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How To Make Money On Pinterest — 6 Ideas!

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By ELIA MWAPINGAPublished 3 months ago 3 min read
How To Make Money On Pinterest — 6 Ideas!
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While many see Pinterest as “just another social media platform,” there is also serious potential to create income from the platform. Because of this, more and more creators are wondering how to make money on Pinterest just as they have with Instagrams, YouTubes, and TikToks. Pinterest, a visually driven platform known for its inspirations and discoveries, offers a unique opportunity to monetize content and earn a substantial income. With over 518 million active users, Pinterest provides a vast audience for promoting products, driving traffic to websites, and leveraging affiliate marketing. By strategically using Pinterest’s features and tools, creators can turn their pins into profit.

Strategies For Earning Money on Pinterest

There are multiple ways to earn money on Pinterest, including affiliate marketing, promoting products, driving traffic to a blog or website, and selling your own products or services. Diversifying and prioritizing several methods to maximize your earning potential can be quite lucrative.

Affiliate marketing involves pinning images linked to products with your affiliate code, earning commissions on sales. Promoting others’ goods or even your own products could open up avenues for sizeable income if you have a dedicated following. Of course, getting traffic back from Pinterest to your blog or other website also opens up opportunities to make extra ad revenue and sell your digital products. You could sell your own products, such as printables or downloadables, directly from Pinterest. The technique that generates the most money depends on your niche and audience engagement, but a combination of these strategies generally yields the best results.

1. Pinterest Creator Fund

The Pinterest Creator Fund was initiated for the purpose of underrepresented creators on the platforms, aiding and elevating them with the provision of financial and educational support. The fund enables creators to grow their presences better on Pinterest and monetize their content more efficiently.

To register, a creator needs to apply for free during the open periods of application launched by the fund on Pinterest’s official channels. Once you are approved, you will be awarded financial grants, equipment, and access to all resources that can help make your content brilliant. To win in the program, you need to create quality, interesting pins consistently as well as training in the program. Earning capacity differs from one provider to another, but being in the Creator Fund will really boost the ability to monetize your Pinterest presence by way of increasing visibility and even better content strategies.

2. Pinterest Affiliate Content

Affiliate Pinterest content would essentially mean creating pins that point to products and services you recommend while using affiliate links to earn a commission on sales generated through your pins. This way, you will make money from the Pinterest traffic because you are promoting products relevant to your audience and to people who just happen to be organically surfing through the website.

To begin, you can join free affiliate programs such as Amazon Associates, ShareASale, Like to Know It, or any other affiliate network that suits your niche. Once you join, you can start creating pins that will contain your affiliate links. Success will depend on research into the products and the creation of engaging and appealing pins that could eventually contain some semantic keywords in optimization. The earning potential can be quite high, depending on your audience size and engagement, the type of products you are linking to, and the percentage that the company is offering you as an affiliate commission. Successful affiliates using Pinterest can earn hundreds to thousands of dollars per month, making this a very viable and lucrative form of monetization.

3. Brand Partnerships

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Similarly, relationships that many content creators and influencers engage in on Instagram and TikTok can easily be applied to Pinterest: creators promoting the products or services of a brand through their pins and creating sponsored content as aligned with the interests of their audiences. That is, these partnerships can really contribute much towards your income by pushing your influence and reach here.

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About the Creator

ELIA MWAPINGA

I'm ELIA MWAPINGA, a passionate blogger & marketer with a unique approach to creating valuable content.


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