If you spend a lot of time on Pinterest as a user it probably crossed your mind
a few times that for all the hours you spent on the platform it would be great
to learn a way of making money on Pinterest hi I'm Anastasia of Anastasia
blogger.com I'm a Pinterest marketing expert and on this channel my new
tutorials are published on Thursdays if you want to learn more about Pinterest
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to get notified about my new videos going live first I want to tell you how
you cannot make money on Pinterest the influencer model where you get paid for
having high number of followers or impressions on your profile doesn't work
on this platform so if you've been thinking that you can do like many
instagramers just post some pretty images grow your following numbers get
impressions on your images and you're good to go for sponsored money that's
not gonna work on Pinterest I often get questions from people who tell me oh I
have a Pinterest account with 5,000 pins and I've got about a million monthly
viewers on Pinterest when will I start making money from it and how do I do it
there is simply no marketplace or any sponsorship platform where you can put
your Pinterest account and start receiving requests from companies who
want to advertise on your account it's just not a thing on Pinterest and you
have to deal with it when I get questions like this I'm really amazed at
how people are easily wasting their time for things that they don't understand
and they don't know nothing about so if that was you asking yourself how to make
money on Pinterest if you have no website and you don't plan to link your
pins to some affiliate offers I'm sorry to be the bearer of the bad news but you
will make no money with your Pinterest account and you will waste your time
trying to grow it so this was how you shouldn't expect to make money on
Pinterest and now let's speak about the ways that can actually bring you some
extra income or maybe even become your full-time job
the first way you can make money on Pinterest will work
for you if you have experience in graphic design it's making ping graphics
for other people who need them to promote their websites if you're a
graphic designer it will not take you much time at all to
create pin images because pins usually have a pretty simple and standard design
oftentimes your clients will ask you to create for them just the branded pin
templates maybe a package of 10 or 20 templates so they can reuse them to
create their own pins it's something like my package of 20 camera templates
for example I sell it as a digital product on my site and this could also
be an option for you and by the way if you are the one who is struggling with
pin design and you want to buy my pin canva templates I will give you a link
to the product in the top right corner and in the description below this video
so selling pin templates either as a digital product or with a branding for
each individual client is also an option but of course you will earn more if your
clients want you to create every single pin image for them from scratch even if
you are not a graphic designer but you feel like it's something you
could be good at there are actually free or some very affordable online tools you
can use for creating pins for example you could use canva free online image
editor I have another video on my channel that will teach you the basics
of pin image creation in about 10 minutes I'll give you a link in the top
right corner and in the description below this video by the way I've seen a
Pinterest management company charging up to $20 per original pin image and up to
$50 for a video pin yes 20 and $50 per pin it's not a monthly package and I'm
not exaggerating it's a big company in the Pinterest marketing space so if you
do a quick research you will find their site and all the prices are there so
they can probably convince their clients to pay that much for image or for video
pin but if you as a freelancer can offer a more attractive price for a great
quality of graphics make the math and see how much you can get paid for just
creating pin images and videos now the second way is Pinterest
account management if you have some experience managing your own account on
Pinterest and if you achieved quite impressive results doing so you could
start offering Pinterest management to others
Pinterest requires consistency and not all the business owners and not all the
bloggers have the time and patience to regularly create and save pins how do I
know there is a demand for Pinterest marketing services well first of all I
personally receive a lot of requests from business owners who watched my
videos on YouTube who acknowledge the potential of Pinterest platform but they
just don't have the time to manage their accounts I get so many requests that I
could probably open a Pinterest management agency if I wanted to I just
don't see this as a business model for myself because I'm not really into this
idea of supervising a big team of people who would manage Pinterest accounts for
clients so for the most part I politely reject any requests from potential
clients for monthly Pinterest management but I can tell you also that if you go
to a few Facebook groups for bloggers especially if the group is not just for
the very beginners but rather for established bloggers and just do some
search inside the group for Pinterest management or Pinterest v8 keywords you
will be surprised to see how regularly new threads are created where
established bloggers are looking for someone to manage their Pinterest even
in my private Facebook group for students only of my Pinterest course we
have this request from time to time some members of the program have a business
or an established website and they prefer paying someone else to manage
their Pinterest and others who are just starting a blog even if they start
getting good traffic from Pinterest they cannot get paid as beginner bloggers in
the very few months just as an example when my students reach 25,000 monthly
sessions in traffic and apply for media ban it takes a few more months before
they see the first paycheck from the day you apply to media vine until the day
when you start running their ads on your site normally the whole process
takes about a month then like other ad networks media vine will pay you for the
first month with about 70 days of delay that's another two months of waiting
time so while you're building your blog and your traffic from Pinterest as a
beginner managing Pinterest accounts for others can be a great additional income
source I'm expecting to get a lot of questions in the comments below this
video about this way of making money on Pinterest because it seems like the
easiest way to get started on Pinterest as you can get paid right from the first
month when you start working with your first client but when I'm telling you
there is a lot of demand for these services it doesn't mean that anyone and
everyone will easily find clients while having zero experience and knowledge
about Pinterest don't get me wrong if you yourself are a complete beginner on
Pinterest if you have no idea what you're doing if you don't have a
portfolio or you cannot show that you achieve some good results for at least
your own account on Pinterest then you shouldn't expect that people will trust
you and pay you for your services the other question I also expect a lot of
people will ask me is how much you could charge for these services I can tell you
that prices vary depending on what you include in the package and depending on
how stablished you are as a Pinterest expert and whether or not you can show
your potential clients some reviews and results of your previous clients I've
seen people charge from around 300 dollars per month and all the way up to
two thousand dollars per month for managing one Pinterest account and the
next way you can make money on Pinterest I'd like to cover in this video is with
affiliate marketing you can use it in two different ways on Pinterest and the
first one is for people who don't have a website and don't want to bother
creating one and don't want to write content about the products that they
promote this way works for any beginners because all you have to do is create a
Pinterest board and save some beautiful images optimized for Pinterest platform
linked directly to the affiliate products personally I do not use
mattered a lot because I noticed that there are lots of issues with using
direct affiliate links even though there are allowed on Pinterest the biggest
issue is that Pinterest doesn't give priority distribution to pins that are
linked to other sites to the sides that are not verified on your Pinterest
account I know you probably have seen many videos on YouTube that claim you
can make a ton of money making direct links from pins to affiliate products
but I also noticed that a lot of the affiliate networks and web sites are
already blocked on Pinterest so you might be trying to send traffic directly
to those affiliate networks but Pinterest will not even let you add the
links to them I hear this happening to a lot of people with links to Clickbank
for example and I also think that the list of the affiliate networks that are
blocked and Pinterest is just growing over time so it makes linking directly
to affiliate products more and more difficult so another way I would
recommend you to use affiliate marketing with Pinterest traffic is by driving
this traffic to your own verified website where you can do some reviews of
all the products you promote and explain to your audience what are the benefits
of this product before you send them to the F to the affiliate website if you
want to learn more about affiliate marketing on Pinterest I've made another
separate video covering this topic so I will give you a link to it in the top
right corner and in the description below this video the next way is driving
traffic from Pinterest to your own website this one is perhaps my personal
favorite way because it can help you really get to a point when your income
becomes more or less passive and you're not trading your time for money it takes
more time of course you won't be paid from the very first month if you drive
traffic to a new website you will need to learn all about the ways of
monetizing your free Pinterest traffic as well I actually have a video on my
channel that will show you how I monetize my blog in different ways
including the most basic strategy of making money on your site with display
ads I will give you a link to that video in the top right corner
also in the description below this video and sometimes I get a weird question
from people who are new to blogging is traffic from Pinterest considered to be
of a high quality to be monetized with ads on my site some people have an
impression that Pinterest traffic could be categorized as low quality social
media traffic well you guys are totally wrong
first of all Pinterest is not quite a social media platform it's a mix between
a social media and a search engine also Pinterest is probably one of the best
traffic sources if you want to get into premium ad networks like media vine
because you will be getting visitors from the United States and for traffic
from North America advertisers always pay the best you can start seeing
results driving Pinterest traffic a lot faster than you will see organic traffic
from Google to a new website but you definitely need to learn how to get this
traffic from Pinterest and the key here is understanding SEO for Pinterest I
teach this in my Pinterest SEO traffic secrets course so if you want to learn
it I will give you a link to it in the top right corner and in the description
below this video you probably know that I'm sharing the best comment in every
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latest videos my subscriber with a youtube channel called calico collage
left a comment under my video saying wonderful information as always I found
your useful videos back in March when I was trying to better understand
Pinterest since then my monthly viewers have jumped up over a hundred and fifty
thousand and sales are up for both my Etsy and my main website I'm so thankful
for all of your videos as you can see Pinterest can not only
drive traffic to your site but also improve the actual sales on your site
and I will talk more about product sales from Pinterest traffic a little bit
later in this video and the other way I use Pinterest to
grow my online income is by driving traffic to my own digital products I
don't sell any physical products and I don't have
an e-commerce site but I know a lot of shops Drive Pinterest traffic including
some of the students of my course actually you can either drive organic
traffic to shop or using Pinterest ads also called promoted pins and you can
get clicks and leads quite cheap compares to other advertising platforms
I have a couple of videos about Pinterest ads including my recent video
about promoted video pins I show there how it's easy to create them and how you
can get actual traffic to your site and not just video views I'll give you a
link to that video in the description below this one and like I said I do not
run an e-commerce store but I drive leads from Pinterest to my own digital
products for example I have a goal set up in my Google Analytics for the
signups for my free workshop and in general signups to my email list
Pinterest drives me a lot of leads Facebook or Instagram don't get even
close to those conversion numbers from Pinterest you could ask me but if these
people just signed up for your list what does it have to do with product sales
well it has everything to do with sales my emails nurture and educate my
audience and when people are ready they buy from my emails but first I had to
get them into my list and Pinterest traffic helps me to get new leads every
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