Hey,
I have been building faceless Instagram pages for six years.
I started on November 28, 2020, from a town of 7,000 people in Lithuania where the average salary is $800 a month. One of my pages went from zero to a million followers and did over half a million dollars in profit.
Since then I have watched 300 of my students do their own version of it. Eleven have crossed a million followers from zero. They are spread across 35 countries and they are between 18 and 75 years old.
And in six years, not one person sat me down before I started and told me what it actually feels like from the inside.
Not the numbers. Not the strategy. The feeling.
So here it is.
Eight things nobody tells you about making money online until you are already making it.
The parts the highlight reel cuts before it posts.
1. The first dollar feels nothing like you imagined.
You expect fireworks.
My first sale was $17. What I actually felt was disbelief, and then immediately wanting the second one.
I was 17 and I spent that night panicking about whether I owed tax on it.
The milestone hits, and then it is gone faster than you think.
2. The boring days never go away.
Even when the income is real and the page is growing, there are days where posting feels pointless.
The people doing $100,000 a month have those days too.
They just post anyway.
3. Most people in your life will not understand what you are building.
Not because they are unsupportive.
Because it does not fit any template they recognise.
My mother has five bachelor's degrees. She believed in education like religion. She knocked on my door with leftover soup and told me maybe it was time to be realistic, that university was not so bad.
She was not being cruel. She just had no picture in her head for what I was describing.
You will spend a lot of time explaining something that sounds made up until it is too undeniable to question.
4. The income is inconsistent before it is consistent.
Month one was 1,200 followers and $0.
Month three was 130,000 followers and my first $2,100.
Month six was $4,800.
Month thirteen was $12,000 in a single month.
Written down like that it looks like a straight line. It did not feel like one. The individual months will test your nerve in a way a salary never does.
5. Comparison will cost you more time than any algorithm ever will.
The night this started for me I was in my childhood bedroom watching other people's money videos on YouTube while my friends were out.
Watching what someone else built on their timeline while ignoring what you are building on yours is the most expensive habit in this business.
6. The moment you stop needing it is the moment it starts working.
Desperation makes bad decisions. It makes you change the niche in week two and quit in week six.
The pages I have seen take off fastest belonged to people who stopped checking the numbers every hour and just kept posting.
7. You will question it right before it works.
I lost $2,000 on dropshipping, money I had borrowed. Then $1,500 copying a trading guru. Then I joined an MLM and alienated half my friends.
I was at the bottom of all of that on November 21, 2020. Eleven at night, snowing, alone.
Seven days later I started the page.
Almost every person I know who built something real has a version of that week. It is almost always the week before something happens. The timing is cruel and it is consistent.
8. The thing that changed your life looks small when it starts.
One page. Zero followers. A phone.
Nothing about the beginning looks like the ending. That gap is the whole story.
Everything above is stuff I learned after the fact.
Nobody handed me the list. I lived it and kept going until the picture got clear.
The fastest way to shorten that is to learn it from someone who already paid for it.
If you want to work with me and build your faceless Instagram theme pages business, reply to this email with the word "IG" and I will see if I can help you.
Best regards,
Arnas
P.S. Number seven is the one that gets most people. Right before it works is the hardest moment to stay. Reply with "IG" and I will see if I can help you get there.