How to Use the Updated Pinterest Ad Platform Tutorial – New Promoted Pins Strategy!

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Okay now Syl, what are these Promoted Pins and How do I create one? Do I need a promoted pins strategy? I am part of this Facebook group and all they talk about are promoted pins, I am kinda lost in translation…This was my friend, let’s call them Karen in a state of confusion!
Do you want to sell more products, books, services and reach more customers/team mates?
How about discovering how to craft a promoted pins strategy for the long-term traffic as well as spike your product/service sales right now?
If you don’t know much about pinterest marketing, don’t worry. We all start from zero.
And today, I decided to do this training to help Karen and possibly help you too out. With this, you’ll understand Pinterest Ads and how you can attract more targeted traffic with Promoted pins!
Before the Promoted Pins Strategy: A little Backstory
Circa 2013, I had no business, no job, frustrated, angry at life in general and felt like a failure. The recession seemed to have sucked out and taken off with my career!
Of course, I had no website, no audience, wasn’t social media savvy, no podcast, no email list. I definitely didn’t know how to be a YouTuber and Pinterest what? In my mind, I had nothing that I even appreciated. I only had my hubby and rock Paul, my children who were terrified of me…Who would they meet after school? Loving mom or the frustrated angry woman?
Now I’m an Amazon Author of entrepreneurial non-fiction, I have two blogs and a brand both off and online that impacts masses globally. My book “The Art of Pinterest Profits” has had over 4000 downloads, and I’m a home business creative entrepreneur and international speaker. And there is another book in the offing! Should be out in the Fall!
Learning how to market our brand online esp. Pinterest changed my life.
Yes, you need to choose an online platform that you feel comfortable with, but you also need to know how to get it in front of the right audience!
There are short-term techniques for those who want to just have a follower base on pinterest and may be even boost immediate sales. But for the serious entrepreneur and blogger, the focus should be on some Pinterest Ads for more targeted traffic, optins and sales.
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A Promoted Pins Strategy – The Basics
In this episode, I show you how to set up your promoted pin ad with the new Pinterest Ads Platform updates. You will literally be looking over my shoulder as I set up one and then you can go do the same.
This should be part of your social media marketing strategy.
What can you do to build your Pinterest assets to attract the most traffic and clicks? The answer is Promoted pins!
I show you how to take $5, $10 or whatever your ad budget is at a time and get a ton of engagement.
In this example, I use our student demo account and membership site rccace.com to test landing pages and ads.
Rccace is our client and training membership site with our signature products like the Affiliate JetSet Academy, The Ultimate Pinterest Roadmap, JWeb Design solutions etc.
Pinterest Ads Tutorial – How to Set Up Your First Pinterest Ads Campaign
So did you enjoy the promoted pins strategy tutorial above? First off head on to the horse’s mouth and learn what not to do and best practice https://ads.pinterest.com/
After the pinterest ads tutorial above, I am sure you know how to set-up your first Pinterest Ads Traffic Campaign. We have gone through everything:
- Setting up your Pinterest ads account.
- Setting up billing.
- Creating an audience.
- Interest targeting, location targeting,
- Picking your pin image pin for promotion.
- Campaign tracking.
- Keyword targeting, language targeting, and
- Setting your bid or cost per click (CPC).
You simply just have to take the plunge, create 2 Pin images, for AB testing, Bin the one that under performs and see your traffic skyrocket!
You have learnt that like Facebook ads, you can target users interest for your promoted pins.
Yet your bung goes much further and this is where the search engine optimization trumps Facebook marketing. You can target users on Pinterest based on keywords.
Of course, you can create different ad campaigns. There are campaigns to bid for brand visibility, impressions, increase engagement on your pins. You can get more pinners to click, share and save your pin, and traffic campaigns. This in turn should drive more traffic directly to your website and offers. Leading to more opt-ins and sales!
And if you are looking to scale up and play bigger, you are ready to see better results. Improve your bottom dollar. You wish to drive a ton of traffic, build a solid list and make more sales via pinterest. I highly recommend The Ultimate Pinterest Roadmap.
Promoted Pins Strategy – What NOT To Do!
#1. You want a really High Def Low Text image. So, NO Call to Action in there. This is your Carrot, the First Course. This is when your IMAGE WOW’s your audience. Attention Grabbing is the word. And word to the wise, that CTA will deter the approval of your Ad. Use less blatant text like: “My 5 tips to better SEO” and point/direct the Pin URL to your resource, worksheet or downloadable!
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#2. Do NOT use tiny, square or horizontal images for your Promoted pin! I mean come on, Pinterest has a specific image size that you can see all Top Pins using. Follow the eyeballs. Long, vertical, high def, colourful images are the norm here. Infographs work a treat on Pinterest!
Even if your Promoted Pin Ad is approved, the Pinners will not engage with your pin image as much. AND, despite using them on other pins, Please DO NOT Use #Hashtags on your Promoted Pin Ad image. That will reduce your campaign’s impact. Hashtags are now more or less considered spammy on Pinterest! So unlike Instagram, hashtags don’t do much for your Pin!
#3. Well I see it a lot, people with whole pins leading directly to their sales page. WHEN will you build that list already? You typically want to get your visitors’ information so you can build the: Know, Like and Trust factor, kapische?
So, go and change out those pins pointing to a sales or landing page and link to your blog, products or about page that shares more information about your value proposition. You want to give your audience the “choice to Optin and Buy”. Conversion baby! ?
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In the same breath, Do NOT use URL redirects on your Pin Image for your advert! Or on any Pin for that matter. You know like URL shorteners! Your Promoted Pin Ad will not be approved! Think User experience, think fast loading DIRECT link to the content you are wanting them to see. Pinterest prefers that!
More Resources For You:
Pinterest Domination 1.0 – Learn More.
How to Pin for Maximum Leverage – Learn them.
Explode you Blog Traffic with Pinterest – Learn How.
The JetSet Affiliate Academy, one of our Original Training resources for the new home business entrepreneur to set your business online up for success from the get go. – Get Lifetime Access.
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Thank you for this Pinterest Ad information. This is absolutely a huge help for marketing tool.
You are most welcome Jelena, Glad you got value!
Such an informative content!
Thanks for stopping by Mark 🙂
Such great info here and will bookmark for further reference !!~~ thank you for sharing great value always !!~
Its an honour to serve Sandra, Thanks for your time 🙂
I never tried pinterest promotion before. I think I should give this a shot. Thanks for the tip.
Hey Jenn,
You are most welcome Lovely 🙂
So much great information here, thank you! Anyone looking to add a new platform to their marketing needs to look at this!
Hey Cristi,
Glad you agree and that is our mission. To Positively Impact people and help them build long term residual income using social platforms like Pinterest 🙂
Thank you for the helpful tips. They were very helpful, especially for beginners like us!
Hey Yeu,
glad you got value and feel free to check out our Pinterest Category, scroll down right here https://www.juleskalpauli.com
Julesy 🙂
I am so overwhelmed by Pinterest. I keeping hearing that it is THE Place to be but I seriously don’t even understand it! This is a great guide though. Once I figure out how to do Facebook ads :/
Hey Emerly,
Do you have a Guide for your Facebook Ads? Because we do. If you need it just say go over here and get started with you ads: https://juleskalpauli.com/FBCheatsheet
On the other hand, Promoted pins will get you to your traffic nivarna much faster and cheaper. It simply is a matter of choice really. We prefer Pinterest. Gives you more targeted traffic!
Take the Downloadable 7 steps on side bar and you will start to fall in love with Pinterest! 🙂
Julie Syl
Thanks – I have just started and had no idea what promoted pins are – this is super useful content!
Hey Zainab,
You definitely need to go make sure the foundations are all good. Lest you end up building your house on Quick sand. Pinterest will do for you I am sure. 🙂
Julesy
You had done some extensive research on Pinterest. I am gonna follow all your tips on my Pinterest Profile. Thanks for sharing your experience as a Pinterest guide to us. 🙂
Hi Akshay,
I am gaga about Pinterest. I love the platform I find it intriguing and know I could spend hours on there. Go get that traffic mate! 🙂
Can you just take over my Pinterest for me? LOL!
So many people love pinterest for traffic! Trying ads would be an interesting choice for me.
Ads is the natural progression to grow your business Emily. At some point when you decide to really explode your biz, you will go pro via Ads 🙂
Great tips, Julie! I will definitely take note of these, and promote my pins next time. 🙂
Hello Czjai,
Go get em gal Glad you got value! 🙂
Having launched my business, I think Pinterest is a great way to promote it. I’ve never used ads in pinterest before, it sounds really interesting and I appreciate this post so much, I’ve learned so much about it!
Hi Carol,
Glad you have got value and I urge you to go use Pinterest to drive traffic to your new Business and brand online assets 🙂
Great post julie! I am totally ignorant of this pinterest ad and how i can take advantage of it. You know so much about it and I’ve learned a lot from you. Thank you for posting this!
Hi Kelly,
If one is to succeed, one must specialize and stand out from the crowd. So I urge you to find your specialism and serve your peeps 🙂
You can do it! Pinterest will be your traffic source!
great content Julie. I changed my pinterest profile in to a business profile sometime back and have since had offers thrown at me to promote my pins by pinterest. I am yet to take time to look it up but now i am definitely testing out some promoted content on pinterest.
Well Andy bro,
Glad you are in Class and taking notes. Now go apply the lessons and see mucho traffic 🙂
Julesy
Pinterest has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me as far as social media platforms go. Still learning how to use it to my advantage, especially when it comes to business. Thanks for the tips!
Hey Julia,
Your lessons and training on Pinterest Marketing will pay huge dividends. Way more than Facebook Ads I know. Feel free to check out our Best Pinterest Marketing Tips on the Home page https://www.juleskalpauli.com
Tons of great information, thank you! I will definitely be looking into ads in the near future.
Hey Sarah,
Well Promoted Pins are waiting for ya. Go get that traffic. 🙂
Great tips for pinterest ads. Thanks for this.
PS: This is my first time hearing you can do promoted pins!
Hey Adewale,
Glad you have learned something new, Go give Promoted Pins a good go and you will get way more traffic that you have seen in months! 🙂
This was so helpful. Promoted pins have been on my radar but I had no idea where to start. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hi Chevelle,
I am happy to have helped in some way. Go make it happen. Pinterest makes things so much easier than FB Ads I promise you!
I can’t wait till I have enough influence to do this
Nelu,
You do have the influence right now to do it Go give it the good ole go! 🙂
Thank you for the information. I am just getting into the blogging world. I love pintrest as a client and need to make the shift to make it work for business. Will definitely put these tips to use!
Hey Ashley,
Pinterest will truly love you back if you show it some love. You can do it 🙂
Thanks so much for your info on Pinterest ads! I always love to learn new things about this platform. 🙂
Hey A Lynne,
Glad you got value and thanks for stopping by! 🙂
That’s very Pinteresting Julie. Great post.. 🙂
Thanks Keith 🙂
[ Smiles ] Oh, the Pinterest Queen, Julie Syl Kalungi, shares her secrets on Pinterest ads.
Fabulous!
Aaah The Blogger Prince always makes me smile 🙂 Awesome sauce!
Thanks for stopping by!
You are the pinterest ninja. You know so much about it. I’ve learned a lot from you.
Hey Kenny,
Thats high praise coming from you and I appreciate you. Glad you are learning and getting value 🙂
Julesy
Pinterest works really well for so many people. I love their advertising option because I feel like it’s actually a lot less expensive plus I get a larger reach. This is a really good tutorial and very detailed. Thanks for spreading the word!
Hey Karlyn,
Pinterest is A real gem and asset that we should take more seriously. I am glad you do take ti serious 🙂 And You are most welcome!
thanks for this I am totally clueless on how i could take advantage of pinterest…. i lose interest everytime i try to understand it hahaha at least now i have a guide on how i can make it work for me ^_^
You seem to be a master at Pinterest and always great reading your articles on it!