How To Make Money On Pinterest Without A Blog in Kenya
How to make money on pinterest without a blog. Is it possible?
Have you been spending most of your time on pinterest lately? It’s a fun social media for inspiration, ideas, quotes, DIY crafts, amazing Photography, beautiful world destinations, fashion, and so much more. But have you ever ask yourself, how can I make money on pinterest?
If you spend a lot of time on pinterest, you might as well look for a way to make some cash on Pinterest. This post covers how you can start making money on pinterest even if you are a complete beginner. Plus a bonus Top Secret To Make Tuns Of Money On Pinterest at the end of this article
First of all, what is pinterest?
Pinterest is one of the best social networking sites available online. If you thought pinterest is just a place to get inspiration, see beautiful photos and useful info graphics, you thought wrong.
Pinterest is a visual search engine. Which means people use Pinterest as they would with Google.
But unlike Google, Pinterest is a visual tool, so instead of looking for “Chicken Nuggets Easy Recipe” on Google just to find results in text format. Why not jump on pinterest and get the same results with beautiful pictures of the end product.
That way you can decide which chicken nuggets recipe suits you best by seeing the end product of the recipe.
Other pinterest facts you should know about:
Over 300 million users use Pinterest every month (in 2020) and the number is still counting. Over 80 million users are from the United States of America, and 75.9% of pinterest users are female.
According to Pinterest, 90% of the weekly users on pinterest use Pinterest to make decisions whether or not they will purchase a product online or offline
Also pinterest drives 33% more referral traffic to shopping sites than any other social media platforms. Half of Pinterest users earn 50k Dollars per year.
Source: Pinterest, eMarketer
With all these data, it’s a prove that making money on pinterest is possible. But how do you start making money on pinterest.
This article covers a way people are already using to make money on pinterest without owning a blog. People are making thousands of dollars monthly on pinterest.
So let’s look at ways to make money from Pinterest, even when you are a complete beginner.
How To Make Money On Pinterest Without A Blog in Kenya
Affiliate Marketing
If you have been an internet user for a while now, you have probably come across this term. Affiliate Marketing.
If not. What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is simply getting a commission for sending traffic or sells to a product. On affiliate marketing. You get paid when someone purchases a product using your unique link, which will be provided to you when you sign up for an affiliate marketing program.
The commission you earn will be at no additional cost to the buyer. The more products people purchase using your unique link, the more money you will make.
Using affiliate marketing you will be able to make money on pinterest without owning a blog or a website.
Before you start making money through affiliate marketing, you will need to register for free to an affiliate marketing website.
The best affiliate program companies that we recommend are as follows:
:Jumia
: ShareAsale
: Flexoffers
: Amazon Associates
Note: Non of the websites mentioned above is sponsored. We recommend only the best websites that you can trust.
How to drive traffic and sales from Pinterest
After you have signed up and created an account with an affiliate marketing website.
Now it’s time to make money from the sales commissions.
By having an account on one of these affiliate marketing websites mentioned above, you will be provided with a unique link.
The link is the one you will be using to drive people to a certain product and make a sale.
Your unique link tracks cookies from the people who clicked on it. Which means, if you posted the link on pinterest, someone clicks on it.
It leads the person to a website (eg: ShareAsale, Flexoffers, Amazon) where they can purchase the intended product (eg: a microwave), but instead the person ends up purchasing a fridge, you will earn the commission of the fridge sold to the purchaser, who used your link.
Another unique thing is that the link tracks all the purchases made from your link.
If the same person decides to buy a fridge, TV, Shoes and a dress (randomly naming a few), you will still get paid for everything bought by the person using your link.
To get traffic from Pinterest to your affiliate link, you will need a pinterest account. Necessary for you to make money from Pinterest.
This is how it works.
With a pinterest account you will pin images of the products you are promoting and use the link to drive people to the website from which they will make a purchase.
How to upload an affiliate pin on pinterest
How to successfully upload an affiliate pin with the link to and affiliate product you are promoting.
To upload an affiliate pin:
First you need to log in to your Pinterest account. At the bottom of the screen. There should be plus sign [ + ].
Second step is to click on the add pin after you have clicked on the plus sign.
The third thing to do is to upload the pin for the affiliate product you are promoting. Give the pin a name and a catchy description.
The last thing is to add the unique link at the bottom of the pin where it asks you to enter a URL for your pin. Now confirm the link is working by clicking next, then add link. Pin the image on a relevant board.
For example don’t pin a shoe image to a t-shirt related board. It doesn’t make sense, and the pinterest algorithm will be confused what your board is actually about.
NOTE: Don’t use any link shortener tools like Pretty Link on your links. That’s against Pinterest’Policy.
On your description, use related keywords of the pin. Create a strong description enough to convince someone to buy the product.
You can create multiple pins for one link. Recommend number is 3 to 5 pins per link. But use different photos and descriptions.
Make sure your board has the same keywords on the board description, as the relevant pins on the board.
That will help your pins perform well on pinterest smart feed. Choose a board to post all the related pins. Do NOT randomly pin your pins in any board.
To optimize for pinterest SEO you need to post on relevant boards. You can consider joining group boards that are in your niche to reach a higher number of Pinterest users.
How to maximize your earning commissions from affiliate marketing
So what if you are making money, but not good enough? Affiliate marketing can really change your life completely. If done right. It has made many people millionaires.
But that doesn’t happen overnight, there certain things you need to implement to make more money as an affiliate marketer.
One of them is to make pinterest your best friend. Unless you are a celebrity on Instagram, there’s no better social media platform for you than pinterest.
Invest your time in learning pinterest SEO, and how to grow your business on pinterest.
One golden tip to grow on pinterest is to pin manually and pin daily. Consistency on pinterest is the key.
Don’t forget to add keywords of the products you are promoting on your Pinterest profile name and profile description.
For better results, we recommend pinning from 20 to 40 pins daily. NOT more than 50 a day.
Depending on your schedule and how bad you want to make money as an affiliate marketer.
Top Secret To Grow On Pinterest And Make Sales
As an affiliate marketer, popularity will make you more money than you can ever imagine. Popularity does not necessarily mean that you have to become a celebrity to make sales. No.
But your Pinterest account has to be as popular as it can get. To make your account popular on pinterest, you have to start treating pinterest as a search engine not a social media platform.
Meaning if people are looking for red dresses to buy for their girlfriends on valentine’s day, your pins should pop up if you are an affiliate for such products.
To make your pins pop up on search results, you have to increase your pin engagement.
How do you increase your pin engagement?
Easy. Post what people want to see. If you keep on pinning only affiliate related pins, it will be hard for you to build a huge following in a short time.
So here is the gold secret that we proved to be working.
Pin inspiration and motivational quotes almost every day! Yes. That will blow up your Pinterest account in a very short time.
People love to be inspired and motivated. If you can inspire a lot of people. It’s much easier for them to purchase products from your affiliate pins.
The point is to make more sales and make tuns of money, and that’s only possible if people know that your account exists.
Pin popular and easily relatable quotes. Aways pin high quality pins. Pin daily. Use keywords on your affiliate pins.
There you have it..
Using affiliate marketing is how many people are making money on pinterest without a blog.
As you can see, you don’t have to be an expert to be able to make money on pinterest without a blog. You just need to learn a few things and you are good to go