You can use Pinterest to make money with or without a blog. Both of the str
ategies work, but creating a blog is always recommended.Â
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- Promoting your blog posts
- By using affiliate links on your pins
- Promoting your blog posts
- By working as a Pinterest strategist
Before starting your affiliate marketing journey, you should know which products you want to promote. You should know
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- Make a list of the products you are using.
- Check if these products can solve the problems your readers are having
- Do these products have affiliate programs?
- Apply to these affiliate programs and get affiliate links for the products
â™ If you have a clear idea of what you want to promote, start with your affiliate marketing journey.
If you want to become a pro at Pinterest marketing, learn from this ‘Pinterest Ninja’ course by Megan from Lovefamilyhealth.com
How to make money on Pinterest as a beginner with affiliate marketing
1. By using affiliate links on your pins
As of now, Pinterest allows affiliate links. And if you know how to use them to make sales, you can earn good money.
Some companies don’t allow affiliate links, be careful and check with the specific companies. But I have noticed that making sales from direct links is difficult (though not impossible).
Pins with affiliate links get fewer saves and less distribution in the feed. But, again, blog posts can come to the rescue. The best option is to write and optimize blog posts with affiliate links. Create beautiful graphics(pins), drive traffic to posts, and make affiliate sales.
You can write a post and link to products on your website. Then, when a reader comes to your website, they can click on the link and go to the product website.
Affiliate marketing is great if you don’t have your products. You get a commission for making a sale.
If you want to learn affiliate marketing, you can learn it from Michelle of Makingsenseofcents. She has a great course on affiliate marketing. This course is amazing for newbie affiliate marketers.
One essential part of being successful on Pinterest is to be clear about what your audience wants from you. For example, promoting beauty products is not a good idea if they are interested in pet care.
Tip: Only promote products you love or think may help your audience solve their problems.
There are two options for images you want to use for affiliate products
Use the pictures provided by the vendor
Design pins by using your images
If you are using the products, clicking high-quality pics and using them will increase sales. So you can use your images or the images provided by the vendor.
Test your pins and see which ones perform better for your products. And check if the creator of the product owner allows you to use your images. Use multiple pins for a single product.
2. Promote your products
Promoting your products on Pinterest is also a lucrative idea to make money. You can leverage Pinterest to make money and grow your business if you have an Etsy shop, Shopify shop, or any other eCommerce platform.
Again, you can directly link to your products or your blog ( if you have one, along with products ) to make sales. It is said that more people are ready to buy stuff on Pinterest than on any other platform
3. Working as a Pinterest strategist
We all know that Pinterest can do wonders in traffic and business. So, of course, it means companies want to be on Pinterest. But this is a bit complicated when using it for your business.
Here comes the need for somebody familiar with the platform’s ins and outs. Then, if you have nailed Pinterest, you can start providing your services to help business owners and bloggers grow their accounts.
4. Driving traffic to your blog
If you are using Pinterest, you can use it to drive traffic to your blog. For example, I am getting most of my traffic from Pinterest, and I started getting around 25000 pageviews immediately after applying the strategies outlined in this course. So, this course has a very effective technique that can help you drive traffic.
I hope these tips will help you earn money by working from home.
