Did you know you can make thousands of dollars monthly using Pinterest? There are multiple ways to do so, and I will explain some of them in this article.
Most people see Pinterest as a social media platform like Instagram, but the thing is, Pinterest is actually a search engine, more like a visual search engine.
Pinterest works the same way as Google, but instead of showing blue links and text in the search results, Pinterest shows pins or images relevant to the search query.
With over 450 million monthly active users, Pinterest is a platform where you can make real money.
A couple of blogs I own bring hundreds of thousands of visitors monthly from Pinterest and generate upwards of $5,000 from Pinterest alone.
In this article, I will share the exact framework I use to make money with Pinterest and more.
Drive Traffic To Your Blog From Pinterest
Using Pinterest to drive traffic to your blog and monetize it with display advertisements, affiliate marketing, brand sponsorships, or selling your own products is the number one way that has made me thousands of dollars every month.
For starters, a blog is basically a website where you post content related to a particular topic. The website you are reading is a perfect example of a blog. In this blog, I post content related to online business, SEO, tips to make money online, and more.
Every time you visit a blog, you will find a lot of display advertisements on the sidebar, inside the content, or affiliate links for product recommendations. Every time someone clicks the display ads or the affiliate link to buy a product, the blogger behind the blog makes money.
So, you need to use Pinterest to get people to your blog and convert them into money.
For example, let’s say I have a blog in the home decor niche. The website is monetized with Mediavine, and I get an average RPM of $35. If I post high-quality pins on Pinterest and bring at least 2000 visitors daily, I will make $70 a day or $2,400 monthly.
Apart from Pinterest, you can also do SEO and get traffic from search engines like Google and Bing.
Here’s a dedicated guide on starting a blog today.
You need to:
- Create a blog and post high quality content
- Create a Pinterest business account
- Start posting high quality pins regularly
- Scale the process and grow traffic
- Monetize your blog with ads, brand sponsorship, affiliate marketing, or the sale of your own products.
- Mint money!
Promote Your Own Products
Promoting your own products, whether virtual or physical, is yet another way to make money using Pinterest. With high-quality pins, you can reach the eyes of potential customers directly on the platform.
Let’s say you sell a virtual product or service. You can create a Pinterest account and start pinning images about the same.
You can lead the clicks from the pins to the product page or a product recommendation page on your blog.
Now, the products can be anything like a digital asset, a course, a service, or anything else.
If you open Pinterest and type Canva planner, you can find a list of digital product recommendations and blogs selling Canva planners or teaching how to create a Canva planner.
Similarly, you can create and promote a digital product or print-on-demand services through Pinterest to make money.
You can also run ads to promote your products on Pinterest as well.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is a model in which a brand or a company pays you a stipulated amount as a commission for promoting their product and bringing in sales.
Let’s take a look at an example so you will better understand what affiliate marketing is.
Amazon has an affiliate program called the Amazon Associate Program. You sign up for the Amazon Associate Program and find a product to recommend. Next, you generate a unique affiliate link.
You recommend the product on your YouTube channel or blog. Now, whenever a person clicks on the link and buys any product from Amazon in the next 30 days, you will receive a percentage as commission.
So, this is how affiliate marketing works.
You can leverage the power of Pinterest for affiliate marketing to make money online.
As you may already know, Pinterest is a visual search engine; people always search for product recommendations on the platform.
All you need to do is either directly promote products on your Pinterest profile or create a blog post containing the affiliate link and pin it on Pinterest.
Scale up the process, grow traffic, and increase the conversion rate to make a consistent income from affiliate marketing via Pinterest.
Be A Pinterest VA
This one is a little different from all the other tips above.
Growing an audience on Pinterest requires a lot of effort, and one needs to post a lot of high-quality pins to attract clicks to their blog or affiliate link.
Creating content at a scale would be almost impossible after a certain point. This is where people hire virtual assistants to manage and handle Pinterest accounts.
As a Pinterest VA, you need to create pins and schedule them, do research, find potential optimization opportunities, and brainstorm new strategies to get the most out of Pinterest.
As easy as that!
If you have the required expertise in creating content for Pinterest, like pins and pinnable videos, doing keyboard research, finding untapped opportunities, and finding new strategies, then you can become a Pinterest VA and provide services to clients.
As for finding opportunities, you may list your services on freelance platforms like Fiverr, Upwork, and PeoplePerHour or directly reach out to potential leads.
You can easily find hundreds of prospects by researching on Google and Pinterest.
Wrap Up
Pinterest is an excellent platform for making money, but not many people know about it. With nearly half a billion active users monthly, Pinterest is a gold mine for specific niches like travel, decor, recipe, health, etc.
If you have a blog in any one of these verticals and you can spend at least 30 minutes to an hour daily creating content for Pinterest and scheduling the same, you can, too, make at least $5000 monthly.
Often, the growth in Pinterest may take some time. Pins can take three to six months or more to perform well. Recently, one of my pins went viral after about eight months of posting it, and in a span of three months, that particular pin alone bought more than 102,000 clicks, which is absolutely crazy.