Our Best Pinterest Tips for the Beginner Marketer and Blogger!

How to Use Expert Pinterest Tips Like These to Gain More Traffic and Sales! 

There are many online marketers that are selling products online and successfully earning cash. If you want to make this kind of money too, then the following Pinterest tips may help you on your journey to success.

Obviously, you don’t know me from Adam, so you may be wondering, why should you even listen to me….

Well I am pretty clued up on Pinterest Marketing even if I say so myself. So much so, I wrote a book on “The Art of Pinterest Profits” that is doing well in sales too purely on amazon, get your copy here. In other words, I have dialed this internet marketing thing in and I can help you!

Let’s look at the Pinterest basics below before we get into more juicy Pinterest Tips for more prospects, leads and sales, shall we: Here is what you must have in place for pinterest to work for you:

Have a Pinterest Business Account Enable Rich Pins for your business profile, your instructions are in video below! Optimize Your account for search Create at least 10-20 personal boards related to your content categories or Keywords and Placed in Order of importance on your Pinterest Profile. Optimize Your Boards I.e. your titles and descriptions for search Optimize your Pin images for search, name, alt tags, keywords in both these and you are good to go. Pin at least 5 pin images to related boards per day Definitely more means more for you so I say go for at least 40 pins a day from your own content! Automate the above actions via a Pinterest Approved tool, I recommend Tailwind (Start your Free trial here) Definitely use Tailwind Tribes in your niche to get your content reshared by others, counts more with pinterest than your own Shares! Help your audience out by making it easy to Share your Content, Add a Pin it icon to your images. The Sumo plugin helps you big time in this! Track your efforts, what you track you can scale or can. So Use Tailwind, Pinterest and Google analytics to check your progress. Repin More successful Pins via new images. Keep em fresh and attracting more! Re-pin your Content as frequently as you can 5 times a day is just the basics!

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Thing is you may actually be one of those people who are still wondering Why Pinterest for your business even as you flounder and get crickets to your website and offers. My answer to you is: why not?

Question is: are you willing, ready and ABLE to help yourself? 

If you said a resounding YES to the above Question, Strap on ya heels and let’s do this!

 

Get Loads More Traffic with These Pinterest Tips

Okay many mom bloggers, foodies, fashionistas, travel lovers, DIYers, Photographers and SOME Internet marketers know the power of building a good email list.

In order to build that list, (by the way you should start building that list right away) you need a constant flow of traffic to your online assets!

The most traffic generous platform online today is hands down Pinterest! And I know this because it delivers over 79% of our blog traffic and we are able to see messages like the ones below in our email on a weekly basis!

Understand the results are NOT Typical

Now trust me when I say that this was not an overnight thing, not by a long short! Yet how will you ever get there if you don’t get started TODAY?

And to get started without floundering and messing about with DIY you need the Ultimate Pinterest Roadmap which you can gift yourself this year!

Now the reality is Pinterest has changed a great deal since we first joined way back in 2015. More changes came just before we run our social experiment to increase our follower base then from 200 – 800. You can read all about that here!

Funny thing is, at time of publishing, we have just over 6k followers on our business Pinterest profile and our focus has never been followers. And I’ve been singing it out loud that you didn’t need followers to attract traffic to your offers for the longest! 

Well, what do you know! In the recent update Pinterest has woken up to the value of having an ever growing audience aka followers so now they matter.

You can learn our pinterest tips on increasing your followers here. Simply because the principles haven’t changed even though the interface has morphed in a major way! ?

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#1. Pinterest Tips – Competition is Great!

Okay someone was saying to me recently, isn’t there so much competition on Pinterest. Wont that mean I won’t get any? What?

Listen my friend, I said, people are going to compete with you in all types of businesses and internet marketing is no exception. Pinterest is on the internet and you cannot get more global that that!

So, whatever you happen to be offering online, and in whatever niche, there will always be people going up against you. You can let that competition scare you or you can push forward and be stronger because of it. It’s the same which change.

With Pinterest changing stuff almost on a weekly basis…well monthly okay! #rollseyes  One can either say I’m done or go with the flow.

By the way there has been another Pinterest algorithm change in the last 2 weeks!

So instead of caving in, take heed from your competitors and you will succeed before you realize it. Internet marketers need to realize that all platforms online are constantly changing things up to stay afloat as well.

When you understand how the Basic Principles of online marketing work esp. on a platform like pinterest, you’ll be able to avoid simple blunders and you’ll be able to operate effectively.

That’s why people create resources to help you cut your journey shorter and we have done that for you on Pinterest.

To step up and match or even beat your competitors, analyse their strategies and why they’re doing what they’re doing that way. You will always have competition so you should just accept it and learn from their mistakes.

The better you know the other side, the higher will be the chances of you being successful. You will find at times that getting ahead of your competition seems impossible, but with internet marketing this will never last.

Your competition is doing something different and you need to find that out if you want to avoid common blunders. And on Pinterest a small tweak can be your saving grace.

If you can point out the mistakes before you make them, you’ll make the right choices and your business will last. 

[RELATED: HOW TO USE PINTEREST SEARCH TOOLS FOR MORE SALES!]

 

 

#2. Pinterest Tips – Quality Over Quantity:

Now I am sure if you are like me, you track your actions, right? You do check your numbers, Business is the right numbers game.

Then you will have noticed, if you haven’t yet that sometimes Pinterest traffic is pants…

And this comes from someone who loves Pinterest. So why is this?

Because Pinterest users are finicky. They’re mostly searching for that bargain, they dont hang around for long, causing atrocious bounce rates for many a new website pinner! 

Solution? 

Well, if you shift your focus from wanting to be just popular and reaching millions of just about anyone, to Attracting Loyal Fans and Serving them with your targeted offers you will make more sales…You will start to attract more targeted followers and views. And the bounce rate wont matter…

The highly untargeted traffic will only result in a High Bounce rate for you and affect you if you know not what to do! And that’s NOT what you want!

If this is you, then this may help. Imagine its you searching for something on Pinterest.

What would you do?

What is your intention when you login to your Pinterest?

Are you looking for answers to a specific Need, Question, desire?

Then how do you turn this round for your audience?

What would be their next question.

In other words, put yourself in their situation and provide what they need, you will find people stay longer on your site and visit more of your amazing content, and pages, reducing your bounce rate…And you get to serve them more as they will come back and buy!

They too are looking for answer so they will bounce if your resource doesn’t answer that question! Sometimes I have like 6 sites open and I am searching for a specific thing…

So, understand your audience needs and you will attract better quality traffic from Pinterest, traffic that actually converts!

For you my friend with an e-commerce understand that you website will always have a higher bounce rate. WHY?

Because it’s an e-store. People come browse and go or they come buy and go. There is nothing else much keeping them on your page unless you have a blog on it! 

The average time is less than a minute on an eComm site. BUT here is the sweet news; Most people always come back. Imagine amazon, Yup!

Most people visit an ecomm site 3-5 times before they convert aka Buy! And that my friend is why people are able to sell on other sites like Shopify, Etsy, eBay etc!  

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#3. Pinterest Tips – Are you keeping up with the Trends?

So, you have noticed a major overhaul on this platform. Did you think that your strategy should stay the same?

Here is what I would recommend you do or outsource to a VA. We had to do this following the much talked about Tailwind/Pinterest interview on Facebook.

• Update your Pin images and descriptions. Try adding new images to old posts, i.e. refresh those posts and expose them to your new increased followers. Add keywords, add some hashtags to each description 5-6 tops we did that and we are starting to see a rise in traffic!

• What group boards are not delivering for you and yet have a ton of unrelated pins. Ditch such Group Boards that no longer serve your brand. They are dragging your reach and rank in search down. Do it, thank me later.

• When was the last time you created a Board? Well, now’s a good time to Create new boards that are aligned with your website categories or Keywords. That way you have at least 5 Boards where you can pin your content every time you publish! FOCUS MORE on your Personal boards

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#4. Pinterest Tips – Get the Basics right – Keyword research!

Basically, if you are selling anything online, blogging or want traffic to your online brand you must do some Basic SEO. With pinterest I created a whole Pinterest SEO resource for you for free. No optin necessary, read it here!

Please don’t tell me you rely on just searching on Pinterest for keywords? Be more pro-active. When we do our keyword research we use a tool called “Question Samurai” and We also check Google console, Keyword suggester, Quora and YouTube.

You will see a better flow of traffic to your website within 90 days for sure if you are consistent and Pin at least 5 Pins daily from your website.

If you are getting a pitiful number of views, how does 500 daily website visitors sound to you? How about 5000? And your offers start to attract subscribers, sales, buyers?

Well get started with these Pinterest Tips and you will have that and way more!

 

 

#5. Dial in Your Lead Generation

Okay with these Pinterest tips, you will start to attract traffic. Thus, at least once a week point your traffic to your capture page so you can actually follow up with those who truly chose to be served by you. 

For this you need offers that help your audience in a deeper way. If you promote or sell anything for a commission on or offline, a blogger, an affiliate marketer, online marketer etc… I can tell you with hand on my heart that the one resource you want to have in your LEAD GENERATION and SALES kit is this one!

We used to wonder, where do all these leaders and most of the successful people we know learn How to market and ATTRACT huge crowds like clockwork? Well now I dont wonder no more because we are part of the club. Have been for over 3 years now. 

This is a membership based platform where you get to learn “What Strategies Work Today” on a weekly basis. You get to be part of the most educative and enterprising online community of top earners, happy to share their success hacks. This Platform was a game changer for us and I highly recommend it for you too. This is How you can be part. #YAW 🙂 

 

 

Pinterest Tips – Conclusion

Okay there are a multitude of tips to get more from your pinterest efforts. Yet the Basic principles are laid out right at the top will always be your GPS!

To summarise you need to do that and be consistent with it to increase your Follower base and TARGETED Traffic from pinterest to your offers!

If you want to succeed at internet marketing, you must focus on giving your all to the customer. That means you know WHO your customer is, right?

Then the idea is to serve them by selling to them your offers and continue to provide stellar customer service so that they’ll buy from you again and recommend others.

You will want to reap that customer for all the value you can muster. Its called LTV = Life Time Value. Whether that is a one off or a repeat sale!

In conclusion, internet marketing with these Pinterest Tips can prove to be your saviour when you’re trying to escape from your 9 to 5 rat race. So, go ahead, give it a fair try.

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Julie Syl  Kalungi

 

Creator of “The Affiliate Jetset Academy” 

 

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