Quick Guide: How to Use Pinterest to Make Money

Want to learn how to use Pinterest to make money?

Maybe you’ve seen several social media or YouTube videos about it, but you are still scratching your head wondering what everyone is doing.

We get it!

It seems like every day you see Stripe screenshots about people making money, but no one ever tells you HOW.

In this blog post, you’ll learn how to use Pinterest to make money.

How to Use Pinterest to Make Money

Thinking about your business model and how you can leverage Pinterest. If you are a service provider, you can write blog posts and your CTA would be to buy your digital products.

Or if you are a photographer, you can leverage Pinterest to sign new clients and send traffic to fill out an inquiry form with you.

Still confused? One way to know how to use Pinterest to make money is to look at your competitors on Pinterest and click on their blogs to see where they are driving their traffic.

Affiliate Sales

Looking to make some money from Pinterest?

One great way is to blog about your favorite topics and include links to products you’re an affiliate for. This means when your readers click and buy through your links, you’ll earn a commission!

You can find affiliate programs for just about any niche, whether it’s marketing, fashion, beauty, or more—and they’re usually free to join. All you need to do is create your affiliate link, share it with your followers, and get paid whenever someone makes a purchase through your link. It’s a fun and easy way to turn your passion into profit!

Example: You have an Amazon store and you are linking to the best cleaning products. So you would create a blog post with an enticing title and then show them why you love that cleaning product. Then at the end of the blog post, you link to the product so the reader can purchase it and you earn commission.

Examples of Popular Affiliate Programs:

• Amazon
• LTK
• Kajabi
• Shopify
• ASOS
• Nordstrom
• Nike

Membership/Subscriptions

If you want to learn how to use Pinterest to make money, look no further.

No matter what your niche is there are a ton of people who want monthly resources to help them solve their problems.

So for example, if you are a photographer and you mentor other photographers, you can offer a membership with support and resources.

Your membership can be monthly, quarterly, or yearly but the key thing is that it is a membership that people want.

So consider creating free content like a blog or YouTube videos and then at the end offer a free email opt-in that solves their problem, and then in your email sequence, you could include a discount for them to join your membership or subscription.

New Clients

Warning! This is our favorite!

One of the most popular ways businesses are using Pinterest to make money is to create relevant content, offer a free email opt-in, and then in the email sequence invite your email subscriber to inquire about how to work with you.

So for example, if you are a photographer, you can create blog posts about your client’s wedding and offer an email opt-in, and then your last email can send them a link to inquire about working with you.

But the key thing here is once you create your blog posts you have to create enticing pins for Pinterest with the right keywords so that your target audience actually click on your website link.

Digital Products

Ahh digital products!

They are all the rage. But is it just all hype?

You see, there is so much talk on social media about making passive income, but the truth is you still have to create content to promote it.

So here’s a mindset shift, it’s not that “passive income” doesn’t require work, it’s that you can keep making sales even while you’re NOT working.

Now one way to make money with Pinterest is to create a blog post, and link your digital product so that Pinterest users who land on your blog can purchase it. The key thing to remember is that you have to create relevant content to position your digital product as the solution.

Popular Digital Products

• Planners/Journals
• Templates
• Ebooks
• Recipes

Physical Products

From journals to shirts and mugs, you can create pins on Pinterest and drive the traffic to your physical products.

The one thing to note is that you should make sure you have multiple URL’s to link on Pinterest.

So let’s say you only sell one journal and you only have one URL link then you can’t just link that one URL over and over again.

Pinterest needs to see you use different URL links.

Consider blogging and then linking to your physical product in the blog post.

That way you have different links and Pinterest won’t flag your account.

Blog Ads

At the end of the day, blog ads are great if you want to diversify your income.

But think about this especially if you are a service provider and you want clients to sign up to work with you.

Because if you are let’s say a photographer and your blog has ads, then they might click on the ad instead of signing up to learn more about your services.

So if you create pins and you get them to click on your blog, you can make money if they click on the ads displayed on your blog.

Obviously you are really going to need a ton of traffic to get to your site if you want to make money this way, so you need a lot more content and pin graphics to drive traffic this way.

This blog post won’t give you all the steps on how to sign up for “blog ads.”

But you can easily do a YouTube search to figure out how to sign up for blog ads.

Now that you’ve learned how to use Pinterest to make money. Go create one of them for your business. Remember to create attention-grabbing pins and link your blogs. Send me a DM on Instagram and let me know if you have any questions.

Read the previous blog, “5 Insider Tips and Tricks to Learn Pinterest Quickly.

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