Pinterest Affiliate Marketing For Beginners - How To Make Money on Pinterest

so in this video I'm going to show you how to make money as an affiliate marketer using Pinterest this is one of the most underrated platforms for affiliate marketing I'm going to share six or seven different steps in this video showing you exactly how to set this up some of the best strategies some of the best affiliate programs and some other tips and tricks that you can use to make money on Pinterest so let's go ahead and get started with this video I think there's going to be a ton of value I recommend taking out

a pen taking out a piece of paper writing down some notes as we go through this video and I can promise you there's going to at least one or two gems in here that you're going to take and really use to help you make money on this platform just a couple things to note here first of all we don't have any courses to sell you this is totally free information you don't have to pay to learn how to do this you can just do this for free trust me um and it's going to save you

a lot of money uh we've been doing affiliate marketing for years probably almost 10 years now I've been doing affiliate marketing on various different platforms it's kind of our bread and butter I've done this for so long and so I hope that there's some good info in here make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss more videos like this and uh let's let's get started here so first of all I I just want to briefly touch on why Pinterest you know there's a lot of different platforms you can do affiliate marketing on

Instagram or on blogs which I really do love still using blogs in 2024 trust me uh you can make a lot of money that way okay so the reason why Pinterest is a really tremendous opportunity this year is because it has 500 million monthly active users on the platform just for perspective here that's more than everyone in the United States and it's about 11/16th of the world population uses Pinterest on a monthly basis so that is a lot of people and I feel like it doesn't get enough respect from marketers who just kind of Overlook

it and they focus on blogs or they focus on their platforms and they forget about Pinterest there's a really a lot of opportunity here okay so with that many users uh which actually tend to be mostly female I'll throw up a chart here female versus male uh users on the platform it tends to heavily skew towards female um we'll talk about a little bit more in like some different niches potentially but here's what we're covering in this video all right we're talk about finding a niche what's the best topic to choose for making money on

Pinterest as an affiliate marketer then I'm going to show you you how to find products to promote on the platform this could range from anything from books to you know apparel or other different types of items that you can do for affiliate marketing I'll show you some of the best programs for that trust me there's a lot of good info in there uh and then we're talking about how to set up a site and get into affiliate programs there's a lot of nitty-gritty things in there then we're going into how to actually create a professional

account on Pinterest and then optimizing your affiliate links automating your posts um and everything else that you need to know all right so let's start off with this section here talking about finding a niche for Pinterest affiliate marketing so I think when a lot of people think of Pinterest they think of you know fashion or maybe home decor or like cooking a lot of those uh various different topics and while those are really great uh categories and niches that you can get into they're also a bit flooded in my opinion there's a lot of people

who are posting you know things like fashion or apparel um and so you can break into those categories and there is a bigger audience for them but there's also more competition so I suggest going through and thinking about the various different kind of like smaller topics that might not be as big but still have potential viewers on them so I'm going to give you an example here of when I set up a a Pinterest account um and the one that I'm going to Target for this video is going to be one for gardening right there

are millions of people who are interested in gardening so that's just the one I'm going to use as an example I also happen to love gardening and farming and so uh it's easy for me to create content around this because I already know a lot of it I grew up growing tons of vegetables um and so I'm also more passionate about it so it's going to be easier for me to make content in this category I really do suggest uh picking a niche that you already have some level of knowledge on or at the very

least um can get a little bit excited about it like me personally I'm not going to do women's apparel because I'm a guy and I just don't really care about women's apparel to be honest like I don't know anything about it I'm a guy I'm probably not going to do that category cuz it's just not really my field so pick a niche that is a little bit smaller I really do recommend that you don't have to go for gardening I'm just using that as an example in this video but go through all of your very

ious different things that you like it could be reading it could be literally anything it could be camping um something that you really like and find that start with that one once you build it up then you can Branch into creating other Pinterest accounts and getting into a lot of other topics but start with one Niche to begin with I also want to mention here look this is not a get-rich quick thing this is going to take likely it's going to take months to really get the ball rolling with this so if you're expecting to

make $20,000 this month um it's probably not going to happen you are realistically probably going to make $ Z this month and you know maybe 100 bucks next month and then months and mon months later next thing you know two years later you're making 20 grand a month can't promise that but we've definitely seen it happen on this platform so don't think you're going to become a millionaire overnight just want to make that very very clear um people do fail at this but the beauty of affiliate marketing uh especially on Pinterest is that and if

you're not paying for an online course there's really nothing to lose like you're not spending lots of money to get started with this so it's kind of like a very hard to actually lose uh when choosing this business so pick a niche for this one I'm going to uh just come up with a random brand name I'm going to call it harv Haven gardening for all right and so I'm going to be posting a lot of gardening content and I'll show you the products I'm going to promote in that but that's going to be my

Niche that I choose so now let's talk about finding products to promote on Pinterest what I'm going to do is I'm going to start off with thinking of products before I even make the content so that I can kind of build the content around the products that I want to promote right and so how do we find um products that we can promote in the gardening Niche right um there's a couple of different things we can do the easiest one is to start off with something called Amazon Associates so Amazon Associates uh basically you can

link to any product on Amazon and you will get a commission as an affiliate marketer for sending people to that product on Amazon and anytime someone purchases something on Amazon within 24 hours of clicking on your special Amazon affiliate link you are going to get a small percentage somewhere between 1 and I think like 8% I'll throw up the board here uh the fee schedule on how much you can make for all these various different niches you will get paid by Amazon Amazon for promoting products on Amazon right and so uh it's called Amazon Associates

I'll leave a link to uh the page to sign up for Amazon Associates on but before you actually create an account on Amazon Associates and you can start being an affiliate marketer with Amazon uh you need to have a website and you have to have basically a professional brand like when you apply for it they're going to ask what's your website um they want to see that you're legitimate they want to make sure that you're not just like some random person like posting Amazon affiliate links in like comment sections and stuff um and so in

order to become an Amazon associate we need to make a site let me just show you how to do that super quickly here what we can do is we can create a site using Squarespace so I will leave a link to it down below in the description uh you can just go to sandal media.com Squarespace as well um this is an affiliate link by the way so it helps support the channel okay so once you have your brand name picked out uh then we're just going to go over to Squarespace um we're going to get

started here and then we're going to just create a very basic site you can do this in 30 minutes or or less uh on Squarespace um so let me just go through this process here we can uh you know decide that um our site is about uh gardening right and our goals um it's going to be mostly a Blog so you're going to want to build a Blog around this as well even if you're mostly doing affiliate marketing on Pinterest you still want to have a site here so that you can get into the affiliate

programs you know maybe um my goal on this site is to uh publish a blog or other media and then we can either build a custom template with a Squarespace blueprint or we can choose one that's basically already designed for us so let's just say we want to do that and click finish here and now like we're already almost set up here let's say that we want to go with um this one here looks pretty good so we can just start with this and then we can create an account start filling out this site um

I don't want to go through this whole thing we have a full tutorial on Squarespace showing you how to set up that site but I really do recommend that before you try to apply for these affiliate programs is to have that website set up okay um and I'll leave a link to that down below for Squarespace that you can get started on um building that site it's definitely the best platform for building a site because it's super easy look it's going to cost you a little bit of money to set up a Squarespace site I

think it's like you know 20 bucks a month or something that's kind of like the only cost that's really incurred with this affiliate marketing business but you have to realize that like in any affiliate marketing business you need to build a brand around this you don't want to just be like a person promoting products you want to be a brand where people look at this and they say this is this is a full you know gardening and farming brand that can trust and so having that you know getting all the different social medias as well

when you create your Pinterest account is important so you create your Pinterest account with like let's say it's uh what is this Harvest Haven I'm also going to grab the Instagram handle I'm going to grab the Twitter handle uh all the other social platform handles as well like Facebook and the domain for that so go ahead and do that once you set up your website then we can go over to Amazon associate like I said I'll leave a link to Amazon Associates Down Below in the description and then we can see all the different products

that we can promote on the platform now here is the Amazon fee schedule so uh with a lot of gardening things like if we're promoting say like seeds or other different types of like um like a shovel or uh you know different like thing like soil for planting various different things um the fee schedule we're getting up to 8% commission for people buying these products right so like if if we have a pin that we have on Pinterest and maybe it's about like the 10 best tomato strains that you can grow and it's in this

category and let's say that someone spends $100 on tomato seeds we're going to make $8 as a commission for just sending people over to Amazon um L and garden is actually kind of a higher one here I don't want to like push everyone into doing like gardening uh Pinterest but I'm just saying it does have higher uh rates for that category versus something like you know maybe like video games is 1% and everything else tends to be 4% so that's just something that you want to look at is the Amazon fee schedule um which I'll

try to link that down below as well or just you know throw it up here so that you can get a good look at it all right now if you also want to Branch outside of Amazon Associates you'll actually learn that most companies most products have affiliate programs they might not always be on Amazon so the best thing that you can do is for your Niche just go to Google it's this simple go to Google right and just type in best gardening affiliate programs and there's a lot of websites on this so you need to

do this for your specific Niche just go to Google type this in see what pops up here and you'll find a bunch of different you know potential programs here that you can uh promote and sometimes they have much higher commissions than on Amazon like I said Amazon really only goes up to like 10% commission some of these though might end up paying a lot more in commissions like this one here pays 25% um some of these are going to pay even more than that 10% on this one from this Nursery um so this is really

cool to do this okay so you don't have to just go with Amazon now let's just review what we've just done and then get into actually creating our Pinterest account and setting it up and thinking about boards and pins and everything else but what you have to do create your website apply to affiliate programs you know with your website so they can see that you are legitimate and they'll let you into their affiliate programs now that you've done that the next step is going to actually be starting to create content on Pinterest so let me

show you how to do that now and some of the best strategies for doing this okay so let's go over to Pinterest and I'm assuming that you already have an account if not you can just go through very quickly sign up but what you want to do is make sure that you convert your account to a business account on Pinterest this is going to help with various different things like analytics and then also just using links and everything else so you want to convert this to a business account because you're going to have ads manager

but really insights and analytics is going to be very nice to have for us so I'm going to just click on upgrade here it's totally free to upgrade to a business account they're going to ask you a couple of questions here basically you know what is your business it just helps them to understand uh what you're doing you can say content creator or publisher or really any of these but I'm going to say that uh we are publisher or media cuz really my goal here is to build a media company around gardening right so let's

just put this in here so business name is Harvest Haven and then for domain I wasn't able to get harves haven.com so I had to go with um harves haven. blog and I do recommend getting I'm just using this as an example here in this video cuz I just randomly came up with this name and then I'm going to click on next and then just you know decide your business goals I'm just going to kind of Breeze through this here because this is not super important when setting up your business account so let's kind of

just move ahead here to when we get into the actual business account okay so this is what our uh Pinterest account looks like right now so we need to get Graphics we need to get a profile photo a logo everything else um and then start making pins what I would suggest doing is go over to canva uh canva is free um I will also leave a link to canva Down Below in the description it's free they have a paid version as well but you can get away with just using the free version so let's just

log into canva here um and this is where we're going to create a logo this is where where we're going to create um all of our for Content uh and you'll actually notice once you get into canva like a lot of Pinterest posts are actually they use canva as well you'll notice like the templates and stuff um so I'm just logging in here to canva and on canva they actually have things specifically for Pinterest okay so if we just go to and we type in Pinterest right and we can uh make boards we can make

all kinds of things we just click on that and here we go here's all these different pins and boards that we can make on Pinterest but actually what I need to do first is we need to make a logo so just type in logo here and we can decide from all these different ones you know let's find one that kind of looks like it would work well for our brand I kind of like this one here looks very simple we can use this template this one cost money okay so here's one that I like I'm

just going to click on customize this and then I'm just going to create our basic logo here right so uh let's just you know overwrite this here and call it Harvest Haven and um what was our tagline it was going to be uh gardening for all right and then we can change this up a little bit right so we can change this to an H maybe and maybe we want to change this as well but you know what for this we're just going to go with this looks good enough for me this is just an

example tutorial here um I'd probably spend more time on it if I was you know wanted to actually uh build this seriously so uh I'm just going to then download it here I'm going to download this logo make sure you save it as a PNG click download all right so we're going to edit our profile and we can change our logo to harvest Haven and then in our about page uh in this section we can write a uh basically what we're doing feel free to even like if you need some ideas just have chat GPT

help you out here but we can say you know maybe it's like um gardening content for everyone good enough uh for there change up our username as well right and add in other info if you would like all right then we go back to our account and we need to create a banner here so we can just do this as well from canva so let's go back to canva uh we can create this Pinterest Banner so um let's just go back to home let me create this Banner super quickly okay so here's just a quick

Banner that I made let me just download this as a PNG go back to Pinterest upload the banner and you know you can spend a lot more time actually designing this than I am for this tutorial but now that we have this set up uh we can also add in our see this is why it's important to have a Squarespace website so that people can be directed to your blog you can also do like a Linkin bio thing here uh Squarespace has the Linkin bio feature when you create a website so you can just have

this directly go to your affiliate links you can have like a whole page of like my favorite products everything like that you can also use things like link tree or beak or some of those other Linkin bio platforms for putting your link in here but this is important because you're going to get a lot of clicks through your homepage link that you have okay so now that we've done all of this now we can start creating boards and creating pins now what I suggest doing is creating at least a dozen different boards each with 20

to 30 pins inside of those boards um this is a great way to get started here uh something that is important in terms of Pinterest content is when you create a new account you got to be careful like you don't want to overdo it like if you're making a th pins per day uh it kind of throws up a flag for Pinterest where they're like is this person spamming or they just throwing tons of stuff out there and it can get a little bit weird I've seen people get kind of essentially Shadow banded on Pinterest

there's kind of a lot of disputes on this but if you're just posting too much immediately it can get a little bit weird so be careful on that you know start slow start with you know a board two boards uh a handful of pins and then kind of ramp it up over time like I said earlier you're not going to make a million dollars overnight from doing this it's going to take time to build up so have some patience I've had people reach out and be like why am I not making money I've been doing

this for 2 weeks already it's like okay well I tried doing it for 2 years quite literally you know this can take time okay um and so now that we have all of this set up we have our website set up we're in affiliate programs we have this ready to go now we can start to make those boards and make those pins and so let's go ahead and make our first one here and I'll show you how I would go about doing this okay so let's go ahead and make our first pin here so I'm

going to click on create pin you can obviously do this on your your phone as well you don't have to do this on your laptop um I'm just doing it here so you can see a bigger screen for this tutorial uh we have to go and create a pin I'm going to do this uh on canva I'm going to make some pins so let's go back here um let's type in Pinterest and we can choose from this uh maybe for example we want one that is um now this one we have to pay for I

do recommend just getting canva Pro if you're serious about this it's not that expensive um and it's going to be worth it it's like an investment into your own business but let's say that we wanted to just go for this one here and we can customize this template and our first pin is going to be best tomato strains right best varieties of tomatoes um and so let's see so these are templates uh we can also look for elements or photos as well so so Tomatoes let's look at some photos here if they have any uh

you can also upload photos as well um but let's say that you know uh which ones do we like here okay so I'm just over on Google I am saving an image uh make sure that these are you know non-copyrighted photos that you're using you don't want to have any issues with um you know companies or people if you are using their photos without asking them or getting permission um but we can replace this here right so I can upload a photo of these Tomatoes here drop that on there fit it properly we can crop

this here and then it can be five best five best tomato varieties might need to add something in the background change the color of it perhaps to like something lighter move it over a little bit and so this might take some time but the beauty of this and why I like affiliate marketing on Pinterest is that uh you can Outsource this as well so like once it starts to grow and you start to make money you can hire someone to make these pins for you so that you don't really have to do much right so

let me just change up the the the text color on this let make it like that and there we go that can be our first pin right there so let's just uh download this all right so we import that and um now uh we have to create a title description we can add our affiliate link or a link to our blog post and then choose a board as well and some tags so uh we're just going to match uh the thing here so and what I do suggest doing is you want to basically do some

keyword stuffing in here so you want to fill out the description uh as much as possible same with the title you want to really keyload stuff keyword stuff in here um because now if we have our description we say you know um best tomatoes okay and so now because I filled out this description anytime someone's searching on Pinterest for or maybe tomato strains or you know Homesteader um or Hardy Tomatoes it's going to pop up or it should at least help us uh better rank for a lot of these terms cuz at the end of

the day Pinterest really kind of is a search engine so people search for things all the time and so you want to make sure that you fill out a lot of these words here um in your description and in your title now for link this is important here Pinterest doesn't like when you cloak links so um you know if you use like bitly or something you want to be careful with that um I've seen people get their accounts banned because they were cloaking their links so now what we can do is we can either add

our blog article to this or we can add our specific affiliate link uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to play the long game I'm going to add our a link to our blog article um from harves haven. blog uh with a full article on the best tomato varieties and everything that people want to learn about it right um so I'm going to add a link there and then choose a board to put it on so we can create a board here and for this it can be maybe um literally Tomatoes right or

vegetables let's called vegetables create that board and then add some tags here as well so Tomatoes Farmhouse maybe vegetable garden right so add some tags on there um and then we can also publish at a later date if we would like to and then we can allow people to comment we can show some other products this is up to you here but then we can publish it and there we go we've just created our first pin um and that's the name of the game uh I can make a more in-depth tutorial if you would like

for Pinterest um but this is how you get started and then I also suggest not Reinventing the wheel so go and look at what other people are doing and a lot of these like other pins for tomatoes for example are also doing affiliate marketing or they're selling their own products right so like the best tomatoes to grow on a patio let's click on this let's see what they've done here and you can kind of borrow from other people's ideas I'm not don't copy anyone don't like use anything word for word but you can look at

what other pins are doing you can see like how these other Pinterest accounts are performing right so they have the the best tomatoes to grow on a patio and you can go to their website you can see what they do right and they have this whole article and what does it do it probably they're funneling you into buying products right here's a product link right here takes us to Amazon they are making an affiliate Commission on this so that's that's how you do it this is the name of the game uh you can really make

quite literally thousands of dollars per month by using this strategy on Pinterest so that's how you do it um I hope you found some value in this if you have any questions you have any uh issues feel free to either DM me on Instagram I'll try to respond I can't promise but I'll really TR try and also you know leave some comments Down Below in the comment section on your thoughts on some ideas anything else uh that you would like to chat about I'll try to keep up with the comments uh as much as possible

so thanks for watching I hope you found value in this video and I'll see everybody sometime in a future video