How To Make Money On Pinterest Without A Blog

Last updated on June 11th, 2023 at 02:56 pm

Can I make money on Pinterest without a blog? Yes!! making money on Pinterest without a blog is feasible

Pinterest is more than that quick go-to app for home dinner recipes or room decor ideas. Bloggers and small business owners leverage Pinterest as a traffic boost for their blogs and sites. To bloggers, Pinterest is a traffic tool that helps them make money blogging.

I am happy to inform you that you don’t need a blog to make money on Pinterest.

Perhaps you have been using Pinterest for a while now, and you are looking at how to monetize it, and you don’t want to go through the process of starting a blog. I understand. I have been there before

Pinterest is a visual platform with over 400 million active users. As a Pinterest user, I must say Pinterest can be very addictive, and discovering a way to monetize your time is an effective strategy to increase your income stream. In this post, I will walk you through different ways to make money on Pinterest without a blog.

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money on Pinterest. An Affiliate on Pinterest doesn’t need a landing page (website), as Pinterest allows you to add links to a Pin. All you need to do is create SEO-optimized Pins and add your affiliate link to the Pin.

Is affiliate marketing on Pinterest worth it?

Yes!! 75% of Pinterest users are in a shopping mood, according to Pinterest Feed Optimization Playbook, and yes, people make a lot of money as affiliates on Pinterest 

How to Succeed in Pinterest Affiliate Marketing

• Find a suitable Niche
• Find Affiliate programs in your Niche
• Create SEO-optimized Pins
• Add your Affiliate link to the Pin
• Create idea Pins to grow your audience
• Create Boards and join relevant group Boards
• Post your Pins

Be sure to go through Pinterest affiliate guidelines before posting affiliate links.

Become a Pinterest Manager/Visual Assistant

If you already had success with Pinterest and you know how Pinterest SEO works, you can help others reach their Pinterest goal by offering to manage their account.

What is a Pinterest VA

Pinterest Virtual Assistant helps bloggers, small business owners, and content creators grow their online presence on Pinterest. As a Pinterest Virtual Assistant, what you do is

• Create clickable Pins
• Write SEO-optimized Pin title
• Write SEO-optimized Pin descriptions
• Add destination link
• Schedule and post Pins

How to be a Pinterest Manager

It doesn’t take many skills or years of experience to become a Pinterest Manager/Virtual Assistant. To get started, you will need

• Pinterest Business account with adequate engagement, enough to convince potential clients you can do a great job handling their account
• Basic knowledge of Pinterest tools like Tailwind for scheduling Pins and Canva for designing Pins to help optimize your Pinterest Time.
• Develop your skills with Pinterest VA courses or get Pinterest coaching from an already Pinterest Manager. Taking an online course or having a Coach saves you from unnecessary stress and will help you build your online Portfolio.
• Build your Portfolio, and you can start on LinkedIn or create an optimized website that lets people needing VA services find you.

Where to Find Pinterest Manager/VA Jobs

By Pitching out to potential clients. Pitching works. Let your potential clients know what you do and how you can help them scale up their business using Pinterest. Send them your portfolio and practical tips on elevating their Pinterest strategies.

Facebook Groups are another perfect place to find clients. Bloggers usually hang out on Facebook. Join Facebook groups to interact, engage and build relationships with people, provide values, and offer to help them with paid services.

Pinterest Communities are perfect if you are starting. Pinterest users use Pinterest Communities to get helpful tips and tricks. You can offer them guidance and also contribute to helping them grow in return for money.

Pinterest Creators Reward

Here is the good news!! This year Pinterest announced they would be rewarding creators for creating inspiring and actionable Pins.

Creator Rewards is a new Pinterest program that will pay creators for inspiring, actionable content.

How does it work?

For eligible creators, once your content reaches a specified engagement goal, like a certain amount of saves and reactions, Pinterest will reward you using your bank details the following month.

• Get the Pinterest app and apply to the Creators Reward Program
• Have a business account
• Create Idea Pins
• Create outstanding content
• Have at least 1K followers
• Be above 18 years
• Be based in the US

Want to know more about the Pinterest Creators Reward program? Jenn Leach of Millennial Nextdoor talks about how she made $900 in less than a month with Pinterest Creators Reward.

The Pinterest Creators Reward is currently in testing with those in the US. But Pinterest encouraged users to watch the Pinterest Creator hub for more information.

Partner with brands

Helping brands reach new audiences on Pinterest is another way to make money. Pininfluencers with a large audience on Pinterest help brands promote their products and get paid for that.

As a Pininfluencer, you create content that promotes the brand’s products and get paid. 

Ideally, Pinterest recommends you use Idea Pin. in creating content for brands.

Read here to get to full guidelines for creating Pins for brands

Sell Digital Products 

Another way to make money on Pinterest is by selling digital products. Do you create digital products? Then marketing your products on Pinterest is a great way to increase sales. Market your digital products on Pinterest, linking to your store to reach more audiences.

Profitable Digital product ideas to sell

• ebooks
• Online courses
• Digital Arts
• Digital Planner
• Templates
• Software and games

Promote and sell your service

Pinners are 7x more likely to say Pinterest is the most influential platform in their purchase journey.

Pinterest users are in a consuming mood, and if you offer services, whether offline or online, marketing your services on Pinterest is an excellent way to boost your sales. According to Forbes, Pinterest is one of the best platforms for business marketing (depending on your Niche).

This Pinterest user uses Pinterest to reach a new audience. Start promoting your services on Pinterest to get a fast-growing and engaging audience.

Final thoughts

Making money on Pinterest is doable, with or without a blog. While making money on Pinterest with a blog or website is one of the popular ways people make money online, people still make money on Pinterest without having a website or a blog. Do you have other ways you make money on Pinterest? Tell me in the comment section!!