Pinterest drives the traffic. My blog does the selling.
Here’s the no-spam workflow I use. And the part that actually makes the money.
Most people try to earn on Pinterest by pinning straight to a product.
It looks spammy. It gets ignored. Sometimes it gets accounts shut down.
I never pin straight to the product.
Want the whole system now? Here’s where I wrote it all down.
My pins send people to a helpful post. The post does the selling. The links inside it just sit there and get paid.
That one change is the whole game.
Here’s my order, every time:
- A business account with boards named by specific keyword topics, not generic categories.
- Write the post first. A “best product for this use” article with the links inside it.
- Design ten to fifteen clean pins for that one post.
- Schedule them so something goes out consistently.
- Track which pins and products convert, then make more like them.
A good pin can keep sending traffic for months. Even years. Nothing else on social does that.
But traffic isn’t income.
Which programs to join, which links to use, where they go on the page. That’s what turns a visit into a commission.
That’s one piece of it. I run 22 income streams on my own, after 40, and I wrote down every one of them, step by step, so you can pick the one or two that fit you and stack them.
Let Pinterest send the people.
Let the post do the selling.
Lori
P.S. Never pin straight to the product. Here’s the whole playbook.
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