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- 0:00 | Hi guys! Anastasia here! Many of
you really enjoyed the previous - 0:04 | tutorial on Pinterest affiliate marketing.
So, today, we’re diving deeper, step by step, - 0:10 | to address all the questions I received in the
comments below that video. I will show you how you - 0:16 | can earn up to $10,000 a month using Pinterest.
This includes selecting a profitable niche, - 0:23 | finding affiliate products with high
conversion rates, and effectively - 0:27 | adding affiliate links to your pins.
The great news is that you don’t need prior - 0:32 | experience or any money to start with this method!
All you need is Wi-Fi and either a laptop or - 0:39 | a smartphone. You don’t even
need to have your own website! - 0:42 | Now, just for the newcomers, affiliate
marketing is a business model where - 0:47 | you promote others’ products or services and
earn a commission for each sale or referral. - 0:54 | The next question is why would you
use Pinterest for affiliate marketing? - 0:59 | Well because with about 482 million users,
Pinterest is among the top platforms for FREE - 1:07 | high-quality traffic, and high % of that audience
are millennials from the United States and the UK - 1:14 | (which means a higher purchasing power!).
And again, you can do affiliate marketing - 1:19 | on Pinterest without spending a penny on
ads and even without your own website! - 1:25 | First, we’ll focus on choosing the right
niche, a crucial step for success.. - 1:28 | CHOOSE THE RIGHT NICHE
You see, I’ve been in this - 1:31 | game for years and trust me, it’s been a mix
of hits and misses. But really, it boils down - 1:37 | to something pretty straightforward on Pinterest.
You need to aim for niches with products that look - 1:43 | great in photos. Because this is what Pinterest
IS in its essence – it’s a visual search engine, - 1:49 | full of images and people who search for stuff on
Pinteresta are visual searchers, they care about - 1:57 | the images and how things look on the photos.
And you should mostly aim for stuff that is - 2:03 | primarily targeting women because currently
it’s about 60% of Pinterest audience. - 2:08 | Think about stuff like fashion, home decor,
beauty products, yummy food, stuff for kids - 2:14 | and babies or even fitness gear – anything that’s
a feast for the eyes and can jazz up your pins. - 2:22 | Once you’ve got your niche down, the next step
is hunting for some solid affiliate products. - 2:27 | I’ll tell you more about that in the next steps.
FIND PROFITABLE AFFILIATE PRODUCTS AND PROGRAMS - 2:30 | Alright, let’s talk about picking affiliate
programs and products that really sell. - 2:35 | I assume that a lot of people watching this
video are quite new to affiliate marketing and - 2:41 | essentially are beginners who have NO website
and perhaps a smallish social media following. - 2:47 | That’s is why I decided to show you a relatively
new platform that not many people heard about, - 2:53 | it connects Creators with brands and
allows you to earn great commissions. - 2:59 | You should try to apply as a Creator for
Wayward, who partnered with me for this - 3:03 | part of the vide, and you’ll find the
link to it in the description below. - 3:07 | It will be perfect for beginners because:
1. On Wayward you can download a CSV of your - 3:14 | customer list, and create tailored content for
them, which allows you to make even more affiliate - 3:20 | commissions from the same visitors of your shop
2. Wayward has a free Meta Shop integration. - 3:28 | Followers can shop without leaving
the IG app, boosting your commissions - 3:34 | 3. Wayward doesn’t require you to have your own
website. Essentially can create a Storefront that - 3:42 | includes a lot of affiliate products. It helps you
create a high-performing store front in minutes, - 3:49 | categorize products in collections and
customize it to your desired look and feel. - 3:54 | that can be saved in collections.
Also, you can create a Shoppable - 3:57 | Link in Bio on Wayward allowing you to go beyond
generic URLs and showcase specific products with - 4:05 | rich descriptions directly in your link. This
removes the extra click for your followers. - 4:12 | The faster they understand, the quicker they shop
4. There’s a great match with Pinterest audience - 4:18 | because the majority of products on Wayward
fall into the most popular niches and topics - 4:23 | on Pinterest – like beauty, maternity and
products for kids, home decor items and so on. - 4:30 | 5. You can skip the tedious steps of
creating and getting approved for an - 4:37 | Amazon Associates account. Add any Amazon
product to your Wayward store and receive - 4:44 | well-earned commissions not in the typical
60-day wait, but in a 3-5 business days - 4:50 | 6. You will get earnings dropped
into your bank account 10x faster - 4:55 | than any influencer or affiliate platform
Once you have an account on Wayward, you can - 5:01 | quickly create a store that looks similar to mine.
Many products don’t require any application, - 5:07 | usually they are in the top selling products
collections. For these, all you need to do is - 5:13 | click on Create Link and this is basically your
affiliate link that you can copy and then I’ll - 5:20 | show you in the next step how we can use it
on Pinterest. So stay with me for that step. - 5:25 | Sign up on Wayward as a Creator using the
first link in the description below and - 5:29 | we are moving to the next step!
Optimize your Pinterest Account - 5:35 | Okay, so getting your Pinterest account looking
sharp is key. Even though people might buy stuff - 5:40 | without checking out your page first, you still
want to grow a following, right? For that, your - 5:47 | page needs to be something people really like.
First things first, switch to a business account - 5:54 | if you haven’t already. You can do this in the
account settings. Then, pick a profile picture - 5:59 | and a banner that match your niche. You can
use your photo or a logo if you have one. You - 6:06 | want everything to look neat and on-brand.
You can whip up something quick in Canva or - 6:11 | similar tools using their templates. Stick with
a consistent aesthetic or color scheme for your - 6:18 | profile and banner. And hey, if you’ve got text
or a logo, keep it simple – no more than three - 6:25 | different fonts, or it’ll look like a hot mess.
Pro tip: Make sure to choose a nice username. - 6:34 | Pinterest will give you a random
one, so change it to something that - 6:38 | doesn’t have funky numbers or letters.
Include some keywords in your name, - 6:43 | like I have ‘Anastasia Blogger | Online
Business Tips | Blogging for Beginners’, - 6:49 | to make it SEO-friendly. This helps you show up
in searches and gets more eyes on your content. - 6:56 | Your Profile description important too. Keep it
short, sweet, and stuffed with a few keywords. - 7:03 | It’s all about giving folks a heads-up on
what they’re getting by following you. You - 7:10 | can even ask ChatGPT to help craft a
quick bio – no need to overthink it. - 7:16 | Next up, Pinterest boards. They should also
be optimized for keywords, both the titles - 7:21 | and board descriptions. Now, it might be
getting too SEO dense for this video topic, - 7:27 | so if you want to dig deeper and learn more
about optimizing your profile, I’ll give - 7:32 | you a link to my free Pinterest Masterclass up
there and in the description below. So you can - 7:38 | watch it once we are done with this video!
You can also use Pinterest trends at this - 7:42 | page Trends.Pinterest.com to research what’s
hot in your niche and create new boards that - 7:49 | target those popular searches.
You can filter the results by - 7:53 | different niches to see the most relevant
suggestions. This will help your account - 7:58 | get more visibility and potentially more sales.
Aim for at least 5 to 10 boards for a new account, - 8:08 | then save to each board around 20-30
pins that closely match the board name. - 8:14 | I actually use this handy free Chrome extension
called SortPin for this purpose, what it does - 8:19 | is when you make a search for any keyword, say
I wanted to save pins to my new Pinteret board - 8:25 | with Maternity products, this extension will
show you a ton of information about the pins - 8:31 | that you can’t see as a Pinterest user otherwise.
Like how many repins or other engagements each pin - 8:39 | has. When you are trying to build up your
boards from scratch, you should only repin - 8:45 | to it the most popular pins that already
have the right keywords attached to them. - 8:52 | Pinterest mixes a lot of new pins to test if
they are worth it, but you only want to repin - 8:58 | the most popular ones to your new boards.
If you want to try, you’ll find SortPin - 9:03 | link in the description below as well, it’s
a free extension and very helpful when you - 9:08 | are building a new account on Pinterest.
It also helps you understand which pins of - 9:13 | your competitors are truly viral and so you
can later think of making some of your own - 9:20 | pins using this info for inspiration.
I also recommend you to pick a catchy - 9:25 | cover photo for each board – something that grabs
attention. You don’t need to create cover images, - 9:33 | you can just choose the most attractive
of your pins on that particular board. - 9:40 | Now, let’s talk growth strategies. The best way
to grow on Pinterest is by posting pins regularly. - 9:48 | I’m talking 2 to 5 pins a day. Every day, Monday
to Sunday but I’d say you can try to be even more - 9:56 | active on weekends because that’s when I see
traffic spikes from Pinterest on all of my - 10:01 | accounts. And I’ve seen similar spikes on weekends
on most of the accounts of my Pinterest clients. - 10:07 | But what kinds of pins should you create
that might have the potential to go viral? - 10:12 | Create Pins that Go Viral
On my account, I use unique pins I - 10:15 | created myself using tools like Canva or Kittl.
I occasionally repurpose my own content from - 10:22 | other platforms, like I have a bunch
of video pins that are just short - 10:26 | clips from my longer Youtube videos.
If you have your own content on TikTok, - 10:31 | Instagram, or Tumblr, you could repurpose
your own posts from there on Pinterest. - 10:37 | If you do it, make sure you removed the TikTok
icon from your own content before you post it on - 10:43 | Pinterest. Pinterest won’t ban you, but they might
limit how many people see your stuff because well… - 10:50 | obviously, Pinterest doesn’t want to promote as
much content with their competitor’s logo on it. - 10:56 | If you watched some other videos
about Pinterest affiliate marketing, - 11:01 | some of those youtubers would casually mention
that you can download posts that was created by - 11:07 | other people, from other platforms like Tiktok
or Instagram, and just republish it under your - 11:13 | own account with a text credit to the creator.
Well, I will go against the crowd in this case - 11:19 | and caution you because there is a thing called
DMCA complaint on any major online platform, - 11:26 | and Pinterest is no exception.
Even if you gave a text credit - 11:31 | to someone and they are still unhappy
that you used their content without their - 11:37 | permission, well you are on your own.
That’s the part a lot of youtubers with - 11:42 | million views on videos about Pinterest
affiliate marketing “forget to mention”. - 11:48 | You might get away with it for a while, and
I’ve seen accounts on Pinterest that do it. - 11:53 | But no one can guarantee that you’ll never
get a DMCA complaint for at least a few of - 12:00 | the hundreds of pins on your account. If you
go down the route of copying content from other - 12:07 | people. And if you do get 3 complaints like this,
Pinterest might close your account permanently. - 12:13 | So, here we go… I told you the truth, you might
not like it, OR you might actually LIKE my video - 12:20 | because I am being honest with you unlike many
other youtubers who have close to zero real - 12:27 | experience on Pinterest, and who will tell
you it’s super easy to just copy and paste - 12:32 | content from others, and get away with it.
When it comes to the formats of pins, - 12:37 | currently I recommend everyone to stick to
image pins or short videos but not Idea pins. - 12:43 | Earlier this year Pinterest announced that this
format will be removed from the platform. You - 12:49 | can still create Idea pins, I still have it on my
accounts but I don’t see the point it making them - 12:58 | if they will be anyway converted to video pins
later, according to Pinterest’s own statement. - 13:04 | Always keep in mind that standard image pins
usually are the main money-makers because they - 13:10 | have higher click-through rates than video
pins, people can’t do much with an image, - 13:16 | you see it, you click on it. With a video
people tend to watch them and move on more - 13:21 | often than clicking on the links attached to them.
To make your pins pop in Pinterest search results, - 13:27 | make sure that you used keywords
in the pin titles and descriptions. - 13:31 | This might help you get traffic not just
from Pinterest, but even from Google Images. - 13:37 | Because for a lot of keywords, Google will show
Pinterest images close to to top search results. - 13:44 | Now one more thing you should remember on this
step. And I want us to pause for a second and - 13:49 | pay attention, this is very important and
people often forget about it – you have to - 13:54 | make an affiliate disclosure in the pin
description. It’s very simple. Pinterest - 13:59 | doesn’t ask for too much. Just add a hashtag #ad
or #sponsored or #promotion or something along - 14:07 | the lines to your pin description. That’s it!
Bonus Tip that works great for viral pins: - 14:13 | Stay active in the comments, at least for your
most popular pins! Sometimes people can’t find - 14:20 | the link and simply ask where they can get the
product in your pin. Drop your affiliate link - 14:26 | there to catch those extra sales. Also, being
active in the comments on your top performing - 14:32 | pins helps them get even more impressions
and they might stay viral for more time. - 14:39 | Next, let’s see how you add those
affiliate links to your pins… - 14:43 | 3 WAYS TO ADD AFFILIATE LINKS ON PINTEREST
There are three different ways and places - 14:47 | you could add affiliate links on Pinterest.
The first and I would say the main way is by - 14:53 | adding the link to the Destination URL
field of each pin. That’s when we’ll go - 14:59 | back to Wayward and copy the product affiliate
link and then paste it here. I can show you a - 15:05 | bunch of pins I created with Wayward direct
affiliate links and they worked just fine. - 15:11 | But I have to give you a word of caution
here because Pinterest doesn’t treat - 15:15 | all affiliate networks and even all
link shorteners equally, for example, - 15:20 | I know that it wouldn’t allow you to use hoplinks
from Clickbank or use bit.ly as a link hortener. - 15:29 | If they do block a certain affiliate
link or domain, you will know it right - 15:33 | away because Pinterest won’t even let you
save a pin with that link and will show - 15:38 | you a warning that you are trying to link
a domain that is blocked on their platform. - 15:44 | The second way to add affiliate links on Pinterest
is by Tagging products on Pins. A lot of people - 15:50 | completely miss this option because it’s kind of
hidden and not as obvious, so I would appreciate - 15:57 | a like here for sharing this extra way for you
to make even more commission from your pins. - 16:02 | How it works is that after uploading an image or
video, you will get this little Tagging icon and - 16:10 | then you can again copy and paste the affiliate
link, I will take one of the products from Wayward - 16:16 | and what happens next is that Pinterest will
automatically fetch some of the product images - 16:22 | from that page, you can choose one of them and
it will create a new pin with this image, tagged - 16:29 | to your main pin. You click Save product and
once you are done saving your pin, these tagged - 16:35 | products will appear as little dots on top of your
pins, and will show up under the original pin. - 16:43 | With these tagged products, you can get more
impulse buys. People see the product on the - 16:49 | pin image, they kind of click right on that
product they just liked, and they go straight - 16:55 | to your affiliate product page.
The third way is by using - 16:58 | your Profile link on Pinterest.
Personally, I have a website anastasiablogger.com, - 17:03 | so in my case it makes more sense to have it in
the profile. But for many of you watching this - 17:11 | video it might be the case that you don’t have
a website and don’t plan on starting one yet. - 17:17 | The good news is you could simply give a link to
your Wayward Profile which will have all of the - 17:24 | products and affiliate links in one place.
Questions and Pro Tips - 17:26 | Now I want to give you just a few Pro tips that
will allow you to scale your Pinterest affiliate - 17:32 | game and answer a few more questions I’ve got
from people in the comments on my previous - 17:37 | video about Pinterest affiliate marketing.
First tip is – don’t miss the scheduling - 17:43 | functionality on Pinterest. Instead of trying
to manually post at a certain time of the day, - 17:48 | when more Pinterest users are active, you can
schedule your pins even on the native Pinterest - 17:54 | scheduler up to a month in advance. So you
don’t have to login multiple times a day, - 18:00 | you can live your life and do other stuff and
batch schedule your pins in one or two days. And - 18:07 | then sit back and relax for the rest of the month!
Second, don’t create an account to post ONLY your - 18:14 | own pins with affiliate links. This is NOT
how Pinterest wants us to use their platform. - 18:20 | In the affiliate guidelines they say you can
use direct affiliate links on your pins but it - 18:27 | should be done in moderation. It shouldn’t be the
only type of pins that you save on your account. - 18:33 | So if you don’t have a website with content
you could link to, then what you could do in - 18:39 | that case is mix into your pinning schedule
repins of popular pins from other accounts, - 18:45 | so there is a healthy balance between content
curation and affiliate products in your boards. - 18:51 | Third, don’t try to promote the same product
URL over and over, and over, and over again - 18:57 | every day. Even if you change the image and
save it to a different board evey time, after - 19:04 | 3-4 pins saved daily, you need to make a break.
Or even better don’t save them daily – give them - 19:10 | intervals about a week between the pins, that way
you’ll save just one pin with that exact affiliate - 19:17 | link on it per week and you can save many other
pins in between, even to other affiliate products. - 19:24 | And the most important piece of
advice? Patience and consistency. - 19:29 | I get loads of messages asking why they’re
not making money after just a week. Look, - 19:35 | it takes time to for with the algorithm to catch
on your pins, it takes time to build traffic, - 19:41 | engage with your audience. It’s not a
one-week miracle, but stick with it for - 19:46 | a few months, and you’ll see results.
If you’re serious about Pinterest, - 19:51 | check out my video linked up there on all
the ways I use to make money on Pinterest. - 19:57 | And if you liked this video, don’t forget to hit
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