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How Pinterest Makes Me Money


Got a new blog?

I do.

But you know what? Ever since I’ve been putting my focus on Pinterest to grow my blog and traffic, I never thought in a million years I’d be making money from it!

Okay, I have a confession to make. It might not be a confession, but, I have another site (gasp!). It’s my freelance writing site where I talk about all things related to freelance writing.

I also have a course out for new writers. And I recently learned I made over $200 from course sales directly from Pinterest.

***want to know another way to boost sales on your evergreen course?***

And you know what? You can have the same success with your product or affiliate product.

If you’re struggling making sales, I know how frustrating it can be. One day you might make two sales and then a week goes by and you don’t make any.

Generating Sales for the Mompreneur

We are hustlers right? Boss-moms, Mama-bosses, we run a house, take care of our children, build a booming business and create our own products.

We kick ass!

Maybe you’re not there yet – mompreneur status – and that’s okay. Twins Mommy is all about helping moms become mompreneurs.

But if you do have a product, all you want is for it to be successful right?

My freelance writing course, Write Your Way to Your First $1k, generates around a sale every three or four days.

My goal is to generate at least one sale every day.

Maybe your goal is to generate 10 sales a month or 50 sales a month.

Pinterest can help with that. Here’s how I use Pinterest to help me generate sales and income.

Create a Welcome Page for Your Product

Sometimes, linking straight to your sales page can be a bit off-putting.

You’re on Pinterest minding your own business, find a pin that interests you and click to go to the site. But instead of seeing a blog post, you’re faced with sales tactics and pricing tables.

Eww! Yuck!

That’s not going to help you make sales.

What will, though, is a welcome page. This is a little stop you create for your visitors before they head on to your sales page. It’s a little blurb that entices someone to keep clicking and seeing what’s next. This is my welcome page for my freelance writing course:

writeto1k welcome page

It’s super short, highly engaging and makes you want to click to learn more.

Creating a Pinnable Image

Here’s the pin I made for my welcome page:

Two things I did to optimize my pin was:

1. Made a Personal Title

As a blogger, I’m sure you’ve heard how blogging for yourself won’t get you traffic or engagement. If all you talk about is you, you, you on your blog, no one will care.

So, what do you do? You make sure to write blog posts that provide tips for other people.

I mean, that’s what I’ve always been doing. I make sure there’s a “you” in my headline as much as possible.

But, I found something out when perusing one evening on Pinterest. A lot of the pins I kept seeing on my feed were pins with personal titles like:

“How I Generated 50,000 Likes on Facebook” or,

“How I made 654,00 In a Year of Blogging” or,

“How I Started Making a Full-Time Income from Blogging”

And you know what? Those were the pins I gravitated towards the most. These pins show someone succeeding and it makes you want to see how they did that and then want to use their tips for your own blog.

So, I decided for my pin I would use a personal title instead of, “How To Earn Your First $1k From Freelance Writing Part-time.”

2. Included a Call-to-Action

To encourage pinners to click to your site, include a call-to-action. This is something you want them do to. Most likely, for a pin you want them to click to learn more.

I also made sure my description didn’t give away too much information and only piqued a readers interest.

I Ramped Up My Strategy

When I started Twins Mommy, I just blogged about working from home and the challenges of working from home. I just wanted to share my experiences and help others working from home.

But then, I don’t know what happened, but I wanted to try and grow this blog. I think because this blog is broader than my other blog, I could reach more people.

I started sharing my blog growth and I will eventually share my income too!

Part of growing my blog meant I would focus on Pinterest and start automating my pins with Tailwind.

This was a complete game changer for me. I saw more repins, followers and traffic all because of Pinterest and Tailwind.

But, then something also happened – I made some course sales! After only one month of using Tailwind.

My course gives you access to a private Facebook group and I usually have newcomers introduce themselves. I noticed that some of them mentioned they found me via Pinterest.

bethany-intro

And this one:

marissa-intro-fb

I can bet I made more sales via Pinterest, but no one has told me except these ladies. I can also look at my analytics, but just haven’t had the time yet.

Your Buyers Are On Pinterest

If your target audience are mostly women, then Pinterest is where you want to be.

Even if your niche is blogging, making printables, working from home or business, you can still make a killing on Pinterest.

For example, Wonderlass is a site for creatives to build a business they love. Allison is the blogger and her Pinterest account has exploded. She has over 48k followers! You go girl!

All because of Pinterest.

And more and more people are using Pinterest to search for products. After all, it is considered a visual search engine.

So, why not start promoting your products and services on Pinterest? I know my earnings aren’t a lot, but I’m just over the rainbow happy that writers found me on Pinterest and ended up buying my course!

It’s Your Turn

Okay, mompreneurs in the making. If you have a product or service out, go ahead and create a welcome page and start pinning that around.

Focus your marketing efforts on Pinterst, especially if your audience are mostly women.

Let me know if Pinterest helped you make money too!

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  1. Great article and lots of helpful tips! I work full time (Instructional Designer) and I write and self-publish in my spare time too. So I appreciate this article and info, great for us busy people. I definitely need to spend more time on Pinterest. Thanks!

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    • Hi Randi,

      The welcome page – squeeze page – lives on your blog. It’s a page or landing page set up on your blog. When it’s set up, you can create a pin for it and link to that page!

      Reply

  3. Hi Elna. I love pintrest I am addicted to it actually. I would love to make money from it can u teach me how. Please please please with a cherry on top

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    • Hi Aquanita,

      What I have is in the post 🙂 I know you can use affiliate links on Pinterest, but be careful on which group boards you post those affiliate link graphics to. Many group boards don’t allow those types of pins!

      Reply

  4. Hello, I was wondering how you create your own website without using square space/weebly and all those other sites? I want to create my own website by full ownership of it and was wondering how did you do it?

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  5. Hi, Elna
    I’ve been looking into doing something in my spare time, as I enjoy my full time job as an Early Childhood Educator. I’m on social media a lot, Facebook, Instagram, & Pinterest mostly. Pinterest is where I found your site. I don’t plan on having a webpage, but have many interests and have been contemplating whether or not Blogging would work for me. Your information seems very useful, but I have no clue where to begin. Any tips or suggestions?

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  7. Thanks for this great post! I don’t have a product to sell yet (I’m noodling that one), but I do have some freebies on my blog. I love Pinterest and know I can use it more effectively. Thanks for showing me how!

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    • Hi Suzi!

      That’s great! Yeah, you can definitely increase your subscriber rate using Pinterest. That’s what I do 🙂 I create landing pages or just pages on my WP site and link that to Pinterest and it works!

      Reply

  9. Hi Elna,

    Thank you for the wonderful information. I am still trying to understand pintrest and creating group boards. I hope you can give me a little help. I am trying to promote my etsy shop on pinterest but am still understanding the concept. https://www.etsy.com/shop/InspiredbyMari

    I really appreciate any help you can provide. I came across your blog through pinterest. 🙂

    Thank you in advance.

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    • Hi Mari!

      I wish I could help. I don’t have an Etsy shop, but one thing you can do is have a blog and connect your shop with your blog and have an email list. Then you can grow your followers and eventually your customers by offering discounts for being a loyal subscriber! Good luck!

      Reply

  10. Hi Elna,
    I just started a website and discovered Pinterest. As you say may be it is a good opportunity the world to see my products and hopefully start selling. But it is so hard! I think I need a little help from bloggers like you, that have many followers to promote my stuff. I am producing luxury fabric book covers-it’s a product not so well known on the market but very pretty and fashionable and I think people will love it especially the book lovers. Can you give me some recommendation or can You promote my products?
    Thank you in advance!

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  11. Hi Elna!

    Thanks for your great tips and ideas. I’ve joked so many times that if I could get paid for the time I spend on Pinterest, that would be a pretty sweet income! 🙂 You’ve given lots of good advice and food for thought on writing and using Pinterest. I would love to start proof reading, as well as blogging. I started making a website months ago, but let it go by the wayside because just trying to set it up became overwhelming to me. So, thank you for the encouragement! I’m going to get on it!

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    • Hi!

      Thanks so much. Making money on Pinterest is an easy way. Pinning your landing page or squeeze page is good like I do. You can also pin affiliate links too and you can do promoted pins!

      Reply

    • Hey Lynelle!

      Awesome. Twelveskip is a great blog to help you with your business. Good luck. And thanks for letting me know the FB name 🙂

      Reply

  14. Hi Elna! I also found your blog post in Pinterest 🙂 But, after reading your name and your blog’s name, I realized that we are both part of the SBM Facebook group! So thanks to Pinterest I came to your blog…and I love it!

    I am focusing in Pinterest to bring more traffic to my store and I am trying to learn all what I can. Thanks for the information! I will be visiting you frequently! 🙂

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  19. Dear: Elna,

    Thank you for posting this blog on Pinterest. I am a Stay at Home Mom, hustle and have 2 kids too. I love Pinterest. I learned about making money on Hustle jobs on Pinterest. Pinterest changed my life. It made me love life by reaching out to pinners out there. Showing me there more to life to live “I Live,love and learn from pinners/pinterests.” I would one day want to make money on Pinterest and Blog too.

    Best Regards,
    Cindy Khann

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    • Hey Cindy,

      Thanks so much! I’m happy you came by and found this post helpful. Pinterest has definitely helped me grow this blog fast! I can’t believe it. It’s a great place to grow your following and subscribers too! Thanks for coming by!

      Reply

  20. Wow…… I’m definitely going to pin this I don’t have a product in circulation just yet but getting closer and now thanks to you it will be a little bit easier for me to get my product out there for the world to see. Thanks so much for your pen it has given me a bit more confidence in myself in knowing that I can get my product out there.

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    • Hey Wendy

      That’s great to hear! Yeah, I find Pinterest an easy place to market my product. I’ll definitely be using it with my next product! I’m happy to hear that this post gave you a little kick in the butt to start doing more marketing on Pinterest! Have fun 🙂

      Reply

    • Hey Emma,

      Rich pins are what makes your pins stand out on Pinterest. All my pins on Twins Mommy and Elna Cain are Rich Pins.

      Reply

  24. Hi Elna,
    Thank you for being so up front with your new life – I feel inspired to start my own. Also, huge congratulations for maintaining your blogs whilst being a new mum- so impressed.

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    • Hi Linda!

      Thanks so much! I’m super excited to grow Twins Mommy and Pinterest totally rocks! I can’t believe I made course sales organically! There is so much potential on that platform and I’m just scratching the surface.

      Thanks for stopping by.

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  25. Awesome blog Elna, I like your style of writing and in fact I have came to you via pinterest only. My blog is also a few months old, so this made an interesting read to me.

    I think another good thing which you are already doing is having attractive images on your blog. Your images have a charm which just forced me to reach you from pinterest and in fact I have pinned a few of your posts too.

    Good luck

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    • Hi Shadaan!

      Thank you so much. I LOVE images and tweaking them and creating a brand with each of my blogs. So far, I’m really liking how Twins Mommy is visually looking.

      Thanks for letting me know you found me via Pinterest!

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  26. Pinterest is such a boon for bloggers – if you use it right. These are great tips, Elna – and congrats on your success!

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    • Hey Kelly,

      Thanks! I had no clue I would generate course sales on Pinterest! I feel it’s has to do with Tailwind. That tool is awesome and has really honed in my Pinterest marketing strategy.

      Reply

  27. Awesome post, my blog is only a month old too but I plan on monetizing it as best as I can with learning new stuff from blogs like yours. I also subscribed to Wonderlass and is a member of her Facebook group. It’s really helpful!

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    • Hey Kami,

      Don’t you LOVE Wonderlass? I found her on Pinterest and can’t get enough of her. She’s wacky, funny and so, so creative. I am in love with her brand and style.

      Her group rocks too!

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    • Hi Dana!

      Thanks so much. I LOVE writing on this blog and getting to know other moms and bloggers. Blogging is awesome 🙂 It’s becoming a bit of a challenge writing two posts a week on this blog, but I know I gotta do it if I want to bring in traffic consistently. My blog is still very VERY very new.

      Thanks for being a loyal reader!

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  29. Thank you SO much for sharing! I love what you said about making it an ‘I’, instead of a ‘you’. I totally am more likely to click on something when I know the person has authority.

    Definitely going to have to invest more into my Pinterest.

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    • Hey Carmela,

      I know right? As a freelance writer, I’ve been “schooled” to learn that to engage an audience you should write for them and talk to them.

      But, pinners seem to like personal success stories. Those do hella good on that platform! So, if you want Pinterest to be your #1 traffic referral site, consider writing some personal success posts while still giving away awesome tips!

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    • Hi Nara,

      Your welcome! I know, I’m still learning Pinterest in regards to marketing. There’s a lot to learn for sure 🙂 I’m glad this was useful.

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  31. Hey Elna, maybe it’s a glitch on my end, but wanted to give you a heads up that when I click to download the content upgrade I just get redirected to the top of the page and can’t enter my email anywhere.

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    • Emily!

      Thank you so much for letting me know. I’m using OptinMonster to deliver my content upgrades and I’m still learning how to use it! It should be working now! I apologize for that glitch.

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    • Hey Jen

      Thanks so much for reading my newsletter and pinning this! I know not everyone on my newsletter is selling their own product, but I’m hoping y’all eventually do!

      I’ll be sharing my tips that helped me successfully launch my product so be on the lookout for those types of posts! As always, thanks for being a loyal follower 🙂

      Reply

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