Praveen Kumar
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What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is an online photo-sharing social media platform that allows you to share your photos for free. You can create a Pinterest account for absolutely free and start uploading photos. According to the official site of Pinterest, the recommended aspect ratios are 2:3 or 1000 x 1500 pixels.
You can find pictures of literally anything on Pinterest, from famous brands to wallpapers everything can be found on Pinterest.
You can create and upload your PIN anytime you want as you do on Instagram and Facebook. Many people use Pinterest as a marketing tool to promote and grow their brand, this is a free and organic way to grow your brand on the Internet organically.
How to Create a Pinterest Post
There are many tools that you can use to create a Pinterest Post, today I am going to explain to you how to create an interesting post with one of the most used software in the world which is Canva.
Canva is a graphic designing software that allows you to create different graphical designs for absolutely free, it provides you with hundreds of different templates that allow you to create your design effortlessly.
I’m recommending this tool to you because Canva is available for both paid and free users since many people can’t afford the paid version they can simply use the free version, and they will also get the Pinterest template for free.
To create a Pinterest design in Canva just click on the new design and choose Pinterest 1000×1500, now you are ready to design your design for a product, company, or brand promotion and save it.
Now you can upload your design on the Pinterest platform and also give a backlink of your product or site that you would like to redirect the audience when someone clicks on the post.
How to Make Money with Pinterest
1. Generate Traffic for the Blog
Pinterest is an important tool when it comes to organic traffic. Bloggers and social media influencers use it to drive traffic to their websites, just like other platforms.
Pinterest gives bloggers a backlink along with the traffic, with each post and they can be indexed in the Google search engine.
Allowing users sites to gain more traffic and authority for the website. Many bloggers use Pinterest as their primary source of traffic because after working for 1-2 years your Pinterest would be big enough to generate decent traffic. that’s why Pinterest is one of the primary choices for traffic and also quality of the audience is much better than the other platforms.
2. E-commerce Product
If you have an online store, you can drive your traffic to your store from Pinterest. You can create beautiful pins featuring your products and give links to your product page.
This is a kind of organic marketing technique but it works perfectly. Once your pins start to get you will start getting sales. All you have to do is create posts around your product and it’s free marketing.
People use Pinterest to promote their dropshipping products, this can be also an option for you, just create an online store and promote it on Pinterest.
3. Sponsored Content
Pinterest is a social media site so here traffic matters the most if your profile is getting enough views and your posts are also getting engagements then you can also get sponsored posts once your profile comes into the limelight.
You can grow your profile on Pinterest just like you do on other social media sites like Instagram and Facebook. You can learn Pinterest marketing and growth on YouTube there are many people teaching you how to grow on Pinterest.
4. Affiliate Links
Pinterest allows affiliate links openly, so this creates a huge opportunity for affiliate marketers and digital nomads to sell their affiliate products on Pinterest.
You just have to create attractive banners for your products so people can engage and buy your product, the rest depends on the quality of your product, the benefit of promoting affiliate links on Pinterest is that it pushes your post to a larger audience from the very start.
Also Read: Affiliate Marketing Complete Guide
5. Lead Generation
If you have an online business, you can use Pinterest to drive traffic to your website and convert your audience to clients. it’s the same as creating content for Instagram, just the difference of mature audience on the platform so the conversion rate is higher.
Also one of the reasons to use Pinterest is that it has a more active audience from developed countries like the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, where the conversion rate is higher than average.
Creating posts and sharing your services is very simple and redirects them directly to your website.
6. Selling Templets
Pinterest is one of the best platforms to sell your digital products, people here can advertise their digital products and redirect them to their shopping page.
Some of the most popular digital templates people are selling are Canva Templets, T-shirt Designs, Pinterest Templets, Infographics, Notes, and many more digital assets, and redirect users to your product page where you are hosting them like Etsy and Gumroad. There are many people already doing this, and you can learn from them.
Also Read: How to Sell Digital Products
