7 Ways to Make Money Using Pinterest

With over 450 million monthly users, Pinterest remains one of the best ways to generate money for free on the internet right now. So in today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you seven incredible ways that you can make an extra $2 to $5,000 every single month through the power of Pinterest. None of the methods that I'll be mentioning in today's videos require you to have any kind of experience or even an existing audience. You don't even need any money up front, so all of these methods are zero risk. But before we start, you know the drill: let me quickly introduce myself for those of you who are new here. Hi, I'm Gia, and I'm here to help you run up a bag online so you can live the laptop lifestyle you deserve. If that sounds good, go ahead and drop me a laptop emoji down in the comments and let's get right into the video.

So, for the first method, this is actually something that I speak about a lot on my channel, and that is affiliate marketing. I've been doing affiliate marketing for just under 3 years now and have made six figures with it already, so it's a 100% legit and proven business model that I can personally vouch for myself. Now, for those of you who don't know, affiliate marketing is basically where you get paid to promote other people's products. So basically, you can get your custom affiliate links from any affiliate marketplace or affiliate program that links to a specific product. Now, when you promote that product, every time someone makes a purchase through that link, you earn a percentage of that sale. To implement affiliate links into your Pinterest, what you would do, because Pinterest is a photo and video-based platform, is you would upload content that points people to your affiliate list. What I personally recommend is that you choose a niche or niche, as some like to say, and this is basically the theme of your Pinterest. I've personally grown multiple Pinterest accounts, and the one that makes me the most amount of money is actually in the luxury furniture and interior niche. All I do is post pins like these and I'll tag my affiliate links to the actual pin. So when people come along and let's say they really like a rug that I've posted, there's the link available to them and they'll go ahead and make that purchase. To be able to see success with affiliate marketing using Pinterest, I definitely recommend that you post at least 3 to 5 pins a day. A good thing is, is that you can just go ahead and create a content schedule. Whatever types of pins you decide to post is completely up to you, but you can easily use Kit or Canva to create the graphic. I do have a more in-depth video on how to do this exact method, so I'm going to go ahead and link it on the screen right now. Definitely add that to your watch later and let's move into the second method, which is print-on-demand.

Now just to show you an example, this right here is the dashboard of one of my Redbubble stores, which is a print-on-demand store. Most of the traffic is coming directly from Pinterest. For those of you who aren't too familiar with this business model, print-on-demand is basically where you create designs that can be placed on t-shirts, mugs, totes, and basically anything else that you could possibly imagine. Now when someone buys these designs, they get printed by your chosen print-on-demand company straight onto the product and then from there, it gets shipped directly to your customers by that same company. This is perfect because you don't actually have to spend money to make money. You don't have to hold any inventory, and on top of that, you don't even need to be an amazing artist because you can use free graphic design platforms like Canva or Kit to create these custom designs, or you could even use AI. Again, to see success with this, I definitely recommend that you create a niche store. So this could be pets, or more specifically, black cats; it could be anime; it could be absolutely anything you want. The main thing is to look at whatever the competitors are doing. You can literally look up your niche on the bestseller section on Redbubble and recreate those designs easily on Canva or Kit, like I said. Then what you would do is create mockups, which you can do on Canva or Kit itself, or even Placeit.com. This is going to put your design onto real-life images, so it looks more appealing and professional. From here, you can post these mockups to your Pinterest with the direct link back to your Redbubble. Then all that's left to do is wait for the sales to roll in. My best advice is that you post as many designs as possible. When I first started out, I posted around 50 designs, so I spent literally an entire day setting up my store, and it was definitely worth it in the end. Obviously, it makes sense to post as many designs as possible because you give yourself more opportunities of being seen, and the more eyes you get to your products, the more likely you are to get sales. Now keep in mind that Redbubble actually already has its own organic traffic, but Pinterest definitely helps because think about it. You could easily end up with pins that reach hundreds of thousands of new people, and that means you're going to get a whole ton of sales. Swiftly moving into method number three, which is creating a one-product dropshipping.

Now, dropshipping is a very scalable business model where you can basically sell products that are manufactured and shipped by a supplier of your choice. This means that, just like the previous method, you won't ever have to touch a single one of the products that you sell. Just to show you an example, this is an old store that I designed, and on here my main product was jade rollers. Now jade rollers, as I'm pretty sure a lot of you can remember, were really popping back in 2021-2022. To promote these jade rollers, what I did was head over to my supplier's product page. I reused the videos of the girls using the jade rollers on my Pinterest, and these pins blew up and helped me make hundreds of sales back in 2022. Now, don't bother with jade rollers if you are planning on doing this because I'm not going to lie, the trend died completely. So, for you to see success with this method now, you'll definitely want to identify a trending product or just any product that has a lot of wow factor. You can do this by searching the recent results on TikTok for "TikTok made me buy it" or "Amazon finds," and once you find a product, you can go ahead and add it to a Shopify store, which you can quickly design using a free template on Shopify. From here, you can post the pictures and videos of the original product from the vendor's page or even infographic pins that obviously link right back to your product page.

Moving into method number four, which is Amazon KDP. Now, Amazon KDP stands for Kindle Direct Publishing, and this business allows you to publish and sell any kind of book and earn royalties like these of every sale. You can design things like diaries, journals, workbooks, and make around $5 to $15 or more per sale depending on how you price your items. Again, this is very similar to print-on-demand because you don't actually have to touch any of the products that you're selling, and on top of that, you don't have to do much of the work yourself because there's a tool that can do all of this for you. So what you can do is head over to BookBolt and sign up for your free trial. The link for the free trial is down in my description, or you can use the code GLOWOFGEO if you decide to go on a paid plan because you get 20% off the lifetime of your plans. From here, this platform allows you to do all of the competitor research and see what the best designs to recreate would be. When you find the perfect design that you want to recreate, you can do so in the BookBolt Studio. The entire process of creating one of these books should take you under 10 minutes—that's how easy it is. Then you'd publish the book to Amazon KDP, and you would use Pinterest to showcase your designs.

Now again, you can post mockups of these books or even infographics like these. There are thousands of dollars to be made with this method because you get traffic from Amazon itself organically, and then, of course, when you start promoting your product on Pinterest, you're going to get even more views, and that's going to let Amazon know that there are people interested in your product, and you'll be more likely to rank. So all of this is working in your favor to help you get more sales. Once again, I do have an entire video dedicated to this method, so I'm going to link it above so you can add it to your watch later.