp TV match couples. Some others welcome questions with specific tags like, “Relationship Wednesday” or “Career Monday.” Come up with engaging activities and get your viewers involved.

7. Monetize
Here comes the very important part of this article, making money from your “WhatsApp TV.” There are 3 ways to monetize. I’ll list and explain them in subsequent paragraphs;

1. Advertise – You could place adverts of other people’s products. Put out a word on your status that room is open for adverts but don’t start this early as people would request for the number of people who view your statuses and you want to come up with a good figure. You should at least come up with at least 500-1000 views per post and then share a screenshot to your viewers, making them aware of the popularity.

2. Sell people’s products – You could also participate in affiliate marketing. Reach out to companies and express your interest in sharing some of their products with your viewers for a commission of the sales and strike a deal.

3. Sell your own products – You could also sell your own product. If you already have a business or not, you could tap into the number of viewers you have and try to sell something. You never can tell as that may be the start of a business venture.

For any questions or clarifications or ideas, drop comments below.