Valeriya Lisitsyna, otherwise known as Val Lis or Valerie Lisitsyna on Instagram the brain behind the successful entrepreneurial venture Val Show and Instagram Academy, has carved out a place for herself at the global level with her expertise of projections of individuals, brands and companies through the social media platforms.
Getting focused on influencing a large audience is easier said than done as it requires knowledge, experience, ability to speak in public and research besides a thorough understanding of how the algorithm works on every platform. Here, Valeriya Lisitsyna excels.
No wonder, she has emerged as an Instagram icon in this regard.
She successfully projects her audience even as the total number of users of Instagram today stands at little over a billion and there are about 200 million influencers.
We know social media influencing is a tough job as it is marked by cut-throat competition. Valeriya Lisitsyna, thanks to her Bachelors Degree in Business Marketing emerged one of the victors in this competition as she has studied sleepless nights as a college student to learn more on Instagram growth. Her success is seen in Val Show and Instagram Academy.
Valeriya Lisitsyna launched her course program Instagram Academy “A step by step guide to growing your account to hundreds of followers and becoming a paid influencer” due to the vast questions from her own followers when she started to see an influx of following grow as well as brand deals and income come in. The beginning of Val Show also came out later in her journey when Val wanted to share in depth and inspiring interviews of successful people, celebrities, leaders in business, trending TikTokers and artists – to help inspire those watching to achieve their goals and dreams.
Story of the birth and growth of Instagram Academy and Valshow is quite interesting. Let us have a peep into it.
Valeriya Lisitsyna, born in Russia but moved to Seattle Washington at age 1 with her immigrant family, went the traditional route and finished her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Marketing. Her family started off from scratch. Her dad was a hard working example and so Valeriya worked 2 part time jobs, was a full time student and had a dream.
Her dream was to make money on the social media platform Instagram. Just as she was starting to see influencers emerge 4 years ago.
She realized she didn’t want to continue to work 2 part time jobs feeling anxious and confused in her direction in life. She wanted to become an entrepreneur and he decided to go ahead with it by resigning from the traditional route of getting a 9-5 job after graduation.
Instagram Academy her signature course program resulted from this entrepreneurial dream. In other words, the entrepreneur living within Valerie Lisitsyna woke up. She proved herself by uploading useful and attractive content on Instagram and one day even seeing 100,000 new followers come in 1 week because of viral content.
After this success, she wanted to give back what she saw the amount of people asking for help growing their own Instagram. This was the creation of Instagram Academy.
Valeriya Lisitsyna course program created for women wanting to grow their Instagram from scratch in hundreds and make money on Instagram took off to become a full 24 lesson program. It paid off as 500+ students enrolled and other students are seeing 40,000 follower growth in 1 month like @margo_sah on Instagram.
Here, we find how her inspiring growth transformed into Val Show.
Val launched a Youtube in depth interview show featuring other celebrities, talents and artists who also reached high heights thanks to social media. This show has seen an increase of 85% viewers since first launch.
In the words of Valeriya Lisitsyna as to what is her motto in online digital marketing: I want to be useful to the world in the same way as Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs created the iPhone which is helping people globally. Similarly, my ambition in the long-run is to produce content that may help people, by and large.
The success of Valeriya Lisitsyna as a brand, took a few years to develop and grow over 300k on Instagram and 600k on Tiktok and establishing itself into large projects like Instagram Academy and Val show. But it is a great example that being average will keep you in your place but stepping outside your comfort zone can get you places you would have never imagined.
You can keep a tab on Valeriya Lisitsyna on Instagram.