At the age of 15, Laurence Moss owns an Instagram marketing agency

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Needless to say, social media is the center of attention for the marketing industry today. If you can retain the customers you acquire, monetizing is perhaps one of the easiest things, and this is exactly what Laurence Moss, CEO of the full-service Instagram marketing agency Greedy Growth, has capitalized upon.

At first, you might see Laurence as a normal teenager, he has friends, goes to school and studies hard, but if you search his name up you’ll start noticing a bunch of interesting things, such as his LinkedIn, which Laurence tells me he has been using for “over a year now”, and has been a big part of the marketing strategy for his B2B digital marketing company Greedy Growth.

Today, there are billions of users using social media, if you have the ability to understand how to build an audience on them, it is an invaluable asset. At the beginning of 2018, Laurence took advantage of small closed communities to form the basis of his Instagram marketing knowledge and used this to grow a travel-themed Instagram page to over 10,000 followers in 3 months, a sensational figure for someone who had no prior experience in the field. 

Laurence explains how at that point he “didn’t understand the concept of marketing or retention”, all he was concerned about was making his posts go viral. He didn’t realize how big he’s gotten until E-commerce sites started to approach him. 

“Brands were offering me $50+ at a time to post a photo on my Instagram account, at the time I couldn’t believe it”. Once he realised that those brands were actually making a profit after paying him for a promotion, he started looking into other ways to make more money.

By the end of 2018, Laurence had amassed over 50,000 followers between his accounts, and at the age of 14 and a half, he was offering Instagram marketing consulting services to established e-commerce businesses.

At the start of 2019, Laurence took a leap of faith and created his agency: Greedy Growth. Using Upwork to generate leads; Laurence’s first client was one of the biggest pop culture auction companies in the entirety of the USA, doubling their followers from 10,000 to 20,000 in just over 3 months.

“Content is the pillar of Instagram growth”

All the while, Laurence was running Facebook ads, an e-commerce store, cost per acquisition app marketing, and a large network of Instagram account with a combined following of over 350,000. Throughout 2019, Laurence cut down on his external ventures, choosing to go the agency route and really focus on understanding his clients’ needs and providing a full roster of services.

When asked how he managed to build up such an expansive network of Instagram accounts, Laurence said to Kivo Daily, “Content. That’s the pillar of Instagram’s growth. I could distribute your content to a billion people but if it’s not good enough, no-one will follow you, it’s as simple as that. Distribution techniques are what you should think about later once you’ve mastered the art of creating engaging content. Instagram is crowded, so go the extra mile to create quality content.”

Rapidly taking on a client base of small startups to large established businesses, Laurence expanded into a full-service Instagram marketing agency, ready to take 2020 head-on. Laurence dictates how he has plans of “expansion”, and is going to see how he can scale his agency this year.

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