Editor’s note: This article was first published in July 2017. The ages (26 and 24), the combined following of more than 3 million and the fees quoted are from 2017. Morris and Bullen are described as a couple; they reportedly announced their split around 2020.
We previously looked at the case of Catalina Velásquez, a young woman who is making a good amount of money making handmade, personalised products and who, thanks to Facebook, manages to sell all over Spain. Instagram also offers some opportunities to make money.
Jack Morris and his girlfriend Lauren Bullen, aged 26 and 24, lead an amazing life travelling the world while earning thousands of euros a month thanks to their popularity on Instagram.
Between them they have more than 3 million followers on Instagram with their accounts Do You Travel and Gypsea Lust.
The professional editing of their photos and their good taste have turned their passion for travel into a paid hobby, because brands and destinations are paying them thousands of euros for a single photo.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Morris said he had earned as much as $9,000 for one Instagram post, while his girlfriend had reached $7,500 for a single photo. Morris says he no longer posts any “paid photo” on his account for less than $3,000.
According to Morris, international brands are the ones you can do good business with: a phone company once paid him $35,000 for a couple of days of filming and five Instagram photos.
As you can see, the couple’s photos are visually very striking and the places they visit are undoubtedly spectacular.
Instagram post by Jack Morris (@doyoutravel), 25 June 2017
Morris left school at 17 to take a nine-to-five job at a carpet-cleaning company. At 21 he decided to quit and buy a one-way ticket to Bangkok, where his adventure began.
Instagram post by Lauren Bullen (@gypsea_lust), 2 June 2017
When his savings started to run out, Morris saw an opportunity to make money on Instagram, opening several accounts and building a large following on each. He had a talent for growing accounts, so he began making money by selling them. All except one, which already had hundreds of thousands of followers.
He used the money from those sales to keep travelling. As his main account kept growing, brands and the tourism industry began approaching him for sponsored content work.
One of those jobs took him to Fiji, where he met Bullen, now his partner, who was doing exactly the same thing. Bullen is passionate about travel and photography, so as soon as the two joined forces, their work improved dramatically.
Instagram post by Lauren Bullen (@gypsea_lust) from Abu Dhabi, 17 April 2017
As we can see, this couple and their work are an example of how the dots sometimes connect at some point in the future, even if we feel lost at a particular moment in our lives.
Sources for this article: Cosmopolitan and Business Insider.
See also: Ways to make money from home or online
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