How to set up a Pinterest account for affiliate marketing

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Transcript: Hey what's up you guys it's standing here today I'm going to show you how to make money online by creating backlinks and draw traffic from Pinterest with four simple steps that everybody can do so make sure to watch the whole video guys to get full benefits from this video so before that if you're watching me for the first time whoo welcome to my channel guys I'm all about entrepreneurship personal branding and how to make money online so if your interest in that kind of stuff hit the subscribe button below guys and subscribe to my channel and don't forget to hit the bell button guys and turn on notifications so each time I put up a video you can notify them so let's get into today's video guys so many of you will be spending money on ads to draw traffic to your YouTube channel or to your website guys but when there's a free way to draw traffic to your channel why go for paid ads so I know it might take some time compared to paid ads to draw traffic but at the end of the day you're not losing anything is if you're... See more →

Transcript: Okay. So come right here, right here. So, onPinterest, we're seeing... This is a site where it's it's kind of like alike a picture blog. Like you put up... You share bunches of pictures of like home.Usually people share like home-improvement stuff or infographics.See, you share pretty pictures. And that's what it is. And women love it. It'slike 90% women. Now, a few things you got to understand about what we're nottalking about is we are not talking about e-commerce. Okay? I'm not going to betalking about that in this. We're not going to be talking about drop shipping orconsulting. Or starting a SMM, a social media ad agency. None of this stuff.Because all of that stuff requires you to do work or fulfillment. You know, havea support phone number or taking returns. Have an address. Have a business license.There's a lot of stuff you can by all means. Use this method that I'm about toshow you to promote your business using those methods. But we're going to start easy.And it's called affiliate marketing. And as always, if you've been doing affiliatemarketing, just say, "I'm doing it" in the comments below. I want to know if ally'all are doing it.... See more →

Transcript: In this video you're going to learn howto create a pin on Pinterest and how to pin your content to your Pinterestprofile what's going on everyone this is Greg Kononenko guys thank you so much forchecking out my video in my channel if you like free traffic and if you likelearning how to get traffic to your blog or website then please subscribe to mychannel I regularly post new videos dedicated to making money onlineblogging and traffic and this way you can get notifications every time I putout a new video don't forget to also click that notification button to makesure that you're actually going to learn when a new training video from herecomes out now guys this is one of the training videos and a whole series ofvideos about Pinterest traffic you can get the whole course at CaffeinatedBlogger.com/Pinterest or just click the link in the description belowso thank you so much for checking it out really look forward to showing you thewhole process let's get into it alright so here I am inside one of my Pinterestaccounts this is an account that I use for testing and for actually showingpeople how to use Pinterest and we're going to... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "I use to read those long posts and images by bloggers who wrote about earning your first affiliate sale from Pinterest and I thought this was just another bluff from the “wanna be” bloggers who bragged about earning an affiliate income with just little traffic from Pinterest."
  • "(Trust me, I would have never used it for my own blog if it was just for the sake of earning an affiliate income) So in this post, I will discuss my hands-on experience of what I did to get my first affiliate sale."
  • "Without a presentable pinterest account, you wont be able to pitch your images and affiliate links."
  • "The next step is to create beautiful images with Canva for your blog posts which will have those affiliate links."
  • "Now these are the important steps that you need to take before jumping into my ultimate strategy of earning your first affiliate sale."
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Key quotes:

  • "Welcome to my blog post series about using Pinterest with Kajabi! One of the best ways to get traffic to your Kajabi site is via Pinterest."
  • "I only share products and sites I use, like, and/or believe will be beneficial to you."
  • "You may already have a Personal account for Pinterest, which is actually great because that means you’ve used it from the consumer end and understand how that side works."
  • "But even if you’ve never used Pinterest (here’s Pinterest’s comprehensive starter guide), you should get a Business account, which I’ll explain how to do below."
  • "Could you just use your Personal account for your business? If you’re starting a fresh Business account on Pinterest, relax, grab your favorite drink, and start adding your Boards! Name one Board after your Kajabi site and Pin a bunch of links from it! If the “wrong” images come up, make sure maximize the SEO settings and add images for your Kajabi site, blog, and each Page that you Pin from."
  • "Kajabi/Pinterest tip: Make a note of your Kajabi site traffic, opt-in rate, etc."
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Key quotes:

  • "For example with Leadpages I can promote links to their free 14 day trial, pricing page, Facebook advertising course, coaching consultancy ebook and more."
  • "Each offer you promote will have its own affiliate link allowing you to track traffic, clicks and referrals for that offer."
  • "But if you want to create different pins for the same offer/link you need to know which pin is referring the most traffic, clicks and referrals."
  • "You can’t do that unless you create a separate affiliate links for each pin."
  • "The image below is a screenshot showing the affiliate management dashboard for Leadpages and a custom affiliate link I created for a pin."
  • "Here’s an example of one of my pin descriptions offering free Facebook advertising ebook by Leadpages."
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Key quotes:

  • "When I first started my online business, I thought of creating my website so I can post my affiliate links."
  • "When I first created my Pinterest account, I was surprised that my pins had impressions even when I don’t have followers yet."
  • "Also, take note that you cannot simply pin the photos of the product as it appears in the affiliate network."
  • "Once you have canva, click on the Pinterest graphic and start creating your pins."
  • "After joining Tailwind for free, I was able to have followers and increased my monthly views and impressions."
  • "To upload pins to your board visit other users pins, and click on the tailwind logo."
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Key quotes:

  • "As an affiliate marketer, you need to know how to make money by adding your affiliate links to your pins."
  • "This guide will help learn how to make the best out of Pinterest affiliate links."
  • "(Also, there are other ways to make money on Pinterest.) When all is clear, follow the steps mentioned down below to insert and benefit the most from Pinterest affiliate links."
  • "That’s why you need to pin the right images to make the most commissions from your affiliate links."
  • "On the other hand, if you want to add your affiliate link, you need to pin a picture of the product you are promoting."
  • "When you are adding your Pinterest affiliate links, you will have the opportunity to add a description to your pin."
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Transcript: Hey everyone how you guys doing I'm Erica so today we're talking about affiliate marketing on Pinterest I'm gonna be showing you exactly the exact steps that I used to create my Pinterest accounts that I used to sell Amazon affiliate products and also other affiliate products from a shop style collective from zazzle.com and all of the other different platforms that I use I'm gonna be showing you step-by-step on how you can set up your very own Pinterest account that is gonna make you money through a fillip marketing direct linking affiliate marketing so let's get started the first thing you want to do is go ahead and go to Google Trends now let's go to Google and what you always want to do before creating a blog or and you know any income stream if you want to work with Facebook or social media to you know make sales you always want a niche down you always want to look for something that is trending and you want to look for a specific topic or category that you might be interested in and you want to do your research so we want to go with Google Trends... See more →

Transcript: What's up guys it's Jay here from lazy a STONER dot-com and as you probably know by now Pinterest is huge it's a social networking site where people share images and it has millions of users and in this video I'm going to show you how you can easily build up a massive net related following on Pinterest and then how you can use that following to send traffic sales and backlinks to your site's so let's do this so let's just cut straight to the chase and here's my stupidly simple 3-step guide to building up massive Pinterest accounts step 1 set up your Pinterest account so nothing complicated to do here just set an account up for your site add a profile picture fill in all the details and just all the stuff that you would do when setting up any social networking account so here's an example Pinterest that I set up for a hypothetical site called everybody loves cannabis step 2 do a search on Pinterest for your niche so for my cannabis example I would simply search for something like cannabis or marijuana or weed next you want to click the pinners button to see... See more →

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