14 Ways You Can Make Money Using Pinterest

Pinterest is a fun, handy and free site that enables people to bookmark and share images which are related to their interests.

Pinterest is totally addictive and I spend way too much time on there designing a new house or planning a kitchen garden.  It is a girl’s best friend really!  But, did you know that you can earn money through Pinterest? All you need to do to start making money on Pinterest is knowing how to set up your own Pinterest profile and, with a little creativity you can earn some cash for your addiction!

Here are 15 ways you can make money using Pinterest.

1. Set Up a Pinterest Business Account

It’s super easy, especially if you already have a Pinterest account.  Sign up here – it is totally free.

What are you passionate about? Do you think your passion can earn you some money? If people are willing to spend in the area you love, you can easily make money from them. Let us say you are a fitness junkie. You select your audience — for example, women in their thirties who want to be attractive and fit. Create a Pinterest account as well as boards which attract this audience.

Create a mailing list and get fans to your boards. There are some keen Pinterest users who’ve got more than a million followers. You do not require as many followers as those in your account to sell your audience. Generally, if you do not know what to sell, you don’t need to get worried. Once you manage to get a few thousand followers, there are different marketers who will approach you with offers.

2. Choose a Firm to Promote and Ask for Sponsorship

Target a group, and build your Pinterest followers, then choose some of the firms providing products which are appealing to your audience. For instance, you can approach different firms selling sports drinks, or gym machines. You will be required to share the Pinterest account’s statistics with the firms you approach, and ask for sponsorship. It’s important that you offer them a deal so that they can choose to work with you. For example, allow the companies you opt to work with to use their branding on your account for months.

3. Promote Affiliate Products

Many firms are in need of affiliates who will promote their different products for a small commission on sales. Find a firm selling products that you can promote. Sign up as an affiliate and then promote their products on your boards, using your affiliate links.

It’s important that you use a URL-shortening service such as Bitly when managing your links. This will assist you to track your boards and pins for the number of clicks. Regarding spamming, Pinterest normally takes action against the affiliate marketing spammers. Therefore, if you happen to be caught up in this act, it’s ideal that you link your pins on your site, whereby you can get to use affiliate links.

4. Use Search Engine Optimization Tactics

Your boards and pins must be easily be searched by different people, and therefore using effective SEO strategies can greatly boost your boards. SEO strategies will also ensure that you’re found through the major search engines such as Google. It is very important that you are clear when you’re using the keywords you expect your followers to use. Generally, each pin often allows more than 1000 characters (around 200 words) of description. Therefore, make sure that you make the most of it by adding links and keywords.

5. Create Contests on Pinterest to Sell your Own Products

Creating contests can help your brand become more popular on Pinterest.

6. Re-pin Others’ Pins

Re-pin other people’s pins in order to win your target audience. You must also always be active so that people will notice and follow your boards and will eventually re-pin your pin.

7. Teach Pinterest Techniques to Others

After you have successfully used Pinterest, you can also make cash by teaching others your strategies. Create e-books as well as courses to teach what you have learned.

8. Make Strategies in Selling your Own Products

Whether you’re selling an information app, software or course, there are options you can use to market it on Pinterest.

• Share Some Stats in an Image

If there is a great stat which would encourage different individuals to purchase your products, represent it in a visually appealing manner, and then pin it. For instance, if you’re selling a mobile app which assists people to get fit, it is important that you share some stats about fitness.

• Turn your own Sales Page into an Infographic

Try to make a stunning infographic which will make people understand more about your product and then link this infographic to the sales page.

• Create an Explainer Video

This should be a video which will explain to potential consumers what your product can do for them. Include links to your sales page in both the pin itself and in the video. This will make sure that even if a person re-pins your video, the link will still be with it and more people will definitely click to it.

• Offer Previews on Pinterest

Share your video clips on Pinterest. Link the video as well as the pin back to the sales page so that different people can see it and learn more.

9. Offer Services

If you plan on having a service-based business, you can promote them on Pinterest using the following ways.

• Create a Portfolio Board

Create a good portfolio board containing examples of what you do. Edit every pin and then link it back to the sales page or portfolio page for that specific service.

• Turn Consumer Testimonials into Quote Images

You can also turn the testimonials of your clients into quote images which are fancy and then pin them to any testimonial board on Pinterest. All you’ll be required to do is editing each link and pinning to your testimonials page for that specific service.

• Pin Video Testimonials

Pin the video clip testimonials from your consumers to the testimonials board.

• Share Small Tips

For instance, if you are a web designer, you can have a board showing the tips of the week. Business website designs like adding a creative footer design to a website. Typically, if the businesses who often follow you cannot implement your design tips, they are likely to call you so that you can assist them in doing it.

10. Increase Book Sales

Do you have an e-book or book for sale? You can make more money on Pinterest with it. Here are the tricks that can help you out:

• On your personal Pinterest profile, create a board for your e-books and books. This will make different people who visit your profile recognise you as an author and thus will get interested in wanting to know what your books are all about.
• You can also create an effective landing page on your website for the book. On that page, it is important that you include a section showing some pinnacle quotes, and then encourage your followers to share them on Pinterest through the pin it button.
• You can also run a contest where people can win books they been wishing to read. This will not only make people participating excited about the books and be ready to purchase if they do not win them, but will also create mini-Pinterest testimonials on the internet.

11. Pin an Image Where People can Subscribe

If you’ve got a well-designed opt-in page, all you need to do is take screenshots of it, upload it to Pinterest, edit the link so it can point to your opt-in page and finally explain to different people why they need to subscribe. This will help people who are already familiar with you on Pinterest know where exactly to go each time they are in need of more information.

12. Focus on Creating the Giveaway

If you’ve got an incentive for sign-ups, it is essential that you ensure you’ve some images to represent it. Basically, this might be a quote from inside a book or an e-book or even a sample of free video training courses.

13. Use Eye-catching Photos

If you do not have a fancy opt-in page or a giveaway, find an image which will easily capture people’s attention, make a description for your image count and then link it to the opt-in page.

14. Encourage Sign-ups from Pinterest

Encourage sign-ups by searching for call-to-action words such as ‘join our mailing list’ or ‘sign up’. This will assist you in getting a lot of money making ideas since you’ll be checking what other people are doing.

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