Do you want to learn how to make your first affiliate marketing sale on Pinterest?
With the right tools and Pinning strategy, you can make money while you sleep through affiliate marketing.
For over 3 years now, I’ve been making money from Pinning on Pinterest. I still remember my very first sale affiliate sale like it was yesterday. It was one of the best feelings because I could see my work paying off, literally.
So many people don’t realize you can make money from Pinning on Pinterest.
I was able to make my first affiliate marketing sale in one week. I did a lot of trial and error so I know what works and what doesn’t work. So I am going to teach you the steps on how to make your first affiliate marketing sale on Pinterest.
So hopefully you can make your first affiliate sale faster than I did.
How To Make Your First Affiliate Sale
With the right tools and pinning strategy, you can make your first affiliate sale.
Create an Optimized Pinterest Account
- Create a Business Pinterest Account. If you already have a personal account, you can easily convert it to a business account
- Choose a Niche
- Create Specific Boards Related to your Niche
- Add Pins to each board
- Use Pinterest Keywords to your board titles, board descriptions, pin titles, and pin descriptions
Once your Pinterest account is set up correctly, you will want to grow your Pinterest Account to increase your Pinterest engagement.
Join Affiliate Programs
Once you determine what your niche is, you will need to figure out what products you want to promote. You should only promote brands and products that you know and trust.
I suggest starting with these affiliate programs Magiclinks, Awin, and Shareasale.
All three of these programs partner with thousands of stores. So you should be able to find a brand that works with your Niche. They work with Target, Etsy, Home Depot, etc. So these affiliate programs should work for (almost) all niches.
Create your Own Pins
Once you are part of an affiliate program, it’s time to create your own pins.
You can make your pins with Canva. Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create graphics to be used on Social Media.
It’s so easy to design your own pins and download them to your computer. Then you can upload them to Pinterest, add your description, pin title, and your affiliate link.
RELATED: How To Make an Affiliate Pin
Promote
Once you optimized your Pinterest account, joined affiliate programs, and created your own affiliate pins, it’s now time to Promote your Pins!
You want to add your Pins to all your relevant boards. If the pin can be pinned to multiple boards, don’t add them all at once. Spread it out over a few days.
You can use Tailwind to schedule your pins so they are spread out evenly and pinned at the most optimal times.
Don’t forget to promote your Pins in Tailwind Tribes. Look into joining Pinterest Group Boards too. Posting your content in these two places will increase your chances of getting your pin viewed.
If you don’t have Tailwind, I highly suggest that you look into it. Here’s a free month to Tailwind.
Final Thoughts
The steps I mention above are the steps I took to make my first affiliate sale more than 3 years ago. I know these steps still work because I still do them today and I make affiliate marketing sales every single day.
Using Pinterest to make money is a great side hustle. You don’t even need a blog to make money pinning on Pinterest.
If you do want to start a blog, you can also use affiliate links on your blogs to make money online that way too. Don’t forget to use Pinterest to Promote your Blog.
awesome post – pinterest really is so helpful and we all forget about that and I never even thought of posting my affiliate things on pinterest but now I will have to!
I know, so many people forget about Pinterest! Pinterest is a great way to drive traffic and make some extra money.
I had no idea that this was possible. I mean, I knew about affiliate links but not with Pinterest.
Yes, it is absolutely possible! You should definitely try it.
Thanks for sharing with us how you made your first affiliate sale on Pinterest.
That’s very informative. I would follow your tips to earn from my affiliate partners.
Great suggestions and man things to learn.
I’m just starting to dabble in affiliate marketing and haven’t moved over to doing it on Pinterest yet. I think you’ve inspired me to make this a priority now. Thank you!
This will help immensely, we have slowly been updating our pinterest followers and viewers over the last couple of months, and now I can pitch this idea so we might even get to see some money flowing in ๐
I have been using Pinterest since 2015. It is the number one traffic source for my blog. And like you shared it also brings in the affiliate income too.
I love that you share your wins on your blog for others to learn and follow along.
Thanks for the tips, some super useful stuff!
Optimize your Pinterest account, join affiliate programs and create your own affiliate pins – You made it sound so easy , I am sure this is a lot of sweat blood and creative thinking though .Thanks for the valuable tips !
What a great post! I need to make my own website for the business part of Pinterest. My plan for this year!
This is really interesting. And do you link directly to the affiliate link or to a post on your blog that contains the affiliate link?
You can do both! I create pins that link to my blog post and then I create other pins that have my affiliate link.
im really struggling with my Pinterest account but you gave me unique idea today. i wasn’t aware about this but now i will work as per suggestions too. i hope i will get some clients too.
Thank you for this informative post. I needed to read this. ๐
So glad you had made your first sale on Pinterest. There are countless ways online really to make money, the list goes on! Inspiring post, keep it up!
Congrats for getting a sale! And you are so generous for sharing your tips, thanks!!
I want to get into the affiliate business as well. This is really useful. Bookmarking for future
Thanks for sharing the post, I am planning to start the promotions.
I read a lot of blog about people earning on the internet. I also really want to earn somehow. I am a heavy internet user and I spend an average of 8 hours in a day of net usage. It would be nice to somehow convert some hours into a money making deal. Thanks for sharing.
This is why i love pinterest.. Pinterest is really more effective place than twitter.. I think..
I have done all prep work and your experienced advice is good enough for me!
Richard – from UK
Hi,
I love using Pinterest and tailwind to schedule my pins but I haven’t yet tried affiliate marketing. It’s something I want to check out though so thanks for the info ๐
Hi Amy, Definitely check out affiliate marketing. It is a great way to make some extra cash.