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If you are wondering how to make money on Pinterest, you are in the right place.
Today we are going to talk about – not one – but 4 different ways to make money on Pinterest without a blog.
So don’t worry if you do not own a blog, there are different ways to earn if you have a basic understanding of how Pinterest works.
The last option on the list is for bloggers and website owners who want to make the most out of this social media platform.
**This post may contain affiliate links. Please read disclosure.
But here’s the big question – Can you get paid from Pinterest?
No, but there are many ways to make money on Pinterest – we are talking about the platform itself.
First up is affiliate marketing.
If you don’t have the slightest clue what affiliate marketing means – you must read this post. Its got a detailed explanation along with screenshots to help you understand better.
In short, it’s you earning commission selling other people’s products. You won’t have to do any direct selling, but instead, it’s sharing special links (called affiliate links) either on social media, friends or promotion through a blog.
These affiliate links have a tracking code, to be able to track when a sale is being made.
For example, if I am an affiliate a website www.abcde.com, then my affiliate link will be www.abcde.com/sknfib.
The last bit – sknfib – is my special affiliate link code. This code helps track all your commissions allowing you to be paid.
Here is a 3 step method of how it works:
- Someone clicks on your affiliate link
- They buy the product
- You earn a percentage as commission
Let’s now take a look at how this strategy works with Pinterest.
1. Pinterest Affiliate Marketing
When using Pinterest for affiliate marketing, you can link your product image with your affiliate link. Once you start circulating those images on Pinterest and users happen to click and buy from that link, you earn the commission for that purchase.
Each affiliate program has its own set commission rate. This can range from as little as 3% to as high as 50%.
From my experience, I have noticed subscriptions boxes and digital downloads giving away the highest commission rates.
Digital downloads can be online courses, ebooks or printables.
In the past, I have promoted e-books on the keto diet that gave me a 40% commission on each sale. So if the book sold for $49.99, I get $20 on each affiliate sale.
Not bad right?
All that’s left to do is to join some of these affiliate programs – create Pinterest images (related to the product) – and finally share the pin and your affiliate link on Pinterest.
Although Pinterest allows this kind of affiliate marketing, it is important to leave a little note in the description section of each pin that it is an affiliate link.
So you can just write something like – “This Keto book is great for beginners that are looking to start their journey on a Ketogenic diet – Affiliate link”.
Here is the whole Pinterest affiliate marketing process explained with examples.
2. Pinterest Virtual Assistant
While this is not as straight forward as Pinterest affiliate marketing, it has higher income potential.
Yes, you have the ability to earn up to $50 an hour.
You can also choose to opt for monthly packages where you pick and choose what you are comfortable helping your client with. This could be just creating images or only pinning/scheduling pins to distribute on Pinterest. This means you can offer, say a $300 a month package and do 4 0r 5 tasks for your client.
As a Pinterest virtual assistant, you get the opportunity to work with bloggers and other online entrepreneurs to promote their website or products.
You do not need to be tech-savvy or have past experience working in social media to land a job as a Pinterest VA.
This is also a flexible side hustle for stay-at-home moms.
If you are overwhelmed by all this information but would like to consider this work-from-home job, you can check out this free video training that gets into a lot more detail.
3. Pinterest Manager
Want to advance your career as a Pinterest VA? The next step in your career can be to become a Pinterest Manager.
As a Pinterest virtual assistant, you may choose to provide help in promoting a clients account. But as a manager, you also get to provide a few additional services like;
- Auditing an existing Pinterest account to help gain more readers
- Improve old pin descriptions
- Re-branding clients Pinterest accounts
- Offer other customised services.
The rate of pay for a Pinterest Manager increases and can average $75-$100 an hour.
4. Blogger
As a blogger, the majority of the income comes from either ads or affiliate marketing.
Ads are basically the advertisements you see appear on websites.
Affiliate marketing for bloggers are links in a blog post that lead to another website that sells a product.
While these are the two stand out ways to make money blogging, here are 11 other ways bloggers can make money.
Once you have a blog, you can again link images to blog posts and share to Pinterest – similar to Pinterest affiliate marketing. But the difference between the two is that with a blog you link to blog posts, without a blog you link to affiliate links along with a disclosure that it is an “affiliate link”.
Starting a blog is the best decision I made back in 2018. I now make a full-time income from home with blogging and it suits my stay-at-mom lifestyle. It’s flexible, there’s no fixed work schedule and I can choose to work as little or as much as I like.
If like like the sound of that and want to start your own blog, check out this easy shortcut to get set up in less than 10 minutes.
5. Sell your services
You might be an expert in a field, but finding clients/customers might be the hard part. This is where Pinterest can come in handy.
No matter what your skill, you can create a small website for as little as $70 a year and start a “Hire Me” page. You can offer finance tips, wellness advice, help with meal planning, business coaching or anything that you are good at. Having a qualification in that field is an advantage as it will help gain clients trust.
Here are a few things to include in your landing page;
- A section about you – education/work experience
- Price for your services – or you can choose to offer a customised price for each client
- A little sneak-peek of what you have to offer
- Past client testimonials
- Explain in detail about the service(s) you can provide
- Your contact details
It’s not just one-on-one services, you can also choose to create digital downloads – ebooks, online courses, printables – and sell them for profit.
So, how do you promote this on Pinterest?
Set up pin images that lead to your landing page and share on Pinterest. With millions of Pinterest users each month, you have higher chances of landing opportunities from Pinterest users.
And there you have it!
5 smart ways to make money on Pinterest that turns out to be a lucrative side hustle for beginners.
