Is it really possible, on Pinterest, to make money?
This could be the question in your mind if you’re like me and can spend easilyhours at Pinterest. When you love (okay, are somewhat addicted to) Pinterest, why not get paid for it?
There are so many ways on Pinterest to make cash that might surprise you. Some of them do not even need you to have a blog or website!
Ready to learn how you can make a profit from Pinterest?
Here are four brilliant ways you can start with Pinterest today to make money:
How to use Pinterest to make money
Usage for Affiliate Marketing Pinterest
Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest and most transparent forms of making money on Pinterest.
What is affiliate marketing?
It is essentially an arrangement where you support items online and receive a fee if someone makes a purchase through your particular affiliate link. Affiliate marketing by recommending goods that you already use and enjoy is a perfect way to earn cash.
On Pinterest, there are two ways you can pin affiliate links.
The best way is by using your affiliate connection to pin product photos directly to Pinterest. This is a perfect tactic if you are marketing physical items such as clothes, shoes, home decor, etc.
You may use an affiliate network like Shopstyle or RewardStyle for this. Both networks have a feature to pin product images to Pinterest-easy using your affiliate connection!
Another strategy is to make your own Pinterest graphics in order to market the product you are an associate of. This works best with digital objects, such as ebooks, online courses, etc. You can use a free software template such as Canva or PicMonkey to create the graphics, and then simply pin them with your affiliate connection.
You plan to do it anyway, make sure you use the description of the pin to write a few sentences about the product you are promoting, and pin it to the right Pinterest boards with perfect, keyworded names.
Pinterest Capital
Using Pinterest to make money from Advertising
The use of Pinterest for ad sales is a more indirect way of making money on Pinterest, but it can be highly lucrative if done correctly.
For this strategy, you’ll need a blog to drive traffic to your Pinterest account. You’d still need to be part of an ad network. There’s Google AdSense with very little traffic for complete inexperienced bloggers, but they don’t pay much and usually you’re better off waiting until you can get into a better ad network.
Monumetric and Mediavine
Two of the most common ad networks are Monumetric, which needs 10,000 monthly page views to join, and Mediavine, which requires 25,000 monthly sessions to join. Both of these networks pay well and you can expect to receive between $10 RPM and $20 RPM (income per 1,000 visits to the blog.)
When you’re on an ad network, the best way to push traffic to your blog is to make different Pinterest graphics for your blog posts. Test different variations of headlines, fonts, colors, and images to see what works best.
To help you create trendy or seasonal content that will perform well on Pinterest and drive a lot of traffic to your website, Pinterest itself has provided instruments such as this forecast of Pinterest Trends and the Pinterest Possibilities Planner.
The more traffic you can make, the more you can obtain ads. Many bloggers are making thousands of dollars a month from advertisements thanks to their Pinterest traffic!
Become a VA to make money from Pinterest
Why not if you love Pinterest, get paid to support people with their Pinterest accounts? That is exactly what you are going to do as a Pinterest Virtual Assistant.
What is a Pinterest VA?
A virtual assistant (or VA) is a person who assists consumers, such as brands or bloggers, with business tasks such as social media management, email management, content creation, etc. And indeed many VAs exclusively specialize in Pinterest management!
Pinterest VAs assist customers in handling their Pinterest marketing. As a Pinterest VA, there are many tasks you would be required to perform. Here are just a few standard tasks that you might be focusing on as a Pinterest VA:
- Pinterest profile optimization for the customer
- Securing client invitations to the Pinterest group board
- Pinning new content from the client’s website to Pinterest
- Detailed writing of pins for new materials
- For the consumer, Pinterest graphics creation
- Scheduling of content using a network like Tailwind
To be successful as a Pinterest VA, you should have a good understanding of Pinterest marketing best practices and knowledge of scheduling programs like Tailwind and design programs such as Canva or PicMonkey.
Pinterest VAs can expect to benefit anywhere from $25 to $50 + an hour depending on skill level and experience.
Offer goods of your own
On Pinterest, one final way to make money is to sell your own things by using it.
This strategy is similar to Pinterest affiliate marketing, except that with your own products, instead of just having a percentage fee on sales, you will be able to keep all the profits.
Make Money on Ebooks, Online Courses and T-shirt
Physical or digital items such as ebooks, online courses, models, printables, etc can be offered. Personally, since less work is involved (apart from the initial product development work) and you do not have to worry about carrying inventory, shipping, returns, etc., I suggest digital goods.
There are many ways that your product can be marketed. You can use a forum like Etsy, Creative Market, or Shopify, or you can sell your stuff on your own blog or website.
How to Sell your Products on Pinterest
The most direct way to sell your own products on Pinterest is by pinning product photos and graphics that lead straight to the sales page for your product. With Pinterest introducing new “shoppable” pins, this could be a great way to make sales.
It’s an indirect but generally more useful way to make sales by using Pinterest to expand your email list, then pitching your deal to your email subscribers. This strategy is more likely to turn one-time customers into loyal customers and will allow you to keep in touch with your customers.